The Electric Spanking Of War Babies
by Funkadelic

The Electric Spanking Of War Babies by Funkadelic
Year: 1981
Overall rank: 7,643rd   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 39 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1981 (128th)
Award Top albums of of the 1980s (1,080th)
Award Best albums of all time (7,643rd)

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Funkadelic bestography

The Electric Spanking Of War Babies is ranked 8th best out of 19 albums by Funkadelic on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Funkadelic is Maggot Brain which is ranked number 385 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 4,322.

Funkadelic album bestography « Higher ranked (7,163rd)
Let's Take It To The Stage
This album (7,643rd)
The Electric Spanking Of War Babies
Lower ranked (11,586th) »
America Eats Its Young

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Overall rank: 7,643rd | 1980s rank: 1,080th | 1981 rank: 128th

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73/100 (from 39 votes)
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I've been to a bunch of P-Funk shows and I've been listening to their albums and studying the album covers for many, many years. This is my favorite P-Funk album. Come for the Sly Stone cameo, stay for the funk that just keeps cooking, start to finish. "Hey mon, I'd just rather go dancing than to sit and have a meeting about the problems..."

The song at the end does get pretty filthy, now. All part of the joke...they had a big fight over the censorship of the very raunchy original album cover and some other legal things, who knows, and the album disappeared--you really could NOT find it for years...I know, I had lost my copy and I was looking. A P-Funk treasure, this one.
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