Funkadelic

If you can't get into Funkadelic because you really find them a little loose, throwaway and perhaps indulging in too large a helping of 'Cosmic Slop', then this is the album to go for. The grooves on each track are mesmerising and distinct, and the songs actually sound like they're going somewhere, a destination that is very worthwhile for your ears.The opening track, Mommy, What's a Funkadelic? answers that question for posterity with a slow, pulsating, 9 minute groove and rap, embellished with electric guitar and soulful female backing vocals. I suppose if you'd never heard it before you'd maybe say it was like Hendrix meets Rotary Connection, though it would be a remarkably languid Hendrix, looser and more rhythmically spaced than even on Electric Ladyland's lengthier cuts. But then the next track, I'll Bet You has an obvious vocal and production Temptations' influence, sounding not dissimilar to their more political, psychedelic material, like Message To A Black Man or Stop The War, the kind of stuff you wish they would do more often. And the third track takes blues, but again Funkadelicises it, with a rhythmic insistency that the blues generally lacked, and a rap that tells you that this is not about the blues at all: like everything else on this album, or anything else with the band's name on it, it's about funk - but not James Brown funk, Funkadelic is far too relaxed - for whatever reason - for that.I'm not sure they progressed after this. They got sillier, got heavier and had more soloing. But all the elements that made them great on later albums are present here - basically, unsurpassed grooves on riff-heavy, memorably hooky songs with a liberal sprinkling of psych. I would say it's their best album by some distance, but I am a white boy called Barry from the West Midlands and have never ventured to Planet Funk in a flying saucer whilst dressed in a bacofoil jumpsuit in my life, so wadda I know?

It tests hendrix's ability.

Fantastic album, a must-have classic. The guitar work alone is amazing (Eddie Hazel is too underrated), the compositions original and catchy. Perfect balance between heavy rock, funk and soul. Mommy what's a funkadelic's bassline will haunt you for days, even weeks.

Fabulous music. Outstanding album.

Great

Brilliant!

Can't fault the record itself, it's a classic! Just wish the record label hadn't printed their logo on the front of the sleeve! Really takes away from the image. Don't feel there's any need to do so, just makes the cover look ugly.

AWESOME