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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

http://www.plong.com/MusicCatalog%5CP%5CParliament%20-%20Gold%5CParliament%20-%20Gold.jpg

sexy ways: ford capri jam

Standing On The Verge : THIS is what I was expecting the whole album to sound like.

Jimmy's got a bit... : Electric Ladyland doo-wop

Good Thoughts - proto-Purple Rain guitar, more Ladyland, hypnotism tape

Listened to Mandrill the other day...I'm going to write a long post on the Jazz Listening Club thread and then I'll get back to the funk.

OK, here's a half-baked analogy: Mandrill are to War what Funkadelic was to Ohio Players

that's short-selling War imho

War were really good, but they're not in the same league as Mandrill IMO, but they are far more well known than Mandrill. It's so sad they get ignored by the music press.

I wonder if any of these funk bands got coverage in Rolling Stone at the time. Other than a token 3 star review.

dunno, but I kinda doubt RS had much love for/understanding of funk (outside of Sly, obviously). xhuxh probably knows.

the Mandrill's good, I just don't hear anything there as strong as the best stuff in War's catalog like "Low Rider" or "Spill the Wine" or "Me and Baby Brother". There's a ton of filler on War's albums, but they knew how to make a single.

listening to the war double live album last week. man, that thing is all kinds of cool.

i need this. don't have one. i never see it anywhere. i should look harder.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/72/War_album.jpg

I've never heard that one either

I've been listening to Mandrill Is, and I'm not quite sure what to think of it... On the one hand it has some inspired grooves, the sound is nice, and I like how they're doing a variety of styles on one record, from straight funk to latin jazz to blues rock to hippie freakout moments. But on the other hand the arrangements are often too busy, and at times it feels like the band are overplaying just to show off their skills. Like, is it really necessary to do so many drum rolls on "Here Today Gone Tomorrow"? With tighter arrangements and less showmanship this might've been a really good album. But I agree that "Ape Is High" a banger, and "Central Park" is a lovely piece of breezy 60s pop in the middle of a funk album - it's the one song here that actually benefits from the "full" arrangement.

shakey did you send a webmail? You have my email! I'll reply to the email i have for you ok?

sent to the email i have for you that you never check

lol gotcha

Tuesday will now be the day new albums are posted on funk club. So shakey you can post the weeks albums in an hour or 2 if you want.

Of course, anyone can still talk about previous weeks albums anytime they want to.

Shakey's picks are awesome btw. So I hope you all enjoy them once he's posted them!

excited and hoping that Shakey, Tumoas and A Hoy don't choose what I have lined up, else I'm gonna have to pass on my week!

if they are agreeable to to swap with you it's fine by me.

wait what I thought new albums went up Wednesday (it's still Monday here!)

I'm pretty sure my choices are not gonna overlap with anyone else's

fwiwi

Naw Tuesdays now, gives everyone an extra work day to post about it. Plus all the other clubs are at the end of the week so more might give this one a shot. It will be tuesday in 75 mins here!

One of the shakey picks is an album that most of you have never heard (by a band you know hit singles by) but i can tell you, it's one of the greatest albums ever made. A stone cold 10/10 classic.

So you can post it anytime after an hour from now