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  Funkadelic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Funkadelic was originally the backing band for the doo wop group, The Parliaments.
Due to legal difficulties between Clinton and Revilot, The Parliaments' label, the name was abandoned in favor of Funkadelic, which consisted of the same group of people (that is, both the former Parliaments and their back-up band, now both combined in the name "Funkadelic").
The self-titled debut album, Funkadelic, was released in 1970.
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 BlueBeat.com - Artist Page: Original 'P' Funk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The album, which reflected a growing consistency in styles between Parliament and Funkadelic, became the first Funkadelic LP to reach platinum (the same year that Parliament's Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome did the same).
Funkadelic released five albums from 1970 through early 1974, and consistently hit the lower reaches of the RandB charts, but the collective pulled up stakes later in 1974 and began recording as Parliament.
Parliament's ninth album, Gloryhallastoopid (Or Pin the Tale on the Funky), was released later in 1979 and showed a bit of a slip in the previously unstoppable Clinton machine.
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 Funkadelic (album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Funkadelic was the debut album by the American funk band Funkadelic, released in 1970.
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).
The Parliaments (a predecessor of Funkadelic with many of the same people) had recorded it earlier.
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 Parliament Funkadelic
Funkadelic continued to release albums but Parliament also returned in 1974 with Up For the Down Stroke on Casablanca Records.
Also in 1976 the gold album The Clones of Doctor Funkenstein was released with the songs "Do That Stuff" and "Dr. Funkenstein." In 1977, Parliament released "Flash Light," their first #1 R&B hit.
Funkadelic had more success in 1979 with the gold album, Uncle Jam Wants You, and the #1 R&B hit "(Not Just) Knee Deep." Parliament also had another R&B #1 in 1979, "Agua Boogie," from the gold album, Motor-Booty Affair.
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 Funkadelic: The Afro-Alien Diaspora
Funkadelic, especially in the beginning, was the lesser known, down 'n' dirty, lysergic-crazed, evil, inbred rock 'n' roll twin.
The first Funkadelic album, released on a small indie Detroit label called Westbound, is a supernova, the sound of Clinton's first explosion of creativity.
It is their signature album, perfecting the polished, expansive dance grooves that serve as a flexible background for George Clinton's pun-filled theme of expatriate Afro-Aliens broadcasting their interstellar uncut funk to the Earth's decidedly un-funky radio stations.
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 Funkadelic (album)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Funkadelic was the debut album by the funk band Funkadelic released in 1970.
The strong bass guitar and rhythm a trademark of Funkadelic (along with the finale long jam session) is established on this though there are no solos (the presence another characteristic of Funkadelic).
namely that funkadelic and the funk (see P Funk mythology) are alien in origin but not The second half attempts to answer the posed by the song's title.
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 Parliament: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more ||| Music.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
While Funkadelic [+] pursued band-format psychedelic rock, Parliament [+] engaged in a funk free-for-all, blending influences from the godfathers (James Brown [+] and Sly Stone) with freaky costumes and themes inspired by '60s acid culture and science fiction.
Funkadelic [+] released five albums from 1970 through early 1974, and consistently hit the lower reaches of the RandB charts, but the collective pulled up stakes later in 1974 and began recording as Parliament [+].
Parliament [+]'s ninth album, Gloryhallastoopid (Or Pin the Tale on the Funky), was released later in 1979 and showed a bit of a slip in the previously unstoppable Clinton machine.
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 Funkadelic: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more ||| Music.com
The band pursued album statements of social/political commentary while Parliament [+] stayed in the funk singles format, but Funkadelic [+] nevertheless paralleled the more commercial artist's success, especially in the late '70s when the interplay between bands moved the Funkadelic [+] sound closer to a unified P-Funk style.
Keyboard player Bernie Worrell [+] also appeared on the album uncredited, even though his picture was included on the inner sleeve with the rest of the band.
The album, which reflected a growing consistency in styles between Parliament [+] and Funkadelic [+], became the first Funkadelic [+] LP to reach platinum (the same year that Parliament [+]'s Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome [+] did the same).
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 Parliament -- Music By Parliament & MP3 Downloads, CDs, DVDs - music.
While Funkadelic pursued band-format psychedelic rock, Parliament engaged in a funk free-for-all, blending influences from the godfathers (James Brown and Sly Stone) with freaky costumes and themes inspired by '60s acid culture and science fiction.
Funkadelic released five albums from 1970 through early 1974, and consistently hit the lower reaches of the R&B charts, but the collective pulled up stakes later that year and began recording as Parliament.
The group charted in the R&B Top Ten twice during 1980 ("Theme from 'The Black Hole'" and "Agony of Defeet"), but Clinton began to be weighed down that year by legal difficulties arising from Polygram's acquisition of Casablanca.
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 Brian Benson: Transcefunkadentalism
Funkadelic album cover artist Pedro Bell – now a legend in his own right, and author of many of the album liner notes – remembers that “George never turned down anything that was presented to him...
Much as Funkadelic felt that the Vietnam conflict profited no one but arms manufacturers, Thoreau felt the Mexican War was “the work of comparatively few individuals using the standing government as their tool” (McMichael 832-33).
Likewise, Funkadelic’s eminently danceable “Wake Up” laments the somnambulistic state of most Americans, and wishes they were more concerned with what is inside their heads than what is on top of them.
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 Funkadelic - Free Your Mind, and Your Ass Will Follow, Funkadelic Review
Funkadelic are not so much pushing boundaries as changing the way people can explore their universe.
Funkadelic do not believe in the 3 minute radio friendly pop song, they are far too busy exploring sounds at the edge of the universe.
Funkadelic are creating a new world from the ashes of the old pop world.
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 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Uncle Jam Wants You [Remaster] - Funkadelic at Epinions.com
Also, the wild and erratic vocals from previous Funkadelic albums have been scrapped for...well...Parliament style vocals (you know, the kind with a lead vocal and female backups).
Another thing new to Funkadelic albums that was incorporated as they became more like Parliament was the use of themes.
If you are a diehard Funkadelic fan that can't stand the thought of their rough rock-influenced sound being compromised for commercial dance tracks, just pretend that this album never existed.
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 BEATBOTS Reviews: Funkadelic - Hardcore Jollies
It is the album of a band out of new ideas and rehashing watered down versions of their psychedelic funk.
Funkadelic at this time, however, had become caricatures of themselves as its alter ego Parliament became the nation's premier funk band.
Funkadelic might have been the link between Sly & the Family Stone and James Brown, but Hardcore Jollies fails to demonstrate that this actually makes Funkadelic any good.
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 Funkadelic MP3 Downloads - Funkadelic Music Downloads - Funkadelic Music Videos
Funkadelic metamorphosed initially as the freakier, rock-ish, drug-friendly side of George Clinton's once standup, processed-haired, dressed-to-the-nines vocal group -- Parliament.
While some women didn't care for the hard (for the times) music, most loved the covers and didn't mind their guys (or sons) displaying them standing up against a wall or piece of furniture instead of stacked in a pile, and toddlers and kids found the cartoon depictions fascinating.
The soul and essence of Funkadelic is presented on 16 uncut hardcore jollies, including live versions of the body-possessing "Cosmic Slop," one of their most commercial efforts and a sure cure for wallflower-itis, and their Picasso, "Maggot Brain," a sinewy demonstration of wired guitar artistry.
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 Funkadelic
George Clinton's post-bicentennial message to those in the "chocolate cities" was that America could be theirs, too, without any loss of their own fl, regional identities.
One Nation Under a Groove remains Funkadelic's most provocative release, as well as one of the funkiest long-players released in the disco era.
George Clinton's Funkadelic went through many changes over the years, and though the group's name is here, neither the personnel nor the music has much in common with earlier incarnations.
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 The New Funk Times P.Funk History, Part 3 (The '70s) :: New Funk Times :: George Clinton | Parliament | Funkadelic | ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Funkadelic album MAGGOT BRAIN (#108 pop, #14 RandB) is commenting on the U.S.'s Vietnam crisis - "we had to realize that our brains and minds - which we thought would bring the solution to all the problems - were fucked up themselves," explains Clinton.
The new Funkadelic album AMERICA EATS ITS YOUNG (#123 pop, #22 RandB) is an indicator for the new creative strength of the funk mob.
During the recording of new Funkadelic album COSMIC SLOP (#112 pop, #21 RandB) George Clinton says that this record finally represented the concept he had in mind for Funkadelic.
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 Funkadelic
This article focuses on Funkadelic, but will gloss over much of the band's history, for which see P Funk, an integrated history of Parliament, Funkadelic and related groups.
With the new found fame of Funkadelic, longtime members Fuzzy Haskins, Calvin Simon and Grady Thomas (who were original Parliaments) left the group (in 1977) and released a single, "Connections and Disconnections" under the name Funkadelic (in 1981).
The song charted at the same time as the titular song to Clinton's Funkadelic's The Electric Spanking of War Babies.
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 Funkadelic MP3 Downloads - Funkadelic Music Downloads - Funkadelic Music Videos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Funkadelic's self-titled 1970 debut is one of the group's best early- to mid-'70s albums.
Recording for the Detroit-based Westbound label, at the time Funkadelic were in the same boat as psychedelic soul groups such as the Temptations, who had just recorded their landmark Cloud Nine album across town at Motown, and other similar groups.
Successive albums portray Funkadelic drifting further toward rock, funk, and eventually disco, especially once Bernie Worrell began playing a larger role in the group.
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 Jared's Pick - Album Reviews: Funkadelic - One Nation Under A Groove
Clinton masterminded both funk bands; Parliament was more consistently satisfying with its rippling keyboards and R&B horns, but Funkadelic's acid-drenched guitars and pointed lyrics gave its disco heart a sly intelligence missing from most of the genre.
Clinton approached funk as if it were the antidote to everything wrong with America, and in these politically correct times Clinton's crude humor and dismissal of middle-class values are as funny and relevant as ever.
Funkadelic has been sampled ad infinitum by modern hip-hoppers, mined both for its sound as well as its sensibility.
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 Thug Radio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Recording both as Parliament and Funkadelic, the group revolutionized R&B during the '70s, twisting soul music into funk by adding influences from several late-'60s acid heroes: Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, and Sly Stone.
His first solo album, 1982's Computer Games, contained the Top 20 R&B hit "Loopzilla." Several months later, the title track from Clinton's Atomic Dog EP hit #1 on the R&B charts; it stayed at the top spot for four weeks, but only managed #101 on the pop charts.
Also problematic during the latter half of the '80s was Clinton's disintegrating reputation as a true forefather of rock; by the end of the decade, however, a generation of rappers reared on P-Funk were beginning to name-check him.
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 Funk Page -- PARLIAMENT
The group released one album -- 1970's Osmium -- and scored a number 30 hit, "The Breakdown," on the R&B charts in 1971.
Funkadelic released five albums from 1970 through early 1974, and consistently hit the lower reaches of the R&B charts, but the collective pulled up stakes later in 1974 and began recording as Parliament.
During the early '90s, the rise of funk-inspired rap (courtesy of Digital Underground, Dr. Dre and Warren G.) and funk-rock (Primus and Red Hot Chili Peppers) re-established the status of Clinton & co., one of the most important forces in the recent history of fl music.
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 BBC - collective - Funkadelic: RR Buyer's Guide
Well, alternative kiddies, Funkadelic were one of the most important bands of the 1970s.
The brainchild of renowed 'funkmeister' George Clinton, Funkadelic proved to be the most endearing and unusual incarnation of his vision of music.
It's not the strongest Funkadelic album but I kinda think this is due to the phenominal rate the albums were being knocked out.
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 P-Funk
Pedro Bell: Well, masks-masks...it's funny you should mention masks, because the last Funkadelic album, called "By Way Of The Drum", I designed a mask for that, it's a combination of low tech and high tech.
When he did see -- sometimes he doesn't see the album until after its printed -- but he did see, and his one and only thing he had done was the circle (around George's face) was in color, and he had them do it in fl and white.
PB: Parliament Funkadelic is the next one coming out by me. It's called "Dope Dog." They have to use Parliament Funkadelic because they lost the right to use Funkadelic as a stand alone name.
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 Hardcore Jollies - Cd - Funkadelic
More guitar-usage for a later "Funkadelic" album, as they had dived into pure funk right before it with "Let's take it to the stage", and right after it with "One Nation..." George Clinton also is more at the forefront with a couple of lead vocals on some songs.
It was the last of the nasty guitar sound that drove nearly every album they'd made up to that point, as the very next Funkadelic album (on Warners Bros. as was Hardcore Jollies)ended up being One Nation Under A Groove.
For my money side one is the most cohesive sequence to grace a Funkadelic album and side two has a live 6 1/2 minute version of Cosmic Slop pimped out by Michael Hampton...
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 Tales of Kidd Funkadelic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Title of album: Tales of Kidd FunkadelicArtist: FunkadelicRelease date: 1976Record label: Westbound[?]Tales of Kidd Funkadelic was released by Westbound after Funkadelic had left the label, in order to capitalize on Funkadelic's new-found fame.
Tales of Kidd Funkadelic was released by Westbound after Funkadelic had left the label, in order to capitalize on Funkadelic's new-found fame.
The tracks were recorded at the same time as Hardcore Jollies, and were found to be lacking; hence, they were not included on that album and were belatedy thrown together to form Tales of Kidd Funkadelic.
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These four albums complete the catalog of the best band of the 1970's and one of the biggest influences on contemporary Black music.
Funkadelic was the "rock" half of P-Funk, de-emphasizing the horns, keyboards and kiddie rhythms of Parliament in favor of metallic guitars, a more forceful backbeat and a more adult, political lyrical outlook.
This side is cleanest on Hardcore Jollies, the hardest rocking album by a band that put the lie to the "Blacks can't rock" myth when Vernon Reid was a toddler.
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 Funkadelic Album List
If the album is composed at least in part of tracks which are not duplicated on earlier albums, a link to the lyrics for the songs on that album will be provided as well.
For each particular album, I will list the first and last name of the writer only when it is their first appearance on that album.
GZ: These are the greatest of the middle period Funkadelic, as danceability takes its rightful place as an element of the sound, and Pedro Bell takes on the album covers.
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 FUNKADELIC: Sanity.com.au
If your taste for funk leans to the obscure and the profound, go no further than this retrospective 2 CD set of Funkadelic's singles from their formative days on Detroit's Westbound label.
Funkadelic's debut album - remastered from original tapes for the first time in 15 years.
Featuring the best of Funkadelic from the time the group was at the peak of its creativity, this generous compilation highlights George Clinton's mastery at creating funk monsters.
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