Guided by the mad genius of George Clinton, and building upon the funk foundation of James Brown and a hippie ethos inherited from Sly And The Family Stone, Parliament transformed from a doo-wop quintet from Plainfield, New Jersey, into a psychedelic funk-rock collective who broke all the rules with reckless abandon. With the release of Mothership Connection, on 15 December 1975, the latter unleashed a momentous album that changed the very nature of popular music. On release, Rolling Stone called it a "parody of modern funk" and stated that "unlike the Ohio Players or Commodores, the group refuses to play it straight.
I was a big fan of Star Trek, so we did a thing with a pimp sitting in a spaceship shaped like a Cadillac, and we did all these James Brown-type grooves, but with street talk and ghetto slang.”.
Dr. Dre sampled the songs "Mothership Connection (Star Child)" and "P-Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up)" on his album The Chronic. Published on December 15, 2019
It sets the scene for the closing ‘Night Of The Thumpasorus Peoples’, which is, simply put, pure funk ecstasy.
Check out pfunk radio online!! [4] The Library of Congress added the album to the National Recording Registry in 2011, declaring "The album has had an enormous influence on jazz, rock and dance music. "[5], Describing the album, George Clinton said "We had put black people in situations nobody ever thought they would be in, like the White House. With the exception of James Brown, George Clinton and Parliament are the most sampled artists in music history. Mothership Connection can be bought here. Mothership Connection is the fourth album by American funk band Parliament, released on December 15, 1975 on Casablanca Records. In the P-Funk galaxy, Mothership Connection is the band’s brightest star. In an interview with Cleveland Scene, George Clinton revealed the inspiration for the album: “We had put black people in situations nobody ever thought they would be in, like the White House. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Their funk DNA is evident in their musical offspring: a dynasty that includes The Gap Band, Cameo, Prince, OutKast, CeeLo Green, Bruno Mars and a host of others. Underrated Blue Note Musicians: 12 Artists Worth Rediscovering, Zappa And Beefheart March To Their Own Drum On ‘Bongo Fury’, ‘From The Muddy Banks Of The Wishkah’: Nirvana’s Ferocious Live Album, ‘Sigh No More’: How Mumford & Sons Found Their Voice, The La’s’ Album: Revisiting Some of Indie-Pop’s Most Timeless Melodies, Queen + Adam Lambert Talk ‘Live Around The World’ During Virtual Q&A, Billie Eilish Stars In Moody Visual For ‘No Time To Die’ Bond Theme, Watch Jhené Aiko’s Meditative NPR’s ‘Tiny Desk From Home’ Performance, Demi Lovato Gets Vulnerable On Surprise New Single ‘Still Have Me’, Machine Gun Kelly Shares New Songs From ‘Tickets To My Downfall’ Deluxe Edition. en référence à Mothership Connection, LP, Album, RE, 422-824 502-1 M-1, NBLP 7022 This copy is from the 1980's. Mothership Connection was the fourth album by funk band Parliament.
They were essentially one band with two personalities: Funkadelic, the psychedelic, eclectic voodoo-rock outfit; and Parliament, the extraterrestrial explorers, mining the outer limits for uncut funk.
"[9], Retrospectively, it gained high regard, being named TV network VH1's 55th greatest album of all time, and #276 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. Mothership Connection was the first P-Funk album to feature Maceo Parker and Fred Wesley, who had left The J.B.'s, James Brown's backing band. The band was popular across the east coast and particularly took off in the Washington D.C. area. Listen to Mothership Connection right now. Instead, Clinton spews his jive, conceived from some cosmic funk vision.
And later produces the galactic 'Give Up the Funk' and a James Brown tribute that goes 'gogga googa, gogga googa'—only believe me, that doesn't capture it. I figured another place you wouldn't think black people would be was in outer space. The first album to introduce the P-Funk universe, ‘Mothership Connection’ is a full-on funk assault by Parliament at their creative zenith. As the first beat kicks in, Mothership Connection sees them firing on all cylinders. Vinyl LP repressing of this classic album by George Clinton, Bootsy Collins and the gang packaged in a limited 3D cover. This record is named as one of the historic icons in the National Recording Registry, influencing jazz, dance, and rock & roll. On the booming ‘Unfunky UFO’ and the laidback rhythms of ‘Supergroovalisticprosifunkstication’, Parliament brilliantly fuse elements of soul, R&B, jazz, funk and rock while mixing in doo-wop and gospel harmonies that set them apart from other bands of the era. My vinyl came with the 3d cover which I had heard was an awful pressing but the copy I received plays great. So far ahead of it's time, I should have listened to pfunk and not 'hardcore punk' all those years. ", ^shipments figures based on certification alone, Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker), "Parliament's 1975 LP Mothership Connection revisited with Bernard Worrell", "American album certifications – Parliament", Recording Industry Association of America, "Registry Choices 2010: The National Recording Preservation Board (Library of Congress)", "Cleveland - Music - Turn This Mutha Out", Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies, "Mothership Connection | Album Reviews | Rolling Stone", "500 Greatest Albums of All Time Rolling Stone's definitive list of the 500 greatest albums of all time", "American album certifications – Parliament – Mothership Connection", Mothership Connection: Banging hip-hop from worlds away, 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Parliament, Tear The Roof Off The Sucker (Give Up The Funk), Aqua Boogie (A Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop), Free Your Mind... and Your Ass Will Follow, Live: Meadowbrook, Rochester, Michigan – 12th September 1971, The Mothership Connection – Live from Houston, Parliament-Funkadelic: One Nation Under a Groove, George Clinton: The Mothership Connection, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mothership_Connection&oldid=979622036, United States National Recording Registry recordings, Articles with dead external links from May 2016, Short description is different from Wikidata, Album articles lacking alt text for covers, Articles with album ratings that need to be turned into prose, Certification Table Entry usages for United States, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, United Sound, Detroit, Michigan, and Hollywood Sound, Hollywood, California, Tear the Roof Off the Sucker (Give Up the Funk)-NB-856, This page was last edited on 21 September 2020, at 19:52.
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