Date: 1970
Release: WESTBOUND
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One of the few instances where a band’s name totally describes its sound. With their 1970 self-titled debut album, we hear the raw funk rhythms of the Meters collide with the psychedelic soul sounds of Jimi Hendrix, giving rise to the musical revolution that was Funkadelic. A raw and nasty musical manifesto loudly expressing the madness of King George Clinton, founding father to the “extraterrestrial brothers” of Funkadelic and Parliament. This album is designed to answer the one burning question it asks in the title of the first track: “Mommy, What’s a Funkadelic?” Definitive bits of Clinton’s strange take on the universe are to be found throughout this hard-grooving acid-trip of an album, such as “soul is a joint rolled in toilet paper,” and “I got a thing / you got a thing / everybody’s got a thing.”
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