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though i haven't looked on ebay in a long time. maybe the prices aren't that bad.

Mandrill is my favorite of these three first albums. Love the latin vibe on some songs. Kind of cheesy... something I could imagine playing in some sort of tiki lounge... not necessarily a bad kind of cheesy.

The nine-track closer xp, the slow one with the long horn phrase - beautiful. That's another thing, the arrangements are all over the place - other than the horns, which are fairly constant, it could quite easily be nine different bands.

I just love how so many of the funk bands that were more than accomplished at doing other styles within the same albums. Going from jazz to heavy acid rock to soulful to dance-y all within a few songs. Mandrill is what Santana should have sounded like.

santana sounded fine!

i only care for his 1st 2 albums myself

if you don't think that santana could get crazy then you don't own enough santana albums. one thing santana didn't really have were good songwriters.

the 70's is where santana goes nuts!

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all worth hearing. (along with other albums, but i ain't got all day.)

one thing santana didn't really have were good songwriters.

^^^yeah this was the real problem.

could say the same about Mandrill haw

I suppose writing 3 min pop songs wasn't either of their things

I wonder if geir wants to do a week

28/4 - Shakey Mo
5/5 - Tuomas
12/5 - a hoy hoy
19/5 - Tannenbaum Schmidt
26/5 - Ismael Klata
2/6 - forksclovetu
9/6 - pfunkboy
16/6 - moka
23/6 - the rev

Anyone can have a week. All welcome.

28/4 - Shakey Mo
5/5 - Tuomas
12/5 - a hoy hoy
19/5 - Tannenbaum Schmidt
26/5 - Ismael Klata
2/6 - forksclovetu
9/6 - pfunkboy
16/6 - moka
23/6 - Abbott
30/6 - The Rev

I'm amazed so many want a week, but this is great!

I'll do a week but can't commit to any time in July. Anyone want to swap an earlier slot?

yeah no problem, I can swap my 2nd go. If anyone earlier wants to swap I can change it.

28/4 - Shakey Mo
5/5 - Tuomas
12/5 - a hoy hoy
19/5 - Tannenbaum Schmidt
26/5 - Ismael Klata
2/6 - forksclovetu
9/6 - Seandalai
16/6 - moka
23/6 - Abbott
30/6 - The Rev
7/7 - pfunkboy

Geir do you want a week?

Turangalila wants week 14/7

Anyone else checked out the Mandrill? Sam?

I listened to the Mandrill yessirday, was slammin'. May even look at an *illegal download* if prices are too steep, because Mandrill records seem worth having in some capacity.

they are

Sam if you live near a FOPP, then they might carry some Mandrill.

closest fopp closed. will be london over the weekend though, if anyone wants to point me in the direction of a decent one.

I thought you lived in London, heh.

Nah, had to move back in with parents due to poverty.

sounds like you need a cough remedy then

could this cough remedy make me rich?

No but it could funkify you

follow the yellow brick cough

What the Motherpage has to say about Standing On The Verge Of Getting It On

this thread inspired me to inhale and play cosmic slop for the first time in a long time. jeez louise did that ever sound good to me. not hearing it for a long time was a bonus, actually. i had new ears. still makes my jaw drop. that SOUND! (pristine early vinyl pressing, of course) man, you could write a book simply about the production of that one album. or any of their albums, i suppose, but....oh i could go on.

late 80's/early 90's i almost p-funked myself to death. i was rabid. so i had to go away from the records for awhile. well, it wasn't like a conscious thing, i just did it. same thing happened with me and the lovely Can. not their fault, of course! i just played their records to death and beyond. now i hear a can record and it's like holy moly all over again! like a new band or something.

I've spent many an hour and pound in the Fopp at the corner of Charing Cross Road and Shaftesbury Avenue. Can't think of any others off the top of my head - used to be one in Chiswick but I doubt it's survived.

FOPP of course named after the Ohio Players song!

Scott are you wanting a week curating this?

am gonna try to follow this one as know lamentably little about funk.

ohio players - there's a version of this album w/7 bonus tracks, are they particularly necessary?

not really. 1st 9 tracks are the proper album.

Been listening to the Funkadelic this afternoon. It feels very bitty again - there are lovely moments but I'll just be settling into one when it changes into something else entirely. The vocals are taking some getting used to, any beauty in the harmony parts is not immediately obvious.

So far, I like The Ohio Players album best - can see myself coming back to that often.

The Mandrill was great but like some one said upthread, there's often so much going on but often no big hook. Highlight for me was "Git It All" - especially the second half of the track, from when the harmonica comes in.

Need to listen to that Funkadelic some more.

It's funny seeing comments that the Funkadelic album covers too many styles as this is the most stylistically consistent of the Funkadelic albums!

28/4 - Shakey Mo
5/5 - Tuomas
12/5 - a hoy hoy
19/5 - Tannenbaum Schmidt
26/5 - Ismael Klata
2/6 - forksclovetu
9/6 - Seandalai
16/6 - moka
23/6 - Abbott
30/6 - The Rev
7/7 - pfunkboy
14/7 - Turangalila

Anyone else listened to any of the albums?

listening to the Funkadelic now, will liveblog RONG first impressions

Red Hot Momma: fun skit, then Jane's Addiction
Alice In My Fantasies : Led Zep meets the Sweet

I'll Stay : (intro) Death Of a Disco Dancer vs While My guitar gently weeps.

also there was a 90's trip-hop song - underwater love?? - did it sample this?

or maybe sneaker pimps or morcheeba, I can't remember.

Standing on the Verge of Getting it On: (Westbound 1974)
* “Standing on the Verge of Getting it On”
Ice Cube’s “Endangered Species”
Sons of Bazerk’s “Part One”
* “I'll Stay”
Atmosphere’s “Millie Fell off the Fire Escape”
M.O.P. ft Busta Rhymes’s “Brooklyn”
Crucial Conflict’s “Hay”
De la Soul’s “Millie Pulled a Pistol on Santa”
K-Solo’s “Long Live the Fugitive”
* “Jimmy's Got a Little Bit of Bitch in Him”
Rays’s “I Don't Want to Be Alone”
* “Sexy Ways”
Fu-Schnickens’s “Props”

still need to check ohio players, spent all of last night jamming to this while at work on my earphones

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