Mothership Connection

Incredible joint. Though I suppose that it didn't grab me as much as some of the more impassioned reviews on this website, I loved it. To speak plainly, the funk was IN me, controlling the way I moved, thought, and spoke. In a more analytical note, Parliament is obviously one of the most consequential funk acts in the history of the genre, being led by the man himself, George Clinton, who also headed the Parliament sister project, Funkadelic. Every single song here brings some sort of incredible, undeniable groove that WILL get stuck in your head for around a week. It's impossible not to adore the group vocals of "IF YOU HEEEAR ANY NOISE, IT'S JUST ME AND THE BOYS," or "SWING DOWN, SWEET CHARIOT STOP, AND LET ME RIDE," "GIVE UP THE FUNK!!," "I WANT MY FUNK UNCUT!," I could go on. After having only heard this album for one day, I could tell you the general grooves and vibes coming out of each song. I truly love this album. I will be listening a lot. 9.7/10 DOES IT BELONG ON THE LIST: YESSSSSSSS REASON: Everyone needs a bit of the funk, and who better to get it from than the masters of it?

Solid groovy piece of music

P-Funk forever

I already loved this, and I still do. Sure it's a bit goofy at times but it's somehow incredibly cool

Without a doubt the greatest Funk album of all time. 50 years of spins under my belt, and it still whoops all kinds of ass. 100/5.

Classic funk at its best!

Loved this. Nice change of pace.

Amazing funk macfunkface!

Loved it

Amazing bass. So funky and a little ridiculous. Really great sound!

Groooovy baby!

its glooby

Я НЕ ЗНАЮ ПОЧЕМУ Я ТАК ЛЮБЛЮ ФАНК НО Я ЛЮБЛЮ ФАНК. Мега балдёжная, качёвая штука с каким-то таким чилловым настроением. К сожалению над Mothership Connection не работал мой любимый гитарист Eddie Hazel поскольку бро имел какие-то проблемы с законом на тот момент (распространенная история для него, увы) Меня внезапно осенило, что, всё таки слушали все эти ваши реперы старой школы и кем вдохновлялись, создавая всяческие NWA, Wu Tang Clan'ы и прочие Run'ы DMC. ОНИ СЛУШАЛИ ФАНК! в том числе, как минимум. Ну вы вслушайтесь только, вот эта вот разговорная часть на расслабонесе под какой-то качёвый, расслабленный грув, это же чисто прием который (я уверен) и по сей день используют реперы. И использовали и в 80-ые. Ну и на добивочку: буквально вторая же композиция используется Dr. Dre напрямую в качестве (по сути) семпла на его треке Let Me Ride! О как, да? А подпевка с "Give Up The Funk" используется на треке Снуп Дога с его дебютного альбома на треке "Who Am I (What's My Name)?". Приятно находить CONNECTIONS (нувыпонелида?!?!?17) когда так долго слушаешь самую разную музыку. Короче, альбом - шикардос. это 5. нет, это 10.

Album : 21/1089 Songs known going in : 1/7 Favourite song : Cover : kinda sick reminds me of spaceballs. Proper scifi spoof Rating : Notes : Very pleasantly surprised with the first song. Love the concept I'm actually having so much fun. This isn't particularly a genre I'd usually listen to but this is great. Wait I've just realised I do know a Song ok Give up the funk

I won a copy of this album in a middle school dance contest. It’s been part of my life ever since. Five stars, of course.

Don't chose to listen to this type of music so wasn't sure I would like this album but I was very pleasantly surprised! Really enjoyed it!

One of my favorite albums of all time. It's just so silly while at the same time knocking you upside the head with funk. Let me put on my sunglasses, so I can see.. It's like a parody of 70s music and I mean that in the best possible way. Also, album cover is fucking fantastic.

How much more funky can you get than this album? The answer is none. None more funky.

Does humor belong in music? YES! Yes, it does.

Absolute, unadulterated joy. Can’t help but move to this music.

I may or may not have listened to this album 3 times in a row.

hell yeah!

Funky. Adding to my lists. Will enjoy again.

Incredible intro. Amazing album.

Classic funk! I love the jokey voice overs & lyrics to go with the great music

George Clinton is the master of funk and his abilities are on full display

Fantastic. I added “Give Up the Funk” to my playlist.

Makes me wish I had been in my 20’s in the 70’s

Hell yes

That's one of my goats right there don't touch it

🥞

W-E-F-U-N-K, y'all! Great album and from a genre I love!

One hundred percent in the lane — funk average 4.17 in this project for good reason, and Mothership Connection is the record that built the lane. George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell, and a rotating cast of musicians creating something that was equal parts music, philosophy, and cosmic spectacle, the whole enterprise held together by a groove philosophy so complete it became a worldview. Bootsy is ridiculous. The bass playing throughout — rubbery, melodic, simultaneously anchoring everything and pulling it in unexpected directions — is one of the great instrumental performances in recorded music and the engine that makes the whole mothership fly. Bernie Worrell's synthesizer work is the other essential element, genuinely pioneering in 1975, giving the record a sonic texture that nothing else of the era could match and that Prince, Outkast, and Kendrick Lamar all drew from directly whether they said so or not. "Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)" is one of the great funk singles ever recorded — a complete argument for what the genre can do at its highest expression, delivered with the kind of joyful conviction that makes resistance beside the point. The Afrofuturist mythology surrounding it — Black people as the original inhabitants of space, funk as the cosmic frequency connecting everything — gives the whole record an intellectual and spiritual framework that separates it from mere excellence. The Mothership has landed. A five that needed no deliberation.

One of the funkiest albums ever made. 5 stars.

George Clinton has always struck me less as a conventional bandleader than as a political huckster in the old medicine-show tradition: part preacher, part carnival barker, part confidence man, arriving in town with a miraculous cure and enough theatre to persuade you to try it. Ken Kesey worked by a similar method. Reverend Billy Talen does now. The point is not simply to make an argument. You build a temporary alternative reality, invite people inside, and let them discover that the rules have changed. Mothership Connection may be the purest expression of that instinct I’ve heard. The first side is essentially a space opera crossed with a travelling revival meeting. “P-Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up)” doesn’t so much begin as tune us into a radio station that was already broadcasting. Clinton is cosmic DJ, preacher and patent-medicine salesman, and P-Funk is being offered as the cure for whatever ails you. By “Mothership Connection (Star Child)” we’ve stopped listening from outside and joined the procession. The wonderful appropriation of “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” makes the whole scheme explicit without ever laboriously explaining it: the chariot is now the Mothership, gospel salvation has become funk, and Star Child has us safely in his hands. Then “Unfunky UFO” performs one of the album’s cleverest reversals. The aliens haven’t travelled to Earth to bring their superior knowledge to the primitives. Their own world is dying of funklessness and they’ve come here because we have the answer. They want to learn how to funk so they can take it home and save the planet. This isn’t transcendence, exactly. Clinton isn’t telling us that salvation lies somewhere out there among the stars. The treasure is already here, embodied in Black music, rhythm, pleasure and communal movement, and it can be spread through the galaxy. All of which makes the record sound much more solemn than it is. Clinton’s great achievement is that he never hammers you over the head with any of it. If you have to analyse the proposition too hard, the proposition has failed. The grooves do the work. And good Lord, these grooves. Mothership Connection has an astonishing physical presence for a record from 1975. I had something like the experience I get imagining the first impact of Sgt. Pepper: not necessarily “these are better songs than anything anybody else is making”, but how the hell does the record sound like this? The bottom end is huge, rounded and elastic. Bernie Worrell’s keyboards squelch, burp and occasionally seem to be conducting experiments in interstellar flatulence. The percussion is exquisite. Bootsy Collins repeatedly demonstrates his virtuosity by showing what he doesn’t need to play. On “Handcuffs” in particular he plants himself in the pocket and simply refuses to leave. The band is tight as fuck and loose as all hell at the same time. The more Clinton strips the language down, the better the record often becomes. “Give the people what they want when they want it, and they want it all the time” barely develops as a lyric during “Supergroovalisticprosifunkstication”, but that’s precisely why it works. Repetition turns statement into slogan, slogan into chant, chant into ritual, until meaning gives way to physical participation. “Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)” does the same thing even more directly. That wonderful low chant of “tear the roof off the mother sucker” practically becomes another bass instrument. By “Night of the Thumpasorus Peoples”, language can dissolve almost completely into beautiful gibberish because the groove is capable of carrying everything itself. “Handcuffs” is the complication. I actually paused the album there, something I almost never do. The song is about possessiveness, jealousy and the need to be wanted, but it’s delivered from so comfortably inside the possessive man’s viewpoint that I couldn’t establish how much distance Clinton wanted us to have from him. Satire? Confession? Caricature? A deliberately ugly bit of male psychology? It knows enough about its narrator’s behaviour to make a straightforward endorsement seem unlikely, but never gives us the reassuring wink that would settle the matter. At first I thought it had broken the album. Then I remembered the physical LP. The world-building is really side one: transmission, procession, testimony, conversion. Side two is better treated as four discrete songs rather than a continuation of the space opera. And eventually “Handcuffs” began to look less like an inexplicable rupture and more like a grimy dose of Earthbound reality. If this record merely said “loosen up, surrender to the funk and everything will be fine”, it would be escapist utopianism. Instead we’re reminded that people remain jealous, needy, controlling, insecure and contradictory. The funk may free you, but sure as hell it don’t make you pure. I’m still not certain I’ve solved “Handcuffs”, and perhaps I’m not supposed to. Life is ambiguous, awkward and comfortable too. What I am certain about is the rest of it. This is one of the grooviest records I’ve ever heard: sumptuously produced, beautifully arranged, played by a rhythm section operating at a ridiculous level, and conceptually audacious without ever allowing the concept to get between you and the pleasure. I expected something closer to the abrasive, Lord-of-Misrule politics I had wanted from Maggot Brain. Instead Clinton offers a much sweeter pill. He doesn’t overthrow the existing world by shouting at it. He builds another one that looks much more fun to live in and waits for you to come aboard. I did.

Gotta have that funk

Despite his hairstyle, George Clinton is definitely NOT the evil Clinton.

Had the pleasure of seeing P-Funk 5x and every single show was mind-blowing. This album is the pinnacle of Parliament.

Funk and fun.

The narration was a little bit repetitive, but overall, fantastic work. That was almost perfect. 9/10

FUNK THAT WAS GOOD MY HEADPHONES ALMOST FUNKSPLODED

This was so fresh and so cool Playlist add: “Supergroovalisticprosifunkstication (The Bumps Bump)”

Free your mind and your ass will follow

Source of G-Funk

Why don't I spend more time listening to P-Funk?!

You gotta love the funk.

Greatest funk album of all time.

Hell yeah

Give me all of the funk!!

Hell yeah

"Make my funk the P. Funk, I wants to get funked up" Man, this album rips. Funk in its purest form. You can't listed to it without a stank face. George Clinton is a genius.

Esse álbum me ganhou na primeira frase. Que voz é essa? Eu derreti ali mesmo. Durante boa parte da audição eu tive a sensação de estar dentro do estúdio acompanhando esses músicos gravando. Em outros momentos, era como se eu estivesse em um bar de jazz maravilhoso, mesmo sabendo que o álbum é funk. Cada integrante parece ter seu próprio momento de destaque, e isso deixa tudo muito vivo, como se eu estivesse assistindo à banda tocar bem na minha frente. Ouvi o álbum inteiro. Absolute cinema. Qualidade demais.

When you are singular in your genre, it's five stars. Tear the roof off...

Funk maxxing

Absolute classic

Once upon a time called Now I remember when my roommate in college introduced me to this album. She thought George Clinton was a god. Or better, the true alien messiah, Starchild, come to Funk us up. Cause, you know: Make my funk the P. Funk I want my funk uncut. He came to answer the most profound questions troubling mankind, like: is there funk after death? And taught the proper way to move through this world. Let me put my sunglasses on That's the law around here, you got to wear your sunglasses So you can feel cool. He also addressed issues in music that I ponder still as I work through this 1089 list: 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? 5 Boolean: True

Get out the funk. Great music grooves with a concept so original it's outrageous. Get up and dance with WFUCK!!

I was really tired so I was going to have an afternoon nap, but I first decided to have a look at what I was listening to today. Reader, I did not have a nap.

GODDAMN this is good. The tracks are for the most part assuredly long but the whole thing is a total party.

Looved this funk album! Will definitely pop it on again at some point.

So what I don't understand is why I've never heard this before??? Dude, hell yeah! This is why I'm doing this album list!!!! I was convinced to buy the vinyl before the first song even finished. They just made love to my ears, babay! Groovy! "give the people what they want, when they want, and they wants it all the time"

Common knowledge has it that Parliament was the more accessible of George Clinton's grand projects of funk -- the other being the more experimental Funkadelic. But this seems a rather relative comparison in retrospect. This is still some far out shit. Right from the outset, we're given a track with long interludes allowing bass, trombone, piano to do their thing. Sometimes by themselves, often swirling into each other. (Introducing an album by way of a fictional radio station has become a recognizable [if not terribly common] trope. Is this where it started? It surely deserves to be.) "Unfunky UFO" is probably the song that pauses just enough for us to hear exactly what this album fully is and does. It's got more of a recognizable pattern that we can return to and integrate ourselves into. And it's infectious. It's frustratingly short, fading out just as we really find ourselves in the groove. "Supergroovalisticprosifunkstication" is another one that, at around the same length, slows down to let you hear yourself into it. Slinky and groovy. A kind of definition of what groove is. But it's "Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)" that really personifies the album. Little wonder that this most recognizable single became the first song many people think when they think of funk. On the humor. It's interesting that this album was contrasted with, say, the Ohio Players or the Commodores in Rolling Stone as not having the "seriousness" of its counterparts (though to be clear, it's a good thing in the original review). Because it seems to me that funk is thought of as first and foremost a fun genre. And it certainly is here. Yes, the vision of black astronauts meeting with aliens is both absurd and a serious challenge to the imagination. Absurd not because black people can't be astronauts, but because of the aliens. Yet at the time of recording, both were seen by the public as large as just that: absurd. Hence the Afrofuturist challenge. The silliness and the seriousness start to slide into each other's place. Throwing off your notions of possibility with humor.

Finally! Parliament Funkadelic 😍😍

70's sci fi funk has never sounded so good, and I didnt even know it existed!

Are you hip to Easter Island?

Suuuuuper funky, loved it!!

Classic!

So many iconic samples coming from this album, and the brass + synth + backup vocals were perfection. My favorite funk album I've listened to so far, 5/5

It is now my experience with pretty much all funk albums on this list that funk is the ultimate walking around genre. It's hard not to listen to funk and have the best walking experience of your life.

I know the mothership is up there, and it's the world's best party to the left and the world's chillest hangout space to the right, and you're greeted by Lollipop Man, alias the Long-Haired Sucker, and there's a big bowl of superfly sunnies (because you got to wear your sunglasses, so you can look cool), and I'm Starchild's third stepcousin twice removed (adoptive, but who's counting?) and they call me "Mr Marty Flash" and my leopard coat is polyester and my lil moustache is ratty but I'm always, always welcome.

FUNKY FUNK FUNK

So fun to listen, it was a very good experience and so influential for the 70s

Yesterday it was reinforced that metal is my least favorite music genre. Today it was reinforced that funk continues to be my favorite genre, based on ratings in this project at least. The former I knew for a long time, and the latter I knew I liked, but not how much. This was a great album. Give Up the Funk was a song I knew and had on a few playlists already, but the rest was just as awesome. Bopping on my way to work is the best way to go to work, and this was an album full of bops. There aren't any true standout songs, as they all mesh together into one awesome 38 minutes of fun.

We got the funk baby

I love how they talk about just how funky they are, otherwise I wouldn’t realize how funky they are

This hit hard! Great music. So glad it generated this!

This was my first time listening to a true funk album, and holy shit are my eyes opened. I will start a deep and extensive journey into this genre cause jesus this is such a good album.

The funk! Easy 5/5.

Very fun

gaga goo ga gaga goo ga

They definitely brought the funk. Fun, groovy and brilliantly executed.

Super fun.

Me encantó, conocía ya una de sus canciones

# Playlist Track - Give up the funk # Notes - Funktastic listen! Exactly as fun and over the top as the cover implies. - Definitely recommend. If you can't have a good time listening to this, please seek help.

W O W last track especially is fireeeee

Really liked, classic funk. 7 song 3 saved so far. Really fun albumn

A party from start to finish, nearly perfect.

The perfect thing to wake up to this morning. Funked out of my god damn gourd.

There’s something about this album that is so funky, it’s like how much more funky could this be? And the answer is none. None more funky. Seriously, this has been beamed directly from the planet Funk in the year funky five million in an Afro-future so funky it completely funks up the space-time continuum. When Parliament went on tour to play this album live they had a huge mothership UFO complete with disco balls that would fly in and land on the stage half way through the show. That is literally how funky they were. Seriously, have a look on YouTube for Parliament summoning the mothership and prepare to get funked. Anyway, don’t mind me. I’m just about to listen to this amazing album again. Funk-tastic!

Damn, funk me! That's funked up, in a funking good way. Nay, funk it: it's funking the funkin' best. 5 "funked up" stars. (Plus, I was so near to Parquet Courts that I extra-credited Sunbathing Animal: man, what a funkin' bonus!)

Funky with sci-fi. This is entertaining.

Funky and cool! Big fan

really strong, like the grooves; fun

Feels like if Funkadelic is the part where you throw every conceivable P-Funk idea and element into the blender, Parliament is the part where it comes out as an incredible yet still pulpy juice. Honed to a sharp edge, the whole ensemble sounds fantastic, Bootsie and Bernie are obviously showing up front and all but still, everything is exactly right for you to nod your head, tap your feet, shake your ass and go off to weird space for 40 minutes. George Clinton groups never take themselves seriously, this one is very unserious too but it’s also the sheer craft behind being so unserious is wild. Also fascinating to listen to this one and have some of the later samples jump out to me so quick, this really was a treasure trove (again, testament to how good and forward-thinking this sounds).

Its has a really cool vibe i love it and it didnt make me miserable like the last one

Funk On

You smell that??? That’s some funky shiiiit. Love love love this vibe. 4.5

Funky! This had me grooving. It’s brimming with joy, and makes me smile. 9/10 Outstanding

Gotta Have that Funk

What a treat!

Ugh they’re so funky it physically aches. Such a vibe

My first experience of Parliament. What the funk have I been doing with my life..!!! 4.5/5 as I’m still coming to terms with this.

TRACK 1 (P-FUNK) : Strong opener, we're funking now. TRACK 2 (MOTHERSHIP CONNECTION) : Strong follow-up, we're doubling-down on funking TRACK 3 (UNFUNKY UFO) : Misleading title, if a UFO was involved in the making of this song, it is undoubtedly a funky one. TRACK 4 (SUPERGROOVALISTICPROSIFUNKSTICATION) : Still funking. TRACK 5 (HANDCUFFS) : Maybe my favourite so far! Wastes no time and cuts straight to the funking from the get-go. TRACK 6 (GIVE UP THE FUNK) : I will NOT be giving up the funk, especially if it's gonna keep being this funky. 'Whole lot of rhythm goin' round' that's for sure. TRACK 7 (NIGHT OF THE THUMPASORUS PEOPLES) : The Thumpasorus Peoples seem like a good bunch. We've funked till the end. Crazy... synth? solos. Sounds like a talk box maybe, or a vocoder? OVERALL : Impeccable funk from A to Z. Gives enough different sounds, textures and groovy variations to keep the album moving and dynamic throughout, while simultaneously confidently planting both feet deep in funky ground and refusing to budge.

Masterpiece gosh. It’s so ahead of its time.

Funny this came up so soon after ¨The Chronic,¨ where Dr. Dre basically just played the same songs with updated gangsterisms. It works, in part because the source material is so strong. If you love funk and outer space then you'll love this one.

Every song is a bop!!

This album put a glide in my stride and a dip in my yip

Everything this list is about. Artist I've never heard of with an incredible album. If you don't like funk you'll hate it but I do and I loved it.

One of the best albums of all time.

A very fun listen and an interesting one as well, with the impact of George Clinton's work on future music in its genre (and other genres that draw from funk like hip-hop) clearly visible. I would give it a 4.5 as the final track is a bit weaker than the rest of the album but I don't think it's enough to drop to a 4.

P-Funk - Really good intro, little bit empty, but still good Mothership Connetion - Like the lead vocals, overall song is pretty good Unfunky UFO - Reminds me of those songs from DPL The Bumps Bump - bass or synth (idk) reminds me of Funky Worm from GTA SA sountrack Handcuffs - my fav track, lyrcs and instrumentals are just great Give Up The - gives me energy to just get up and dance Night Of The Thumpasourus Peopels - Pretty chill outro, idk if it's acid bass or something in the track

THIS RULES! I LOVE FUNK!

Immaculate funk album.

Absolute vibe. I was even jamming to the song that sounded like farts

Hell to the mother fucking yeah. What a breath of fresh air after what feels like such a dip in album quality over the past few weeks. This funk seeped that much deeper into my soul due to mid-music fatigue. No Dips, continously bringing that hip swinging head bopping groove from to front to back. With variation, tempo swing and creativity. Bonus points for the really fun album art cover. As well as the heat that Give up the Funk brings, was familiar with this one Im sure due to media & film, wouldnt be able to tell you where. Straight HEAT

This album is the Funk, The Whole Funk & Nothing But The FUNK. Actually, I think that's another album, but the title fits. Give up the funk is a classic, and definately going on the playlist.

This is some of the coolest shit I’ve ever heard

Funk pinnacle

Best album ever

Grooving to this while drinking my coffee this AM. They’re right, I do indeed want to get funked up. Likes: Mothership Connection; Unfunky UFO; Give Up The Funk

There are a lot of horns and bass in this album. It's a great album and an amazing funk album! Sounds a lot like Curtis Mayfield. Definitely for funk fans and non-funk fans alike. Amazing!

Fucking loved it, so funky ! Will definitely listen to it again

BEAUTIFUL!!!!

The funk on this album is through the roof. P-Funk starts this album off with a bang - the grooves, basslines & upbeat brass melodies are absolutely killer and immediately get your feet tapping. Unfunky UFO follows this up and defies its title with the most funky bassline known to man. The songs that follow do not falter or disappoint either. This is an incredible album, fantastically written & produced into 38 minutes of brilliant energy. It’s just great fun to listen to and I can’t fault it at all.

Wow hold on I was not expecting this, with an artist with under a million monthly listeners in Spotify this album is top tier, why this parliament has a low count for his audience is beyond my understanding because I really enjoyed this

I too find I often need the funk. You should really give it up.

Nope

Holy funk

Five Star Funky

Oh this gonna be a 5…. FUNK

I used to listed to this one regularly. Thanks for reminding me that it had been a while. Great album, but I think everyone already knows that.

Loved it, was strutting around the house

This is pretty damned excellent!

An American classic and a truly pivotal moment in my life when I discovered it

Make my funk the P-Funk. I wants to get funk’d up!

So goofy but so funky. Bootsy kills that shit on bass as always. Definitely on the funk my Rushmore next to James brown and Stevie wonder.

Bring the Fun in Funk.

FUNKy!

This was a really fun and funky album, I really enjoyed it and it was also nice to see where dr Dre sampled let me ride from the title track. Favourite - mothership connection (star child)

Soo good. Thats is all.

This album was a blast to listen to and a total vibe! This album had me hooked from start to finish. I’d only heard a few songs by Parliament before so I had a great time listening to a whole album by them. Overall, this was a great soulful and funky album that I would 100% jam to again in the future!

Yes!

a classic

best sci-fi style in my opinion

It’s a good time, groovy, spacey, this band has a deep reverence for life and they know how to have a good time. This album is a celebration of creativity, rhythm and all things funky baby… what is funk you may ask, it’s connecting to that dark, warm, earthy center deep down in the middle of your belly where poetry lives and dancing naturally springs into existence - flowing into your extremities and out through the crown chakra. Feeling rooted with this album, feeling funky.

Great

it's funky. it's just weird enough. it doesn't overstay its welcome.

What the funk

5 out of 5. Listening to this one was a good way to spend a Saturday! Non-stop party from start to finish.

One of the absolute all time great funk albums. What an amazing band on the top of their game. Some stone cold kick ass bangers

🔥

Intergalactic funk. Need I say more oh ya I should it’s the same band who made flash light so ya.

Fuck yeah. My albums to this point have been good but somewhat down the middle for "stuff music journalists like" This is one of the ultimate loose tight albums. The band is so tight they can just be loose and let it hang.

instantly love this album, it's great

We are all citizens of the universe and the party on the Mothership is for everyone.

Unique. Funky. Such a vibe

Parliament – Mothership Connection (1975) On Day 100, I reached a massive milestone with a true masterpiece. This album is all about good vibes, fun, and a groovy atmosphere that creates a great overall experience. The production is immaculate nd the musicianship is at a high level throughout the entire LP. I couldn't help but notice that the title track was sampled by Dr. Dre for "Let Me Ride," which is one of my favorite tracks from him. Hearing that connection really highlighted the masterclass influence this body of work has had on music history. Between the Great vocals of the choruses and the thick, soulful basslines, this was a perfect discovery. A definitive 5/5.

just the right amount of strange and funky for me. makes me wanna DANCE

Three five stars in a row! Keep it coming baby, funk me up.

Oh yeah, buckle up.

Wait so fun i really connected

This album holds up! I first heard it about 20 years ago and loved it then, and still love it now.

When to listen: want to feel good and groovy. Honestly what a fun album.

Funky fresh

Holy funky, this got me feelin the funk in my junk. Absolutely loved the concept of this album, 1st track was a very obvious stand out to me, I'm not normally a funk fan or at least I don't listen to it often but hell I'd rate it higher than 5 if I could

I think the album is pretty.....unique, maybe a taste I'm not too sure since I'm not quite used to it, since it's very talk-sing, but pretty good.

Unbelievably funky album. Can't believe how much I enjoyed this. Highlight: Give Up the Funk

We want the funk!

I’m always amused by how many funk songs are about being funky. It’s the Pokémon of music genres, just saying its name incessantly. These guys absolutely spanked me with this album. So fun, so groovy, so danceable. Bootsy Collins is a BAMF. Not to mention the incredible impact this record had on rock, hip hop, pop, and Afrofuturism. I listened twice, with glee.

Love love love this album! Love funk for its groove and joy.

P funk in it's popular form

Perfection

I love funk

Love it.

Damn,this is the good stuff. Parliament had a run of 4 albums starting at Chocolate City and ending with Funkentelechy where everything they put our was perfect. This album was smack in the middle of that. While I may prefer Funkadelic's Maggot Brain as George Clinton's most perfect album, this right here is the good stuff. Some of the best funk ever put to record.

I’ve heard this before many, many times and I own it. So, Parliament and Funkadelic had started putting together the whole p-funk mythology for a few albums before this, especially with Chocolate City, but this is the first real deep dive into the space themes and characters that came to define their aesthetic and every other p-funk spinoff going forward, and also when George Clinton started using the word “funk” in the same way the smurfs use the word “smurf”. Also it’s a kickass party record. Every single is a classic p-funk afronaut banger and you can’t help but dance your ass off listening to this shit. Without even considering the mythology it kicked off it’s an amazing record by itself, and it only grows more amazing when you consider what it inspired both in the p-funk universe and music in general.

George Clinton é zica!!

Funky, loose concept doesn't help or hurt my enjoyment, great driving album! Another great discovery!

Funk-y. Groove-y. Would make a fantastic live jam sesh.

I want to get funked up

Holy funk that was funklicious

Great funky funk

Funk is my fuel

the best late night comfort soundtrack food for the dark night of the soul...

great album

mtomtomto groovy. amei

Me sorprendió, muy bien :)

Absolute banger. Sampled by dre, warren g, kool & gang, etc.

Awesome funky journey

fucking awesome

All time classic album no skips no breaks incredibly influential and fun

No podes tener este álbum debut, temazo tras temazo

The funkiest

descubrí a bootsy y todo el universo p-funk 🛸

Bring me all the funk you have. Wait, wait. I worry what you just heard was "bring me a lot of funk". What I said was "Bring me all the funk you have". Physically impossible to not tap your foot or bop your head along to this, completely independent of whether you're a fan of funk or not.

omg wow. groovy

Not really my shit, but can't hate the catchy beat

i love the funky and somewhat jazzy groove on this recordc

i mean like come on it’s a fucking classic

Thank you Parliament I'm feeling sufficiently funked up now

it re MOVES you

Rejoice! For we are delivered (except for that poor handcuffed lady). Put a dip in your hip and a slide in your glide… Did human beings make this?

Super Dope

God I just wanna be in a cosmic roller rink so bad.

I let the vibes flow through and I was healed!! Praise Parliament! 🙌🙌

This was such a fun listen. Got me all funked up for sure.

Hell yeah, not the first time I've listened to this one and won't be the last. I'm a sucker for anything that bounces. Makes me want to dust off the bass in my closet and make another attempt at learning how to play. I think Bootsy Collins might be my favorite bassist of all time (with a possible exception of Kool from Kool and the gang). Great cover art on this one too. Saw it at Orange Records recently and seriously considered buying, but got Metallica's "Kill 'em All" instead.

what the hell, sure

froggy 👍🐸🐸，gently deep , space 👽🛸

it was VERY funky and nice :]

I’d be wrong to not give this album a 5. It’s peak funk.

Really funky,loved every track,definitely will listen to again really good

This in the middle of a stretch of nearly perfect P Funk albums in the 70's. This is not my very favorite of them, but it is outstanding and might be the most widely accessable.

I might be exaggerating, but this is the coolest shit of all time.

Knee deep funk

Legendary group and album The quality of the funk is so consistently high, and they come across as if it’s the easiest thing in the world for them, that it feels like someone just happened to turn the mic on for a few minutes at a time, and they just lived that way all day. Unreserved and unapologetically fun and funky. 6/5 stars for me. Absolutely awesome.

Great album if you're into Funk, it's not exactly my favourite genre, but I enjoyed listening to it nonetheless.

Whenever I listen to Parliament it makes me think of my friend who introduced them to me at the perfect time in my music journey. I'd been diving deep into an obsession with RHCP, which surprisingly led me to many other better bands and genres. I remember seeing this album at a record shop, buying it, and deciding to give it to that friend for his birthday thinking I'd find another copy. I still haven't but don't regret it.

this album is legendary, and for good reason. even as someone who leans more rock and metal, i understand how significant this album is and how it informed black music for generations to come/lay the foundation for so much music in the 20th and 21st century. it is other worldly.

FUNky with a capital FUN, this album is so enjoyable, listened to it twice through dancing around doing my chores. Perfect for a Friday morning.

Iconic and infinitely listenable. Head bobbing grooves to make your soul dance

nice and funky

another of the 1001 albums i don’t have to listen to in order to rate. but i listened to it with no complaints. the album not only injected west coast, 90s rap with samples, but is just stunning and perfect on its own

pff! This is one of those albums that make the whole effort of going through this list worth it :) So cool to get to know where the essence of the G-Funk comes from

God damn is this funky as hell. I've gotten a lot more into funk recently so it was lovely hearing this beast of an album. What a joy

Absolutely brilliant. Bass and drums in particular are absolutely inspired. And then you have some great vocal hooks and super brass riffs to tie it all together. Brilliant!

I don't think I can write a better review of this album than the hook on the first song. Make my funk the P. Funk I want my funk uncut Make my funk the P. Funk I wants to get funked up I want the bomb I want the P.Funk I want my funk uncut Make my funk the P. Funk I wants to get funked up

This album is a masterpiece, every song is bumpin’. I have listened to it many times before, but I listened again to make sure every song is fun and fits the album, and honestly the entire album is great.

Funky

Make my funk the P. Funk

Great upbeat funk album. I had heard many of the songs, but never listened to it as a whole. Reminds me of several iconic party songs. 2 songs added to playlist and there was only 7 songs.

Iconic fucking album!!!! Now eagerly waiting to see if George Clinton's other genius freaky funky album baby Maggot Brain makes the list too. LONG LIVE P-FUNKKKK

What’s not to love? Funky groovy made my head bop

P-funk, uncut funk, the bomb. This is a certified classic.

10/10! would recommend to everyone know like funk

Instant party when this album comes on. Every track is groovy, fun, a little goofy, and sonically adventurous. I loved it start to finish.

Jesus, the funk! 5/5

Say some gangster is dissin your fly girl, just give him one of these

Such a banger! I’ve been listening to this album since I was a kid. It makes me shake my thang!

Probably the Parliament/Funkadelic record I was most familiar with before entering this list, and it didn't disappoint on this re-listen. I know Dr. Dre's The Chronic interpolates this album a lot, which is why I checked it out way back in the day, but that aside, this record still maintains that funky, funny, over-the-top, and chaotic energy that's present in so many of Funkadelic's other records. Be it the relentlessly slow and chill opener 'P-Funk', which quite literally feels like floating around in the vast emptiness of space, or 'Unfunky UFO', which goes in the opposite direction, with these satisfying vocal inflections, explosive horn section, and incredible backing vocals singing that sticky lead melody. I'd go as far as to say that this is one of the greatest funk songs of all time. 'Supergroovalisticprofisfunkstication' is another one of these jammier songs that feels like taking a pitstop at some bar space station fusion, and the higher-pitched synth here is 100% the influence for the iconic West Coast whistle. The song 'Give Up The Funk' is another incredibly catchy track, with easily the fattest and sexiest Bootsy bassline on the whole album. No need to keep yapping about how genius these guys are; they just are, and they have undoubtedly made some of the best music to ever grace this otherwise miserable planet. So. Good. Every. Time

FUNK

okay YES - this was such a great listen! I've always loved Give Up the Funk, but this was like expanding that feeling to a full album. A new favourite.

off the cuff, i am so into by these names i quite enjoy when artists do the radio station bit for an album it’s the law around here that you got to wear your sunglasses so you can feel cool -- this is so sib really grooving w this one, i like the beats and how the instruments come together, saved i think every song lol another sitch where i had rly only heard give up the funk from this album, glad to know the album behind the song the songs r a bit longer than what i usually reach for, but i cld def see myself throwing this album on as a whole

Favorite track(s): it's all the nastiest funk in the universe, only on WEFUNK Heard before Previous rating: 10/10

My groove meter broke listening to this funk-tastic album!

Loved it! So many good tracks, no skips. Lots of more modern artists reference this style a lot. Lots of samples and references to this album. Got my bell bottoms and platform shoes on for this.

Damn that's funky.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Very cool.

Now this is what we should all be doing. Beam me up

HOT AF love some funk and closing the album with some fart sounds is actually the funniest thing I’ve heard all day no lie, great funk classic a wonderful listen not one song that I disliked 5/5!!

the funk!

We want the funk and we got the funk.

I was already familiar with the album, and most songs but thoroughly enjoyed the funk here. Could dance to this all day.

Stink, stank, funk! Raw and unfiltered. Great the whole way through although I do feel like every song was about 45 seconds too long. Fart machine finale was chefs kiss. Funk outta 5

So up my alley you’d think it’s a dumpster but this album is anything but garbage. Quintessential funk that makes my face look like I just smelled a dry-aged fart the entire listen. God I love P-funk. I will say, 40% of this album is derivative of other songs on the album, however that to me is a positive. I can’t think of a better funk album so it gets my 5. Wish I could rate to the first decimal cuz it would def get like a 4.6 not a 5.0 but maybe I’ll just start putting the decimal in my descriptions. Anyways Godddd it’s so glorpy 😩

turns out i was tryna get funked up. 5 stars.

I didn’t know all of the other great songs on this album, so glad I listened the full way through (twice and back)!

One of the most influential albums I have ever listened to. Long story short, my parents raised me to enjoy all sorts of music, mainly folk/folk rock, along with a good chunk of straight up rock music. My first introduction to any sort of funk was Stevie Wonder's masterpiece Songs In The Key of Life. I liked that album a lot but never really followed up on the funkiness of that album until I got older. Fast forward to my junior year in high school and I hear Parliament for the first time...specifically, this album. I had been introduced to them from Digital Underground's amazing Sex Packets album, and from various sampling in rap music at the time. This album changed the game, made funk mainstream, and anyone who says it sucks obviously doesn't "get it". 5/5

loved it. super funky and great to listen to in the car!!!

Awesome album! So funky. I'm smiling so hard :)

Just heard this for the first time, and it's easily a 5. This for sure feels like an album everyone should hear. How can you hear this and not feel happy?!

I want my funk pure and uncut! Legit though, why is it required that every other word be funk?

such a vibe i loved it it and made walking fun. added a bit of funky groove to my steps

FUNKY - I see why Ol' Greg loves Parliament

Make my funk the P-Funk, I wants to get funked up. Thank you George Clinton & Bootsy Collins. Unfunky UFO may be one of the best tracks out there.

Top tier funk album

Listened to this on the 50th anniversary. Pretty cool. Felt like a bunch of salesmen were trying to sell me funk. I'm sold. Those bass lines and vibes were amazing.

So funky. So good. This record is huge. I just love it. It had me the first couple of times I listened through for just good time funk and fun lyrics and themes.. But it's actually quite experimental and interesting sounding in parts and has some incredibly carefully constructed musical themes. It just all feels so good

Groovy!

Now this is an all timer. This album is funky, has phenomenal flow and is one of the shortest 38 minutes an album has been but this is one of those albums I actually wish was a bit longer, hell almost all of the songs could be a minute longer and I'd have no complaints. Whole not the best in their discography this is absolutely an album justified in it's placement on this list and the 5 stars I'm giving it. I've heard this album before due to its fame and I absolutely loved it before and I still love it now. This is a rare one where I just have no notes. When you first look up "funk" you're guaranteed to run into this album not just because it's described as above as paced and performed beautifully but it's incredibly palatable and digestible. I don't have much to elaborate on this album, if it were Maggot Brain I'd sing its praised more but this album is undoubtably a fantastic album. Best songs: P-Funk/Give Up The Funk Worst song: N/A Rank compared to everything else so far: 7/18 (Below Tracy Chapman, above LA Woman)

funk maxing

Ga ga goo ga 5/5

Very funky! I can see why it's here. Enjoyable throughout.

Super fun funk

Loved this for a long time...

Outstanding album.

Love this album

A genuine classic!!

Oooooo the funk comes from within. More please!

Bootsy Collins, what a legend.

Nice!

AAAAAAH ENFIN!!! C’EST TELLEMENT FUNKY QUE MON FUNKOMÈTRE A EXPLOSÉ 26 FOIS DEPUIS JE ME SUIS DÉFENESTRÉ À FORCE DE SAUTER CONTRE LES MURS!!!

Such great tunes, 38 minutes of funk I will listen to on repeat.

I would never have come across this album without this project. The cover alone would have put me off. A great album, which I heard for the first time today. Rarely have I heard anything so funky. It's going into my collection. 5/5

P-funk is life. This was such a good time! 4,5/5

Anything with George Clinton's name in it, is an automatic 5 stars.

Perfect album

Ended just in time. A good album without filler. Funky.

ooooo yeah!

Incredible funk!

Fun album, couple of well known tracks. Thumpasarus is a great finishing track. Quick to listen to at 38 minutes.

The funkiest album on this list. Don’t let anyone say otherwise.

Theres no better

A total jam. Maybe their best record. Deep grooves, amazing musicianship, and crazy as ever. Chocolate coated, freaky and and habit forming. Doin' it to you in 3-D. So groovy that I dig me

Noch nicht zuende gehört aber mega geil!!

WEFUNK

I actually loved this. A real vibe

The album was interesting. Funk. I only heard one song from them before. In all, I listened to it at home, danced a bit to the music, and listened to it while I was commuting to work. 5 stars

Is there funk after death? I sure hope so! 4.5/5 #208