Funkadelic (album)

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Funkadelic
Funkadelic cover
Studio album by Funkadelic
Released 1971
Recorded  ?
Genre Psychedelic rock/funk
Length 46:37
Label Westbound Records
Producer(s) George Clinton
Professional reviews
Funkadelic chronology
Funkadelic
(1970)		 Free Your Mind... And Your Ass Will Follow
(1970)


Funkadelic was the debut album by the American funk band Funkadelic, released in 1970.

Contents

[edit] "Mommy, What's a Funkadelic"

The strong bass guitar and rhythm, a future trademark of Funkadelic (along with the finale, a long jam session), is established on this song, though there are no solos (the presence is another characteristic of Funkadelic).

[edit] "I Bet You"

This song was later covered by the Jackson 5 on ABC.

The song is more R+B and soul-inflected than most of the album, and much more so than the rest of Funkadelic's career. The Parliaments (a predecessor of Funkadelic with many of the same people) had recorded it earlier. The song was also sampled by the Dust Brothers on the Beastie Boys popular song "Car Thief" from the seminal hip hop music album Paul's Boutique. It was also in the 1978 playlist for the game Driver: Parallel Lines.

Songwriters: George Clinton, Pat Lindsey, Sidney Barnes

Personnel

[edit] "Music for My Mother"

The vocals are of primary interest here (from Motown sessionman Herb Sparkman). It is, essentially, a blues song, featuring harmonica-like singing.

Referencing the origins of funk music in slave work song, in the title vocal chants and the lyrics, the narrative of 'Music for My Mother' concerns the singer travelling through Keeprunin', Mississippi, hearing the sound of funk music and then proceeding to get funky himself.

This song was sampled by Fort Minor for the remix of Remember the Name.

Personnel

  • Vocals: Herb Sparkman, Billy Nelson, Tawl Ross, George Clinton
  • Bass: Billy Nelson
  • Guitar: Eddie Hazel
  • Drums: Brad Innis
  • Conga: Gaspar Lawal

[edit] "I Got a Thing, You Got a Thing, Everybody's Got a Thing"

The song is particularly notable for Ray Monette's (also of Rare Earth) epic guitar solo.

Personnel

  • Lead Vocals: Fuzzy Haskins, Eddie Hazel
  • Guitar: Ray Monette
  • 2nd Guitar: Eddie Hazel
  • Bass: Billy Bass Nelson
  • Drums: Tiki Fulwood
  • Organ: Bernie Worrell

[edit] "Good Old Music"

The song was originally recorded by The Parliaments. The songwriter is George Clinton.

The song describes a time "When the funk it was goin' strong" and the people "rocked it all night until daylight".

[edit] "Qualify and Satisfy"

This song begins as a blues song, and then evolves into a blistering, funky form of psychedelia. The sparse lyrics of "Qualify and Satisfy" are a singer's words to a woman, explaining that he would make a better lover than her current man, though he is "not conceited by no means".

Written by George Clinton, Eddie Hazel and Billy Bass Nelson; lead vocals by Calvin Simon; drums by Tiki Fulwood.

[edit] "What Is Soul"

The first half of the song reiterates many of the same points as Mommy, What's a Funkadelic, namely that funkadelic and the funk (see P Funk mythology) are alien in origin but not dangerous. The second half attempts to answer the question posed by the song's title. The riff of the whole thang is based on the Sly Stone song, "Into My Own Thing". Classic Parliament psychedelic do-wopin'.

[edit] Other album info

Personnel:

Uncredited contributors and sessionmen included: Bob Babbitt, Brad Innis, Ray Monette, Herb Sparkman, Earl Van Dyke and Bernie Worrell

In 2005 a CD-reissue was released with 7 bonus tracks; all the alternate 45 versions and the associated non-album B-sides plus 2 previously unreleased (though they were released on the 1992 compilation 2CD "Music for my mother") songs from a single that was scheduled to be released as Westbound W 149.

  • Can't shake it loose
  • I'll bet you
  • Music for my mother
  • As good as I can feel
  • Open our eyes
  • Qualify and satisfy
  • Music for my mother (instr.)

Critical response:

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