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Sam put it on while you drink your beers!

ha maybe. let me drop a gem on 'em first.

a what?

OK, I guess I'll volunteer to do the week after Tom, if these are still going in August. Can't provide Spotify links but I won't choose anything impossibly rare. Pfunkboy can call me Von Bootee!

Throwing on Leon Thomas now, looking forward to the yodeling...

Unfortunately the fact that BatST is a more straightforward funk/soul effort means that there's yodeling only on one or two tracks. If yodeling is what you want, check out the first two Leon Thomas albums (Spirits Known and Unknown and The Leon Thomas Album).

10/5 - a hoy hoy Winston
17/5 - Tannenbaum Schmidt
24/5 - Ismael Klata (Not a rangers fan honestly)
31/5 - funksclovetu
7/6 - Seandalai Funkify
14/6 - moka Funka
21/6 - Abbott The Bricklayer
28/6 - The Rev Funkenstein
5/7 - pfunkboy
12/7 - Turangalila Funkapus
19/7 - mbison the texan funkateer
26/7 - Shakey Mo Funkier
2/8 - Tom "Funkybutt" D
9/8 - Von Bootee!

there we go. At this point we have more volunteers for picking albums than listeners/posters!
Post your thoughts on the albums folks!

I'll be posting my friday bonus funk pick at midnight.

finally settled on my three choices for when I'm due to choose.

pfunk, what should I listen to next by Funkadelic/Parliment after seriously getting into "Standing On The Verge...." - shamefully know little by them

Prob. "Maggot Brain" for Eddie Hazel in full effect. "Let's Take It to the Stage" is quite similar to "Standing On The Verge" in some ways.

yeah the 1st 3 probably. Standing... is from the classic middle period.

pfunk, what should I listen to next by Funkadelic/Parliment after seriously getting into "Standing On The Verge...." - shamefully know little by them

dude be patient these guys are bound to take up a fair chunk of recommendations on this thread

have a read at

http://www.duke.edu/~tmc/motherpage/discog-funkadelic.html

then http://www.duke.edu/~tmc/motherpage/discog-top.html

the thing is their catalog is deep AND wide - there's a lot in there, and not all of it is of a piece. the first couple Funkadelic albums bear little to no resemblance to, say, late-period Parliament.

xpost: yeah, I've heard Maggot Brain and didn't like/understand it. But those links, pfunk, help in placing their mid-period so I'll check albums immediately before and after "Standing On The Verge"

So, anybody have anything more to say about this week's albums? I thought they would raise a little more discussion.

I think the mid-period stuff is wildly underrated - the run from Cosmic Slop through Tales of Kidd Funkadelic is remarkably consistent and probably the most deeply rewarding. The period often gets overlooked by the rock fans on the one hand who prefer the earliest, fuzzed out/prot-metal material and also by the dance fans who like the later bubbly, synth-heavy, hit-laden stuff (i.e., One Nation Under a Groove and on). But the middle period stuff is FULL of amazing sounds, its where Clinton hit his stride as a producer, and where Bernie Worrell comes to the for, but there's still plenty of guitar heroics, great riffs, Temptations-style group vocals, and loopy concepts. Honestly this is the stuff I pull out most often.

My recommendation for where to go after Standing would be Cosmic Slop, tbh.

xp

sorry Tuomas I haven't gotten to the Herbie yet, been a busy week for me!

Unfortunately the fact that BatST is a more straightforward funk/soul effort means that there's yodeling only on one or two tracks.

Oh don't worry, I know where to find the yodeling if I need it, thanks! Pretty enjoyable LP overall, nice variety in vocal approaches and instrumentation. Didn't care much for the two blues standards, I've heard enough cover versions over the years.

The Betty Davis album slams hard - all her albums do - and the woman herself makes for stunning album cover art. But yeah, her screech can be a little hard to take after listening awhile. (Approaches sheer white noise at times, practically!) Still, I'm glad these records were made, and glad that they're all available again.

thread full of lols + me defending Betty's catalog against some jerks

the mid period is a lot of pfunk fans fave because its the funk-rock period where eddie hazel writes most of it, after that he was incarcerated I think.

Drunk rather than incarcerated, I fear

no, i believe he was in and out of jail, possibly due to addiction

It was the booze that killed him though

20 years later!

no, i believe he was in and out of jail, possibly due to addiction

smoking angel dust on a plane, is the legend

maybe elephant rob is waiting until he gets home to look?

Sorry pfunkboy! I did indeed leave work for the day right after posting (though there actually isn't a lot that isn't safe where I work...now you probably all think I work in pr0n, ha). Those OP covers are pretty shocking and I'm sure they pissed somebody off here in the land of the free. I wish I could find a credible source for these stories I dimly recal, but my understanding is some Xtian group actually got Davis's tour canceled/shut down?

They shock now, so just imagine how shocking they were then. So you're the 2nd ilxor to work in pr0n then? ;)

Well, I do work in (book) publishing...

God, that old Betty Davis thread is not a fun read. I have a shitty ear, and I don't want to reopen this "debate" but I always thought she had a pretty nice voice. I can't think of anyone else who could sing "They Say I'm Different" the way she does.

Heh, I made a coupla fairly obnoxious (intentionally) full-o-shit remarks on that thread! (Didn't say anything bad about Betty, mind.)

Pfunkboy's Friday Funk Bonus Pick

This one will compliment Tuomas' picks.

Herbie Hancock - Manchild
http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/h/hancoc_herb_manchild~_101b.jpg
Spotify Link

Herbie's funkiest album IMO. Hope you all enjoy it as much as I do.

AMG review

Perhaps the funkiest album of Herbie Hancock's early- to mid-'70s jazz/funk/fusion era, Man-Child starts off with the unforgettable "Hang Up Your Hang Ups," and the beat just keeps coming until the album's end. "Sun Touch" and "Bubbles" are slower, but funky nonetheless. Hancock is the star on his arsenal of keyboards, but guitarist Wah Wah Watson's presence is what puts a new sheen on this recording, distinguishing it from its predecessors, Head Hunters and Thrust. Others among the all-star cast of soloists and accompanists include Wayne Shorter on soprano sax, Stevie Wonder on chromatic harmonica, and longtime Hancock cohort Bennie Maupin on an arsenal of woodwinds.

Please still discuss the other album, this is just a bonus pick, which I think compliments the album Tuomas picked, which you can also discuss.

And if a mod is reading this , could they please perhaps add the bonus to the thread title, it might entice in others who had already finished with the weeks pics.

friday funk bonus bump

I'm sure Tuomas will approve of this album

late pass but that dr. john is... well it reminds me of that 30 rock joke- (kenneth: do you not remember your wedding vows? tracy: to be honest I could barely understand a word rick james was saying.) funky but my mind ain't clear enough and my booty not in the mood for shaking.

Hungover?

Today, sam is tony adams

nah, tory hate instead of booze.

Go listen to Chocolate City then

Tuomas are you a fan of this Herbie Hancock album?

I am. dl'd it recently but I'd heard bits of it before. definitely peak prot-electro funk period for him.

I bought it in a 3cd box I think it was back in the 90s. Loved it from the moment I heard it. It is really funky.

And funnily enough, it doesnt sound dated at all unlike the 80s stuff.

Yup, its a 3xCD box of Headhunters,Man-Child and Future Shock. It's even on Spotify in this form.

that's an odd combo - Thrust seems like a more logical match for the others than Future Shock

Probably 2 well known albums in with a less well known one so it still sells.

me hungover earlier today with my signed! copy of HH; also enjoyed listening to Man-Child again this afternoon.

http://img263.imageshack.us/i/herbie.jpg/

http://www.chromogenik.com/misc/herbie.jpg

I blame Sam for this trend

cheers jj

Hmm, for some reason I've never acquired a copy of Man-Child, even though I like it and I own all the other Herbie albums between Mwandhishi and Sunlight. I agree with Herman that it is very good, but I'm not sure if it's Herbie's funkiest... I'd say that title goes to Secrets ("Spider" off that album sounds like a theme to some lost blaxploitation flick), though Man-Child isn't far, and it's probably better as a whole than Secrets.