Funkadelic – Maggot Brain
As noted in the last few entries, I’ve actually added to my completely unnecessary workload on this blog by writing about records I’d already written about. My flawless system of leaving things on the...
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Funkadelic – Free Your Mind…And Your Ass Will Follow
I was thinking about pop culture and decades a bit last night. It seems odd to me now that wherever I go in public – grocery stores, gas stations, … well, those are the...
Funkadelic – Funkadelic
My loving wife gave me a great biography for my birthday – “George Clinton and the Cosmic Odyssey of the P-Funk Empire,” by Kris Needs. Great because it answers the question Shawn (owner of...
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 – since 1975, my record...
Parliament – Up For the Down Stroke
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!), but the only Parliament...
Prince and the Revolution – Live
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 East or places like...
Prince & The NPG – One Nite Alone… The Aftershow: It Ain’t Over!
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 independent “artist formerly known...
Prince – Lovesexy
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, it never connected with...
Prince – Sign O’ The Times
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 ‘80s, period. There were...
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