Parliament – Mothership Connection
What can I say about “Mothership Connection” that I didn’t just say about “Up For The Down Stroke?” This was one of the first records I bought this year – […]
What can I say about “Mothership Connection” that I didn’t just say about “Up For The Down Stroke?” This was one of the first records I bought this year – […]
Well, back in the F’s, I wrote a whole bunch about Funkadelic. Then I got into the P’s (to show how slowly this project is going, that was last August!), […]
For those of us who haven’t lived in major cities, it’s pretty uncommon that our local venues get captured on vinyl by way of live albums. We didn’t have Fillmore […]
As I’ve said, I liked Prince, but I was hardly a fanatic. The last album of his I bought was “Lovesexy” in 1988, and I didn’t follow him through his […]
Just a year after “Sign O’ The Times” came “Lovesexy.” It’s not nearly the revelation that the previous album was, at least for me, and while the tracks are strong, […]
For me, this is the Prince album, the one where his inventive dancey funk energy met rock ’n’ roll and he just turned in maybe the best album of the […]
For the first time since . . . well, maybe ever, I have nearly enough new music from the year that is about to end to thinking about doing a […]
I’ve already written how late to the game I was on Funkadelic – it was too much for my teenage brain when it was current, and it took me many […]
I’ve already written about how I couldn’t have brought any Ohio Players records home when I was in my teens (see “Fire”)– the graphic and frankly exploitive covers of sexualized […]
Well, if as a teenager I couldn’t have brought home the Ohio Players’ “Fire” because of its provocative cover, I sure as hell couldn’t have brought home “Honey.” In fact, […]