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step one, not going to make it through tonight.

sold right off the bat on funkadelic album thx to red hot momma. sooooooo tight, wish they still recorded albums this way, dense and spacious at the same time, guitar is fucking burning it up.

feeling stupid for never digging further than the core p/funk albums (maggot brain etc.) its late, so im going to get a little loose in my reactions here, but there is legit heavyness here, and there was a point in alice in my fantasies where i KNEW that the bad brains had spent some time with this song. complete w/a little taste of proto-H.R. insano vocal psycho.

yeah this shit is incredible. dumb me for not already owning it.

not really coming up with the words to describe how thick and soupy this album is, even wrt old tech recording. can def see the crossover potential between doom and some of this kerm!

ok prob just going to sit back and listen, because my only real live blogging at this point would be OH YES YES YES.

This sounds like a cool idea, I'll definitely join in!

Shakey is doing next weeks choices, any volunteers for after that?

If we can have a special jazz-funk theme week, I'll volunteer to do that.

density less prevalent on trk 6 (jimmy etc) but this song is all zappa-ey (and yeah i get that this is the origin, and his is the interpretation). guitar on 7 is just fucking perfect. buying this as we speak, thx dudes, will be listening to this in constant loop for a while!

eMusic has the Funkadelic and Ohio Players albums...maybe I'll get them when my new downloads roll over this weekend.

I've got a few albums I'm desperate to acquire, I'll do the noms one week and we can get it down together

i'd like to join. can someone send me a spotify invite? email : 09001✧✧✧@studentm✧✧✧.u✧.i✧

Shakey is doing next weeks choices, any volunteers for after that?

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 21 April 2010 22:48 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i can if you want.

Standing On The Verge Of Getting It On - Went through this on Best 70s FUNK Album aka ilx helps Sam discover funk but I think this may be my fav Funkadelic. In terms of P-Funk alone, this is a Freddie Ljungberg (gives me a goofy fucking smile when its/hes ON even if you know there isn't any real substance most of the time, I am still :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD)

Standing On The Verge Of Getting It On is the Eddie Hazel pfunk album, he co-wrote or wrote all of it. It's many fans fave funkadelic album. It should not be ignored.
Tuomas sure you can do jazz funk, just make sure the funk outweighs the jazz as I believe there may be a jazz club in the future. (perhaps you want to start that instead of me?)

Great idea, I'm in. Just queued up the two Spotifiable albums...

the mandrill is on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr55GRDYpkg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSXutf3Pm_Q&feature=related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9FI_ZoGFAQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axU7I01UDNA&feature=related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2f3TesOQmI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tugbouTNc7g&feature=related

^ one of those is unavaiable in the UK so its posted twice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcJPjCm-GZI&feature=PlayList&p=BDC3639A36845F62&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4PU1cg1DV0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ike-PYmESKs

I think thats almost all of it

Sam's Funk's Great Samples Week 1-

Standing On The Verge Of Getting It On

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fg2NRCB9Sc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cztHw1QD6_E (actually full of great funk samples)

sam just tell us what you think of the albums

i <3 the album. listening to one record a day so will check the other 2 out fri&sat.

Tuomas sure you can do jazz funk, just make sure the funk outweighs the jazz as I believe there may be a jazz club in the future. (perhaps you want to start that instead of me?)

Yeah, I have a few jazz-funk albums in mind that lean heavy on the funk side, and it looks like they're all available on Spotify. So I can do the week after Shakey, if no one else wants it?

As for the jazz club, I think it's better if someone else starts it, at the moment I don't have enough time to be responsible for a long-running thing like that.

oh ok these are going to be the kinds of threads that murder my browser with a billion youtubes? nevermind.

like 'Witch Doctor' or 'They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!', Ohio Players 'Funky Worm' is one of those songs that busted my little brain wide open as a kid. one of my friend's sisters had the 45 and we listened to it over and over and over and...

some dude, no they wont be, it's just that the Mandrill album wasn't available elsewhere and I was worried no one would check it out.

Someone's started a jazz club, hurrah
ILX0RS - JAZZ IS THE TEACHER . YEAH IT'S A JAZZ THING >> THE ILM JAZZ LISTENING CLUB!

28/4 - Shakey Mo
5/5 - Tuomas

Anyone else want to book a week?

Is "Standing on the Verge of Getting It on" really a 'funk album'?

of course

there's many facets of funk . it rocks, it kicks ass, it makes your ass move, you dance, you get down and dirty, you feel it.

Hmmmmm, I've obviously got a narrower definition of funk than you. I wouldn't call it a funk album per se.

I think a pretty good definition of funk is THAT IT IS BY FUNKADELIC. Also, it contains funk music.

Some funk music. Funkadelic did a lot of stuff that wasn't funk.

"Who Says a Funk Band Can't Play Rock?!"

oh its definitely a funk album. but this was always the "problem" with Funkadelic - they always went a little too far in a bunch of different directions (be it rock/heavy metal or fried doo-wop or whatever). The Mandrill album goes in a lot of different directions too, but Funkadelic always went FARTHER than other bands. That being said, the rhythms/beats in Red Hot Momma, the title track, Sexy Ways (omg this song, my favorite of the batch definitely) are funk standards.

rest assured I will be posting more stuff that blurs the line between acid rock and blues and funk

Can't beat "I'll Stay"!

^^^yes!
though listening to this earlier today for the first time in a while, i can't believe I forgot how great Hazel is on the last track.

Can't think of a track where he isn't great... on like, anything, ever

take, for example, the Universal Rhythms track on Mandrill Is - I love it cuz I have a soft-spot for proto-hippie mystic goofiness but the track itself isn't FUNKY per se. However, tons of funk bands (including Funkadelic, who, again, took this kind of track to extremes with stuff like Eulogy and Light or the intro to Clones of Dr. Funkenstein) had these kind of interludes on their albums, enough that you could say it's something of a hallmark of the genre. So having a track that isn't funky in and of itself doesn't really disqualify an album from being a "funk" album, because funk as a genre was actually really ridiculously wide-ranging, especially when you look at it from the album level like we are here.

I mentioned this on the thread that inspired this one, but this is part of the problem with taking an album approach to funk. Invariably we're gonna be hearing a lot of stuff that isn't particularly funky - albums by funk bands were often filled with all kinds of digressions - into jazz solos, or syrupy ballads, or spoken word bits, or straight-up rock tracks, or silly covers of standards. You're gonna see this a lot on this thread, I imagine. If you wanna cut straight to nothing but dancefloor filling FUNK tracks then we would need to take more of a singles/45s approach to the genre, cuz that's where that kind of stuff was heavily concentrated. When it came time to release albums, funk bands tended to let things sprawl (there are exceptions to this, but they're pretty rare - Mothership Connection, for example, was highly distinctive at the time for being the first r&b album to contain NO ballads, which was unheard of at the time).

Ron Bykowski's also on Standing iirc...?

Token White Devil?

I'll take a week, but it'll have to be at the end of May. Say 26/5?

rest assured I will be posting more stuff that blurs the line between acid rock and blues and funk

me too

much to my surprise I'm enjoying the ballads on Pleasure more than the other tracks. I really like the falsetto singing.

Ohio Players "Pleasure" is great, also agree with the ballads comment xpost - like "Pride & Vanity" a lot.

remember the version of Pleasure on Spotify is a 2cd set with bonus tracks the original lp only had 9 tracks I think.

yup
http://www.discogs.com/Ohio-Players-Pleasure/release/2233227

"Walt's First Trip" is a fuckin' jam

ohio players play on play on!

I generally hate ballads yet I like Ohio Players ballads. The post-Westbound/Junie era has a lot of harder rocking songs btw. There was no end to their talents.

The Ohio Players Best 1970's Album (Album Covers pics contained maybe NSFW)

the original lp only had 9 tracks

ah, that makes sense, ending w/Our Love Has Died. Allmusic led me astray.

Im guessing the other tracks are outtakes. I only have the old cds so I cant check.

for what it's worth, a list of samples used from these albums:

Mandrill "Children of the Sun": Shawty Lo "Dey Know"
Mandrill "Universal Rhythms": Beck "Hot Wax"
Ohio Players "Funky Worm": NWA "Dopeman", "Gangsta Gangsta", De La Soul "Me, Myself and I", Kriss Kross "Jump", Ice Cube "Wicked", AMG "Vertical Joyride", MC Breed "No Future in Ya Frontin", Dr. Dre "Chronic Intro", Snoop "Serial Killer", DJ Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince "Boom Shake the Room", Masta Ace "Born to Roll", Too $hort "Sample the Funk", Above the Law "Black Superman", X-Clan "Xodus", Beastie Boys "Funky Boss", Masta Ace "Born to Roll", Redman "Cosmic Sloop"
Funkadelic "I'll Stay": De La Soul "Millie Pulled a Pistol on Santa", Crucial Conflict "Hay"
Funkadelic "Standing on the Verge of Getting It On": Ice Cube "Endangered Species"

hush now, funk is a broad church

Er, the dog's eaten my homework... I don't suppose I can have an extension can I? [/blushes]

How about some time next month? Then I promise I will be as funky as my fat St Helens ass will let me.

I'm wondering whether it's:
(i) Bobby Womack;
(ii) Curtis Mayfield; or
(iii) Jay Kay
who's enough to kill a funk thread stone dead.

No worries doran, next person to volunteer can do it!

Anyone want to volunteer for this week or for future weeks?

Does anyone want funk club to continue? Will a hoy hoy, shakey & tuomas come back?

My campaign to rehabilitate this lot continues

you have a long, thankless task ahead of you

great 110th St loop:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5vd67vTysE

shakey you want to do this week?

sure I guess so

I'm still around

If peeps are reluctant to keep this going, howbout just doing one LP a week? I was considering offering up Wild Cherry's debut, just for the polarizing factor involved.

shakey was meant to post

Sorry for killing your club - that particular polarising effect seems not to go down too well.

One LP a week is what this should always have been imo. I tried hard to keep up but got totally swamped. I'm still checking out Hell. It also makes nominating hard, in a worse way, than narrowing down to just one beloved album.

um one a week is good with me, in which case I won't have to come up with two other albums besides this underrated (shit it's practically unknown, afaict) gem, which I return to often:
Les McCann - Live at Montreaux 1973
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS6N48Sz_S3qlkko5qsublOFGgQRFDE69Kj2AdH9MsYWTXRfHM&t=1&usg=__75RdA_O1qrPAbWnAy7GAICD1kM8=
Not nearly as famous as its predecessor with Eddie Harris, but I think this one's actually better. And a double LP to boot. McCann's voice and playing are in top shape, real greasy. Rahsaan Roland Kirk stops by for a song and plays a continuous, single note solo that lasts for like two minutes. Great versions of Get Yourself Together, Compared to What, The Price You Got to Pay to Be Free. On the jazz funk end of things, obviously but stuff like this really blurred the line between R&B and jazz.

Anyone up for reviving this? 1 album a week every Monday if so.
I'd go first so if anyone wishes a week after that please say so

26 August 2013 - Pfunkboy
2 September -

Will work better now the usa has spotify

and of course sneaky stuff for the obscure albums as before ;)

previous albums allowed yes or no?

I'd be keen on getting into this, and I would say yes to previous albums, if only as a refresher. I could stand to broaden my funk horizons.

Cool. Will i put you down for a week?

I was actually thinking of expanding it to Classic Funk/Soul/Black Acid Rock Listening club. A wee bit more choice for everyone. So if there's enough interest I'll start (new thread) on monday with the first album.

Yeah, put me down for a week. I've got a couple albums in mind already.

I'll be listening but I have no business doing a week.

ok. Any other related genre(s) we could expand it to?
(There was a separate R&B listening club so might not be best to include it with this incase they want to start it up again)

funky jazz stuff? stuff that proper jazzheads laugh at?

yes

jazz-funk is fine (think we did Donald Byrd - Blackbyrd one time)

ok

want a week then?

I guess I'll take a week then! but it probably won't be what I was just talking about I was just interested in the boundaries.

unless you're all down with the Jimmy Page soundtrack to Death Wish II lol

hah, I guess there's enough volunteers/interest to start a Funk/Soul/Black Acid Rock/Jazz-Funk Listening Club

Anyone else wanting to volunteer?

26 August 2013 - Pfunkboy
2 September - Tom Violence
9 September - Viceroy