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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...

Front cover of the Funkadelic album, "Funkadelic." Under the title is a kaleidoscope-inspired photograph of eight identical faces, joined together in a circle, with the faces overlapping so they each share eyes where the faces meet. 5

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...

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The Fugs — Tenderness Junction

If you know anything about The Fugs at all, it’s probable that you know them for one of the greatest anti-war “protests” ever — the time they were part of an effort to levitate...

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The Fugs — The Fugs First Album

You don’t know ’60s protest music if you don’t know The Fugs. This album was originally released in 1965 as “The Village Fugs Sing Ballads of Contemporary Protest, Point of Views, and General Dissatisfaction.”...

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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...