America Eats its Young |
Cosmic Slop |
Free Your Mind and Your Ass will Follow |
Funkadelic
This album starts off with some absolutely
stomach turning sounds of stereo chewing. I hate that sound.
And then some hep cat comes on and says, “If you will suck my
soul, I will lick your funky emotions.” Heady, right? This is
some spaced out crap – nine minutes worth. But then track two
takes a more straightforward tack, with like real, even straight
forward late sixties, early seventies funk soul song structure.
Granted there are some trippy, echo-filled breakdowns, but at
least you get the sense you’re listening to something thought
through. And then you have some fast and some slow and some
stoned out funk 'n' roll, including some very recognizable music
sampled throughout the eighties by rap groups near and far.
This is music for folks with afros and their white hangers on
who thought it was cool to crash Black Panther parties to show
how liberal-minded they were. The album is a bit skimpy at only
seven tracks, but it gives you a good window into the band and
group of musicians who would create albums full of high school
stoner music for dumb white kids during the Reagan era. |
Maggot Brain
There is officially not a better stoner album
on earth. If I were a guy who did whip-its and smoked some weed
in high school, I probably would have listened to Maggot
Brain more than a couple times. If I were a guy who was
forced by his friends to watch The
Wall on repeat and sit staring at a ceiling while an incredible
ten-minute guitar solo that literally makes the walls melt.
The rest of the album's six tracks are all blues, gospel and
soul, and stoney-ness. To think that people's minds weren't
blown in 1971 when this thing came out is amazing to me, but
I certainly know that it made 1989 an interesting year.
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Musical Connections:
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Bootsy Collins
Parliament
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