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[-] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

Freaky Styley was the RHCP album that bridged rock and funk for me. It's produced by George Clinton (he's even lead vox on a track). Now I salivate over Parliament/Funkadelic and my friends think I'm crazy.

[-] GuyDudeman@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
[-] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
[-] freeman@lemmy.pub 1 points 1 year ago

I legit have videos of my kids reacting to that song and stopping, freaking out and dancing their toddler asses off.

[-] TippaMyTongue@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That kid had a case of toddler rock

[-] freeman@lemmy.pub 2 points 1 year ago

For sure. It’s one of those I would love to share. But I have a thing about not putting my kids on the internet.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

What? They're still funky, always have been.

[-] freeman@lemmy.pub 4 points 1 year ago

They definately have phases. Like By the way was clearly more 50s , Beatles and do wop insipired than funk. Klinghoffer were definately less funky overall too, except dark necessities did have a few solid tracks.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes I see what you're saying, but the bass on all of their albums still has slap and funk to it. I guess a lot of it is what the other musicians are doing and how Keidis sings the song. Go Robot is funky as heck. I love that song.

Edited because Gboard is getting stupid all the time lately

[-] freeman@lemmy.pub 2 points 1 year ago

Agree. So is Sick Love. Same with their recent albums, which are much more funky than even Dark Necessities.

[-] GuyDudeman@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Nah. Hard disagree.

[-] TippaMyTongue@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

That's like... anytime between 1982 and now

[-] TippaMyTongue@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Freaky Styley is a fucking great album! I don't recall the track with George Clinton as lead singer though, do you mean that if you want me to stay demo?

[-] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

George Clinton is singing on Hollywood, at the very least.

Edit: Hollywood (Africa), sorry it's been a bit :) It's also confirmed in Clinton's book, Yo George Ain't That Funkin Kinda Hard On You. Apparently some tracks therein were unused Parliament tracks -- RHCP were big fans.

In fact, here they are playing with Parliament (near the end), e.g. @1:20:00 on Cosmic Slop.

Edit #2: George Clinton also reprises the "Holly would, if Holly could" stuff on his solo track Hollywood, off of 1993's Hey Man, Smell My Finger (which is a fire album regardless of name).

[-] TippaMyTongue@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

OK, I think I understand what you mean, for me it sounded more like George Clinton was a background singer, but you can definitely hear him louder in some parts. Thanks for posting those sources, I think I'm going to listen to P-Funk now.

[-] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

George is definitely singing alone as the song starts. Once you hear some more P-Funk, his voice is easy to recognize. There's also a few cues he does all the time (e.g. the "well all right" the song starts with).

Technically it's a duet.

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