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Had only heard Ohio Players guest on other tracks. Never even heard of Mandrill.

had heard of, but never listened to Mandrill before - seen plenty of their LPs in second hand shops; never heard of or listened to Ohio Players before; same goes for Chairmen Of The Board.

I had only heard "Skin Tight," "Fire" and "Love Rollercoaster," and liked all three. I think 4-minute bursts, blowing out a little transistor radio, without warning, in the 1970s, is how I enjoy them the best.

So what you're saying is you need a time machine to enjoy them now?

possibly

The Blackbyrds are on my shortlist, we'll see whether anyone posts them before I do (the tension!).

Listening to the Funkadelic now, and having a NOW THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKIN ABOUT kinda time. I've loved "Alice in My Fantasies" for years from the Blind Idiot God version.

Not heard that cover actually. Glad you liked something though!

WmC what did you think of the rest of the album?
How is everyone else getting on with the albums?

Find the vocals really offputting with Funkadelic, they could've used a straight-up singer who wasn't in on the joke I reckon.

Which vocals/songs?

Personnel:

Spaced Viking; Keyboards & Vocals: Bernard (Bernie) Worrell
Tenor Vocals, Congas and Suave Personality: Calvin Simon
A Prototype Werewolf; Berserker Octave Vocals: Clarence 'Fuzzy' Haskins
World's Only Black Leprechaun; Bass & Vocals: Cordell 'Boogie' Mosson
Maggoteer Lead/Solo Guitar & Vocals: Eddie 'Smedley Smorganoff' Hazel
Rhythm/Lead Guitar, Doowop Vocals, Sinister Grin: Gary Shider
Supreme Maggot Minister of Funkadelia; Vocals, Maniac Froth and Spit;
Behaviour Illegal In Several States: George Clinton
Percussion & Vocals; Equipped with stereo armpits: Ramon 'Tiki' Fulwood
Rhythm/Lead Guitar; polyester soul-powered token white devil: Ron Bykowski
Registered and Licensced Genie; Vocals: 'Shady' Grady Thomas
Subterranean Bass Vocals, Supercool and Stinky Fingers: Ray (Stingray) Davis

Additional Personnel:

Drums: Gary Bronson
Bass: Jimmy Calhoun
Piano: Leon Patillo
Percussion: Ty Lampkin

Song-Specific Personnel:

"Red Hot Mama"
Lead Vocals: George Clinton, Eddie Hazel
Guitars: Eddie Hazel, Ron Bykowski

"Alice In My Fantasies"
Lead Vocals: George Clinton

"Sexy Ways"
Lead Vocals: Garry Shider

"Standing On the Verge..."
Lead Vocals: Parliament, Gary Shider
Guitar: Eddie Hazel, Ron Bykowski

"Jimmy's Got A Little..."
Lead Vocals: George Clinton

"Good Thoughts, Bad Thoughts"
Lead Vocals: George Clinton

Not sure I could pick anything out yet, but pretty much all of it tbh - it's kind of hard to get into it when it's hard to tell it's an album by one band rather than a compilation. Pretty sure this'd be ridiculous in reality, but my thought when I had it on last was for the band to hold back a bit and let Tina Turner loose on it

you rangers fans just cant let go of that tina turner song!

take that back

but you are a rangers fan!

What have I done to deserve this? I need to stop saying whatever it was I was saying.

you need to listen to more funk

also answer your webmail

and again mr klata

(i was gonna answer yr webmail but i thought it would be petty just to send you 600 c&p of roxannes revenge for a fucking kid sister article)

sam have you listened to all of shakeys picks yet?

Also you got that article for what you said about Maggot brain.

:DDDDDDDDDD

Nah, I got a couple hours to kill atm, was gonna do the JB, Pete Rock, and whatever the Brazilian one is. Maybe an R&B one as well.

and whatever the Brazilian one is

Jorge Ben's A Tabua De Eesmerelda!

So I don't have to go into the 'show all messages' hellhole, what jbeezy we checking this week? also dr. john...

JB = The Payback
Dr John = Desitively Bonnaroo

and the other one was Chairmen of the Board's Skin I'm In

the big payback!

why i went like six months without listening to this album i have no idea.
actually, why i go each day without etc.

i was thinking of doing a jb week w/ this in it, gonna have to find a 3rd record now. maybe one of his crackhead christmas albums ;)

I kinda feel we should avoid having multiple albums by the same artist week until the 1st round of shots are done. So much funk to pick until we have to go down that road.

yeah I'm in favor of some diversity

I always liked to pretend that James was singing about
http://alicehyatt.com/cast/images/tayback.jpg

like, this genre has a lot of weird tangents, let's not get caught up in going over the canon

xp

okokokok i'll do just one jbeezy

of course there's nothing stopping you from doing a james brown,jb's, bootsy collins 3pick

Looks like you guys want be using lala.com for listening to albums since Apple are closing it.

yeah, I'm afraid that is going to seriously affect my ability to participate in these threads.

Nowhere else you guys can use? You need to ask the north american spotify users how they do it.

I don't have any qualms about dl'ing old shit from wherever, but understand we can't post those links here...

also not much of an issue for me since I already own tons of this stuff haah

The problem is that I'm doing my listening at work. I know I could plan ahead, d-l anything I don't have, and bring it in on my ipod, but I'm lazy and the world needs to accommodate that imho.

I'm lazy and the world needs to accommodate that imho.

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yet no post. Is ilx playing tricks?

So what was everyones fave album of this weeks picks then?

anyone?

I've only checked out The Payback - fabulous, the best thing so far. The band is tight, the frontmanning assured. Lots of little stylistic things, nice horns, a couple of terrific runs where it almost goes hard bop - but always kept in the frame of it being a James Brown album, which makes it much more coherent than the three from last week. Those string things are strange, though, but I like 'em.

I doubt this'll be an original observation, but JB's basically a preacher, isn't he? I feel like I've spent an hour-and-a-half in church.

Just a wee reminder
4/5 - Tuomas
11/5 - a hoy hoy
18/5 - Tannenbaum Schmidt
25/5 - Ismael Klata
1/6 - forksclovetu
8/6 - Seandalai
15/6 - moka
22/6 - Abbott
32/6 - The Rev
6/7 - pfunkboy
13/7 - Turangalila

If anyone can commit to a week after Turangalila just shout out.

i killed my post, it was just a "hey did you guys know how to find these albums easily on the internet?" dumbass thing.

Spotify, Lala.com and the cough ^

That Chairmen of the Board album is fucking incredible. "Love at First Sight" does not stop at whatever it does to me.

I've made a SPOTIFY PLAYLIST with the albums of both weeks (minus the Mandrill which isn't available)

Will add to it as each week goes by.

Brad, I recommend you check out the album Bittersweet

everybody's got something to hide except for...

http://i43.tinypic.com/i71ssz.jpg