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Electric Spanking War Babies

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I am speaking as a true funkateer when I say that this CD is awesome. When "Uncle Jam" was released, people thought that Funkadelic had replaced the blaring guitars of earlier works with layers of synth noises. But when "Electric Spaking" came out, it pretty much mixed the two together, and the result was one insane piece of great music. Do not listen to the negative reviews of this CD on the unremastered 'Electric Spanking' page...if you're a big P.Funk fan and you're hesitating to get this CD because you've heard that it's 'not as good as the earlier P.Funk thangs' or 'the 79-81 P.Funk CDs [weren't good]', take some advice from a real funkateer: BUY THIS ALBUM NOW!

After some recent clinkers,Funkadelic reemmerge as a
creative force here on "Electric Spanking".The tital track is
a funky rock triumph-enough to make Hendrix proud."Electro Cuties" is showcases the bands tightest funk.Part one of the
double attack "Funk Gets Stronger" is a genre beding noise-fest
of funk,rock and latin beats,lyrics and guitar pyrotechnics while
the Sly Stone-whipped second part focuses more attention on the
the indicated guess,even musically."Shock Wave" is an ammusing
dive into P-Funk-reggae,"Oh,I" is the only song here with any
"radio-friendly" possibilities while the filthy "Icka Prick"
could even make Prince blush,but not Blowfly (?)The heavily latin
"Brattino's Bounce" sounds like filler but it works in the
overall context.A richer,varried and far better produced way to
get into this particular generation of Funkadelic.

more proof that once you have 3 or so Funkadelic albums,you might as well just get em all! Jimi move over..and let EDDIE take over!

'The heavily latin "Brattino's Bounce" sounds .....'? Hey, brotha, that was pure African beats with African drums. I can also hear the sounds of the Nigerian armpit drums.

back in 81 this was a double album which included atomic dog but was reduced to a one record set because of issues clinton was hAVING WITH warner brothers still this is a good cd mike hampton shines on every song here and this predates the whole techno, punk rock new wave scene in the 80's.

Excellent album, but not recommended for new fans of The P. This album even threw OG's off when it came out, so for new fans of P-Funk I suggest starting out with, Funkadelics, One Nation Under A Groove, then work your way up to this one & most of Clinton's 80's album, especially, You Shouldn't-Nuf Bit Fish, which is completely out there. Fly on...

This is the last of the original "Funkadelic" albums. It was released during the fall of the P-Funk army. Lawsuits, band members leaving.George fighting with record companies. It was a total mess at this time. P-FUnk was wearing thin at this time, so this did not get any airplay hardly. I think the masses really missed a great album. If you see the liner notes, there were so many musicians and vocalists at the time. The title cut has only 2 musicians. Walter "Junie" Morrison plays everything execpt the intense guitar lead which was done by Micheal Hampton. Electro Cuties is a tight jam. Shockwaves is great. The whole album is off the hook. "Icka Prick" was actually a stab @ the record company. The fighting was over the album cover. SOme women's right movement raised hell about it, but my question was...what about all of the other Funkadelic album covers? The lady on the back of the cover name is "Sleeza" or something like that. FOrget the album cover. IT's a great album. I recommend to get this. This was the last of the orignal "Funkadelic" albums. Parliament's "Trombipulation" was out at the time which also did not do so well. Casablanca sold to Polygram. Poor George. No contracts. He did have his own record company "Uncle Jam' Records. Zapps "More Bounce To The Ounce" was actually the hottest thing at that time. "Sweatband" did no do too well with "Freak 2 Freak"...............