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21 February 2010

FIRE IT UP! Parliament Funkadelic in 1979. Giant skulls smoking joints, cowboy hats and angel wings. It doesn't get any funkier than this.→[More:]

Some more live awesomeness:

Cosmic Slop (1976) HOLY SHIT.

Mothership Connection (1976)

Maggot Brain (1979) Not Eddie Hazel, still pretty good

post by: BoringPostcards at: 00:52 | 13 comments

And then there's my favorite random guys dancing to "Atomic Dog" video.

posted by BoringPostcards 21 February | 01:02

Brain like.

@_@

posted by notquitemaryann 21 February | 01:21

I loved this stuff. I did a funk radio show one time and no one listened :(

posted by arse_hat 21 February | 01:59

You need to wear a feather-trimmed sombrero and a diaper while you play it.

But you should also do another funk-themed show. Especially if it's guitar-y and very loud, like Funkadelic.

posted by BoringPostcards 21 February | 02:09

I'm more a Funkadelic than a Parliament kinda guy, but holy shit is this great: Flashlight (1978)

posted by BoringPostcards 21 February | 02:21

See I didn't have the diaper on...

posted by arse_hat 21 February | 03:30

I love funk too. In the UK we had our own funk bands in the late 70s and 80s, which were a little poppier than the American bands.

Level 42 - The Sun Goes Down (amazing bass playing)

Beggar & Co - Somebody Help Me Out

Light of the World - Swinging

Hi Tension - Hi Tension

Shakatak - Night Birds

Linx - You're Lying

And, the BEST BRITISH FUNK SONG EVER ... Freeez with Southern Freeze.

posted by essexjan 21 February | 04:55

Just listening now to The Sun Goes Down, it's time-stamped with the line "I don't wanna go to war". When it was written in 1982, we were at war with Argentina in the Falklands/Malvinas.

posted by essexjan 21 February | 05:00

Yeah, Clinton and company, they were really something else. I saw P-Funk around this time, in Boston. Great show, over the top fun!

posted by flapjax at midnite 21 February | 05:01

ooo good call. it's a good day for some funk

Parliament
Ripple
Cymande
The Gap Band
Dyke & The Blazers
The Bar-Kays
Trouble Funk

posted by rollick 21 February | 11:29

[this is good]

posted by jason's_planet 21 February | 12:00

I like that stuff now in the same way I like disco... in that I hated disco at the time and hated this stuff. Now it seems so.... comforting? to see that even the music I didn't like was still good music. Is there any chance I'll look back at hip-hop in 20-30 years with the same nostalgia?

posted by Doohickie 21 February | 13:33

Well, twenty years ago is 1990. How do you feel about People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm, AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted and '911 is a Joke'?

posted by box 21 February | 14:06

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