Funkadelic [Original recording remastered]

Funkadelic | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 1, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Westbound Records Us
• ASIN: B000AXWV3G
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,345 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic, September 5, 2010

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Bill Your 'Free Form FM Handi Cyber Print DJ ... (Mahwah, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Funkadelic (Audio CD)

A classic album can be a classic albums for many reasons. It may just be so popular it is known to everyone. Or maybe the music is so good that alone gives it its status. Or maybe the importance of the album musically and historically takes it there.

Funkadelic, the band's first self-titled album from 1970, is a classic on several levels. The Temptations may have had the notion to integrate some psychedelic/Hendrix influences on Cloud Nine. But it was George Clinton and his Funkadelic vehicle that soul and funk could be as psychedelic, as windowpane dipped, as counter-cultural as any white rock. Funkidelic the band was one of the first soul bands that didn't even make a pretense as playing it straight. They just didn't care.

"If you suck my soul, I will lick your funky emotions." was not a line that would get a soul band on to Ed Sullivan in 1970. But it is how Funkadelic started their career, and this album. "Mommy, What's A Funkadelic," is the track this line opens, with a booming eccho, and it only gets more strange from there.

At nine minutes, this song made no stab at AM radio. The track is filled with eccho, wha wha guitars, dark bass, and ghostly backing vocals. The black people here speak like black people. There is a pant, a sexuality to the heavy breathing.

They're throwing your own stereotypes in your face--and not being cute about it. America was still desegregating in 1970. In all its absurdity and humor, this stuff was dangerous.

The album itself alternates between this not so absurd absurdity and more conventional soul numbers, which Clinton cut his teeth on. Even these have a rock edge. Layers and layers of guitars and voices. Musically and socially textured at every level

Albums like this just did not get made in 1970. In 2010, I am still hard pressed to find much like it.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Mommy, What's a Funkadelic?, October 26, 2009

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J. M. Norby (Austin, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Funkadelic (Audio CD)

George Clinton is phenomenal. Great album. There are a few jams that I felt dragged on but overall an excellent piece of work. This is a true funk album. Personal favorites include "I Got a Thing, You Got a Thing, Everybody's Got a Thing", "I Bet You", "Good Old Music", and "What Is Soul." If you don't own any Funkadelic albums, this is a perfect place to start. If you already own some Funkadelic records, and you don't have this one, you are missing out.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Remastered?, April 17, 2008

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Matthew A. Riggs "blindpig21" (Indianapolis, IN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Funkadelic (Audio CD)

Okay, so I bought this remastered version because I am a freak and must always have the newest version of a product if it seems like it is the best. I just got this CD, opened it and listened to it, and it didn't sound so great. I had the previous edition of Fundadelic, and this one seems to sound worse by comparison. The remaster sounds tinny to me, and it seems like they boosted the volume, without cleaning up the sound as much as they could have. The mix sounds less even than the previous edition. Maybe I'm crazy, and it doesn't matter, I would have bought it anyway for the bonus tracks.