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- #1
- Posted: 02/21/2018 21:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#2626): Mothership Connection
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Today's album of the day
Mothership Connection by Parliament (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 1975.
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Overall rank: 698
Average rating: 80/100 (from 282 votes).
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Tracks:
1. P-Funk (Wants To Get Funked Up)
2. Mothership Connection (Star Child)
3. Unfunky UFO
4. Supergroovalisticprosifunkstication
5. Handcuffs
6. Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker)
7. Night Of The Thumpasorus Peoples
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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Fischman
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- Posted: 02/22/2018 04:43
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Funky fun from first to finish. I tend to favor the Funkadelic side of P-Funk, but this is a fun album.
Mainstream hit with "Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)" and ya' gotta' love any album with a song called "Supergroovalisticprosifunkstication"
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- Posted: 02/22/2018 10:42
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I love early Funkadelic just as much for quite different reasons, but this is a nigh perfect funk masterpiece, a funk concept album revolving around the powerful metaphor of black people as aliens (influenced by Sun Ra), returning to Earth to "reclaim" the pyramids they built and bring back The Funk humans have forgotten. It was also famous at the time as the first R&B album without any ballads. It opens with an alien DJ (George Clinton) talking over a groove, sometimes hilariously, a middle stage in the development of rap. The way the singers sing "Make my funk the P-funk" softly as the band brings it down and both Maceo Parker and Fred Wesley take jazzy solos is wonderful. "Mothership Connection (Star Child)" segues into a variation of the old spiritual "Swing Down Sweet Chariot" linking the Afrofuturism back to the black church (on the first track, Clinton tells listeners that if they press their afflicted body parts against their radios, the funk will heal them, like the hands of a faith healer).
The last track, "Night of the Thumpasorus Peoples," is essentially funky jazz-rock, full of great riffs and a feature for Bernie Worrell's incredible, sometimes gastrointestinal synthesizer playing. Parliament at this time had some of the greatest musicians in popular music -- Bootsy Collins, Worrell, the great drummer Jerome Brailey, Maceo, Wesley (the Brecker Brothers play on here also!) -- and a deep bench of singers, including the great soul singer Glen Goins (who tragically died of cancer in 1978 before he could achieve his full potential), featured on "Handcuffs."
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brunotp
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- Posted: 02/22/2018 15:02
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"Fun" is definitively what defines this album.
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Fischman
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- Posted: 02/22/2018 15:12
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| PurpleHazel wrote: | I love early Funkadelic just as much for quite different reasons, but this is a nigh perfect funk masterpiece, a funk concept album revolving around the powerful metaphor of black people as aliens (influenced by Sun Ra), returning to Earth to "reclaim" the pyramids they built and redeliver the primal funk humans have forgotten. It was also famous at the time as the first R&B album without any slow songs. It opens with an alien DJ (George Clinton) talking over a groove, sometimes hilariously, a middle stage in the development of rap. The way the singers sing "Make my funk the P-funk" softly as the band brings it down and both Maceo Parker and Fred Wesley take jazzy solos is wonderful. "Mothership Connection (Star Child)" segues into a variation of the old spiritual "Swing Down Sweet Chariot" linking the Afrofuturism back to the black church (on the first track, Clinton tells listeners that if they press their afflicted body parts against their radios, the funk will heal them, like the hands of a faith healer).
The last track, "Night of the Thumpasorus Peoples," is essentially funky jazz-rock, full of great riffs and a feature for Bernie Worrell's incredible, sometimes gastrointestinal synthesizer playing. Parliament at this time had some of the greatest musicians in popular music -- Bootsy Collins, Worrell, the great drummer Jerome Brailey, Maceo, Wesley (the Brecker Brothers play on here also!) -- and a deep bench of singers, including the great soul singer Glen Goins (who tragically died of cancer in 1978 before he could achieve his full potential), featured on "Handcuffs." |
Great post. Thanks for sharing the insight.
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