The first Funkadelic album. The entire album was recorded in a few days and is largely improvisational. It follows the typical George Clinton line-up: A huge band of organists vocalists and guitarists all adding their own little stamp over a funky backbeat. All the seeds of Parliament/Funkadelic ... Read review
Mommy What's A Funkadelic I'll Bet You Music For My Mother I Got A Thing You Got A Thing ... more
Everybody's Got A Thing Good Old Music Qualify And satisfy What Is soul? Can't Shake It Loose I'll Bet You Music From My MOther As Good As I Can Feel Open Your E...
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Advantages: Like nothing youve ever heard. Disadvantages: Little in the way of song structure.
The first Funkadelic album. The entire album was recorded in a few days and is largely improvisational. It follows the typical George Clinton line-up: A huge band of organists vocalists and guitarists all adding their own little stamp over a funky backbeat. All the seeds of Parliament/Funkadelic are here. Experimentation, Clintons long introductions, talk of outer space, and many sexual references as expected. Blues, funk and pyschadelia influences ... ...guitar, carrying the torch in the year of Jimis death, yet he seems to have not yet quite found his own sound. I find it reassuring to see how much this guitarist had improved and diversified over a few albums from this to say his solo work. I think if you like one track from this album you will like them all. Some more organised than others. If like me you can enjoy a nine minute song based around a repeated riff then you will love this. Personally ... more
The first Funkadelic album. The entire album was recorded in a few days and is largely improvisational. It follows the typical George Clinton line-up: A huge band of organists vocalists and guitarists all adding their own little stamp over a funky backbeat. All the seeds of Parliament/Funkadelic are here. Experimentation, Clintons long introductions, talk of outer space, and many sexual references as expected. Blues, funk and pyschadelia influences are all here. You can hear Eddie Hazel's Hendrix influenced guitar, carrying the torch in the year of Jimis death, yet he seems to have not yet quite found his own sound. I find it reassuring to see how much this guitarist had improved and diversified over a few albums from this to say his solo work. I think if you like one track from this album you will like them all. Some more organised than others. If like me you can enjoy a nine minute song based around a repeated riff then you will love this. Personally though my favourite track is the the relatively short 'I Got A Thing...' Which proves there can be organisation and a little restraint in Funkadelic.
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Product details
Title
Funkadelic [Remastered]
Performer
Funkadelic
Genre
R&B
Sub Genre
Funk
Release Date
25/04/2005
Recomended Retail Price
8.99 GBP
Original Release Year
1970
Label / Distributor
Westbound / Plastic Head
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
29667008822
Catalogue Number
CDSEWM 210
Additional notes
Album Notes
Funkadelic: Ed Hazel (vocals, guitar); Bill Nelson (vocals, bass); Tiki Fulwood (vocals, drums); George Clinton, Fuzzy Haskins, Grady Thomas, Calvin Simon, Raymond Davis (vocals); Tawl Ross (guitar); Mickey Atkins (organ). Engineers include: Milan Bogden, Russ Terrana, Ed Wolfrum. Recorded at Terra Shirma Sound Studios, Detroit, Michigan. Funkadelic's self-titled 1969 debut may not be on the same plateau as the group's later, all-encompassing masterpieces (MAGGOT BRAIN, COSMIC SLOP, etc.), but does serve as the strong foundation upon which their early 70's masterworks were built. Along with Jimi Hendrix's band, Funkadelic is one of the first units to inject funk with hard rock. Whereas funk pioneer James Brown concentrates on creating air-tight, precise grooves, Funkadelic keeps things loose, raw, and groovy. Drug experimentation also plays a prominent role in the band's early work, perhaps never as evidently as on FUNKADELIC. From the beginning, singer George Clinton has been the band's undisputed leader. He wrote or co-wrote nearly all of FUNKADELIC's seven tracks and also served as the album's producer. Bassist Billy Nelson and guitarist Eddie Hazel are superb instrumentalists, as heard on the slowly evolving "Music For My Mother," the frantic "I Got A Thing," and the album's Motown soul-inflected hit single "I Bet You" (the latter featuring great vocal interplay between all members). And the seeds for such future Funkadelic epics as "Maggot Brain" and "Wars of Armageddon" can be traced to the album's longest compositions, "Mommy, What's A Funkadelic" and "Good Old Music."
Album Reviews
Mojo (1/03, p.110) - "...It's the best blues-influenced, warped acid rock you're likely to hear..."
Titles on disc 1
1.
Mommy What's A Funkadelic
2.
I'll Bet You
3.
Music For My Mother
4.
I Got A Thing You Got A Thing Everybody's Got A Thing
5.
Good Old Music
6.
Qualify And Satisfy
7.
What Is Soul
8.
Can't Shake It Loose (bonus track)
9.
I'll Bet You (45 version/bonus track)
10.
Music For My Mother (45 vocal version/bonus track)
11.
As Good As I Can Feel (bonus track)
12.
Open Your Eyes (bonus track)
13.
Qualify And Satisfy (45 version/bonus track)
14.
Music For My Mother (45 instrumental version/bonus track)
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