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Post by fange on Feb 16, 2021 4:19:03 GMT
An artist who we seldom talk about in depth, so here's a spot to post and discuss all things GC - songwriter, singer, producer, The Parliaments, P-Funk, the solo years... any other stuff connected to him and his groups.
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Post by Charlie O. on Feb 16, 2021 5:28:16 GMT
A conglomerate that I really wish I could have seen live back in the '70s. I love the early-to-mid '70s albums especially. But then, I suppose everyone does.
So naturally I'm posting a record from the late '80s. Despite the callback to his last hit and a lot of other (sometimes dated) silliness, there's a terrific song in here... and I don't mean the Patti Page one.
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Post by jeffk on Feb 16, 2021 6:51:55 GMT
I had this song in my head yesterday.
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Post by jeffk on Feb 16, 2021 7:03:29 GMT
Oh heck, I might as well post the entire album. It's always been one of my faves.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2021 13:01:22 GMT
Posted this track on BCB a few years ago Jeff and was really surprised that it wasn't popular at all! I think it's great.
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Post by Crunchy Col on Feb 16, 2021 13:40:29 GMT
LOVE early Funkadelic. They’re one of those bands (like Can, Pere Ubu) that I read about for YEARS before hearing a note - not what I’d expected somehow. Something like AEIY has ballads, strange Zappaesque spoken word passages, show tunes.
I like just the odd Parliament thing (‘Give Up The Funk’ is insanely good). Like Charlie I’d have loved to have seen a show back in the 70s. He reminds me of Lee Perry - multi-talented, prolific, dreads, bonkers.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2021 13:53:41 GMT
Parliament have some great tracks. Big fan of this one, when they were The Parliaments..they redid it later, but I prefer the earlier version.
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Post by Crunchy Col on Feb 16, 2021 13:58:00 GMT
YES! that’s a splendid track
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Post by fange on Feb 16, 2021 13:59:47 GMT
The B-side 'I Can Feel The Ice Melting' is also ace, an almost perfect mix of their vocal group beginnings and late 60s soul groove.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2021 14:14:34 GMT
And here's his first ever single...from 1958!
He had it from the beginning.
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Post by Charlie O. on Feb 16, 2021 16:19:41 GMT
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Post by sloopjohnc on Feb 16, 2021 16:24:20 GMT
And Clinton's more recent albums are good too. I'm a big fan of 2005's, How Late Do U Have 2BB4UR Absent?
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Post by clive gash on Feb 16, 2021 17:30:02 GMT
I keep meaning to “revisit” ol’ GC but life’s too short. My opinion of him has softened during lockdown THO, now I think of him as a scatological, sub-Zappa pissant and no. 1 purveyor of the world’s worst music - FUNK.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Feb 16, 2021 17:56:45 GMT
Some great stuff, some very daft stuff and, frankly, too much fucking stuff. It's all about Funkadelic really and it's up to Let's Take it to the Stage for me. One Nation.... is hugely overrated - just that kind of bleached out production and sound doesn't work for me - and they were always better when they were more of a rock band than a funk band. Parliament leave me cold mostly and all that Funkasuarus people shit is a bit naff. Lyrically adolescent - a funk Zappa, yeah I can see that - to the point where it does limit them but, for a few years, they could be wonderful and strange and funky and out there all at the same time.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2021 18:07:19 GMT
and they were always better when they were more of a rock band than a funk band. Completely wrong. It's the other way round!
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