This one is to the father of funk. Name 20 faves of yours fram Mr. Clinton. Here's mine:
1. Atomic Dog-George Clinton
2. Flashlight-Parliament
3. Tear The Roof Off (Give Up the Funk)-P
4. One Nation Under A Groove-Funkadelic
5. Quickie-GC
6. Aqua Boogie-P
7. Agony Of Defeet-P
8. Mothership Connection-P
9. Not Just(knee deep)-F
10. Loopzilla-GC
11. Icka Prick-F
12. Theme From The Black Hole-P
13. Up For The Down Stroke-P
14. Undisco Kidd-F
15. Rumpofsteelskin-P
16. Do Fries Go With That Shake-GC
17. Take Your Dead Ass Home-F
18. Dr. Funkenstein-P
19. Red Hot Mama-F
20. Funkentelechy-P

Hollywood Squares - Bootsy Rubber Band
You Got Funk, You Got Style - Parliament

Chocolate City
Flashlight
Mothership Connection

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Corrections: Funkadelic

funkpill said:

LOL I was just listening to Hardcore Jollies.

Dr. Funkenstein
Aqua Water Boogie
Back In Our Minds
Testify - the '74 version
Get Up for the Downstroke
The Mothership Connection (I Wants to Get Funked Up)
Starchild
Chocolate City
Agony of Defeet
(Not Just) Knee Deep
Bootzilla
I Rather Be With You
Hollywood Squares
Bop Gun (Endangered Species)
Flashlight
One Nation Under a Groove
Theme from the Black Hole (that Sir Nose is annoying but he's hilarious )
Atomic Dog
Do Fries Go With That Shake?
Tear the Roof Off Da Sucka

LoDog said:

Oh good lawd, please don't let this be real

dr, dre's greatest hits

FuNkeNsteiN said:

And why not, may I ask? "Atomic Dog" is a song I know quite a few Parliament/Funkadelic fans would count as one of their all-time favorite songs, if not some people's all-time favorite.

LoDog said:

No Maggot Brain?

20. Star Child
19. Night of the Thumpasarus Peoples
18. The Electric Spanking of War Babies
17. If You Got Funk You Got Style
16. Can You Get To That?
15. Brother Can U Paradigm?
14. Aqua Boogie
13. You Scared The Loving Outta Me
12. Oh I
11. Atomic Dog
10. Hit it and Quit It
9. I Got A Thang
8. One Nation Under A Groove
7. Cholly
6. Maggot Brain
5. Flash Light
4. Icka Prick
3. Do Fries Go With That Shake
2. Funketelechy
1. Knee Deep

Najee said:

Atomic Dog ain't got shit on their 70's Parliament output

Najee said:

Can you stop with that retarded shit already, ok man?
Also, why do you say 'either song', we ain't talking about two particular songs, now are we? We are comparing Atomic Dog to Parliament's 70s output.
Anyways, I've listened to Atomic Dog and the stuff they released as Parliament. Even though I wasn't born in back then, I still have a working pair of ears, dude. Atomic Dog is nowhere near as good as, say, Mothership Connection, Dr. Funkenstein, Funkin' For Fun, Unfunky Ufo, Handcuffs, Night Of The Thumpasorus Peoples, Funkentelechy, Flashlight, Bop Gun etc etc.

Najee said:

Also, I don't want no beef with you, bro. If you don't like me, fine. You don't have to bring this shit up every time we are in the same thread.
Besides, 'Cause you weren't born back then, you don't get to have an opinion', is a really stupid argument. Wouldn't be a whole lot of talking going on if what you're saying was used as a criteria for who gets to speak their damn mind and who doesn't. Say you were a religious person, you wouldn't be allowed to talk about Jesus. You weren't there when it happened
[Edited 10/9/07 7:03am]

FuNkeNsteiN said:

That's funny, because I know people who were buying Parliament/Funkadelic's music when it was coming out in the early 70s and actually saw them perform during their prime. And most of them rank "Atomic Dog" was one of their very best songs, if not their favorite song.

I'm going to give them a lot more clout than someone who appoints himself an authority on something on a music period which is based on third-hand accounts. Like I said, I really don't need the self-deluded opinion of the proposed white, non-U.S. "professor" of African-American 70s music.
[Edited 10/9/07 7:04am]

FuNkeNsteiN said:

Son, I was born in the late 1960s. I actually bought Parliament-Funkadelic songs from the latter 70s and remember first hearing "Standing on the Verge of Getting It On" when my uncle used to play it.

So yes, on this subject I'm a more credible resource than you (someone born in the mid-80s) any day of the week. Hell, I got credit cards as old as you.
[Edited 10/9/07 7:09am]

Najee said:

I don't claim to be a professor of 70s African-American music
I have listened to a whole lot of the aforementioned music so I see myself as qualified to speak my mind about the subject. Were we talking about, say 80s white rock, I might aswell shut the fuck up since I haven't listened to any.
Yes, some of us are not fortunate enough to have seen P-Funk in their prime, but that's not really something I can do anything about. I can, however, put the needle to the wax and listen to the stuff they made back then.
My initial response to LoDog's list was not meant in a 'ONLY I KNOW WHAT GOOD MUSIC IS. YOU DON'T GET TO RATE ATOMIC DOG THIS HIGH!!1' type of thing. I was more like surprised that the cut in mention, made the top of his list, because I personally, do not rank it that high and don't consider it a masterpiece. Everybody got their own opinion about music, that's what it all boils down to in the end. As much as I hate some shit like, say Nirvana, it might mean the world to some other person. If I say I don't like a particular cut, it doesn't mean that someone else is not allowed to like it. That's just how I feel about it.

Najee said:

I think you underestimate me, greatly. But yanno, that's what your generation does anyways. My folks were born in the 60s too, and I don't think they realize the amount of stuff kids these days actually know
[Edited 10/9/07 7:13am]

FuNkeNsteiN said:

Sorry, son, but most people I know consider George Clinton's "Atomic Dog" a long-standing great song -- and most of those people I know were P-Funk fans from the start of their run. That song still gets played at parties and turns out people on the dancefloor.

Your problem is you try to pass your opinion on 70s funk music like it has to be approved by you. Just because you created some contradictory internal logic than anything beyond 1982 is inferior doesn't mean other people will agree with you. Don't comment on other people's choices like "WTF were YOU thinking?" -- particularly if you don't like being called out on it.

Najee said:

Oh and, I'm really not claiming to be the #1 authority on funk or a more credible rescource than you. All I'm doing is speaking my mind. Voicing my opinion. If I say, for example, that 'apples are better than oranges', doesn't mean that I think that what I just said is the 'Universal Truth'. That's just my opinion. You have every right to have your own opinion, and so do I.

FuNkeNsteiN said:

This is from someone pulling something out of his ass that I wasn't around when P-Funk was a dominant music force in the '70s. There is nothing to underestimate -- I listened to most of these songs when they were popular, you downloaded them off the Internet nearly 30 years later and needed some third-hand account to give you context.

You're free to give your opinion, but I sure as hell don't have to respect it from someone coming from the outside looking in.
[Edited 10/9/07 7:21am]

Najee said:

That's exactly what I ain't trying to do
When I comment on these things, I shouldn't take it too seriously. I mean, yea, you prolly need to know me personally to know that I don't mean that stuff 100% seriously. I do realize that it might occasionally come off as a bit 'snobbish' or seem like I'm trying to be the 'Funk Authority' 'round here, but trust me, that's not what I'm after.

Najee said:

Sir, I didn't download these songs off the internet
Yes, that's what people do, they look it up. Of course, it's not exactly the same as actually being there, but what really matters in the end is how I (or you, in your case) feel about a particular song. The songs still sound the same as they did thirty years back. Atomic Dog just doesn't do it for me. I like a more organic sound to music, but that's just me. Different strokes for different folks.

FuNkeNsteiN said:

You sure as hell weren't buying the music when it came out, either -- were you (which was the whole point)?

The bottom line is people don't have to rationalize their choices to you, particularly on a song that universally is considered an essential song in the Parliament/Funkadelic catalog. You actually think EVERYONE looks at "Atomic Dog" as something inferior, when in reality you're the minority (pun intended) on that song. Believe it or not, the original core audience of that enclave looks at it as one of their very best songs.
[Edited 10/9/07 7:28am]

Najee said:

You are exactly right. They don't, but I still have the right to express myself, dig? I'm not in any way trying to discredit y'all, cause you happen to like a song that I don't. I have tremendous respect for a whole bunch of the old school cats around here. I've learned a lot from them.

To Najee and Funkenstein, there's no need to keep arguing back and forth. I ranked "Atomic Dog" as my no.1 and that's my opinion. Funk has his no.1 and that's okay. No need to keep lounging over this. Actually Najee, I think he has good taste in music from what I've seen over the past months on this org. As a matter of fact, he has heard some stuff I never heard of and curious to see his record collection. So fellas keep the peace.

FuNkeNsteiN said:

I'm glad to read that. I think you're a good guy but sometimes it rubs me the wrong way the way you might dismiss something as "that ain't shit!" It sounds less like an opinion and more like a decree. Some of us are too sensitive, perhaps.

Here's mine:

1.Mothership Connection
2.Chocolate City
2.Give Up The Funk
3.One Nation Under A Groove
4.Get Off Your Ass And Jam
5.Dr. Funkenstein
6.Do That Stuff
7.Not Just(Knee Deep)
8.Standing On The Verge
9.Up For The Down Stroke
10.Bop Gun
11.Take Your Dead Ass Home
12.Unkunky UFO
13.P-Funk (I Wants To Get Funked Up)
14.Aqua Boogie
15.Let's Take It To The Stage
16.Undisco Kidd
17.Freak Of The Week
18.Sir'Nose D'Void Of Funk
19.Flashlight
20.Atomic Dog