Free Your Mind [CD-single]

1. Free Your Mind [E-Smoove Mix]

2. Free Your Mind [Airmale Remix]

3. Free Your Mind [Accapella]

Tracks:

Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow
Friday Night, August 14th
Funky Dollar Bill
I Wanna Know If It's Good to You?
Some More
Eulogy and Light
Fish, Chips and Sweat [*]
Free Your Mind Radio Advert [*]
I Wanna Know If It's Good to You [*]
I Wanna Know If It's Good to You [*][Instrumental]

Album Description

The legendary second album (1970) from Funkadelic - remastered from original tapes for the first time in 15 years. This album's title track is the sort of spaced-out acid-funk that is a big influence with artists such as Spiritualized and Primal Scream. This 2005 CD features the original six track album plus the non-album B-side "Fish Chips And Sweat", "Free Your Mind Radio Advert", and the radically different single versions - vocal and instrumental - of "I Wanna Know If It's Good To You". The booklet includes in-depth sleeve notes by funk expert Dean Rudland, with details of the history of the band and this recording, and an interview with eyewitnesses to their 1971 UK tour. The booklet includes lots of pictures, memorabilia and adverts related to this release. Westbound U.S.

Customer Reviews:

Free your mind!.......2007-07-25

I know George and company had to been blowed out of their mind when they recorded this album back in 70. But you still can't take away the fact that it was a very good recording. Not to mention, there was a message in Funkadelic's music even if it did sound somewhat bizarre. George Clinton was quite politically aware of what was going on during that era, which was why a lot of their music along with his other group Parliament was so great. I'm proud to have this title along with all of the others in my collection.

The kingdom of heaven is within..........2007-04-21

This album broke some barriers between rock and soul music that Jimi Hendrix had only begun to break down before his untimely death. No worries, Eddie Hazel was doing similar things on the guitar, though with another approach, and the vision of George Clinton to play through. If you think Neil Young's 'Tonight's the Night' captured a mood of drug/alcohol-addled redemption, you really should listen to this song cycle [song-psycho?]. Clinton nails acid-rock and the band bursts through it, full of raw power, humor, and divinely-inspired re-alignment of the planets. This stuff can be enjoyed in one long monster jam, or song-by-song, and the desired effect is what you'll find when you improve your interplanetary funksmanship. Dig!

Pharmecutical Explanation........2006-10-20

When i first heard this album, i was hypnotized by the funk. Honestly, this album was recorded while the fellas was all high on acid. (That's what George Clinton said). My fav is "Some More" with Bernie rockin' the Hammond B3. It's a bluesy type of song, but oh so funky! The late Eddie Hazel in my opinion was the greatest guitarist (other than the late Jimi Hendricks. If you like rock, and I mean acid rock, cop this peice here. The title cut is also a good song to just listen to ...as a matter of fact, put ur headset on and I guarentee, you will think you're trippin on some stuff! I can't believe how far these guys have come. Tiki Fullwood (Drums)(RIP) Eddie Hazel (Guitar) (Rip), Tawl Ross (Guitar), Bernie Worrell (Keyboards), George Clinton, Calvin Simon, Grady Thomas, Ray Davis. (Parliament) Get this album along with Live @ Meadowbrook.......

I Know That It Must Have Been Good To You Baby.......2006-09-15

"cause you're still buying Funkadelic albums! This album was out there!! "Friday Night" is a hard jam as well as "Free Your Mind". this is all rock baby! "I Wanna Know If It's Good" the "Funkadeletts" give you a taste of their sensual yet strong voices--George really knows how how to pic 'em. This album I did not appreciate when i first heard it but, as I grew up I was like wow! This stuff is tight!! The funk is in your face and these musicians really rock a house--The original Funkadelics should be inducted again into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Very excellent work for some very young musicians. The Parliaments are truly doing their thing with the vocals and this album has a lot of energy. Funkadelic set a tone and my hat's off to Bernie Worrell! He rocked those keys like Eddie and Tawl rocked those guitars! There is no other keyboard player like Bernie Worrell in rock music ---probably never will be. These are very innovative people who moved a world--they are still rockin' and funkin' all over the planet.

Free Your Mind...And Your Ass Will Follow

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Maximum weirdness, still competely bizarre after nearly 40 years
Insane psychedelic Hendrix-funk-rock from the Masters
REVOLUTIONARY
all depends on how free you wanna be...
will a REMASTERED version of this PLEASE be released?!?!

Free Your Mind...And Your Ass Will Follow
Funkadelic
Manufacturer: Westbound Records Us
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ASIN: B000001TVB
Release Date: 1990-06-01

Tracks:

Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow
Friday Night, August 14th
Funky Dollar Bill
I Wanna Know If It's Good To You?
Some More
Eulogy And Light

Customer Reviews:

Maximum weirdness, still competely bizarre after nearly 40 years.......2007-03-29

I can just see it - a young teenager in 1977-1978 who had gotten into Funkadelic via One Nation Under a Groove and Uncle Jam. Deciding to trace Funkadelic's history, they hit the record store, pick this up, put it on the turntable... and back away slowly, wondering just where the hell that insane title track came from.
I was that teenager once, with a few key differences: this happened in January of 2007, and my medium of choice was CD. But I have since come to appreciate this album as one of Funkadelic's crowning achievements back when they were a massively creative force. Not to discount the more mainstream stuff - Let's Take it to the Stage, One Nation Under a Groove and Uncle Jam Wants You are three of my favorite funk records ever. But I find myself leaning towards the earlier stuff.
Yes, the group was stoned beyond all possible help on acid when this album was recorded. And while I'm no stoner, I can easily get into the title track. Yeah, it's weird, but it's one of the greatest freakouts of alltime, far better than In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida or any of the Stones' freakouts. I like to picture it as sort of a goofier, shorter version of the Velvet Underground's Sister Ray - chaotic extended jamming with great results. There's one thing that bugs me about the song, and it's that grating organ. Outside of that, it's a perfect song.
If you liked the freakout stuff, I'm sure the two other freakouts, Friday Night August 14th and Eulogy and Light (with the b-side Open Our Eyes backmasked and some great socially conscience) will do a lot for you, as they do for me. Even better are two more traditional songs: sweaty funk jam I Wanna Know if It's Good to You and funk-rock-psychedelic classic Funky Dollar Bill. Yes, they fail on Some More, and it's far from accessible. But it's a great album, with one of the greatest titles ever. Not the place to start with the group, though.

Insane psychedelic Hendrix-funk-rock from the Masters.......2005-10-03

Early Funkadelic released some seriously brilliant and completely wigged-out albums, and this very well may be the craziest of them all. It's also the second-best of the mighty early Westbound triumvirate (Funkadelic, Free Your Mind, the astounding Maggot Brain). The later Westbound comp "Music For Your Mother" is also fantastic, featuring a lot of the songs on these albums in far superior mixes.

The CD remastering - for the American version of the CD - is awful, which is practically a crime and saps much of the power out of a glorious acid-funk masterpiece. Unforgivable? Yes. But this doesn't hold true for all issues of the album. My advice is simple. Get The British Version Of This Album. It sounds amazing. Granted, the production and mixing themselves still get in the way, because, like the music, they too were done on acid, but at least with the British version it doesn't sound flatter than a waffle. Instead, it sounds full-bodied and even warm on some of the songs.

The first track, "Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow," is tripped out into regions beyond. Certainly, these were intergalactic Funkateers not of this planet. Are those synth noises at the beginning, or are they just processed feedback? I don't know, but whatever it is, it's brilliant. Then the groove comes in - Tiki Fulwood, possibly the best drummer Funkadelic ever had, comes in with an implacable and totally funky drum entrance, spurring them all into the acid-freakout-funk jam. The screams and LSD-fueled chants are drugged Detroit soul of the purest form, and Eddie Hazel's searing, unutterably awesome and wholly, terrifyingly Hendrix-like guitar work rips out of the speakers, competing with Bernie Worrell's fuzzed-out quasi-classical Hammond organ for dominance. This continues for the rest of the 10 minutes. "Friday Night, August 14th" follows with a bluesy acid-funk shuffle, with more brilliant and radical guitarin' from the Eddie Hazel-Tawl Ross guitar tag team. Fulwood's semi-drum-solo, fed through abusive amounts of analog echo and delay, caps a great song. "Funky Dollar Bill" would be great, but there is a problem. It's all fantastic - the rhythm guitar is unbelievable, the lead bluesy and paint-strippingly loud - but the Worrell jangle-piano part is terrible, I'm sorry to say. It's a painfully obvious overdub, and it's badly out-of-tune and nearly out-of-rhythm; it ruins the song for me, sadly. All is forgiven with THE JAM OF ALL TIME, "I Wanna Know If It's Good To You." The vocal part is amazing, but the instrumental jam afterwards is what really rips me to shreds. That guitar soloing is simply on a plane beyond what most soloists could even think of reaching - the best feedback entrance ever. Ever. Signed, sealed, and delivered. It's also sweet as hell when it all quiets down, Fulwood starts hitting the cowbells in totally funky rhythm (More Cowbell!!!), suddenly the mix turns better, and Billy "Bass" Nelson's astoundingly funky bass playing becomes audible - those trills alone could make you dance like a funky fool. "Some More" comes after that, and predictably can't really compare, as it's a jokey blues song, but it's fun enough - the vocal effects are great, and it's better than "Back In Our Minds" on "Maggot Brain." "Eulogy and Light" is really freaky, and ends the album with a slowed-down and massively reverbed Clinton monologue from the view of a pimp (I guess; I'm not sure, really) showing worship to the God "Big Buck" over a really scary backwards tape; the music is from an old 1969 B-side, "Open Our Eyes," which is God-praising gospel so uncut, so heartfelt, so, well, soulful that it seems like a near-perversion of religion to use it backwards for this terrifying rant, which ends with the tape being sped up as Clinton screams "Is Truth the Light?!?!?!??!!!," showing the pimp's figurative, Divine punishment. A brilliant move on Clinton's part, "Eulogy and Light" ends the album.

Such a brilliant album, even though it's painfully short at 31 minutes, deserves to be heard by everybody. Get the British version, turn "I Wanna Know If It's Good To You" up and feel the light sear your senses. I love Funkadelic.

REVOLUTIONARY .......2005-04-19

this album is one of the greatest debuts ever. early funkadelic was so bad-ass down and dirty funkdafied, some of the best music ever recorded. george clinton's parliament/funkadelic would go on to become more goofy but the early stuff is what really rocks. if you love hardcore gritty funk also check out the miles davis albums "agharta" and "on the corner." (even if you dont like much jazz as I dont because it sounds kind of weak, believe me these albums are not your normal jazz- some of the most mindblowing, funkiest guitar/bass playing ever put on record are on these albums) free your mind and your ass will follow- the kingdom of heaven is within. dig it.

all depends on how free you wanna be..........2005-02-25

looks like folks either love it or hate it... mostly, looks like they jus disgruntled with the sound quality... and yeah, it could sorely use a sonic upgrade!

'free your mind', 'maggotbrain' and 'standing on the verge' are the holy triumverant of funkadelic records, in my book. pure and uncommercialized... nothin experimental feelin at all... jusbeautiful, garage band jam. no preservatives added.

the masters of funk at their zenith.

will a REMASTERED version of this PLEASE be released?!?!.......2004-04-13

Real good, trippy early P-Funk work despite waves of musical progression to come in the decade ahead. Title track and 'Some More' (my favorite track) are the highlights of this little psychadelic adventure. However, the mastering of this CD is inexcusably horrendous! It makes the first issue of Jethro Tull's 'Aqualung' (not that the other versions are much better) sound like the sharpest sounding CD of all time! On the volume knob, you have to play it at 8 so it (accompanied with hiss) can sound like it's at 4! I simply HAD to return this CD and won't re-buy this album on disc 'til they rightfully remaster it. What a treat that will be.

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"top film scores of the 1960's ~ Percy Faith"
Born Free/Windmills of your mind

Born Free/Windmills of Your Mind

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Customer Reviews:

"top film scores of the 1960's ~ Percy Faith".......2004-02-18

If you are a collector of Percy Faith, you must run out to your local music store and pick this one up ~ "Plays The Academy Award Winner Born Free and Other Great Movie Themes" (originally released on Columbia Records CS 9450 in 1967) and "Windmills of Your Mind" (originally released on Columbia Records CS 9835 in 1969) ~ following the formula of previous Columbia Records releases featuring Faith's classic style of sweeping strings and haunting arrangements, they've come up with two more winners.

Master of arranging, Faith's formula is so natural in keeping the arrangements fresh and new with his distinctive style ~ his tasteful treatment always highlights the quality of the composition ~ ultimately making them a hit all over again. Remember the days when you could turn on the radio and hear Percy Faith with many familiar pop standards ~ when you put this compact disc on your player, get ready for the "Percy Faith Touch" sprinkled with pure magic over the orchestration and leaves you simply in that unforgettable mood.

Top performances inclusive for the twenty two tracks of film score themes ~ "A MAN AND A WOMAN" (Barouh/Lai), "A TIME FOR LOVE" (Webster/Mandel), "ALFIE"(David/Bacharach), "AS LONG AS HE NEEDS ME" (Lionel Bart), "BORN FREE"(John Barry), "CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG" (Richard M. Sherman/Robert B. Sherman), "ELVIRA'S THEME" (Percy Faith), "FOR LOVE OF IVY" (Russell/Quincy Jones), "THEME FROM "THE FOX" (Lalo Schlfrin), "FUNNY GIRL" (Merrill/Styne), "GEORGY GIRL"(Dale/Springfield), "THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER" (Peggy Lee/David Grusin), "HOW ARE THINGS IN GLOCCA MORRA?"(Harburg/Lane), "THE LION IN THE WINTER"(John Barry), "SONG FROM "THE OSCAR" (Evans/Livingston/Percy Faith), "THEME FROM "THE SAND PEPPLES" (Bricusse/Goldsmith), "SOMEWHERE MY LOVE(Lara's Theme from "Dr. Zhivago")"(Webster/Jarre), "STAR" (Cahn/Van Heusen), "THIS IS MY SONG" (Charles Chaplin), "THIS HOTEL" (Keating/Quine), "THE WINDMILLS OF YOUR MIND" and "THE WISHING DOLL" (David/Bernstein) ~ notice two of the selections were composed by the man himself Percy Faith! Impressive line up of top movie songs that will surely satisfy the appetite of all "film-score-buffs" and Percy Faith fans...gotta love it!

Total Time: 63:41 on 22 Tracks ~ Collectables 7428 ~ (2/19/2002)

Born Free/Windmills of your mind.......2002-03-02

Another perfect reissiue by collectibles music,This album contains themes from movies.Most of these songs have been unavailable by Faith since Lps went out.This album contains such songs as somewhere my love, this hotel,And we were lovers,This is my song,Alfie,How are things in Glacca Morra and many more.All of these songs are beautifully done Faith style.The album empasizes just his orchestra.Their's no chrous here.The original liner notes to born free are included in the bookelet as well as pictures of Faith probebly from born free under the clear cd holder.The liner notes to Windmills of your mind are not included.If your a collector of Percy Faith's music you have to get this cd since many of these songs are on cd for the first time.

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Deja Vu
Flushed It Down The Bowl...And Wasted My Money
Changes are good>But solo's are better>
I feel like a "Sui-Sucker"
Hmmmmmm

Free Your Soul and Save My Mind
Suicidal Tendencies
Manufacturer: Suicidal Records
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ASIN: B00004Y6N8
Release Date: 2000-08-29

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Self Destruct
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No More No Less
Free Your Soul...And Save My Mind
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Bullenium
Animal
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Cyco Speak
Start Your Brain
Public Dissension
Children Of The Bored
Got Mutation
Charlie Monroe
Home

Customer Reviews:

Deja Vu.......2004-02-27

This album is a solid work - every song except for "Animal", which does not connect with me, is of typically high ST quality. Musicianship, as usual, is ST's brand of superb, and the band lineup is the same as was in place for "Freedumb".

However, several songs (which definitely rock in their own right) seem like re-hashings of great Suicidal songs of old - "Self Destruct" comes off as a funked out "You Cant Bring Me Down", "No More No Less" sounds like "Pledge Your Allegiance", and "Bullenium" sounds like "Don't Give Me Your Nothin'". That said, at least ST rips off its own material and they pick great songs out of their own catologue to plagiarize. I like all three songs being critiqued in this paragraph, by the way.

There are some tracks which are truly original ST material and are first rate - Su Casa Es Mi Casa, Children of the Bored, Home, and STraight from the Heart are classic ST. Pop Songs is amusing, but not quite as side-splitting witty as Send Me Your Money.

The verdict is that this is a very good album, which while not measuring up to all-time classics like Suicidal Tendnecies, Lights Camera and Art of Rebellion, is better than at least 95% of the hard rock being released today by other bands. If you love both ST and Infectious Grooves, then you definitely want to check this out. If IG is not your thing, then you may want to consider other ST material.

Flushed It Down The Bowl...And Wasted My Money.......2001-04-05

S.T. has lost their sound and the energy they once had. I hate "PoP Songs" just like you Mike Muir, but you know what, Your also writing them. This album is compared to The Offsprings worst album. If you want some great S.T., then buy all cd's up to "Suicidal For Life"

Changes are good>But solo's are better>.......2001-03-25

This changes are good...i recommended that S.T makes a little turn, and tried to play goth music(w/solos),and many other genres to succed, because you cant'stock in one type of music, you have to expand your self, and they expand their selves in this record, they changed, but in my opinion i missed de old S.T with brilliants solo's... i wish that rocky come back to the band.. but if he wasn't i would like that s.t tried to play big solo's with or with out ROCKY...Because suicidal is not rocky his self.. is all of them..

We still cyco .. Spread the word\

I feel like a "Sui-Sucker".......2000-12-18

Mike really got me this time. After putting out what was my top album for 1999 (Freedumb), he comes back with more of the stuff that turned me off of these guys in the early 90's. This really should of been released as an "Infectious Grooves" record. Too much funk, not enough punk.

Hmmmmmm.......2000-12-03

I'm a die-hard Suicidal fan. But for some reason, I lost interest in this album after owning it for about a week. The music reminds me of Freedumb meets The Infections Grooves. Not there is anything wrong with that sound. (Freedumb is my favorite album). There is just something missing.. I don't know what it is. When I find out, I'll let you know.

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Highly recommended

Ultimate Movie Album

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Album Description

UK compilation featuring a combination of hit songs & theme music from some great soundtracks. Tracks include, Gabrielle 'Out Of Reach' (Bridget Jones Diary), 'Now We Are Free' (Gladiator), 'Dead Already' (American Beauty), Alison Kraus 'Down To The River To Pray' (O Brother Where Art Thou), Ronan Keating 'When You Say Nothing At All' (Notting Hill) & many more. 35 tracks on 2 CDs. 2001.

Customer Reviews:

Highly recommended.......2002-08-20

This pricey UK import CD filled a lot of gaps in my music collection and is an excellent overview of notable music of (mostly) recent films. It's difficult to find consistently listenable soundtrack collections like this, by that I mean free from the obligitory Whitney Houston or Celine Dion embarrassments. Usually rights issues prevent comprehensive compilations like this in the US, too. While I enjoy a lot of soundtrack music, there aren't so many complete soundtracks that I would care to own, some examples of exceptions being Ennio Morricone scores and the About a Boy Soundtrack. While certainly most of these tracks are the actual recordings used in their respective films, I noticed that "La mamma morte" from Philadelphia is not the Maria Callas version. There might be other cases like this, I'm not sure. And "Unchained Melody" from Ghost is an orchestral version, not the pop song (but I consider this a plus). This collection seems to focus on the subtle and quirky, yet melodic music of indie films, with less emphasis on the loud sweeping orchestral scores of major Hollywood hits, but of course there are a few like Gladiator and Braveheart, which are welcome here because like I've said, I probably wouldn't listen to the whole score. I love the two Thomas Newman compositions from American Beauty, and it's good to have some music from films by the Cohen Brothers here. My only complaint would have to be the order of the songs. You would think they would avoid jumping back and forth between pop songs, orchestral scores, and quiet music, but it just seems thrown together by random. I would compare this collection to the excellent "Miramax Films Greatest Hits" but the makers of that album knew to group the two pop/rock songs at the end.

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Buy this album!

Free Your Mind: The 700 West Sessions
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Buy this album!.......2007-03-27

I had to stick up for this album since no one else has reviewed it yet. The lack of critical press for this album is puzzling, it is definitely some of the best music I have heard in a while. Egon from Now Again (subsidiary of Stones Throw) has done it again, unearthing a true gem that has Temptations style vocal harmonies set to hard funk and r&b. The music was recorded in 1973, but it contains a timeless quality which would sound fresh and exciting in any era. There is an urgency and energy to the music, from the socially concerned lyrics to the incredible instrumentation. Fans of L.A. Carnival or any other funk and soul groups need to check this out. Highly recommended.

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Soul Rebels are Amazing

Let Your Mind Be Free
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Soul Rebels are Amazing.......2000-10-03

Picture yourself a first-time visitor to New Orleans, Louisiana in an out-of-the-way bar. You're there on the recommendation of a friend, not knowing what to expect. The bar is subdued, and most everybody's attention is on the TV showing the Buccaneer playoff game. You nervously ask the bartender in hushed tones, "Aren't the Soul Rebels supposed to be playing here?" He laughs and says, "Right after the game. What y'all gonna drink?" Bourbon, of course.

You wait, and nurse your drink. Then a second. The game ends. Instrument cases appear from under tables. Men with trumpets, drums, sousaphones and trombones assemble in the corner. Just as you realize you were sitting with the Soul Rebels all along, you are hit with a wall of funky brass sound and rhythm unlike anything you have ever heard before. Consider yourself lucky. You have stumbled upon the house bar of one of the most unique and talented brass bands in New Orleans.

The Soul Rebels combine New Orleans brass band sounds with the musical traditions of funk, rap, jazz, reggae and dancehall to create what can only be described as "amazing." I can't stop listening to this disk, and I can't imagine ever growing tired of it. The Soul Rebels revitalize the New Orleans tradition of great music and great musical talent. I only wish they had more than one CD in distribution. Buy this CD; you won't regret it.

Free Your Mind
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Free Your Mind
L. Subramaniam
Manufacturer: Iris
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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