diy@sb6.UUCP (D. I. Young) (12/01/83)
The album "America Eats It's Young" was recorded by a black group called the Funkadelics. NONE of the songs were ever played on the R&B radio stations cause they were almost all offensive. A little history... The Funkadelics were (and still are) VERY popular in the black music world and their thing was to shock people. Remember we're talking about the late 60's - 70's, and everything was ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT then. They first became popular for flashing on the stage, adn needless to say they packed the house wherever they played. They sang about everything our parents told us not to talk about...especially SEX. They were new and wild and got very rich very quickly! They made no bones about the joys of smoking marijuana and often did it on stage. To us high schoolers they were ok as long as they p.o. the grownups. Let me correct something real quickly...they wore G- Strings, so it was not total exposure, but it was different... Anyway, the music was ok, and some of the titles might give you an idea of what they were about. It was a double-album set, and in the liner notes on that one and all of their other albums they wrote about "Cosmic Churches" and Armageddon (one of the songs) and other weird stuff. THE HIT off the album, and NEVER played over the air, was the song "I Call My Baby (censored)" Yep, it's just what you think it is!!! Other songs from this and other albums: Cosmic Slop It Does Not Compute (Spit don't make no babies) Loose Booty (which was their first DANCE hit) Biological Speculation Maggot Brain So you see the what's happening now, happened before! By the way, for John Smith, the title was a protest of the Vietnam war! dennis
rossen@uiuccsb.UUCP (12/03/83)
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uiuccsb!rossen Dec 2 11:50:00 1983
A correction and a footnote from a loyal Detroiter:
1) It's not "The Funkadelics," it's "Funkadelic." This before the
more recent and almost uniform trend away from bands called
"The <something>s" and toward more streamlined names ("<something>")
which are singular and/or articleless.
2) Funkadelic was the companion band to Parliament. The "two" bands had
the same (somewhat loosely-structured) roster of musicians, but played
different sorts of music, and albums were released under both names.
The mastermind behind both concepts was Detroit's George Clinton, who
is as wild and funky as ever. He still wears wild costumes on stage --
a friend of mine met him on an airplane, and he showed her the costume
designs for his latest tour. His recent album "Computer Games," as
well as the smash single "Atomic Dog" are terrific. I think that
Parliament/Funkadelic is kind of a defunct concept because of some
legal haggling -- anyone know more on this?
Ken in Champaign (...!uiucdcs!uiuccsb!rossen)