Parliament Funkadelic Best Of Rare

Rare Earth 15 Ray Charles 32. Category Funkadelic Page 1 of 2. ParliamentFunkadelic, PFunk All. GREATEST FUNK SONGS Back to Home Page. Parliament 5. Theme from Shaft. Get Ready Rare Earth 200. Just An Illusion. The. Best Music. This blog does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided on other servers. This blog is for preview purposes only and all music downloaded should be deleted within 2. If you want to support the artist or artists that recorded and released this music, please go and purchase their music. Parliament Live P. Funk Earth Tour 1977 2014 Japan Rare Groove Funk Best Collection 1000. Funkadelic 1970 Much of this record sounds like other psychedelic groups of the time remember Rare Earth, distinguished only by George Clintons funky Rabelais. PFunk also spelled P Funk or P. Funk is the repertoire and performers associated with George Clinton and the ParliamentFunkadelic collective and the distinctive. An introduction to Parliament Funkadelic in 1. Your essential P Funk primer. When George Clinton emerged from the mothership in the 7. Through his two groups Parliament and Funkadelic he took funk through free form hippie Hendrix workship, led James Browns rhythm section on a crash course in psychic liberation, and then to top it all off, took a trip outta space to lay the foundations for modern hip hop. They became a group loved by black and white audiences alike, as big an inspiration for Talking Heads as they were for Dr. Dre. They loved soul, doo wop and rock in equal measures, criss crossing between all of these genres on a path that led to the creation of their own genre, P Funk, which would establish Clinton as one of soul musics chief provocateurs, a lofty title he shares with Prince and Sly Stone. From their early experiments to hitting the big time, here is the essential introduction to a movement that became known as P Funk. Funkadelic. Maggot BrainWestbound Records, 1. Listen Buy. The first three albums in the Funkadelic canon sit alone as a magical moment in P Funks history, uniting funk and rock with a free attitude that saw no need for structure or pandering to any preconception of what kind of music a black band should be making. They slowed the beat down til it was sludge, turned up the feedback and let Clinton freewheel with some of his finest lyrical couplets. The Funkadelics SongsThey also hit some essential grooves, with You And Your Folks, Me And My Folks and Hit It And Quit It on Maggot Brain a testament to that. However, its the opening title track, ostensibly a 1. Eddie Hazel, that steals the show on this one like listening to Frank Zappa shred while Sun Ra Arkestra and Neil Youngs Crazy Horse head into a musical k hole. Funkadelic. Cosmic SlopWestbound Records, 1. Listen Buy. By Cosmic Slop the signature P Funk was beginning to emerge. Free song structures had been scrapped. From now on the funk was going to get more direct with each song led by a luscious bass line or Bernie Worrell blessed synth bass. They had also got Pedro Bell on board, who would create the art for so many memorable record sleeves from the group. Best Funkadelic Albums' title='Best Funkadelic Albums' />The Cosmic Slop sleeve with its mix of black iconography, outer space, fecundity and street imagery, seemed to be the perfect visual representation of the P Funk sound. Funkadelic. Standing on the Verge of Getting It OnWestbound Records, 1. Listen Buy. This is the album for all Jimi Hendrix freaks, the one where they laid down their finest rock guitar grooves, with lead guitarist Eddie Hazel who had skipped out on Cosmic Slop pushed to the front and bang on form. Alice In My Fantasies is pure Foxy Lady, Ill Stay is a sublime psych soul ballad, and Sexy Ways proto Prince taut funk, but its the title track with its multi layered vocals and feel good vibe that steals the show. Parliament. Up For The Down StrokeCasablanca, 1. Listen Buy. After releasing debut album Osmium in 1. Kasparov Chess Program. P Funk canon, Parliament had a few quiet years until Up For The Down Stroke arrived. Although the two groups shared many members the general consensus from Clinton was that Funkadelic had the crossover genes with its heavier use of electric guitar taking the band into more rock territory. Parliament, on the other hand, who had Bootsy Collins on bass and fellow James Brown alumni Fred Wesley and Maceo Parker on horns, were opting for more soulful material and that is the case on Up For The Down Stroke. Parliament Funkadelic Best Of Rare' title='Parliament Funkadelic Best Of Rare' />Though lacking any big hits the album showed itself to be kin to Sly Stone, with Testify a gorgeous slab of funky gospelising. Parliament. Chocolate CityCasablanca, 1. Parliament FunkadelicListen Buy. Parliament paid testimony to Washington D. C. on their next album, co opting the capitals nickname for its title Chocolate city referred to the citys increasing black population. It is possibly their straightest album of all, though Bootsys rubber bass lines ensure theres plenty of innovation with shades of James Browns precise funk and even the more soulful sound of The Delfonics on the sumptuous I Misjudged You. Parliament. Mothership ConnectionCasablanca, 1. Listen Buy. This is the album when P Funk entered outer space. This would be best personified by their live set, which now began with Clinton descending from a spaceship. Yet, at the same time, they had also begun to explore the language of the ghetto. This was reflected in their costumes which offered a modern take on African American roots shot through with plenty of colour and garishness, a space pimp style that would easily be parodied later on. The music was similarly affected, with the groups origins in harmony groups now largely absent, replaced by street talk and backing vocalists shouting out mantras rather than harmonising. Bernie Worrells love for trying out new keyboards was also paying dividends, with new sounds able to capture the fact that funk was now heading somewhere new. Oh, and could this be the definitive Bootsy Collins album His bass lines make the move to the cosmos oh so smooth and always funky. Parliament. Funkentelechy Vs. The Placebo SyndromeCasablanca, 1. Listen Buy. With Clinton refining his alter egos Dr Funkenstein and Sir Nose Dvoidoffunk feature here, the band carried on heading into what is now known as the classic P Funk sound. The key is liquid bass always hitting on the 1, clipped guitars pushing things forward and imaginative keyboards always showing the groove an alternative route, while vocalists come and go offering up couplets that, as Robert Christgau once wrote, either offer escapist idealism or psychic liberation. The essential track on Funkentelechy is album closer Flash Light which essentially offered the complete template for Dr. Dres G Funk. Surprisingly, given Bootsy was in the group, the track was led by a synth bass line concocted by Bernie Worrell. Using keys, he was able to create fat bass notes made up of full chords as well as use effects to bend and distort the notes at will. Funkadelic. One Nation Under A GrooveWarner Bros., 1. Listen Buy. This is the big commercial smash and its one of those rare cases where its popularity did not come to the detriment of its creativity. It is certainly not the most experimental album they ever made, but its also one of the few that has no weaker tracks. From the seismic vibrations of the opening title track, through sly groove Groovallegiance, fuzzy garage funk Who Says A Funk Band Cant Play Rock and Lunchmeataphobia with its hard rock riff and sing along lyrics Think It Aint Illegal Yet, its wall to wall funk. Funkadelic. Uncle Jam Wants YouWarner Bros., 1. Listen Buy. Looking back its easy to see Uncle Jam as the beginning of P Funks decline. Clinton put out a couple of solid solo records at the beginning of the 8. Theyd gone from funk rock pioneers at the beginning of the 7. Clinton or P Funk All Stars lacked the charm of their 7. However, Uncle Jam was a great way to close the decade with the infectious Freak of the Week and essential Not Just Knee Deep, which would feature another classic Bernie Worrell synth bass line and would become the basis for De La Souls My, Myself and I, and was also sampled by Dr. Dre, 2. Pac and Snoop Doggy Dogg. Funkadelic. Music for Your Mother Funkadelic 4. Westbound Records, 1. Listen Buy. Frustratingly the P Funk oeuvre is spread out across many labels, meaning that a definitive compilation has never been released.