Let's Take It to the Stage

Funkadelic | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 4, 1992)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Westbound Records
• ASIN: B000001TUZ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #107,615 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #45 in Music > Indie Music > R&B > Funk

Track Listings

1. Good to Your Earhole

2. Better by the Pound

3. Be My Beach

4. No Head, No Backstage Pass

5. Let's Take It to the Stage

6. Get off Your Ass and Jam

7. Baby I Owe You Something Good

8. Stuffs and Things

9. The Song Is Familiar

10. Atmosphere

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars remastering job great, but edited version on atmosphere HORRIBLE, January 1, 2006

By 

fzappa113 (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Let's Take It to the Stage (Audio CD)

the remastering job and cover art and liner notes are great, but westbound edited the beginning of atmosphere. i bought this version instead of the import because i read that the import had this edit also, so i figured that westbound wouldn't make the same mistake but they did. the edit is just stupid because it's only about 10 seconds they take off the beginning of the song and it makes no sense to do it.

don't buy until you know for sure that the edit has been fixed.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Get Off Your WHAT And Jam?, September 11, 2004

By 

Andre' S Grindle "Funk Meister" (Bangor,ME.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Let's Take It to the Stage (Audio CD)

I personally believe that Funkadelic were hitting a peak when they made 'Let's Take It To The Stage".They had certainly perfected their mix of funk and psychedelic rock and
had it down to a science.And in the pure funk-rock idion
"Good To Your Earhole","Stuffs And Things" and the unforgettable
"Get Off Your Ass And Jam" are the real deal!The zany title track and the cryptic "Better By The Pound" are P-Funk basics with the latter featuring a brilliant percussion section.And the
whole shabang ends off with the dirty,dirty "Atmosphere",nothing
but gospel organ and a filthy lyric-it so sacreligious I LOVE it!
"Be My Beach" is one of those psychedelic Bootsy ballads that just punches you out (at least it does me) and
"No Head,No Backstage Pass" is trashier then anything I've
heard Aerosmith or Sabbath or ANY groovy hard rock band do!
"This Song Is Familiar" is yet more of Funkadelic at their
irreverant best-almost acapella gospel of sorts!To me this is
one Funkadelic album that got pretty overlooked at first but that the years have treated VERY kindly!This is the kind of music that Digital Underground and Outkast have cut their teeth on and as it is it's still out and out FUNKY!Not to mention how
it steers out of the long winded jam band style that had become a Funkadelic clishe'.I'd actually recommend this to anyone as the Funkadelic album to start with-their first album is at the
same level but this is somewhat easier to get into!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Funk-Rock at its finest, October 24, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Let's Take It to the Stage (Audio CD)

This album strikes a balance between the earlier more psycadelic material; Maggot Brain, Free Your Mind; and the later more commercial stuff; One Nation. The first cut, Good To Your Earhole is as strong a record as the group ever made, with stong drumming, excellent keyboard work by Bernie Worrell, and a blistering guitar solo at the end, courtesey of the legendary Eddie Hazel.