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Track Listings
1 | P?Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up) |
2 | Mothership Connection (Star Child) |
3 | Unfunky Ufo |
4 | Supergroovalisticprosifunkstication (The Bumps Bump) |
5 | Handcuffs |
6 | Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker) |
7 | Night of the Thumpasorus Peoples |
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Mothership Connection is the fourth album by American funk band Parliament. Mothership Connection became Parliament's first album to be certified gold and later platinum. The Library of Congress added the album to the National Recording Registry in 2011, declaring "The album has had an enormous influence on jazz, rock and dance music." Continuing with its Respect The Classics campaign UMe will be reissuing this classic back on vinyl with a limited edition 3D cover that's mind blowing!
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Product Dimensions : 12 x 12.6 x 1 inches; 8 ounces
- Manufacturer : Mercury
- Original Release Date : 2015
- Date First Available : May 26, 2015
- Label : Mercury
- ASIN : B00YAWJ1VI
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #13,621 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #782 in R&B (CDs & Vinyl)
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1. The three megahit classic songs ("P. Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up)", "Mothership Connection (Star Child)", and of course the album-defining "Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)").
2. The song that SHOULD HAVE been a megahit classic, but for some reason wasn't: "Unfunky UFO". To my ears this song is just as great as the above three songs! That bassline! That chorus! Those horns! This is one of those songs I can't believe is so underrated! Dr. Dre really missed out because he should have sampled this one big time. The good news is that George has not forgotten it! I saw George and his new P-Funk lineup in concert about a year ago and they played "Unfunky UFO" live! They turned it into a 10-minute jam! How cool is that?
3. The remaining 3 songs, "Supergroovalisticprosifunkstication", "Handcuffs", "Night of the Thumpasorus Peoples" are still very good and funky as hell despite being non-hit deep cuts. You can't really call any of these filler without being told that you are crazy. This is an all-killer-no-filler funk album, and this is what gives it the edge over most other funk albums (unfortunately, many 70's funk albums were plagued with filler tracks). That said, however, I don't think these three songs are quite as perfect as the other four. "Supergroove..." and Thumpasarous Peoples" bring the funk HARD, but are lyrically very, very simple, which makes the vocals on both songs seem a bit repetitive. Fear not, because this flaw is compensated for by Bernie's amazing keyboard playing on both tracks, along with some poppin' bass playing by Bootsy Collins and the underrated Boogie Mosson (the two split bass duties throughout the album, and while Bootsy is by far the more famed and beloved bassist, Boogie is so good here that I can't tell them apart!). "Supergroove..." also features the best guitar playing on the album, which isn't much considering they saved most of their guitar energy for Funkadelic albums, but there you have it.
"Handcuffs" is a catchy song which other reviewers sometimes call a "ballad", but this song is too funky and fierce for me to consider it one. Glenn Goins delivers a killer vocal performance here, but let's just say that people who take the lyrics too seriously may find them chauvinistic. The horns, bass, vocal arrangements and drums are all impressive on this song, but musically it is the simplest and down-to-earth track on the album, and in my opinion the least impressive of the seven songs. It is still a powerful little funk song and would be a highlight on any lesser funk album. The Ohio Players would've killed to have a song like this. If THIS is the weakest track on an album, then it must be one hell of an album!
The combination of killer, game-changing funk hits and the overall great album consistency together make Mothership the beloved funk masterpiece that it is. If you wondered why everyone loves this album so darn much, that's why. This album can't be overrated if there's nothing else that's more cutting edge and consistently funky than it.
Much of the success of this album and all subsequent LP's can be owed to James Brown. Besides the members of the band, George especially, being huge fans, William "Bootsy" Collins had come from JB's backing band a few years earlier. Mothership Connection was the first album by either Parliament or Funkadelic to include Maceo Parker and Fred Wesley, who had left The J.B.'s, James Brown's backing band as well. They all brought that classic "on the one" beat and rhythm that James used to wow crowds all over the world.
Parliament & Funkdelic would both take that type of musical formula to incredible levels and produce some of the most gut bucket, down home, nasty Funk to ever be put down on wax. Mothership Connection was their first truly "crossover" album and became platinium selling smash hit. So important was this singular work on the land scape of music across genre's that the Library of Congress added the album to the National Recording Registry in 2011 , declaring "the album has had enormus influence on jazz, rock and dance music."
Mighty high, fine and completely appropriate praise for this game changing LP, as George would later say when describing the making of the album, "We had put black people in situations nobody ever thought they would be in, like the White House. I figured another place you wouldn't think black people would be was in outer space." Mr. Clinton, you took us to the White House, Outter Space, and to Other Realms beyond description and I would like to personally thank you for the ride!
Another reason I'd probably pick these 2 over anything else, is there are multiple great songs as opposed to just one big hit, like many other Clinton albums.
-P-Funk
-Dr. Funkenstein
-Tear the roof off the Sucker
-I've Been Watching You
-Mothership Connection
...and more that are great songs in their own right.
Again, I feel these are Mr. Clinton's "Best Albums" meaning s collection of great compositions.
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