Funkadelic – Standing on the Verge of Getting It On
Back in April, when I was in the C’s and it looked like we were going to be in quarantine for a while (hoo boy), I was forced to admit that I was a...
Category: ’70s
Funkadelic — Cosmic Slop
1973’s Cosmic Slop brings us a Funkadelic without Eddie Hazel, but with some more traditional song structures. If my 13-year-old brain had encountered this album when it came out, I would at least have...
Funkadelic — Free Your Mind … And Your Ass Will Follow
What to do when you’ve put out an absolutely groundbreaking record? Five months later, put out another. If you’re Funkadelic. No kidding – Funkadelic was released February 1970, and “Free Your Mind” was released...
Funkadelic — Funkadelic
I’m right here admitting that for many years, my record collection was unfunky. Funkless. Free of the funk. An old Ohio Players record and George Clinton’s “R&B Skeletons in the Closet,” and neither one...
Dean Friedman — Dean Friedman
I believe this is a first: a record that I owned as a teenager, subsequently got rid of – most likely out of embarrassment –– and have now procured again, a mere 42 years or...
Ellen Foley — Nightout
Okay, I’ll admit it . . . I had a bit of a crush on Ellen Foley. I made no attempt to hide it. It was so obvious that one of my former roommates...
Flo & Eddie — Moving Targets
Following an album that was almost entirely a live comedy work, Flo & Eddie returned to more normal pop music with 1976’s “Moving Targets.” It starts with an almost Lennonesque lament about stardom and...
Flo & Eddie — Illegal, Immoral & Fattening
Now that I’m thinking about it this may be one of the earliest records I bought at Desert Shore Records, the used record store in Syracuse that for several years provided nearly all of...
Flo & Eddie — Flo & Eddie
I am a huge fan of The Turtles. If all you know are “Happy Together” and “Elenore” — well then, you probably don’t know that “Elenore” was a tongue-in-cheek fuck-you to the record label...
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