Free Your Mind...And Your Ass Will Follow

1. Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow

2. Friday Night, August 14th

3. Funky Dollar Bill

4. I Wanna Know If It's Good to You?

5. Some More

6. Eulogy and Light

Free Your Mind...And Your Ass Will Follow,Funkadelic,Westbound Records,Funk,Pop,Psychedelic,Psychedelic Soul,Rock,Soul/Reggae/Rhythm & Blues

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Average customer rating: Free your mind! The kingdom of heaven is within... Pharmecutical Explanation. I Know That It Must Have Been Good To You Baby

Free Your Mind...And Your Ass Will Follow Funkadelic Manufacturer: Westbound Records Us ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music General | Funk | R&B | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Psychedelic Rock | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Maggot Brain Funkadelic Cosmic Slop Standing on the Verge of Getting It On America Eats Its Young ASIN: B000AXWV36 Release Date: 2005-11-01

Tracks:

1. Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow
2. Friday Night, August 14th
3. Funky Dollar Bill
4. I Wanna Know If It's Good to You?
5. Some More
6. Eulogy and Light
7. Fish, Chips and Sweat [*]
8. Free Your Mind Radio Advert [*]
9. I Wanna Know If It's Good to You [*]
10. 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.

Average customer rating: 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 ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music General | Funk | R&B | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Psychedelic Rock | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | R&B | Indie Music | Stores | Music Funk | R&B | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Funkadelic Maggot Brain Standing on the Verge of Getting It On America Eats Its Young Let's Take It to the Stage ASIN: B000001TVB Release Date: 1990-06-01

Tracks:

1. Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow
2. Friday Night, August 14th
3. Funky Dollar Bill
4. I Wanna Know If It's Good To You?
5. Some More
6. 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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