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I finished listening to all the Parliament and Funkadelic albums up to the dissolving in 1981. That means it's time for P-FUNK POWER RANKINGS:

4. Funkadelic — Free Your Mind... And Your Ass Will Follow (1970)
3. Parliament — Mothership Connection (1975)
2. Funkadelic — Maggot Brain (1971)
1. Parliament — Funkentelechy Vs. The Placebo Syndrome (1977)

A little surprised Motor Booty Affair didn't make the cut. Oh well :P

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I finished listening to all the Parliament and Funkadelic albums up to the dissolving in 1981. That means it's time for P-FUNK POWER RANKINGS:

4. Funkadelic — Free Your Mind... And Your Ass Will Follow (1970)
3. Parliament — Mothership Connection (1975)
2. Funkadelic — Maggot Brain (1971)
1. Parliament — Funkentelechy Vs. The Placebo Syndrome (1977)

A little surprised Motor Booty Affair didn't make the cut. Oh well :P

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Consider it #5, but it's in like a 3-, 4-way tie, which is why I didn't wanna go under #4.

edit: Actually maybe just a tie with Let's Take It To The Stage

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i was listening to episode 84 of the history of philosophy (really dry, square stuff) which is about rhetoric in middle antiquity aristotelianism and the presenter began, on the thinnest of pretenses, slowly outlining this:

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skip to 6:23 to hear the "meat", kool moe dee's legendary verse, but i'd encourage listening to the rest just for context, what passed for lyrics at the time (including the crowd chant "i got sperm" which was, obviously, a complete dud)

complete with a recitation of "in a battle like this you know you'd lose/ between you and me, who do you think they'll choose/ well if you think it's you i've got bad news/ 'cause when you hear your name you're gonna hear some boos." i'm not sure how i feel about that other than astonished

edit: in the previous episode he said the best james brown album was "in the jungle groove." a more-than acceptable answer, but to use a greatest-hits compilation both cheats the question and underlines the folly of james brown albums

edit 2: fwiw, "love power peace"

the trilogy

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this is probably one of the most off-base movie soundtrack songs made. they can barely keep up the "undercover cop's perspective" idea for a single line and by the chorus they're at the exact opposite place



"dead in the middle of little italy little did we know we riddled some middlemen who didn't do diddly"



i think this entire track is trying to top the line i just quoted above, it's fireworks. dude sped up the track a little bit just for the extra challenge

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I keep mishearing "Eagle Front Page"

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I got linked this by some peeps. I was endeared.

time 4 me to contribute to this thread
i got this album last month, it's good

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i love how this song is "feat. method man" but not only does he not do a verse, not only is he making a chorus-only appearance, but he is making a chorus-only appearance entirely via sample of a song method man was on

this hasn't been posted before (?) so here we go. found out about this via a toby interview.

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the rest of their stuff's pretty good, I may have to surf deeper.

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who flipped it better

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i love how this song is "feat. method man" but not only does he not do a verse, not only is he making a chorus-only appearance, but he is making a chorus-only appearance entirely via sample of a song method man was on

Compare/contrast busta's contribution on this track:

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also, this is happening atm; get on it yo
https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hottest100/15

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-3-

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diggin' in the crates

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i've had this song unavailable and stuck in my head for a long time. it's a jam

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Ayers, Masters At Work and Jody Watley on the one track.

What you'd expect.

I highly encourage you to listen to the entire "The Race for Space" album by public service broadcasting. They do a great job of putting the key events of the space race to music. The one below is the high point of the album, where you hear mission control prepare and execute the landing on the moon.

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in honor of my 1,977th post, i am giving to you all my 1977 playlist. 1977 is one of my favorite years in music, quality- and history-wise, and of the playlists i've made this is my favorite i think. (well, maybe it's a little obvious.)

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tracklisting in case videos go down:

1. The Residents — Beyond The Valley Of A Day In The Life
   
2. The Clash — 1977
   
3. Buzzcocks — Boredom
   
4. Motorhead — Motörhead
   
5. The Saints — One Way Street
   
6. Wire — Ex-Lion Tamer
   
7. Chrome — The Monitors
   
8. Chrisma — Black Silk Stocking
   
9. Talking Heads — A Clean Break (Let's Work)
   
10. Television — See No Evil
    
11. Pere Ubu — The Modern Dance
    
12. Devo — Jocko Homo [Original Single Version]
    
13. David Bowie — Heroes
    
14. Ultravox — Hiroshima Mon Amour [B-Side Version]
    
15. Iggy Pop — Dum Dum Boys
    
16. Brian Eno — No One Receiving
    
17. Heatwave — Grooveline
    
18. Donna Summer — I Feel Love
    
19. Giorgio Moroder — First-Hand Experience In Second-Hand Love
    
20. Kraftwerk — Trans-Europa Express [German]
    
21. Philip Glass — Ik Ook
    
22. Parliament — Flash Light [Long Version]
    
23. Slave — Separated
    
24. Rare Gems Odyssey — What Is Funk?
    
25. Fela Kuti — Zombie
    

I have no idea if either of these have been posted here yet because I'm still making my way through the backlog but here

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Has Wintergaten's marble machine been posted yet? Because it's still the most whimsical thing I've witnessed