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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

Tannenbaum, send me an email via ILX usermail and tell me what albums you had lined up, if we happen to have chosen the same album(s) I can always change my picks.

I'll just post this now...

Chairmen of the Board - Skin I'm In (1974)
http://www.akuma.de/images/ccover/dri000/i012/i01282zo58z.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/5zKiTlGl3QQBZZWowNwN5I

The Chairmen's final LP is a lost gem that's light years away from their previous smooth r&b crooning. Arranged by Jeffrey Bowen, who, from what I can tell, is the common link between Parliament-Funkadelic, Sly & the Family Stone, and several projects that drew on members of both bands to provide backing material for other artists (including the Temptations' LPs "Wings of Love" and "A Song For You"). I am not sure who all from P-Funk shows up on this record, apart from Bill "Bass" Nelson and Bernie Worrell, whose contributions are both readily identifiable. I am also unclear as to how the trilogy that closes side A (Life and Death in G &A Pt 1/White Rose (Freedom Flower)/Life and Death Pt 2) and is credited to Sly Stone made it from Sly's hands into those of P-Funk and the Chairmen of the Board, but I would guess that Bowen was involved. George and Sly both being absent here, this album is proof that the lesser-known guys in both the Family Stone and P-Funk were capable of some seriously amazing and hard-hitting stuff. I love this record.

James Brown - The Payback (1973)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/40/Jb-the-payback.jpg/200px-Jb-the-payback.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/7mMYTdDQ1UOw9j4vG3tCPs

The rejected soundtrack for the blaxploitation film Hell Up in Harlem (because it wasn't "being James Brown enough" o_0). I consider this the apex of James Brown's studio LP output. Prior to the early 70s the majority of James Brown's LPs are an incoherent mess, slapped together affairs often taken from different sessions with entirely different bands, with no consideration given to consistency of tone or content, but nevertheless containing tons of amazing material. But around about 1970, Brown began something of a melodramatic 180, and proceeded to issue a series of "concept" records that were built around specific themes, complete with interludes, monologues, and long, seemingly endless grooves. The Payback is the best of these by a wide margin - even the two ballads are good - and the band (under the direction of Fred Wesley) was on fire throughout. Everybody knows the opening track and can quote favorite lines ("I don't know karate/but I know ka-razy!") but the real standout here to me is the final song, "Mind Power", which synthesizes everything that was ever great about James Brown into a delirious, hypnotic, zen-buddhist-by-way-of-the-Deep-South meditation on the nature of consciousness and reality.

Dr. John - Desitively Bonaroo (1974)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/64/Doctorjohn.jpg/200px-Doctorjohn.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/4sdOFqfNcL5ge657ScJDXn

The lesser known "sequel" to his huge hit "In the Right Place" album and using pretty much the same exact formula and band, except that this time around I think the songs are actually better. No funk thread would be complete without acknowledging the contributions of New Orleans and specifically the axis of the Meters/Allen Toussaint, who provide most of the tunes and backing here, perfectly complimented by Dr. John's bizarro croak-n-drawl. This is pretty far from the way out sonics of "Dr. John the Night Tripper", but it marks the end of his "golden age" transition from psych-swamp-blues guru to Rolling Stones-confidante to party-funk frontman. After this his music gradually became more and more alternately conservative and jazzy, as he came to be a kind of standard-bearer for preserving New Orleans' musical heritage.

Chairmen Of The Board were the band I was talking about earlier btw

Got your mail, Tannenbaum, we haven't picked any of the same albums. Both of your choices are albums I've been meaning to check out for a long time though, so it'll be nice if you'll introduce them here, as it'll give me an excuse to listen to them.

And yes i know all 3. Classics all of them.

and the trilogy shakey talks about is the greatest trilogy in all music

dude I think you broke my hyperbolemeter

skin i'm in is a fabulous record

I have the 2xCD with Bittersweet on it (its also on Spotify) and its desert island discs stuff. I recommend you listen to both.

may I suggest editing the title of this thread to make it more generic...