He and many former Parliament/Funkadelic members continued to tour and record throughout the 80s as the P-Funk All Stars, but the decades disdain of everything to do with the 70s resulted in critical and commercial neglect for the worlds biggest funk band, especially one which in part had ...
mixing funk and rock in a hard hitting four-minute burst. And then the final track on the album, “Wars of Armageddon” is free-form studio chaos. But a few other songs like “Super Stupid” and “Back in Our Minds” don’t really hold up compared to some of the earlier...
Summarizing the LP in Brothas, Clinton wrote, “Maggot Brain was going places that Black groups hadn’t gone, into questions about whether America was still on the right path or whether the promise of the late ’60s had completely evaporated.” In these seven songs, you can hear Funkadelic ...
until a flick of the wrist transformed it into a James Brown jam. The vamp between the first two songs of the night, “Ain’t That Easy” and “Betray My Heart
but too absorbed by his own issues to be fully present with his daughter. Several songs onAwakenare about, or directly address, a newborn child — Glover tenderly describing a baby’s arms and legs one moment, pleading with his lover not to take the kid “away from me” in another. Wh...
with Glover pushing his voice to its limits. “I heard him sing a lot of stuff I’d never heard him physically been able to sing before,” Goransson says. “We didn’t pitch his voice; that’s all him singing. And a couple songs, like ‘Stand Tall’ for example, that ...
With the rise of rap music in the 1980s and its “sampling” of 1970s funk songs, funk grew in stature and significance in hip-hop culture. It became associated with ancient mysteries in the Black tradition, providing hip-hop with a historical link to artists and cultural movements of the...