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3 Surprisingly boring 2
I didn't like funk before and I don't like it now :(
Classic.
Ok, not really my sort of music
Get the funk out of here with that funky music. I think I just don't like funky music.
I really dislike funk but parliament are undeniably good at making it. It’s repetitive and there’s all this chat in the songs. It’s a great example of a classic from my second least favourite genre. I danced a bit during the first track, despite myself.
I think this album was very funky and fun I quite enjoyed them! It was very very nice and funky and fun and I loved.
Dial into radio station: WEFUNK Results: Funktastic Bombs. There's nothing not *fun* about this - a great sounding record, and the musicianship is top-notch (special head-nod for/to that bass in "Give Up the Funk"). If there's a negative for me - and I think it's a fair point that applies to a lot of Parliament's work - it's that the whole is far greater than the sum of its parts; a negative to me meaning that not many of these tracks are actually great *songs* in the traditional sense. The band will lock into a theme and not deviate that much from it, which might be why it weirdly works as an overall piece of work but each song by itself is merely ok. I'd rather listen to the entire album then have a song on a mixtape/playlist. You can clearly hear the massive influence these guys have had on popular music even (especially?) in the past decade; so many of these grooves and sounds are copied or even sampled on a lot of music today. TL;DR: As with all P-Funk, listen to the entire album at once. 7/10 4 stars.
Super fun, genre-funk record. Last two tracks are mega-bangers - and the whole record is full of energy and good humour - kind of like the best of Chili Peppers try to be, but much better.
This sounds like some great musicians had too much time on their hands so just noodled around in a studio for a while. It doesn't really do much or go anywhere, there isn't much variety. I know this band is full of awesome, but none of it is on show here.
If someone you know isn't into Funk, or hasn't been exposed to Funk - this is the album! Put this album on and watch as your friend transforms into eight-legged Funktopus. Lame party? Drop "Give up the Funk" and tear the goddamn roof off. Tired of the same lame sex? "Handcuffs" is a scientifically proven aphrodisiac. George Clinton was in is bag on this one.
Funk. SO much funk. Dripping with the funk. Too much funk? Maybe. I like funk in small doses. The 38 minute runtime helped.
These guys were having a fucking blast. I enjoy the blues and this is a disco version. It's enjoyable but in small doses.
I wants to get funked up
This is a great album. Not stellar, so still only a 4 but def great. Plenty to like, esp the instrumental-ish sections - excellent musicianship and well produced.
Dope. Super dope.
Do they want to get funked up or to give up the funk? MAKE UP YOUR MINDS.
Very funky and trying to be futuristic with synths. Nothing stood out to me, though.
eeeeh. funk but weirdly funky
This album is ok. The music is very repetitive, which is the style of funk, so I would start off enjoying a song, but would get bored of a song by the end of it. Plus some of the songs are quite long, exasperating the issue. 2.5/5 Favorite song: Give Up the Funk Worst song: P-Funk
Funky soul music, quite the combination now that I think about it. Did I like it? Not really
The roof was not only torn off the sucker, it was catapulted into space. Irresistibly magnetic.
Happy to be here, but how can I be so late to this party? I am new to P-Funk, Parliament-Funkadelic, etc. This is better than any imitations that have come since. pure enjoyment. stylish, ultra cool, joyful concept and the instrumentation even works. warm vocals, hilarious, and they know it.
You know that this is funk music because they keep telling you that you're listening to funk music
Something that will put you in a good mood
Glemte å hørra etter
George is just off his face, whacked out, seriously strange, and don't we love him for it. This is beyond definition or appraisal, joyous, wonderful music, you are surfing a rainbow of love listening to this. Fred! Maceo! Bootsy! Man, what a sound, what a groove. Just play it!
I want the bomb, I want the P-funk! Totally joyous, awesomely funky, amazing musicianship, what's not to like? OK, maybe some of the tracks go on a bit longer than they should. But that's a small quibble when talking about funky jams. Contains one of my favourite lines of all time "That's the law around here. You got to put your sunglasses on...so you can FEEL COOL." Never gets old! 4.5 stars.
Maceo Parker was the favourite musician of an old mate of mine, who passed away in 2021. And Fred Wesley probably ran a close second. So it was great to hear how their horns were so strong on this album, right from the get-go on the opening track & still there, ripping it up on the final cut. Every track is a winner, especially Give Up The Funk, which was really the only track I was familiar with. A perfect track. Clinton can be so funny - the humour highlight for me was his reference to blue-eyed soul: Then I was down South and I heard some funk With some main ingredients like Doobie Brothers, Blue Magic, David Bowie It was cool, but can you imagine Doobie-in' your funk? [From P-Funk(Wants to Get Funked Up)] I loved every moment of this record.
I love this album. It is the ultimate P-Funk album. It is surprisingly laidback, with heaps of space to let the music breathe. Everyone is stretching out a bit, and it is the band at the height of their powers; Bernie Worrell on keys, Bootsy on bass and recent escapees from the JBs Fred Wesley and Maceo Parker on horns. Everyone's singing, and they give each other enough room. It's fun and funny, and profound and aware, and funky and playful and laid-back. The soloing is surprisingly challenging, which means there is always something new to listen to. I love this record and have played it hundreds of times in my life, and probably will hundreds of times more. I find the songs are almost more chants or rhymes or monologues than songs-proper, but I love the way this holds together as an album. Rolling Stone reviewed it at the time as a "parody of funk", but I think that shows much Rolling Stone didn't get it then, although they have since acknowledged it on their list of Top 500 albums ever. I wish I had seen this band playing at this point in time, with their Mothership stage prop descending to the stage. The Mothership now resides on permanent display at the Smithsonian. As it should. And the album is the funkiest slab of wax in the Library of Congress. As it should. It is almost too much fun to be a classic.
I got this album immediately after Maggot Brain by Funkedelic, interesting! I prefer this one overall, it has a more polished sound and is a more cohesive album. It also feels more like a funky party, rather than the scary acid trip of Maggot Brain. Some of the songs do run a bit too long for my taste, but that's just the nature of the genre really, jams galore. Definitely deserves its place on the list. The influence on other artists is clear, even from the hip hop samples alone. I'll even forgive the weird farty synths and key-tar on the last track.
So much funk. Loved it, great album, the definition of funk.
Its funk, i dont like funk
So funky, so fun to boogie to while getting ready for work. Really enjoyed the vibe of it, and made me think I should explore funk more!
A fun, funky album. Thoroughly enjoyed it
Funky!
Superfunkagroovalistic - have loved this for ages ages and it never gets old
Wow, I thought I knew what Parliament Funkadelic was about, but this was FUNKY, man! I love the futuristic sound, and I love how it's like nothing you've heard before. Big fan, and now I'm going through the whole discography!
There was a middle-aged white lady in a lab where I once worked who told me her favourite all-time album was Mothership Connection. I confess I never listened to the whole album until now - only Tear the Roof Off. Shame on my funk.
Solid funk album. Might need a few more listens before it really clicks with me
Out there, just way out there. Otherworldly funky and soulful and still unprecedented and unrivaled in so many ways, not least in the sheer joyousness that is clearly involved in the making of this record.
Eh
There are often discussions about what music from Earth we should broadcast out into space, to share with any intelligent life that might be out there. Well the intelligent life out there that shared this masterpiece with us, certainly made the right choice. 5 UFOs out of 5 🛸🛸🛸🛸🛸
Great album. So much of 90s hip hop is here. This is FUNKY. 5/5 92/100
Entretenido como música de fondo pero a día de hoy no me producen una sensación de ser algo imprescindible.
Funktastic
Not really my type of music.
Enjoyed
funky bien piola
Damn, this is just awesome. No filler tracks, no filler minutes. Brilliant from finish to start.
No me mueve mucho el funk, perdon. Me gusto el concepto innovador del album pero no se, no conecté-
We want the funk! I'm only vaguely familiar with the music of Parliament/Funkadelic/George Clinton, but I really loved this album. Lyrically, it definitely lived up to the name Mothership Connection. Instrumentally, this is definitely the type of music that I gravitate towards. I love synths and keyboards, and it's hard to imagine the synth pop of the eighties and 2010's existing without these folks paving the way. When George Clinton was The Masked Singer last year (and I correctly guessed it was him before the panel said anything), I was delighted, and wanted to listen to some of his music, but I completely forgot. Glad this was in my rotation today to remind me!
Absolute Motherfunker! Brightened up my day :)
Super funky!
Je suis pas quelqu'un de très funky
un peu étrange à écouter à minuit en tricotant je pense mais franchement gardez la pêche
And on the seventh day, the Lord said, “Let there be funk.” And there was. And it was good.
Funky
Ekki fyrir mig
This is a masterpiece ! Parliament and Funkadelic 4ever!
This is Parliament in top-form, fantastic. Interesting that it was one of TWO albums they released in 1975 (this one is far superior).
Though I may prefer Funkadelic by a smidge, this is undoubtedly top shelf funk.
Me likey da funk. Actually a bit over "Give Up The Funk" but I liked Unfunky UFO, Supergroovalistic..., and Handcuffs.
Nah
This was a funky album, and I was grooving at moments but compared to many of the greats I’ve heard, this doesn’t make it high on the list. Though I think I heard a sample that was used in Awaken, My Love which was pretty cool.
Man, I could've swore we had an album from Parliament already. Am I insane? I thought that, and I thought it was this album in particular. But I guess not. This one's pretty good! Very quirky funk, the talky nature of some of these tracks was funny. It's cool how they refer to The Funk as a proper noun or a being. Nothing too mindblowing sonically, but a good listen regardless. The last track sounded like a bunch of farting. Favorite tracks: Give Up the Funk, Mothership Connection, Supergroovalistic. Album art: Again, I swear I thought we got this already. We've had a couple other albums with spaceship covers, of that I'm certain. But I'm probably confusing this album with stuff from Funkadelic that we've had. After all, they're the two spiritual halves of the P-Funk movement. 3.5/5
Gotta love the funk. Classic from my middle school days
Perfection. Blackness and funk is a godly combo.
Funky Tunes, aber etwas zu lahm für meine Geschmack.
Someone's gonna have to explain to me the difference between Parliament, Funkadelic and Parliament-Funkadelic. I'm genuinely interested in knowing the story. My word, this is good music. I picked up Maggot Brain a decade or so ago and love it. Cosmic Slop also killls it. This is my first time hearing Mothership Connection. Although there's a lot familiar on here because of the Snoop and Dre's samples (and probably others I don't know about). Absolute classic that I'll be coming back to.
Feeling properly funksticated.
Not my kind of music but it was ok.
La pura definició de funk. Es nota la maestria dels autors i el seu coneixement del llenguatge musical. Els tocs soul r&b i la seva perícia amb els instruments el fan un treball molt disfrutable. I molt de l'época
Along with James Brown P-Funk is responsible for funk as we know it so for that alone we must be thankful. This is certainly funky and weird
How did we even get here from James Brown in the course of just a decade? In just 7 tracks, George Clinton takes us on a magical ride through space powered by funk. I was a huge fan of the whole album from the start to finish. The transitions are sharp, and as soon as I'm satisfied with one, I'm excited to move onto the next. They take a lot of funk elements and exaggerate them to the max to create a lush landscape that does not come off as overwhelming. Has plenty of accessible tracks to pull people into the genre. Spoken word lyrics are hilarious, clear, and engaging, while the back vocals are catchy and fill up the space accompanying the other instrumentals. Songs are long, but patient in that they take as much as time as they need. It should be repetitive centering around the same melody with only minimal variations within a track, but the high amount of instrumental interjections keep things interesting. I also think the jazz structure has a lot to do with it. My favorite component though is the laser-sounding space synths and other weird instrumentation (see Supergroovalistic for best example) that adds to the extraterrestial imagery.
Way too funky. Loved it.
Fun(ky)
This is the funk, right there.
Just not a psychedelic funk fan....
Fun, a little repetitious, I like my funk a little more motivating. These grooves did not make me dance.
It just does not get funkier than this. It is the dankest of funk. It is physically impossible to funk harder than this. I loved every single second of it and went back for more. Full marks.
4/5 stars. i'm sure its probably 5/5 but i was busy and couldn't fully get into it. def a pioneer in sound. funky & groovy. so much going on in the background, but it makes me want to try cocaine from the 70s to get on their brainwave.
I love funk but this just doesn’t do it for me. I want to be able to give it a 5 but it just doesn’t do it for me. Maybe it’s a bit unfocused, seems like a cool jam but never really develops into a proper track? I can hear how influential it is, but I just can’t love it. It’s a prime example of the recommended tracks that auto play on Spotify after the album finishes being much better than what I was supposed to be listening to.
funky. groovy..but not my style
Haven't listened to funk much but I really liked this one. Sometime on the second listen it got too overestimating though.
You are either a Clintonite or not. If you are this is with the early Funkadelic albums much the best place to start. Pretty damn good from start of finish. And like all good funk albums its chief subject is of course the funk. Getting it, having it, being it, losing it...
mothership connection - hallmark of 70s soul/groove/funk music, very jazzy influences - i like the spacey theme
This album provides an interesting contrast with Maggot Brain, the previous Parliament album that I got on this list. Whereas that album was ponderous and often dark (though also very fun once you get through the first track), this album is much more lighthearted. The addition of horns from James Brown's band really adds a lot to the group. It has some absolute classics on it, and even the songs that I didn't know were all good. It's also nice to see dance music that is able to build slowly over a long track rather than focusing on a more stereotypical formula. The influence of this album is really hard to state. It provides so much of the sound for West Coast rap in the early 90s, but it's presence is everywhere in electronic music and modern dance music as well. 4/5
funky punky
Funky and nice
There’s a lot of funk content here, how much they love funk, how they gotta get it that funk, how funk fares in space, basic funkenomics etc. Things got weird with the Funk fart song, not sure what that was about but I liked this overall 3.5 rounded up to 4 bc it was funky fun.
Ágætis föstudagsfönk.
C’est bon, ça groove et c’était certainnement pertinent. Par contre, c’est tellement looooonnng.
Ah cette groove de Mothership Connection (Star Child) qu'on retrouve sur Let Me Ride de Dr. Dre. Un sample incontournable. Le son plus connu du P-Funk vient vraiment de cet album. Ça groove à fond et ça explore. Un album essentiel.
Good funky bits
FUNK. Favorite track: Supergroovalisticprosifunkstication
Didn’t enjoy this album as much as I expected. Still pretty damned good.
Ridiculous levels of funk, potentially the funkiest album in existence. Don't know if I'll really come back to it any time soon since it's not entirely my thing, but it was still an all-round fun album. I was also surprised about P-Funk, due to its eventual interpolation in Ice Cube's "Say Hi To The Bad Guy", which is another song I previously discovered from the 1001. Favourite: Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker)
Buen disco de funky con buenos ritmos de una época en la que no predominaba este estilo
It was good. Don’t have strong opinions on it.
The album cover is a delight and the song names are goofy in the best way. The opening track is a great intro to the giddy space funk that follows. Sometimes it's just about having fun. Did I need to hear this album before I died? YES! Do I want to hear it again? You bet I do! Favorite: Give Up The Funk (Tear the Roof Off The Sucker)
A classic. Nice to hear the source material for so much of what came later.
cançó prefe: unfunky UFO RHCP s'han inspirat fijo amb el yayayayaya de tippa ma tongue, q es bastant funky. Bueno es funky. Aquest disc és funky a tope Nota final: 1/5, no es gaire mi rollo, sap greu.
WE WANT THE FUNK!
Such a classic. I'm not a big funk guy, but anything George Clinton touches is GOLD. I remember buying this album back when I was in my late teens and trying to expand my horizons. I've been listening to it regularly ever since. It's just amazing.
funky
Best album of all time wbk
Kinda just one long loose jam. But fun.
Fun. Kee. 4/5.
3.5, good first track, slightly falls off imo
Some parts of it are good fun, but I'm not a big fan of the extended spoken word bits.
Funk was never my cup of tea, but later bands obviously cite this as a major influence.
Terrific production. Especially the drums. What can you say about the grooves on this record? Anything but the highest praise is short shrift to what the P-Funk collaboration created for these songs.
Funky group with funky sounds i love Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off This Sucker) and also Supergroovalisticprosifunkication (The Bumps Bump).
Why is it that in early funk tunes the subject matter of the lyrics is almost exclusively "The Funk"?!? The music is par-for-the course for mid-70s funk music, but nothing relevatory. Most tracks sound alike. 3/5
I love this album. I couldn’t imagine Doobie in my funk. Perfect and pure funk. #wefunk
for the get down and throwdown mix... too great
baita som,, funkzao
3.5/5 not a huge funk fan, but was a fun listen
Funk, on whole new level.
Inderdaad funky, maar heb al betere albums gehoord
Funky as FUUUUUUUUCK
We got Funkadelic's "One Nation Under a Groove" recently, and I was a little disappointed by it. Apparently I prefer Parliament? Not sure, as the distinction's never been clear to me, and it appears the line between the two has eroded over time. Regardless, this was the funk I was looking for. Dr. Dre is clearly a fan of the album, since he sampled at least two of the tracks, most notably "Mothership Connection (Star Child)" on "Let Me Ride." And while it's undeniably part of G-funk's DNA, the album is properly funky in its own right. "Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)" alone makes this album worth a listen, but it's funk all the way down. I'd probably give this 4.5 stars if I could, but I'm rounding up to 5 because why the funk would I round down?
I'm realizing that I truly enjoy 70s funk. Thanks to this challenge, I'm regularly listening to Funkadelic, and I'm adding this album to my work playlist. Anything with a groovy beat gets me going.
Funk indeed Pretty fun listen, I would buy this record if I stumbled on it
Enjoyable and fun. A little repetitive at points but overall a good listen.
this was pretty solid. i enjoyed it
I have this in vinyl. Super rare find
I wants to get funked up. I will listen to this album many more times in life.
Good album, did Gotye get some inspiration from this?
What the funk! Not a genre I would dive into quickly, but this album is nice! Really funky and not too long.
Make my Funk the P-Funk! I truly love the funk
So dope. I mean really enough said
Not offensive but not for me
Mothership Connection, indeed. Classic Parliament.
Too funky. I can't take this much funk at this hour of the lord. Listening to funk while you have a cold is just rubbing it in. Sorry man, I can't funk, I'm dyin' over here. Maybe next time.
70-talsfunk.
I’m sorry I don’t get this. Maybe I really am boring and the funk doesn’t get to me. I can appreciate the technical side and it’s very good. But overall I don’t really feel like listening to this
Kalle: 1. Paska joo vittu meta biisi 2. Damn töi loppuosa tää alkaa olla iha decent 3. Vktuttaa ei enää vktuta tää genre En jaksa rate jokainen biisi mutta toi Night of the thumpasorus peoples hauska toi lead instrumentti 3:14 miten sitä voi seurata ilman seuraamatta mitään muuta, koska se kaikkimmuu on soinut kokoajan samana The Bumps Bump siisti moni instrumenttinen alku Handcuffs Best lyrics
Fabulous! Funky, smart, lobes it
Not really a fan of this old 70s funk but I’m sure it was hype in its time.
7/10 give up the funk, but this one is actually a nice one
P-Funk isn't something I often think to listen to but whenever I do I am reminded how much fun it is. Spending a bit of time in the world of George Clinton is a listening experience that's not quite like anything else I can think of. That being said there's only so much of it I can listen to before I get a bit lost, The fact that Clinton and crew have distilled funk down to pure well... funkiness both works in its favour and to its detriment. Highly enjoyable.
Great energy
Very funky
Funky if you like funk
There was one song with an annoying whiny thing the whole time. It was a good vibe though.
Funky na medida, álbum redendo.
You can see where funk and rock got fused together here. It's definitely a Bootsy album. Highly recommended!
Would not be a go to album for me but fun to experience. P-Funk intro is pretty awesome and Give Up The Funk is a classic...so an easy 3 stars for me... But on the same note, Handcuffs is a weird tune.
Beetje saai, maar niet slecht. Beetje funky langzame rock. 3*
It’s pretty good not what I expected but good
Very silly and fun. Great, great bass tone But I think a lot of the songs were pretty repetitive compared to how long the songs were. Like there’s a really killer riff, but then that 6-second riff repeats for like 7 minutes. I’m definitely glad to have listened though Favorite was Handcuffs and the Thumpasorus one
This does exactly what it says on the tin! It funks the hell out of the space! Love it!
Classic. love this one.
Hressandi fönk, flottar útsetningar.
Love funk! This was a lot of fun
What a blast of an album. So dancy and catchy and fun the whole time. 8/10
5.0 - Here's another incredible toe-hold into George Clinton's huge discography. I may even like it better than "Maggot Brain." I love the afrofuturist space travel concept as well as the interplay between Bootsy's bass and Bernie Worrell's synths (see "Night Of the Thumpasorus Peoples"). Unlike some of Clinton's other projects (e.g. "One Nation..."), this one feels composed and without clutter. A consummately funky and forward-sounding record all around.
Another album where I can see why it's great but the genre is lost on me.
Gøy, men ujevn plate.
This was excellent.
Some real funky tunes
Not a big funk fan but this is pretty good.
Really fun classic funk album that didn’t overstay its welcome but did feel slightly repetitive at times
you can never go wrong with some 70s funk
hard to argue with this
This album was AWESOME!!! Listened to it three times in a row.
It’s funk, what more needs to be said?
Meh as hell, just not into funk I reckon, especially not p-funk like this. The same thing for 40 minutes basically...
Un album assez téléphoné de la part de Parliament, le groupe de députés se contentant de délibérer puis de voter un certain nombre de lois. Petit rebondissement toutefois vers la fin du projet avec le dépôt d'une motion de censure assez inattendue.
Parliament propose ici une performance à montrer dans toutes les écoles de générateur: Parliament est un groupe extrêmement médiocre, avec un talent quasi invisible. C'est donc pourquoi Parliament se contente de nous proposer un album de moins de 38mn, qui évite de nous faire perdre trop de temps. Pour ce bel effort, j'accorde la note de 2/5.
It is funk music. Some of the song were recognizable. It was a relatively short album.i do not see myself listening to ghe entire album again.
Muy buen álbum. No lo había escuchado nunca
Great album, great length, great tracks. Great journey/experience. Would listen again.
Having listened to The Chronic at an early age, I was aware that most of the beats come from Parliament, but it was still fun to discover and listen to the originals of where they came from. Great Album!
Well, wow. Some incredible funktastic funky fun funk here. I'm coming back to this one.
funky
I do indeed feel funked up, as promised. It will be interesting figuring out where the lines between soul and funk (which I apparently like) and hip hop, R&B and rap (which I'm not sure I do like) lie over time.
Pretty good. Didn't realize just how much of The Chronic was taken directly from this album. I want to play SNES NBA Jam all of a sudden...
I didn't much care for this. I guess I'm not very funky. Sad. 2.5/5
Funky as hell though lost me a little towards the end. Really enjoyed.
Man, imagine not liking PFunk. Couldn’t be me. A-. These songs are meant to be heard live, but I can’t imagine going any lowee.
It's a funkadelic funkalicious funktastically funky Parliament album. The Mothership came down and influenced thousands of artists in the years to come.
funky.
Funky
Great funk! Fun times, with a new appreciation for themusic of the times
Old school vibes.
not listenable for long but good
4/5. Love it
2nd August 2022 Listened in the morning before going to the office. Saw Sav and Booty in the evening to chat stag stuff. Love it, still funkadelic after all this time.
Silloin kun on Bootsy Collins asialla niin laatu on hyvä, mutta tämän kohdalla tuppas kyllä tuleman ihan timangia! 5/5
Uuh, huikee lätty. Etenkin nimikkoraita, Unfunky UFO ja Handcuffs on pirun tiukkoja vetoja. Varmaan yksi tasaisimmista funk-levyistä, ei kädenlämpöisiä fillereitä. 4.5/5 ja pyöristetään nyt 5.
Aika keskivertofunkia
Funkin Great
Brilliant
Great!
Mjao jag gillar funk!
Parliament just rocks out loud. The groove just goes all the way through this album. Delicious!
I wonder if our alien progenitors will have mercy on ungraceful people like me when they return to check up on their colony, to see if we've learned the lessons of Funk, to observe the glides in our strides and the dips in our hips. I am sorely lacking in this department, but perhaps the funk-aliens will beam me up and teach me something of which this music is but a prelude.
Gotta have that funk!
very funky!
This is my shit. Never heard of this band before but definitely will more after this one. The sax, hats and kickdrum that come in at the second half of "P-Funk" were mucho mucho bueno (just have to get through the vapid narration for the first 2 mins). Who knew sci-fi hip hop was a thing.
Good funky album
This shit is cracked bro. The bass parts just slap you on the back of the head. Had me speed big on the highway typebeat. Everything flows together amazingly.
LOVE these guys. What a classic album intro for George Clinton. Maybe still prefer funkadelic slightly more.
Great album to start the journey
Not for me
I like the original Funk genre, and this album is a great example of it. The songs are fun to listen to and the rhythm throughout the album feels great, and I particularly like the opening track's radio welcome. If I have any one issue with the album is that every song in it feels "good" but nothing feels "great". A thoroughly enjoyable listen for anyone who's a fan of the genre and somehow doesn't know the album, and overall really solid.
So loose and lush, flamboyantly fun and futuristically funky, -- “a whole lot of rhythm goin’ round” indeed. This is original and classic, with a warm and welcoming let-it-all-hang-out vibe and great joyfulness. One loves the updating of old-time gospel (“Swing Low Sweet Chariot”) to the space age, which makes George Clinton the Sun Ra of his genre. There’s a reason so much of this is sampled. And bonus points for coining (one thinks) “the bomb."
Busy album. Cool to hear the roots to Dre and Snoop Dogg's Let me Ride here. Parliament brings the funk here. Mothership Connection belongs on this list, no doubt. It's more of a feeling than anything though. It's about the funk, making the funk, showing others how to funk, all things funky. That makes for fun album, and there's nothing wrong with that.
I mean, look - t's Parliament. There are a lot of albums that have this much swagger and don't have even half as much to offer. I'm looking at you, The Chronic. This is just effortlessly good. It's not even engaging the whole time, but every bit of it is right. I might give this 5 stars and it'll be the first one I've given 5 stars that is kind of a background album for me. But I might not. We'll see tomorrow.
Simply, the greatest funk album ever conjured into existence. Pure magic! It feels like a loose kind of concept runs through the songs, an elemental Afro-futurism perhaps. 'Mothership Connection' is funny, political, off-the-wall, surprising - but above all else, it's scintillating funk music. 'Night of the Thumpasorus People' contains the single most audacious groove committed to tape.
I can see some of the sounds Dr.Dre pulled from for sure. It’s a decent listen for the background, but it tends to just go on and on if you listen consciously, with little changes between the songs. I appreciate the progressiveness of album as well as its carrying the space and funk theme throughout.
Nothing new or surprising here, funk that is good for the background but that's it
I love funk, and this is the quintessential group. There's a lot of samples from this in popular music.
I like a bit of funk but this never kicked into gear. It starts out with a clunky number that sets the tone all wrong, then even though a few of the other tunes really hold up there are heaps of spots where it kinda drops the ball. I do like the ridiculous album cover though, and the catchy bits are still catchy. 3/5.
Love the funk.
Funky. Great music
Quick and all funk
Funky. Good album to stick on in the background and very easy to zone out to but still enjoy though I can't imagine I would take any tracks and listen to them again in isolation.
What happens when you triple distil a funky album to make a super strength funky spirit. Just like Whiskey though, consume too much of this funk and you'll end up in a bit of a state
Parliament and Funkadelic place a lot of store in being funky. It is just as well, then, that on a scale from 'not at all funky' to 'really very funky indeed' this is off the chart. It's a concept album about the band travelling around the universe (in a funk powered spaceship), spreading funkiness to any unfunky civilisations they meet. It's really quite out there, but has a serious point as well, and is also very, very, very funky. Rating: 3/5 Playlist track: Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker) Date listened: 05/07/22
3.5/5 Some good funk!
funk. cool.
Previously, I gave Dr. Dre's The Chronic 1 star, primarily for being boring. However, I have to give this, which The Chronic samples heavily, 5 stars. Mad, innit? Anyway, this is rather a tricky album to dissect, mainly because of its excellence. Pointing out the flaws in an album tends to be an easy task. Articulating why an album is good challenges far more. Now, of course George Clinton gives us a ready adjective for that purpose: it's funky. But what do you say beyond that? Well, one aspect bugs me mildly: it's a concept album. For the thankfully uninitiated, the concept album was a disastrous by-product of the more general formation of the album as an artform in itself. With the word "art" now part of their vocab, bands tried recording albums that told epic stories about orcs and aliens, jammed with leitmotifs and musique concrete experiments in order to underscore the profundity of the message, man. Now, the concept album is an almost wholly lamentable concept, and almost every attempt at a concept album irks the listener and degrades the artist. The concept behind any concept album would cause a teacher to humiliate a twelve-year-old if the poor mite submitted it in a creative writing project. Yes, it helps if albums are thematically coherent, but that does not mean attempting a sequel to the Silmarillion, it just means making sure the album flows smoothly. Mothership Connection is one of the vanishingly few concept albums that work, but what's the concept behind this album? Black people in UFOs. As an image, one can feel gladdened by the glorification, the humour and the afrofuturism. But is it enlightening? Not really. But that doesn't matter. The music is plenty enlightening enough on its own. Toasty and ingratiating, there really isn't a badly placed note on this album. It's perfectly acceptable to revel in Mothership Connection without bothering with the narrative. Just love it.
Groovy, pretty upbeat and fun
Take the roof off the sucker take the roof off the mother
Funking good. I might've gotten bored if it wasn't so short, but it's an album about getting groovy on a spaceship, what's not to love
A good fun time had by all
God we've had some good ones recently. Not much more to say other than this is possibly the best funk album ever made
It was alright I guess. I'm just not a huge fan of that kind of funk.
Good funk, but nothing memorable.
Great Funk, a lot of talented artist involve in the project. Fews hits, but good overall vibe, that will put a smile on your face :)
George Clinton, Bootsy Collins and Bernie Worrell are the best funk power trio out there. I discovered them in my long quest of listening to all Buckethead's collaborations and their music stayed with me. What a groovy insane album that had a strong influence on the 80s/90s hip-hop. Really like this one!
Pretty good groove.
They got the Funk.
Buen funk. Música agradable, sonidos diversos y buenas voces aunque no me encantó el exceso del theremin. Sólido 3.
El problema con el funk (al menos de este tipo de funk) es que solo sabe hablar del funk: la gente quire el funk, ama el funk, necesita el funk, nunca obtiene todo el funk, etc. La música del funk es excelente, pero esas letras del funk no son tan buenas y tristemente le quitan todo el mérito. Encima, como los músicos de funk aman tanto el funk, creen que es su misión hacer que el funk dure muchos muchos minutos, sin importar que ya escuchaste ese funk. Y sí, hermano… chida tu línea de bajo o tu arreglo de metales, pero nadie necesita escucharlo 180 veces. Así que un disco con potencial para cinco estrellas en el primer minuto, se convirtió en algo que alcanza la tercera solo de churro.
Truly a very funky album. One way you can tell is by how often they use the word "funk" in song titles and lyrics. Speaking of song titles: Night Of The Thumpasorus People really is a pretty amazing title.
p364. 1975. 3 stars Perfectly acceptable fodder, well produced with a sense of humour but... not my thing. It's missing standout tracks. Listened to it, thought it was OK, then forgot about it.
Just another funk album. Love a good funky tune, but for nearly forty minutes? No thanks.
Funky
Very fun, very funky - but mad as a bag of hammers and feels like I'm a bit too old to get excited about being funked up
Tear the roof off this motherfunker!
-"P-Funk (Wants To get Funked Up)" has a cool intro story, with an alien funk ship taking over your radio and playing funky music. It's also super catchy during the singing parts. -"Mothership Connection (Star Child)" is a just great, grooving funk song -"Unfunky UFO" starts off with a thumping drum, and then all the other instruments come in for a big, fat, beefy, funky sound. The worbler on the bass, or whatever that effect is called, is cranked up. The guitar, horns, and everything else sounds fantastic. It's the highlight of the album so far. -"Supergroovalisticprofunkstication (The Bumps Bump)" may very well be the best song name across all 1001 Albums. -"Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker)" is a great song, and it has this super cool, deep-bass singer during some parts. Very fun. -"Night Of The Thumpasorus People's" is nice and funky (as expected) and has some great lyrics ("Gaga googa ga ga googa") -A great funk album that I thoroughly enjoyed, it never got boring. I plan on listening more in the future!
Fine funk album.
just not my jam. too loose and impromptu for my liking. not the biggest fan if funk to begin with, so unfortunately it doesn't take much for me to "meh" the fuck out on an album like this.
Legendary stuff right here. Love this album! It's full of funky jams.
Hell yes
Another unexpected hit! Couldn't resist the funk.
Brilliant, awesome, wonderfully funky, almost perfect (and yet funkadelic still just hits better for me!)
Intéressant comme album. Un peu bizarre pour la thématique spatiale, mais la musique est vraiment excellente. Ça groove en sale. Probablement pour ça que c'est un album qui a été samplé régulièrement. Mon premier du groupe et je serais content de l'avoir dans ma collection.
This is the album I play for white guys who say they love funk and then put the Chilli Peppers (possibly the most overrated band around) on. Someone has to intervene.
Solid album.
groovy as fuck also surprisingly warm and wholesome opener song, 9/10
I'd like to live in this album. I need to live in this album. Just an all around party.
Funky
Cool vibes and some really good tunes. Like the opener and of course “Give up the Funk”. 3.5 and rounding up because the world is a better place with Parliament in the mix.
wanted to like this more than I did. Give up the Funk is the banger it's always been, but the rest didn't hit me incredibly hard. That said, still pretty cool to see a pioneering example of Afrofuturism in the 70's in comparison to where the genre across media is today (and specifically compared to The Archandroid album which is also on this list from 35 years later).
Roller Skates not included. The opener sets the scene and the grooves keep on coming.
George Clinton, baby. Such a great funk album. I feel like I have so much bias going into this one because of how big a fan of George's projects I am. It is so incredibly easy to get caught in the groove of this album, the music is infectious and contagious. There are some iconic sounds on this album, and they have lived on through samples (mostly hip-hop) and cultural references to this day. This is not a perfect album by any means, but it is so charming and inviting, and that is what has earned this album legendary status in my mind. **Rating = 4.5/5, rounded up Fave tracks: P Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up), Mothership Connection (Starchild), Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)
Oh yea, this is some good stuff. Super solid album by Parliament, anything George Clinton does just drips with groove and style. So many layers, sounds and things going here, and you really get the sense they're just having fun with it. The one minor complaint I have is I felt like the songs dragged out just a little long sometimes, especially with all the repeated chorus sections. To me, this is a very strong 4. I feel like it's missing just a bit of a "je ne sais quoi" to push it into 5 territory, but it's still a great album. Fav Tracks: P. Funk, Give Up The Funk
It seems that the influences from this album - or that were formative for this album - are ever-present in modern music. A quick check of "WhoSampled" shows 70 songs that sampled this album, and assuredly the non-credited influences are much more difficult to track. A good education, great sound, and a little too funky to put on repeat.
Now this IS what good music is. Takes you somewhere else. I wasn't even ready to cream my pants when those incredibly high funk energy swayed me across astronomical distances. Solid 10/10.
P-Funk is toch een beetje de spruitjes onder de muzieksoorten voor mij. Er zijn vast mensen die ervan houden, maar ik hoor daar niet bij.
Coole vibe, maar wel erg langdradig soms
Lekker funky. Al begon dat na een nummer of 6 ook wel een beetje vervelend te worden.
I'm a sucker for all things funk. Immediate 3 to 4 stars.
Classique pour moi, get funked up, starchild. Des souvenirs de jeunesse avec dr dre the chronic. Un 5 pour funkmaster legend georges clinton.
Funky sound that I really loved
First listen Saved 3/7
Funk, not really my thing but I didn’t mind listening. Pretty upbeat and fun.
Funk outta here
It's silly, funny, and self-parodying, but the groove is infectious - plus it's very sexy music. Puts me back in teenage mid-seventies discos. Can hardly distinguish one track from another, they all have the same driving rhythm - it's just one long continuous stream of funk - but that's OK because I like it. They must have had a lot of fun playing it. Dig that crazy beat, man!
Day 4: This album was amazing, I thought I was being too harsh with previous reviews but, an album or genre will just click. This deserves every right to be in must hear albums.
Very good, very funky. I really liked the concept and style of the album. 100% relistening.
Sounds a bit like a mix of funk and psychedelic. Bit often used the word funk... (6/10) FT: Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)
Love p funk. Make my funk the p funk, give up the funk.
This is great party music (as funk always is) with a cosmic futuristic sound. It's a loose jazzy concept album that doesn't take itself too seriously. All in all a pretty solid album with nothing sticking out as being particularly memorable or bad.
We have the funk, what a banger.
Could it get any funkier?
Oh yeah!
P-Funk, come on, who wants to get funked up?! awww yeeeah!
Funky
Pretty awesome funk album. Don’t think many people have done it better than parliament. This album has some classics and some other nice songs that were new to me. This is a nice funk album. 8.0/10
A few weeks ago, I heard Funkadelic’s “One Nation Under a Groove” and thought it was one of the best parties captured on record. It turns out that George Clinton wasn’t even matching his own efforts from three years earlier. “Mothership Connection” is a rip-roaring, all-singing, all-dancing and by all accounts seminal album in the evolution of funk. I’m ashamed of not having heard it until now, but I’m making up for lost time by repeating it again… and again. The best party tracks are the most famous: “P-Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up)” and “Give Up The Funk” are both so impeccably put together. I’d heard much of the music across the record sampled in Dr Dre’s “The Chronic” (where they were the highlights) so it was a great experience hearing them all in full. The sci-fi overtones are brought in throughout as a campy way without ever feeling trite or forced. There’s just the right amount of synth lines in the mix without letting it feel too dated or kitsch, and the rest is just pure horny goodness… In “Unfunky UFO”, the band channel Sky and the Family Stone with a slightly harder-edged riff, and a delectable “yeah yeah yeah” refrain beaming its way down the minor scale. “Night of the Thumpasorus Peoples” closes on an amazing nonsense singalong refrain. Even “Handcuffs”, bearing perhaps the most questionable lyrical content, has a killer accompaniment which it’s near-impossible not to enjoy. If you aren’t bopping along, you’ve been funked all the way into a black hole. It’s early days but each time I’ve listened to this album, it’s been impossible not to be grinning away, with the sense of experiencing a true classic.
All phunked up and ready to funk :) does not get better - influenced everything that came after. makes everything better
2/5 funky, but not my taste
Oh yeah getting funked up. I like the more psychedelic sound of Funkadelic a bit more but this Parliament album is there finest.
4.5
Now this is the definition of funk. If you're not movin' and groovin' to this album, your pulse should be checked. Apparently based on Geoge Clinton's vision of the future where black astronauts interact with alien worlds. The names of some of these songs alone make this album great: "Supergroovalisticprosifunstication", " Night of the Thumpasorous Peoples." The Library of Congress added this album to the National Recording Registry for its enormous influence on jazz, rock and dance music. Just in the short time that I've been doing this 1001 challenge, I've heard the influence of Parliament and particularly this album in every hip-hop/rap album that I've listened to. Not only there, a few of these songs reminded me of the late 70's/early 80's Talking Heads. Not to mention the soon-to-be disco era. I'm sure I'll hear it in other areas as I go along. For me, it's Bootsy Collin's bass which really lays the groovy and funky foundation for Parliament songs. But, there is a lot more going here on with horns, keyboards, synthesizers, multiple singers and psychedelic, jazzy-sounding guitars. Of particular note, are the synthesizers/keyboards which add weird sounds, noises and a backdrop which definitely solidifies the whole outer space album concept. Not a bad song here. 7 altogether. To me, some of them stray into jam band territory with their extended jams. The album also has their most recognizable song "Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker)." This was a lot of fun.
Didn't find this interesting at all, I don't think it has any redeeming qualities either.
Funk muy chulo. Me ha gustado. Un 4.
So close to 5 stars. So funky, but the fart bass on the last track was just toooo much for my ears.
I’m the last person to have the right to label something as cool, but this is cool. Enough funk to ricochet pension month around in the dance floor
Parliament starts with a minimum 5 stars for being Parliament. No subtractions on this record. Funk yeah!
I liked this quite a bit more than the other funk album that was generated earlier (Maggot Brain by Funkadelic). I think the instrumentals are cool and fairly easy to listen to without being especially boring.
Good funk album, enjoyed it - more upbeat than Maggot Brain. Think I still liked maggot brain more
Oooooo, this sounds nice, first time listening to this.