― zebedee (zebedee), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:29 (nineteen years ago) link
five will be next ("next")
― mark s (mark s), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:46 (nineteen years ago) link
this mean "lesson: supplementary" may yet be salsa!!
(five is not my favourite number)
(i am off up-country to look after my agein ailin parents right now tho, and not back til tue)
― mark s (mark s), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― zebedee (zebedee), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:53 (nineteen years ago) link
I think this is due for a revive.
― VOTE in the 1980's ROCK POLL PLEASE! (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
Weird. I randomly put on AEIY only last night. First time I'd played it since, well, probably 2005.
― Jeff W, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 10:05 (eleven years ago) link
did it sound any better?
― VOTE in the 1980's ROCK POLL PLEASE! (Algerian Goalkeeper), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 12:36 (eleven years ago) link
Some bits did sound better! But some bits sounded worse. I have grown into some of it and out of other bits maybe.
― Jeff W, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 17:29 (eleven years ago) link
totally forgot I was quoted at the top of this thread lol
I don't think I would subscribe to the sentiment expressed anymore - while it's largely true I'm to big a fan of Dylan's christian period to really think that anymore even if, in general, converts don't have as interesting musical careers as people that were just always straight-up religious.
― chicago rap twitter luminary (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 17:33 (eleven years ago) link
too big argh
also think it's weird to cast Clinton as a "convert" to the Process Church, which I don't think was really ever the case.
― chicago rap twitter luminary (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 17:34 (eleven years ago) link
would you say the beatles "converted" to TM?
― the late great, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 17:56 (eleven years ago) link
or would you say they just "flirted" with it
the only Beatle who "converted" to anything was Harrison
― chicago rap twitter luminary (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 18:08 (eleven years ago) link
I caught an art program on GC last week on Sky Arts. Apparently he's colourblind but still makes pretty cool art. Inspired by his cover artist to go into creating art for sale.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
Holy shit.
― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Sunday, June 15, 2003 7:11 AM (9 years ago)
― i know your nuts hurt! who's laughing? (contenderizer), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 18:54 (eleven years ago) link
first response hof
Sooooo is it totally heretical to acknowledge Maggot Brain as an undisputed great and classic album and think that America Eats Its Young is an even greater and more classic album? Because get ready to excommunicate yrs truly, if so.
Also, gahdamn, mark s, when does your 33 1/3 book about the album drop?
― Jock Totty's Monocle (Old Lunch), Thursday, 22 February 2018 19:53 (six years ago) link
America Eats Its Young is their worst album.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Thursday, 22 February 2018 19:56 (six years ago) link
Like let's make a baggy sprawling incoherent rock album that Zappa fans might like. Where is Shakey when he's needed?
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Thursday, 22 February 2018 19:59 (six years ago) link
where is Shakey?
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 22 February 2018 20:01 (six years ago) link
kidnapped by chaki iirc
― NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 22 February 2018 20:02 (six years ago) link
Don't worry, he's just taking a break.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Thursday, 22 February 2018 20:03 (six years ago) link
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Thursday, February 22, 2018 1:56 PM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Okay, I thought *I* was bringing the challops itt, but (bows to the master).
― Jock Totty's Monocle (Old Lunch), Thursday, 22 February 2018 20:04 (six years ago) link
What's worse? Remember this on the proviso that the worst Funkadelic is n times better than the best Zappa album, or whatever.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Thursday, 22 February 2018 20:08 (six years ago) link
The album has felt especially resonant to me over the past year. I can't even count how many times I've listened to it.
The repeated refrain of 'y'all see my point' in 'Biological Speculation' might be my favorite slow-burn, super-subtle delivery of a casual threat ever.
― Jock Totty's Monocle (Old Lunch), Thursday, 22 February 2018 20:09 (six years ago) link
If Zappa had recorded albums like this album I would probably like Zappa, but as it stands IDGI.
But yeah, I'll grant you that even the worst Funkadelic album (whichever it is) is better than most things.
― Jock Totty's Monocle (Old Lunch), Thursday, 22 February 2018 20:10 (six years ago) link
Great tracks on it - it's Clinton/Funkadelic - but it's still my least favourite.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Thursday, 22 February 2018 20:11 (six years ago) link
"If You Don't Like the Effects, Don't Produce the Cause" is one of the greatest, aptest adages that George Clinton stumbled on. I quote it often.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 22 February 2018 20:11 (six years ago) link
That's another winner!
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Thursday, 22 February 2018 20:12 (six years ago) link
wowee zowee this thread is a nostalgia rush...
― scott seward, Thursday, 22 February 2018 20:13 (six years ago) link
The worst period of Funkadelic is the period between Let's Take It To The Stage and One Nation Under a Groove, but that's only cuz Clinton was focusing more on Parliament's releases during that time. America Eats Its Young isn't in my Top 10 p-funk albums (then again, neither is Maggot Brain) but I like it just fine.
― Full of bile and Blue Nile denial (Turrican), Thursday, 22 February 2018 20:48 (six years ago) link
Been listening to/liking a lot that Reworked By Detroiters thing that came out last year. Embarrassed to admit I'm not familiar with at least half of the originals!
― henry s, Thursday, 22 February 2018 22:06 (six years ago) link
Bravo Mark, that was like crawling over the cover of the album as you described it, only it was already like that before you got to the cover (also reminded me of the cover of Uncle Meat etc). Lots of good points and info (I knew some of that, being old, but also have another unwelcome memory of a promo of Process hymns re Jesus alternating with hymns re Satan, released and I think recorded this century by hipsters). A lot of amazingly good music has been made by people with beliefs I don't particulary give a shit about, especially jazz. A number of ilxors would include Dylan's Trouble No More, but for me the musical (incl his vocal) powers of the sampler are too supportive of his paranoid rants, much more about what another poster called cocaine dreams or thoughts and the excitement of (after midlife crisis of Street Legal, Dylany imagery now sounding homeless on "Changing of the Guard), he's righteous Boy Dylan back bitch and better, having finally found The Point and Winning/Saved and having the biz means to rant big---Speaking of "rock and soul speaking to each other, reminds me of the precariously hopeful cosmic poetic ballads and guitar punks defiantly celebrating "My Black Uncertainty" and non-rhetorically asking of their album mates/selves and others, "Are You Insaaane?"---on Burnt Sugar's 2017 All You Zombies Dig The Luminosity.It's all here: https://burntsugarthearkestrachamber.bandcamp.com/album/all-you-zombies-dig-the-luminosity
― dow, Friday, 23 February 2018 04:09 (six years ago) link