on one of the Facebook P-Funk pages that I go to,the guy who posted the video left a message saying : "Parental Guidance suggested" | |
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It's time for George to take it easy. Now he'll have plenty of time to put together the George Clinton Family Series Vol. 6-50! "Anna Stesia come to me, talk to me, ravish me
Liberate my mind." | |
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new Parliament album 'Medicaid Fraud Dogg' due this Tuesday,May 22!!
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SoulAlive said: new Parliament album 'Medicaid Fraud Dogg' due this Tuesday,May 22!!
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Where are you getting this release date info from? | |
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mrwiggles said: Where are you getting this release date info from? on George Clinton’s official Facebook page | |
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So, a few years ago, when First Ya Gotta Shake The Gate came out, it was just like this... It came out digitally with no release date (or even info) on a physical release, and so, I bought the digital, only to fnd out a couple days later that there would indeed be a physical release, which I bought again on CD when it came out. [Edited 5/24/18 7:30am] Liberty > Authority | |
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Searchin' through articles, looking for a physical release date, PASTE says this will be a Digital Only release... That sucks! I want a CD, and maybe an LP. C'mon, George, take my $ and gimme a disc! [Edited 5/24/18 8:08am] Liberty > Authority | |
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Waaaay too much mediocre hip-hop drowning out the funk... more even than was on Shake The Gate. Liberty > Authority | |
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Upon first listen... [Edited 5/24/18 10:54am] Liberty > Authority | |
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Interesting take from ya on this one. I know a brudda said to me man he shouldn't have touched Bernie's Insurance Man. It's like a sacrilege. End of the day I was expecting a lil more than this from The Dr. Then again I am really feeling the Bone vocals and Fred arranged horns throughout. I like a few of these better than Sick though.
69, Oil Jones, All in, No Mos are early faves. I like some of the heavy Parliament grooves he gets going on Kool Aid. Chyt I like all the grooves, Riddle Me This, Ya Habit & Higher. The mix is questionable at best. Sick is louder than the rest of em. I guess when he puts it out himself he gets that without major label backing. [Edited 5/24/18 18:47pm] | |
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Overall, this feels way more "All-Stars" than it does "Parliament". There's a lot of tracks I'm not feeling, but with 23 tracks over an hour & 47 minutes, there's plenty to love. I'm happy every time George puts out a new set. I'll buy this as soon as CDs are available and still can't wait for the one from Brainfeeder. Bring it on!! Liberty > Authority | |
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Yeah man that Kool Aid mix is weird. I was talking about it in the thread below. It sounds like background music in somebody's conversation over it. But the groove slams like Parliament aught. I like the first peeps of Pain Management when he was teasing us with it a few years ago on scope. I still dig it but not as much. I think he tinkered with a few of these too much. | |
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Some fans who ordered physical copies from Pledgemusic asked when their copies would arrive,and they were told "in 3 months".I hope that's not true but anyway,in the meantime,I'll enjoy the digital copy. | |
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This is my only problem with the album.Too much rap/hip-hop! I grew up listening to P-Funk and other funk bands.I want the funk,the whole funk and nothing but the funk! Thankfully,there is enough good stuff here to keep me entertained,but I may have to skip over some of the heavy hip-hop flavored tracks. | |
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SoulAlive said:
This is my only problem with the album.Too much rap/hip-hop! I grew up listening to P-Funk and other funk bands.I want the funk,the whole funk and nothing but the funk! Thankfully,there is enough good stuff here to keep me entertained,but I may have to skip over some of the heavy hip-hop flavored tracks. Well let's see, just how many of these tracks are truly "rapped out"? There's Mama Told Me, Backwoods, Medicaid Creep starts some rap over a funky horn groove. I can't bring myself to call what Tracey does rap. He's got this special thang going on that is truly all his own. I don't know what to call it but it's truly unique. That mug is a genius. | |
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I have no problem with rap/hip-hop. I do have a problem with bad rap. Trazae is awful. His desparate rapping ruins several tracks. DaDa is the exception thankfully.
How about these alternative track listings: Funkadelic Oil Jones Psychotropic Backwoods Antisocial Media Pain Management Mama Told Me Proof Is In The Pudding No Mos Higher Insurance Man Parliament Medicated Creep 69 I'm Gon Make U Sick All In On Fire Set Trip Kool Aid DaDa Riddle Me This Ya Habit Medicaid Fraud Dogg Type Two [Edited 5/27/18 7:16am] | |
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Reponding because you are just wrong on many points...
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. Fred Wesley on the break. Probably a Junie Morrison production. Not my favorite track either though.
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. GC's grand-daughters Kandy Apple Red.
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. It's brilliant.
. 04 Backwoods - don't like it. at all. . ...me neither tbh.
. 05 Oil Jones - do I hear a bit of the Paisley Park outtake, Oil Spill
. Yes, rehashing the same Oil Spill stuff over a mechanic studio beat. Don't get what people see in this.
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. Local Florida jazz player Whitney Russell on trumpet. Guitar solo by Brad Scarface Jordan. Ruined by a Trazae rap.
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. Nowhere near the best track on the album. It is OK. Junie Morrison co-production.
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. Cringey lyrics. Music half-hearted attempt to do something experimental/unstructured.
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. Gary Mudbone Cooper, George Clinton and his granddaughters recorded this the night Robert P-Nut Johnson passed away. They had visited him in hospital that day. He was still clinging to life. They said 'P-Nut is still with us' during the sessions.
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. It's OK. Love to hear GC's old skool falsetto in this.
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. Agree. Treylewd (and son Trazae) have their rare inspired moments. This is not it.
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. This one has the entire current live band on it, playing live. Agree the rap is bad - unless I am missing a clever twist?
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. Inspired Treylewd moment on a full band jam sample.
. 14 Kool Aid - I like some of the elements, but something seems off in the mix, the vocals sound disconnected from the loops they're layered over.
. Fan service. I like it. Would not be surprised/disappointed if this turns out to be a cut/paste job. . 15 DaDa - it's just boring... right?
. Fucking masterpiece with Fred Wesley + Pee Wee Ellis on horns and Chris Dave (D'Angelo) on drums.
. 16 Pain Management - decent track, absolutely hating the autotune again though
. GC pouring his heart out. Auto-tune was turned way down from earlier mixes I've heard.
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. Fan service. Pretty good. But who is on this? I have no idea.
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. Steve Arrington + Blackbyrd McKnight. Agree, they should have saved this for one more Funkadelic album.
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. It's OK. Dealing with a dark subject.
. 20 Higher - And keep right on grooving with this one. Niiiiice!
. Kendra Foster.
. 21 Medicaid Fraud Dogg - the only thing I don't like is that dam autotune, and dammit George, you don't need it, the rest of the vocals on this track are some of the best on the album. Just sayin'.
. Gary Mudbone Cooper + Robert P-Nut Johnson (Bootsy's Rubber Band) with a bit of autotuned Sly Stone at the start. Fred Wesley horns.
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. Clearly a tribute to Bernie Worrell.
. 23 Type Two - meh, no strong feelings either way. Don't hate it (except the autotune) but not feeling it either. That end, with the sudden fade... weird.
. Another masterpiece. I don't mind Trazae raps getting faded... And it kinda works; it repeats where the track started, making it feel like it never really ends.
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And unless I'm missing something in reading your opinions, it looks like we actually agree on more than we disagree.
21 Mudbone, P-Nut & Sly - yeah that explains it! Love it... [Edited 5/26/18 8:29am] Liberty > Authority | |
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There's really only a handful of truly hip-hop oriented songs. I have a killer 18 song tracklist here that I consider the best George Clinton album I've heard in decades - deep and focused. There's a few sequencing issues at the beginning but from 'Da Da' (genius track!) onwards it actually flows pretty perfectly. | |
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Guess I'm gonna have to listen to DaDa again to see what I'm missing that you guys dig. Liberty > Authority | |
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The last third of this record is especially good, but I wish the whole were shortened and sequenced better. | |
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Yup, I'm liking the majority of the songs on this album, too. Same complaint as others about some lame rap on a few songs. Gonna give it a second spin today... [Edited 5/30/18 6:44am] "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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Well, well, Uncle George been a long run though ! | |
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Yeah, I agree with the comments about the hiphop nonsense on it. The problem isn't even that there's hiphop on the album - the problem is that it's not terribly good hiphop and it doesn't stylistically match the P-Funk vibe. | |
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Heartbreaking news. I was lucky enough to see him on stage 5 times (or was it 6?), including 3 consecutive magic shows in a small club in the summer of 1995 (they played 12 hours of music in 3 evenings, the longest show being 5 bloody hours!!!). As he won't come to China, it means I probably won't ever see him on a stage again. But the memories will live on forever. IDK when the last show will be nor where, but I suppose it's going to be a very moving event. Lucky those who will attend. A COMPREHENSIVE PRINCE DISCOGRAPHY (work in progress ^^): https://sites.google.com/...scography/ | |
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