100 Reasons Parliament funkin' R00L!

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ILM Challenge - see if we can hit the big 10X10 and quit it.

― Keiko, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

1-5. Bootsy

― Keiko, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

6. Bootsy's cool-ass glasses

― Keiko, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

7. "Flashlight" is (supposedly) the first funk track to use a synth for its bass-line, thereby changing just about everything.

― Michael Daddino, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

8. George Clinton is Bill Clinton's long-lost brother.

― Sean Carruthers, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sir Lollipop Man, alias "the Long-Haired Sucka!"

― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

10) 'Swing down, sweet chariot stop and...let, me riiiiiiide...'

11) No one made four on the floor swing so hard.

― Jordan, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

12. Bernie Worrell on "Not Just Knee Deep" = as good a reason to be alive and blessed with the ability to hear that as anything else.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Bah, that was Funkadelic, wasn't it? Can't we just say the whole dang Mothership shebang rather than part of it? ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, all p-funk is fair game.

13. The Best Whistle Solo Ever in "I Just Got Back"

― Keiko, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Okay, now we're talking!

14. Osmium -- one of the greatest albums nobody has ever heard (well, that might be a lie).

15. Eddie Hazel's guitar on "Maggot Brain" -- yeah, a rockist claim, but I'd rather here that than most Hendrix, say, any day of the damn year.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(rather 'hear' that, but maybe both work)

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

16. The fact that the drums-only breakdown of "The Goose" is actually more interesting than the song itself.

17. The song itself ain't too damn shabby either.

18. Resurrecting Sly Stone for "Funk Gets Stronger" off The Electric Spanking of War Babies, though not so much for the tour Sly & George Clinton spent coked out of their heads.

19. The first minute of "Funkentelechy"--the way everything just comes in at the top, then the horns pick up, and Clinton's "Yo-HOOOO!"

― M Matos, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

hot chocolate city !

― mike bott, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

21) Their pilots have such mad skillz they can parallel park their mothership in only one fluid motion.
22) Dr Funkensteins lab Has its own atomic jacuzzi

― Lord Custos IV, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

23. even in conks and matching sharkskin suits in their early straight-up R&B incarnation The Parliaments they were still pretty freaky.

― Polar Bear, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

24. Pedro Bell and his magically pyschotic covers.

― Michael Daddino, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

25. The story in the liner notes to Hardcore Jollies -- "Caution, barbarian! Your noxic numbshell intentions of inviolations hath beenst long perceived and thusly, my forbidden membranes are wholly defensive against your scabulus illusions!" George Herriman would have been proud.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

26) No need for the enema squad.

― Lord Custos IV, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

cool afro-futurism that was inspired by sun ra, but not droolingly imitative of said.

― mike bott, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

27) The actual Mothership itself, landing on stage: unspeakably cool.

― Douglas, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

28) http://www.drfunkenstein.c om/

― bnw, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

28?) "Automobile" is simultaneously funnier and creepier than NWA's remake - even without the cursing!
29?)The drumming in 'Cosmic Slop
30?)Eddie Hazel mistaking an airline stewardess for a Martian invader
31?)Brother Malachi of the Process Church of Final Judgement
32?)Gogga googa, gogga googa!

― dave q, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

virtuoso siffleur hired for up for the down stroke

― mark s, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

35 - 4 hour PFunk Allstars gig last year 36 - the endless stream of women being brought out from backstage to dance 37 - one nation under a groove 38 - the rumour that they have their own mobile crack lab on tour 39 - maggot brain 40 - a fat guy in his mid 50's in a moomoo getting everyone to chant "Fuck that shit". 41 - children of production

― Winkelmann, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

42) Knew just what prince single to cover.

― Sterling Clover, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

43) Those harmonies! Where did they come from? I'll never forget the first time I heard them, my jaw just hit the floor.

― Sean, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

of course the parliaments are bettah

― mark s, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

44.) "Shit, goddamn, get off your ass and jam!"

45.) "Mother Earth is pregnant for the third time, for y'all have knocked her up. I have tasted the maggots in the mind of the universe and I was not offended, because I knew I had to rise above it all or drown in my own shit."

― earlnash, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

46) I can't think of many other bands who could start 2.5 hours late and have a packed house stand there waiting for them, and then keep them there until 2 am.

47) Ramon "Tiki" Fulwood

― Jordan, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

shares name with revolutionary era NY governor = comic gold

― Josh, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

45 + 15 = 39 therefore it has to go --> new 39:

http://www.concertshots.com/images/cs-Outkast1-Atlanta71101.JPG

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

48. Diaper-wearing onstage

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

49. Dope Dogs, from 1998, is pretty great, believe it or not.

50. Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome = best concept album EVAH.

51. More record deals with more record labels at one time than anybody else evah, I think--though maybe Wu-Tang or Aphex Twin will prove me wrong.

― M Matos, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

52. "All that is good is nasty, and ain't nothing good unless you play with it." 53. The "George dressed as a cowboy riding a dolphin with a boombox on his shoulder" photo from "Motorbooty Affair" 54. "Think: It Ain't Illegal Yet" 55. Gary Shider flying over the crowd a la Peter Pan on the "Bop Gun." 56. GC stepping out of a giant cadillac that rolls up *on-stage* at a Dallas P-Funk show in 1978. 57. Eddie Hazel continuing to tour after being diagnosed with liver cancer (against doctor's orders) right up until his death. 58. Thank the P for Dr. Dre, Snoop, Digital Underground, Outkast, too many others to mention...

― Shaky Mo Collier, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

60. GC coming out onstage completely naked in D.C. once

― M Matos, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

61. He probably really does call his baby "Pussycat".

― Keiko, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

62) Making bathrobes and ballerina dresses funky as stagewear.

― Jordan, Saturday, 13 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

63. "The First Lady: Miss Aretha Franklin" 64. quote from the Process Chruch on Maggotbrain. Scar-ey!

― Andrew, Sunday, 14 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

nine months pass...

Dang. This thread never got to 100?

Just been on a P-Funk bender, so I'll add a couple more and give them the dignity of going past the 2/3rds mark.

65. the crunchy, farting bass rumbles on the last few minutes of "One Nation Under a Groove."

66. same album: the extraordinarily scatalogical runny keyboard squiggles that punctuate "P.E. Enema Squad"

67. "E-I-E-DiscoToGo!"

68. the total labyrinth-of-sonic-collage over jams like "Ride On"

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 3 May 2003 00:32 (twenty-three years ago)

69: The organ on "You Hit the Nail on the Head"

(between the number, the song title and the usage of the term "organ", [VERY DIRTY REMARK DELETED])

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Saturday, 3 May 2003 00:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Leaving aside the fact that several of the above refer to Funkadelic not Parliament:

70. "Mothership Connection" - THE greatest funk album of all time

71. "Let me take my sunglasses off, so I can see what I'm doin'"

72. The cover of "The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein"

73. The cover of "Trombipulation"

74. The bass playing of Rodney 'Skeet' Curtis - so often consfused with that of Bootsy.

75. The lyric of "Chocolate City", the music of "Chocolate City", in fact "Chocolate City" in general

76. The iron-on T-shirt transfer given away with "Live/P. Funk Earth Tour" - which says "Take Funk to Heaven in '77" - and which amazingly I managed to find in Glasgow about 20 years after the album's origianl release.

... too many others, 1000 Reasons Parliament funkin' R00L! would be nearer the mark

― Dadaismus (Dada), Saturday, 3 May 2003 15:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Leaving aside the fact that several of the above refer to Funkadelic not Parliament:

We decided upthread all of P-Funk was eligible. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 3 May 2003 16:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh well then, everyone must own:

77. "Never Buy Texas From a Cowboy" by Brides of Funkenstein (the song not necessarily the album)

― Dadaismus (Dada), Saturday, 3 May 2003 16:25 (twenty-three years ago)

78. "Getting To Know You" (best underappreciated Parliament song candidate.)
79. Eddie Hazel's version of "California Dreaming"

― M Specktor (M Specktor), Saturday, 3 May 2003 17:06 (twenty-three years ago)

80. The poster of Clinton that came with P-Funk Live (huge architectural fuzzy thing surround him which seems to be part of his clothing)

81. Parlet's "Huff 'n' Puff," best P-Funk spinoff tune.

82. Tiki's right foot.

― Sasha Frere-Jones (Sasha Frere-Jones), Saturday, 3 May 2003 17:33 (twenty-three years ago)

whoops:

83. "Hydraulic Pump" from the P-Funk All-Stars' album, Urban Dancefloor Guerrillas.

― Sasha Frere-Jones (Sasha Frere-Jones), Saturday, 3 May 2003 17:35 (twenty-three years ago)

84. They started life as a barber shop quartet!! A barber shop quartet!!!

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Saturday, 3 May 2003 20:44 (twenty-three years ago)

85. trying to have a conversation with Billy Bass in 2003 = classic!

― chaki (chaki), Saturday, 3 May 2003 21:02 (twenty-three years ago)

86. Mutiny - Mutiny On The Mamaship. Jerome Brailey leaves Funkadelic due to 'money troubles' and promptly makes an album that actually does sound like classic mid period funkadelic.

― Franklin Ambrose (Franklin Ambrose), Sunday, 4 May 2003 04:00 (twenty-three years ago)

87. if p-funks eleigible then "Munchies for your love".

― gaz (gaz), Sunday, 4 May 2003 04:22 (twenty-three years ago)

88. The P-Funk scene in the IMAX movie All Access with Mary J. Blige. GC, Bootsy, etc 50-ft-tall=AWESOME.

― adam (adam), Sunday, 4 May 2003 05:09 (twenty-three years ago)

89. the P-Funk T-shirt that I have that's nothing but a picture of Sir Nose D'Voidoffunk and his huge nose

― Evan (Evan), Sunday, 4 May 2003 06:55 (twenty-three years ago)

90. the trax on the Mutiny album (Jerome Bigfoot Brailey's fuck-you to GC's biz practices but not, happily, music) that are on the forthcoming P-Funk side-projects comp on Columbia/Legacy sound GRATE

91. as does the comp

92. "Vanish in Our Sleep"

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 5 May 2003 06:02 (twenty-three years ago)

93. Wizard of Finance

94. Liquid Sunshine

― chaki (chaki), Monday, 5 May 2003 06:48 (twenty-three years ago)

95. Getting ex-Spinners frontman Philippe Wynne to join them in the late '70s; Christgau has reported that his appearance at the Apollo in '78 (where Wynne performed "Sadie") was one of the greatest concerts of his life.

96. Clinton's liberal policy re: sampling. Not always good resultswise but very fwd-thinking nevertheless

97. The riff of "Super Stupid"

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 5 May 2003 07:29 (twenty-three years ago)

98. P-Funk film cameos in Good Burger and PCU

― chaki (chaki), Monday, 5 May 2003 07:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Great, I'm gonna go for the big 100!

99. The band became so large that George Clinton is still engaged in litigation with former band mates!

100. He remixed Nitzer Ebb!!

101. My girlfriend went to see Parliament in Sydney. Walking into the back alley to smoke a joint at the Enmore theatre, she and her girlfirends noted a cockatoo on the roof of the theatre. It talked to them, saying 'Hello!'. Just then, George Clinton and his entourage arrived, Clinton sporting a haircut not unlike the cockatoo's! After the gig, the cockatoo reappeared IN THE THEATRE, dancing up and down, sidestage, watching Parliament!

Was he an emissary from Clinton's former world? Who knows. However, I do recall a parrot squark vocal in one of Parliament's funkiest tracks. There is some unspoken bond between Parliament and the parrot. Funk is stanger than fiction.

100! Hooray!!!

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Monday, 5 May 2003 07:58 (twenty-three years ago)

eight months pass...

102. The school of fish ("eenie meenie miney wiggle") clapping their cute little fins about 2/3 of the way through "Mr. Wiggles"

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 16 January 2004 05:34 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

103. Inspiring Philippe Wynne to ad lib, "Could this be me, immersed in funk so deep?" on "(Not Just) Knee Deep."

103-1/2. Bill Murray once posed for Rolling Stone with a copy of 'P-Funk Earth Tour' standing on a piece of furniture behind him.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 8 April 2005 21:58 (twenty-one years ago)

104. And yeah, let's talk about the Parliaments. The original "(I Wanna) Testify" is still my favorite. (Garage soul?) "All Your Goodies Are Gone." "The Loser's Seat"!

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 8 April 2005 22:02 (twenty-one years ago)

105. Osmium = heaviest metal ever (on periodic table of elements!) (at least at the time the album came out!)
105b. Rheunium (or whatever it's called) = possiby even heavier (I never checked.)

― xhuxk, Friday, 8 April 2005 22:04 (twenty-one years ago)

106. I can't hear the tune of "Three Blind Mice" on one of those little electronic kiddie toys without thinking they "turned on the funk with a water pipe."

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Saturday, 9 April 2005 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

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