Player of the Year rarely lets up. Some user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. Go directly to shout page. We want to hear from you! Clinton triggers Parliament’s album with a song so hard that bullets bounce off it. (Required), You can request being unbanned by clicking. Later, when certain elements of Funkentelecln’s plot grow cumbersome and impenetrable, Clinton blasts away the confusion by simply losing it in the riffing, which peaks on “Flash Light,” a gritty disco digression. Let us know what you think of the Last.fm website. Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Released 28 November 1977 on Casablanca (catalog no. Genres: P-Funk. Right now, Collins is the funnier of the two, but the terseness of Clinton’s “Bop Gun” puts everything else on today’s radio to shame. At no point over its eleven minutes does "Funkentelechy" become boring or predictable.
If the name of the main character in Clinton’s latest scenario seems corny at first — he is Sir Nose D’Voidoffunk — it’s only because no one could possibly foresee the multiple puns, wise-cracks and convolutions its creator can wrest from it. Funkentelechy vs, the Placebo Syndrome is the new “funk opera” by Parliament, while Booty? You might have a buggy browser extension installed. Clinton would undoubtedly concur, with a leer. If you don't think that you've A new version of Last.fm is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please reload the site. Whereas in the past he’s usually encouraged the bass and drums to sound murky, to retard the beat and thereby offset the jangle of his raft of hardnosed and Hendrix-inspired guitarists, he’s now developed an invigorating musical and verbal precision. Your computer may be infected with malware or spyware that is making automated requests to our server and causing problems.
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. © Copyright 2020 Rolling Stone, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Business Media, LLC. It is the pinnacle of Clinton's lofty ambitions that began at the beginning of the 1970s. Clinton’s production work here is atypically light and clear. And, if “Funkentelechy” and “Sir Nose D’Voidoffunk (Pay Attention — B3M)” go on too long — the fatal P-Funk flaw — “Wizard of Finance.” which sounds a lot like Graham Central Station, and especially “Bop Gun” display a new rigorousness and brevity. You might have the Hola VPN extension installed. Start the wiki, Yo, this is mood control (yo-ho! Player of the Year further elucidates and obfuscates Collins’ deceptively hilarious challenge to modern soul balladry and funk vamping. You (or someone with the same IP address as you) might be using a script or program to download pages from this site automatically. Leave feedback, Parliament is an American funk band formed in the late 1960s by.
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In This Article: You could have been banned by mistake. Parliament is an American funk band formed in the late 1960s by George Clinton as part of … Scrobbling is when Last.fm tracks the music you listen to and automatically adds it to your music profile. "Funkentelechy" is a song by the funk band Parliament. Yet most of Collins’ work, while harmless, is erotic. Bootsy Collins is the least macho male working in popular music; his pitch is never manipulative or nasty. His lead vocal is both playful and passionate: Otis Redding as gunslinger philosopher.
It is the fourth track on the group's 1977 album Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome and was released as a two-part single in 1978.Part 1 peaked at number 27 on the U.S. R&B Singles chart. “Bop Gun (Endangered Species)” is an R&B you tickled by synthesizer fills and mugged by a gang of ribald trumpets. )Saying you might as well pay attention (this is mood control)You can't afford free speech(mood, mood, mood,…. We are hoping to eventually work on a solution for this when we have the resources to do so. He’s got this notion that absolutely anything — any phrase, surrealistic word association, cracked culture quotation, even any mistake — can be used as a narrative device in his stream-of-funk songs (e.g., this record’s best cut and Collins’ masterpiece to date, “Bootzilla”: “I’m a rhinestone rock star monster of a doll, baby/I’m a doll for all seasons”). Which is nice, but has nothing to do with his magnanimous radicalism. You might be using a VPN. This is forbidden by our terms of service. From the start, all Parliament Funkadelic music has been enthusiastically excessive, in everything from verbiage to the number of musicians employed. All in all, P-Funk never sounded so tight, energetic and emotional as they did on "Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome". On “May the Force Be with You” and the loping “Very Yes,” the long love songs that pad Player of the Year, he pushes beyond slick palaver into the area of the touching ballad. While Funkentelechy is no exception. Michael Hampton’s expert guitar solos quiver starkly in the mix, and Clinton even strives to make his own lyrics intelligible — not coherent maybe, but intelligible. Clinton, who helps produce and write nearly everything these bands release, taps a — you’ll pardon the expression — mother lode of black popular culture, gathering up all genres of music, humor and pulp fiction. Our automated banning policies are not perfect and sometimes too strict, and some IP addresses are banned by accident.
Player of the Year begins with a group of children kidding and questioning Collins, who has said that his songs are aimed at children, perhaps to prepare them for Clinton’s darker fables.
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