Mothership Connection

such an incredibly creative and enjoyable album, and to think i didn't much care for it when i first listened about half a year ago (as of writing) .. definitely a classic funk masterpiece. i have no criticisms for this record at all except that it can be a very small bit too repetitive at times, but even that element can result in some exceptional payoffs, like in the first track.

Get your funk out tonite. This one is groovin n jamming with other worldly sounds.

3.5* Can appreciate how seminal this is! I think it's just hard to rate much higher knowing that albums like "Maggot Brain" exists within the same world.

Funky

Grosse influence apparente sur tous les album funk que j'ai écouté. The Brooks par exemple. Très Sly & Family Stone aussi. On sent l'époque dans leur style. Un gros bop!

Fik virkeligt snakket det op over for Reimer. Meget modvilligt må jeg nok erkende, at det i dag ikke fanger mig på helt samme måde, som jeg erindrer at det tidligere har gjort. Stadig fedt tho.

Det er, imho, næsten altid sådan med funk, at du kan skrælle halvdelen af indholdet fra, og så ville det færdige produkt være så meget bedre. Tag bare første nummer: 7 min 41 sekunder. Halvdelen af tiden føles som det som om, de skal opfylde en kvote, og albummet varer alligevel kun 38 minutter. Jeg forstår det ikke, men de fleste af numrene tillader jo ikke rigtigt et dårligt humør. Det bliver jeg så alligevel lidt i sidste nummer, hvor der af en eller anden vanvittig grund er valgt, at der skal være en prutte-synth igennem hele nummeret. Det ødelægger alligevel lidt af oplevelsen 2.8

Kan egentlig meget godt lide det, men er ikke noget, der gør noget specielt for mig

Wha

GOSTEI, COM CERTEZA VOU REVISITAR

George Clinton’s ticks so many boxes, the man’s a genius.

From the delightfully demented mind of George Clinton. If this doesn’t make you wanna shake it, you better check for a pulse. Good smart dumb fun. Great album cover also.

Fav song : Handcuffs

Not normally for me but they caught me in a groovy mood. And Give Up The Funk is a classic.

Ok

P-funk - 2/10 Pågår alldeles för länge och jobbar med den vidriga grejen att nämna funk HELA tiden. Fattas också allt jag gillar med funk? Går ju söligt och rycker inte. Mothership connection - 3/10 Gör inte ett fucking konceptalbum om det ej finns ett koncept! Detta är bara en random man som improviserar någon monolog om INGETING Jaja, körsången var gullig i guess Unfunky UFO - 4/10 Äntligen lite actual funk? Vidrig sång som bara handlar om genren men instrumentalt im chillin Supergroove - 6/10 WAT DA SYNTH DOIN, igen med den vidriga texten om ingeting och jobbig skit. Finns det inget att säga, håll käften Handcuffs - 6/10 Förväntade mig någon jävla politisk antipolislåt men detta är bara knullfunk? Varför vill de japp min mamma:( Give up the funk - 5/10 Det är ju en klassiker men det är bara så JÄVLA ointressant, jag gillar inte funk 😭 Night of the thompasorus peoples - 3/10 Fuck off

Absolutely fantastic. Groovy as fuck from the first note to the last. This is funk with personality, humor, and serious weight behind the rhythm. The whole album moves like a living thing. Bass lines pull hard, the drums stay locked and elastic, and the horns and vocals cut through with real attitude. Nothing feels stiff or overthought. It just hits and keeps hitting. There is a playful, larger-than-life quality running through the record, but the groove never gets sacrificed for the concept. The music stays physical and immediate. The production is thick and clear at the same time. Every part has space while the low end still feels massive. It captures the band in full flight without cleaning the life out of the performances. Mothership Connection is pure pleasure. One of the strongest and most irresistible funk albums ever made. Put it on and it does the rest.

7 - GOOD

P-Funk is secretly a social experiment where George Clinton sees how many times he can say "Funk" without it getting annoying to the audience. Seriously, if you took a shot of your nearest non-alcoholic whatever-the-hell every time they said "Funk" in this album, you'd be 6² feet under by the end of the first song. There are a few good songs throughout, but my brain was pretty numb by the end of it and all of the songs seriously sounded similar by the signoff song, and I surely squandered my stupid synonym Synonymicon to scribe this sentence. Stuff similar to this is how semantic satiation feels, much like the how word "funk" feels to me now.

Yeah we all knew that song was coming Give Up the Funk is far and away the best thing about this album; unbelievably catchy and perhaps the most used funk song of all time for a reason. Vocals are good, and from an instrumental perspective there’s really nothing to be desired. The themings also particularly great on this one, the whole space thing works out really well here. I feel like a lot of the runtime is kinda empty on this one unfortunately. I know they’re building up that atmosphere but none of these songs really feel like they’re supposed to be songs if that makes sense lol. I think with a couple of other standalone tracks this would be a much better album I like the other P Funk album we had a lot better, I think the heavier rock influence made it feel like a more complete project. Don’t get me wrong though, will still absolutely blast Give Up the Funk, but in single form rather than as a part of an album

Presenting your funk as so powerful it's widespread across the galaxy is one of the most compelling arguments I heard from an album.

A funking masterpiece

Give Up the Funk is a certified classic banger. The others, I didn’t care for.

Funky

Ew

very fun, last 3 tracks are the best

Was not expecting the cool jazzy interlude on the opener. Very nice. The inclusion of the horns and the unconventional sound/instrument effects really does elevate the album. Very interesting listen. Solid 4. Mighta' been a 5 but Handcuffs was just too fucked up for me. It benefits from being self aware but ... still too fucked up, thx. Fun album, otherwise. Very creative.

Феномен старого будущего, 100% ретро и это не комплимен, но обложка ничего

Very cool

Nice album. Funky and funny

Adding this album to the cooking playlist IMMEDIATELY

Funk, a little less energetic than I'd hoped

If you didn’t know how to dance, you do now.

Ummm what a start 😭 it’s definitely a vibe

Even I felt cool for 40 glorious minutes listening to this album. It’s so evocative, you can see the music, you feel like you are there. It’s influence is enormous (and enormous may undersell it).

I’ve heard plenty of this before, but I never listened to it in its entirety. I’m delighted by the conceptual framework of an alien broadcast. I felt the funk take me over. It worked. I love that I listened to The Chronic before this. So much of this is in there.

Not my usual style, but it met me on the right day

funky

funky euh

Really enjoyed this. Sooo funky. Equally groovy.

Funkrific. Good to listen to while cooking or something like that. 4.5

Olipa hyvvää! En oo kauheesti kuunnellu funkkia, mut tässä oli tuttujakin biisejä. Todella kova groove ja ihanan hyväntuulista musaa muutenkin. Hassuttelua on just sen ettei mee ihan läpäksi vaan pysyy oikeinkin vakavastiotettavana. Also rakastan tän levynkannen retrofuturistista meininkiän

Äh, jotenki huonoa levyä pahempi on tavallaa levy josta tulee eka sellanen olo että tää voi olla tosi hyvä, mutta sit ei ookkaa :D Oisin kaivannu enemmän laulua, vähemmän puhetta ja huutelua. Myös jotenki jännästi vaikka tää on tosi rentoa ja menevää, nii silti tää ei tuntunu silleen kivan tarttuvalta, vaa jotenki vähä raskaalta kuunnella.

Jostain syystä odotin tyyliin jotain kasariheviä, niin aika mojova ylläri kun P-Funk lähti soimaan :D Lopulta jäi kuitenkin pettymykseksi kun tuntui jotenkin vähän laiskalta eikä groovannut yhtään niin kovaa kuin ois voinu. Vähän myös hassuttelut ja höpsöttelyt lähinnä ärsytti. Mut eittämättä merkittävä levy, jota samplattu ainakin Dr. Dren tuotantoon ja uudelleenlämmittelyllä funkkas jo vähän paremmin ni nous pisteetkin lopulta!

Hyvä meininki, mut vähän jäi taustalle. Ei oikein hirveesti sanottavaa.

Some real classic funk

Not for me

I feel violated. 10/10.

I’m not a fan of parliament

3.5

Top groovy for my taste...

Het blijft funk…

It's alright. I haven't listened to much funk but I'm pretty sure this is not the best Parliament album.

Quite possibly the funkiest album ever recorded. The zenith of interplanetary funksmanship. I'd call it a manifesto but it's much too transcendent for such mundane terrestrial matters.

Buen ritmo, disco Funk

Funky Fun Friday Jams! This album is nearly perfect. Great!

BEWARE THE FUNK

I think they might want the funk

3.5

It’s a bunch of a novelty songs with great music.

Listen carefully, children. This album contains the scritchy-scratchings of hip-hop, just trying to crack open that egg and having the best time doing it. If you can't move to this then you better take yourself home and tuck yourself in.

EPETACULA

Just amazed at how much these guys continue to shape our idea of what's cool.

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?

Fantastisk funk!

Alltid kul med funk, men inget som riktigt stod ut under en första lyssning den här gången.

Fan vad funky. Nosar på fyra.

Solid groovy piece of music

Funk isn’t really me genre but felt like the musicianship was good. Music was fun and catchy

A lot of funky fun.

This one funked me all the way up

Incredibly funky afrofuturism

Vibes of proportions unknown before

It's funk. Like that's all it is, you imagine a funk song? This is what it sounds like

some absolute bangers on here - some of the songs are overly long though

Gets a bit silly in places, but probably defining p funk album

Wird but I enjoyed this

This is unusual and funky. I like it

Todays pick presents me one of P Funks main defining records. Probably the number one from the Parliament side. I don't know if any album on earth delivers as much funk as the mothership I certainly don't know any. The music is irresistibly uplifting there is no escape and it leaves you in a good mood every time. A lot of highclass musicians work together under the genius lead of George Clinton (as in every other P Funk record). The basslines are straight out of funk space they are incredibly fun and catchy and build the perfect base for the Mothership Connection. Also great horns they really do this album good and take big part in why I like it. Two of the horn players came over from the JBs which means they played with James Brown as well as Bootsy Collins the bassplayer who also was a former musician with Mr Brown so you know they are more than just good at what they do. Too many musicians take part to give them all individual credits but they did a great job without exceptions. The whole mothership theme of the album opened a lot of doors especially for future live performances of the P Funk collective so it was influential for the collective as well as for funk, hip hop etc. on the music side. Very important and influential piece of music without a doubt and on the list for good reason. 4,0/5

I'm not a funk fan, but the album is tremendous fun. Every song is a party. Groovy jams.

Mega funky, mega cool, not entirely my kind of thing but really enjoyable listen. 3.5/5.

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

Never heard of this before but the cover looks cool. Pretty fun album with a cool sound doubt i’ll come back to it though.

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.

Could’ve been a five , but that handcuff song didn’t sit right with me.

Classic funk at its best!

Loved this. Nice change of pace.

didnt rlly concentrate on specific songs but funk is funk and i like funk very groovy

Amazing funk macfunkface!

Funky goodness.

It's funk. It's upbeat and slightly motivational.

Finally something good, was fun!

Funky!

never reaches the heights of the intro song but damn this album makes me smile

A lovely hunk of mid 70’s funk! 4

Best Track - "Give Up The Funk"

Some serious 70s funk.

Loved it

Not my fav p-funk album but still some jams on here