Mind Funk

Mind Funk

Track Listings

1. Sugar Ain't So Sweet

2. Ride and Drive

3. Bring It On

4. Big House Burning

5. Fire

6. Blood Runs Red

7. Sister Blue

8. Woke up This Morning

9. Innocence

10. Touch You

Tracks:

Love Having You Around
Superwoman (Where Were You When I Needed You)
I Love Everylittle Thing About You
Sweet Little Girl
Happier Than The Morning Sun
Girl Blue
Seems So Long
Keep On Running
Evil

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Stevie Wonder was getting his fusion of soul, rock, and various other styles together when Music of My Mind appeared in early 1972. A bit shapeless compared with Talking Book, the masterpiece he'd release by the end of the year, this disc nonetheless finds the then-21-year-old self-assuredly deploying an array of synthesized textures and natural voices: check out the drawl lurking around the edges of "Sweet Little Girl." Not an essential album, but an entertaining one--and one that, in retrospect, carried enormous implications for the future of American music. --Rickey Wright

Customer Reviews:

A QUANTUM LEAP FOR STEVIE.......2007-02-23

I WOULDN'T SAY THAT WITH THIS ALBUM, STEVIE WONDER CAME INTO HIS OWN, BECAUSE HE HAD RECORDED A LOT OF FANTASTIC MUSIC BEFORE THIS, BUT THIS ONE TAKES HIS MUSIC TO A WHOLE OTHER LEVEL. I HAVE HAD THIS ALBUM, CASSETTE, CD, SINCE IT CAME BACK LONGER THAN I CARE TO REMEMBER. THIS ALBUM WAS THE STEPPING STONE TO TALKING BOOK AND INNER VISIONS, WHICH WERE ALSO ALL TIME CLASSIC RECODRINGS. IF I HAD TO DESCRIBE THIS CD, I WOULD SAY IT WAS THE FIRST ONE THAT REALLY FEATURED THE MATURE VOICE OF STEVIE WONDER.

An absolute beauty.......2007-02-11

Dear fellow music-lovers:
Even though some music-critics think that Music Of My Mind is inferior to Talking Book, I would urge you to take a plunge into this record.
It's Stevie at his very best. Lovely melodies, unheard-of harmonies, only the drum is out of beat once in a while. But then: this is the music they played in the 70's - it's entirely without computing, and therefore as real as the hum of beas!
Stevie is impressively inspired, at his most sensual. This record is outstanding; every song has its high moments.
I hear myself humming those tunes over and over - more than 35 years after recording.
It's a record for all time. Why don't you make it your own soundtrack?

Superwoman (Where were you when I needed you).......2006-09-14

... this song Superwoman (Where were you when I needed you)... if you don't allready know it will blow your mind.. get it

Good but not Great.......2005-08-15

Are there lots of good songs on this Cd? Yes of Course. There some songs that haven't aged at all. Most songs are great soul and R&B. Girl Blue lyrically is the best song i have ever heard, to bad he decided to play around with the synthesisers to much!

This isn't a Stevie wonder album i would start on, his others are much stronger 1-10. Some of these songs just aren't that good.

Essential.......2005-04-23

Music of My Mind is Stevie Wonder's first fully-successful recording in which he assumed complete artistic control. Recorded at the start of the 70s, when the singer-songwriter-multi-intstrumentalist was not yet 25, this suite of songs sounds remarkably fresh and relevant; and its arrangments transcend whatever changes in musical tastes have rendered so many lesser recordings from lesser artists of the day passe.

Despite its lack of any obvious hit single (the album's catchiest songs far exceed the four-minute mark), Music of My Mind is an essential recording. From the celebratory opener, "Love Having You Around" to the emotionally raw indictment of "Superwoman," to the rousing r and b shouter "Keep on Running," Wonder manages to extend and develop catchy songs into full-blown mini-epics. The shorter songs here are equally impressive: "Evil," the album's closer, is sung with such conviction, such faith, that it's difficult not to get caught up with Wonder's vision for a more healing, loving world; "Been So Long" and "Love Everything About You" are two distinct variations on romance--one moody and introspective, the other playful and light; and even a gag tune like "Sweet Little Girl," which functions in part as a powerful satire on blacksploitation, is too ingratiating to dismiss.

A must-have for any music collector.

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This is where the dam broke...
Dirty Mind
Turning Point of a genius...
Prince...Dirty Mind...
A Classic Album

Dirty Mind
Prince
Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B000002KLP
Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

Dirty Mind
When You Were Mine
Do It All Night
Gotta Broken Heart Again
Uptown
Head
Sister
Partyup

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On this 1980 tour de force, Prince produced the template for most of his '80s albums: a mixture of lust and longing, synth pop combined with gut bucket rock and roll. Although this was his third CD, Dirty Mind was the one that truly established "When You Were Mine," which still ranks as one of his best songs, ever. The gender- and race-bending Dirty Mind was nasty and freaky--and you could dance to it. Still can. --Amy Linden

Customer Reviews:

This is where the dam broke..........2007-07-27

After his second record, it was put-up or shut-up for Prince. "Dirty Mind" marks the spot where he decided to go for broke. Was pop music to go on being merely coy and suggestive or was it going to be explicit? Prince made that hard left turn on this record and the whole of pop culture followed along with him, hip-hop and all...

...And none of it would have worked if the music wouldn't have been so convincing. Slick, greasy funk the whole way, yet Prince keeps it tight and concise. It's spiked with rock, just the way Sly, Rick and George had done. The difference with Prince was that the sound was kept close to your ear. There's no expansion to the sound, no jamming going on, it's not designed for a hockey rink. He's right in the room with you, not aiming for the cheap seats.

Lyrically, everything gets the bird. You got Prince color-by-numbered into your blaxploitation hetero freak fantasy? Not going to happen. ("When U Were Mine," falsetto vocals.) Shunning politics for more immediate pop thrills? Nyet. ("Partyup," "Uptown.") Sex within your frat-house range of soft-core taboos? Not today. ("Sister.") This record pushed all the buttons back then, and it's still astonishing for its nerve. Prince had balls, and this was the first time you got to hear them. Rick James, Schoolly-D, N.W.A., Eminem, and every lick-em-up-and-down R&B singer since has followed his lead.

But you don't care, really. You just want to know: is my butt gonna shake when I put this one on? I can tell you "yes" 'til I'm blue in the face, but you've got to drop the ten bucks and find out for yourself.

Dirty Mind.......2007-07-09

Just classic Prince. Nothing more needs to be said. Must have for anyone claiming to be a Prince fan.

Turning Point of a genius..........2007-06-06

The title track say's it all. Even though it was his third album...this was like his first album... the definitive album in PRN's career..."For you" and "Prince"(ALBUMS 1 & 2) were filled with a more "POP" flavor but "Dirty Mind" was Prince on stage in a long trench coat,bikini briefs, and a lot of what made Prince ~ Prince...SEXUALITY. Track 2 "When You Were Mine" is still one of my fav's from him and track 4 "Gotta Broken Heart" was a sign of things to come...THE ART OF THE FALSETTO BALLAD...Prince is as complete of an artist as we"ll ever see! I particualrly love the way the album makes you fell as if you're in the studio with him by mixing the songs together like a stage show. Track 5 "Uptown" was his anthum by saying "free your sexual mind, believe in god, and ignore color lines! This is the album that got everybody to ask..."is he straight or gay, is he a man or woman, is he really on stage doing and wearing that???" The answer thank GOD to all the above was YESS! Well before it's time with other anthums like "Head" talking about...well...Head(I've always felt like "Let's Pretend We're Married" was like a part 2 of this song) and "Sister" walks the edge more than a little( He is actually talking about a foster/step sister type)..."Party Up" is a perfect way to end this album. With screaming Synths' and crazy rock guitar and his signature gift from god of a voice, this is the definitive recording from Prince. It was the one that screamed to us saying..."BEWARE ...i've got talent and indviduality and i'm not afraid to use them!"

Prince...Dirty Mind..........2007-02-15

This was another of the re-mastered Prince albums that I bought for ($7US). The signature song on this disc: Head! Overall though, it was my least favorite albums due to his subject matter. Let's be frank, he left nothing out on this one, and set a standard for all others to follow. Three stars!!

A Classic Album.......2006-09-03

Prince's 1980 album DIRTY MIND is one of his best albums from his decades long career. The album features a more stripped back production, but the music is still pure soul/funk. There are some really memorable, classic Prince jams here such as "When You Were Mine", "Head", "Uptown" and the title track. It's a brisk album at 8 songs, but all are integral to this album. Prince produced, arranged and composed the whole album. He found success starting with this cd, his third. Deservingly so, this is a classic album that may be his best album.

Free Your Mind...And Your Ass Will Follow

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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
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Release Date: 2005-11-01

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
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.

Soul Hits of the 70s: Didn't It Blow Your Mind!, Vol. 5

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RARE GOLD
Some great forgotton jamz!

Soul Hits of the 70s: Didn't It Blow Your Mind!, Vol. 5
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
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ASIN: B0000032NX
Release Date: 1991-02-01

Tracks:

Want Ads - The Honey Cone
She's Not Just Another Woman - The 8th Day
Cool Aid - Paul Humphrey And His Cool Aid Chemists
Are You My Woman? (Tell Me So) - The Chi-Lites
Treat Her Like A Lady - Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose
Baby Let Me Kiss You - King Floyd
Funky Nassau-Part 1 - The Beginning Of The End
Double Barrel - Dave & Ansil Collins
Bring The Boys Home - Freda Payne
Mr. Big Stuff - Jean Knight
Stick Up - The Honey Cone
Smiling Faces Sometimes - The Undisputed Truth

Customer Reviews:

RARE GOLD.......2003-02-10

God bless Rhino for making all these obscure vinyl rarities available on disc. Honey Cone was a girl group that scored some successes in the early 1970s - "Want Ads", later in the decade covered by disco group Ullanda, was their biggest hit. The Chi-Lites' biggest hit was "Have You Seen Her?" from 1971, but this track "Are You My Woman" has the same smooth blend of sweet harmonies and spoken sections. "Treat Her Like A Lady" by the Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose was a huge hit in 1971, after which I never heard of them again. Great to have this on disc now! Other wonderful memories from 1971 include "Funky Nassau" by Beginning Of The End, the bouncy reggae of Dave & Ansel Collins' "Double Barrel" (Their other UK hit in 1971 was "Monkey Spanner"), Jean Knight's "Mr Big Stuff" (She hit the charts again many years later with "My Toot Toot") and The Undisputed Truth's only top ten ten hit, in a style similar to The Temptations. I had never heard the songs by 8th Day, Paul Humphrey or King Floyd before, but they're true blue classics from the golden age of soul music. This is an excellent collection of brilliant early 70's soul, highly recommended for the connoiseur.

Some great forgotton jamz!.......2002-06-21

Double Barrel is an instrumental that I remember listening to as a kid but totally forgot how cool it was. Thank the powers that be that I have found it again. Almost every track on this one is a stone cold groove!

Revolution Of The Mind( Live At The Apollo, Vol. III)

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before his time
Hot Pants!
Old school funk
GREAT, BUT NOT AS GREAT AS THE FIRST TWO
Subdued but still Funkified

Revolution Of The Mind( Live At The Apollo, Vol. III)
James Brown
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Release Date: 1993-03-23

Tracks:

Intro (It's A New Day So Let A Man Come In And Do The Popcorn)
Bewildered
Sex Machine
Escape-ism
Make It Funky
Try Me
Fast Medley: I Can't Stand It, Mother Popcorn, I Got The Feelin
Give It Up Or Turn It Loose
Call Me Super Bad
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before his time.......2006-06-26

anybody that knows of james brown knows that his music was way before its time.these are timeless tunes that are still being used today in the hip-hop world.timeless music and culture.

Hot Pants!.......2002-06-02

The newest James Brown fans, who possibly have not seen his live clips from the '60s, or have heard some of his best live recordings, are in for a shock - this is one bonafied smoker from Cut One To Twelve! Although there are some issues, namely that Cut Four, "Escapism"/"Make It Funky", (containing elements found in a future full-length version of the studio track), according to the excellent written notes by Harry Weinger, was actually a show opener; that the guitars and bass have little aural impact; and that in too many spots the soulful concedes to the sexual, "Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose", "Super Bad", "Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved" and others make up for any technical or artistic shortcomings as they throw off alot more heat than just the July, '71 sun. It's an explosion of sound, of passion, every note carrying the message: baby, you'll never be the same after digging this.
This session, Volume Three in a series, begs for the same "Deluxe" reissue treatment that Volume Two recieved. (Then maybe the most exciting album ever released, "James Brown - Live At The Garden", will follow in similiar fashion and give us a chance to actually *hear* his 1967 band!).

Old school funk.......2002-01-05

buy this cd if you want to experience that back in the day funk. this cd is worth it just for tracks 4/5; i don't know if it gets any funkier!

GREAT, BUT NOT AS GREAT AS THE FIRST TWO.......2002-01-03

GET THIS ALBUM/CD SIMPLY FOR IT'S HISTORICAL IMPORTANCE. THE FIRST APOLLO IS CHITLIN' CIRCUT BUTANE JAMES (THE GREATEST OF THE THREE) VOL. 2 MARKS THE BEGINNING OF THE FUNK AND COMPOSING ON THE SPOT JAMS (FROM LET YOURSELF GO TO THERE WAS A TIME, TO "I FEEL ALLRIGHT" TO "COLD SWEAT"). VOL. 3 IS WHERE BOBBY BYRD PLAYS A GREATER PART IN JAMES' SHOW. THE FIRST LIVE ALBUM FEATURING M.C. DANNY RAY (NOT INCLUDING SMASH'S "SHOWTIME" WITH FAKE APPLAUSE, OR "THE JAMES BROWN SHOW" WITH VARIOUS ARTISTS). IT'S A NEW DAY, BEWILDERED, SEX MACHINE, ESCAPE-ISM/MAKE IT FUNKY, TRY ME, FAST MEDLEY IS GREAT--ONE MINUTE & FIFTEEN SECONDS (CAN'T STAND IT, MOTHER POPCORN, I GOT THE FEELIN") GIVE IT UP, SUPERBAD, GET INVOLVED, SOUL POWER, HOT PANTS....THE ENTIRE ALBUM IS GREAT, BUT FIRST, MAKE SURE YOU GET THE FIRST TWO!

Subdued but still Funkified.......2001-08-20

I have yet to hear the James Brown live recording that surpasses "Love, Power, Peace" for sheer energy, band chops, and raw funk, and I figured that this album would at least give it a run for it's money, but I was disappointed with the production.

Don't mistake this for a reason NOT to buy this album; if you check out the medley of 'Escape-ism/Make it Funky' (which contains one of the best onstage raps/grooves JB ever put out) and the intense 'Bewildered', it makes it worth picking up. But I've got to pop the subwoofer up a notch to hear the basslines as they should be heard.

Whether it was a soundboard recording or not matters little... I love James Brown, but his bands were generally as good as he was, and they deserve to be heard on equal footing, and they're too low in the mix on this album.

Tracks:

Check
Get Back
The Real Me
Someday
Waste Of Mind
Feel This Way
Walk Away
Big Shot
Swing
Jag Off
Time
Move On
Fly Daze
Bootylicious Vinyl

Customer Reviews:

As with every CD from Zebrahead, amazing..........2005-06-05

What can I say I love Zebrahead. From the moment I heard Playmate of the Year by chance, because I was downloading a bunch of obscure punk band songs from the internet, I fell in love with this great experimental band's sound. The Funk/Jazz/Reggae influence just adds so much maturity and diversity to the punk/rock basis of this band. The CD harbors the only song ever made by Zebrahead that I don't love, and that is Fly Daze, but it still makes me chuckle so I don't hate it.

Everything about this CD is great. The fast paced, rap infused Check, the funky, jazzed out solos in The Real Me, Feal This Way, and Someday, and the fast-paced, fun Punk sounds of Get Back and Walk Away, which is also reggae inspired. And honestly I enjoy the solos the aforementioned songs as much as I like Freebird (Although, they obviously aren't the same caliber). And if you don't know what Freebird is you need to listen to some classic rock its by Lynyrd Skynyrd.

I can't believe I'm saying this, but..........2004-11-27

...this album is terrible compaired to Playmate of the year and Mfzb. I can't quite put my finger on it, but something about "waste of mind" blows when compaired to the later two. Maybe its the fact that every other verse, bridge and chorus is either boring, hard to sit thru or both? Maybe its the fact that this album has little to no pop-punk influence, making it an experimental nightmare? Or maybe its that "waste of mind" is just plain not as good as the others. whatever it may be, I know one thing for sure, this album pretty much sucks all the way thru, and was a huge waste of 11.99 plus tax.

High Points: Waste of mind, Big Shot

Low Points: 1-12 (except 5 and 8)

Rock Bottom: Fly Daze and Bootylicious

If you're thinking about getting waste of mind because you liked the other two, BEWARE, this album is nothing like them. If you're just starting out with zeebrahead, get Mfzb (their best) or Playmate of the year (a close second) instead and call it a day. This album is NOT POP-PUNK, its boring...

Original and Relevent.......2004-10-18

In a period inundated with rap-rock outfits like Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, etc., Waste of Mind still stands out as a shining example of musical ingenuity and originality. The kicker: it was released in 1998, and still feels fresh. Fusing pop melodies, powerful yet intricate guitar riffs, reggae and hip-hop rhythms, and gripping rap vocals, the album never repeats itself and covers a wide range of styles. Try "Someday," "The Real Me," or "Feel This Way" for a few examples of what Zebrahead has to offer, and avoid if possible any preconceptions you may have developed from their later albums. Waste of Mind remains one of the few rap-rock albums in my collection, because it is convincing and legitimate in a genre laden with redundancy and imitation.

It will put a smile on your face.......2004-08-26

Unlike many of the tired, cheesy, boring and annoying rap metal acts that have come and gone; Zebrahead stands out from the bunch creating their own signature sound.

It's nearly impossible not to enjoy the songs on this album. It will put you in a good mood if your in a bad one. This wild ride of rock, metal, funk, and hip-hop will excite your ears to the fullest. Every track is great, and the songs play off each other well with plenty of diversity. From the moment "Check" takes off, it turns into a thrilling ride.

Their mix of rap, great lyrics, sweet squealing guitar riffs, crunching metal guitar riffs, funky bass lines, all with full intensity shows that this band has some true talent. Fast songs like "Get Back," "The Real Me," "Someday," and "Bootylicious Vinyl" to sweet chill tunes like "Feel This Way," "Move On," and "Fly Daze" transition so well with each other.

Don't be swayed away from Zebrahead if you think they are just another played-out rap metal band, they are unique in their own way.

3.5 stars - A very interesting album.......2003-12-04

Waste Of Mind (1998.) Zebrahead's first album.

Through the course of the nineties, alternative rock reached an all time high it will probably never reach again. A number of bands experimented with a number of styles - some successful, some unsuccessful. One of these many bands was Zebrahead. These guys attempted to fuse punk and rap. Sounds odd, doesn't it? Well, it is. Sadly though, with all the emerging alternative rock artists in the nineties, these guys tend to go forgotten. Read on for my review of the band's first album, 1998's Waste Of Mind.

The first thing I need to state is that none of the songs on this album are covers. Get Back, Walk Away, Someday, and Time are not the Beatles, James Gang, Sugar Ray, and Pink Floyd songs - these are ALL Zebrahead originals. Most of the songs on this album follow a very similar style that fuses elements of punk and rap - and it makes for a rather interesting listening experience. The only really big hit (and the only song on here that tends to get any real recognition) is Get Back. This track is, for the most part, worthy of its popularity. No, it's not the best thing on here, but it's a good song nonetheless. My personal favorite cut on the album is a minor hit called The Real Me. The vocals in this track are top notch, and it even features a guitar solo (a damn good one too!) Other tracks worth checking out are Feel This Way, Check, Someday, and the title track. The latter has an instrumental sequence that, while odd, still rocks. One complaint I have about this album is that the songs are almost all set up the same way - long verse/short chorus/normal verse/normal chorus/instrumental break/double chorus. Also, I wish the band would have kept the rapping to a minimum, since I lean more toward punk than I do rap.

Tracks:

So Very Hard To Go - Tower Of Power
Higher Plane - Kool & The Gang
Rockin' Soul - The Hues Corporation
Three Ring Circus - Blue Magic
Shoeshine Boy - Eddie Kendricks
Bad Luck (Part 1) - Harold Melven & The Bluenotes
Why Can't We Be Friends? - War
Do It Any Way You Wanna - People's Choice
I Love Music (Part 1) - O'Jays
Love Rollercoaster - Ohio Players
Happy Music - The Blackbyrds
Movin' - Brass Construction

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Worthwhile collection for 70s soul fans..........2001-08-27

These hits span the period between mid 1973 and mid 1976, a "transitional" period in 70s soul music - there is a marked contrast between the songs heard in 1973 and those heard in 1976. For this reason the collection sounds a bit disjointed historically. Nonetheless, there are some wonderful, hard to find gems in this collection. The superb, soulful "So Very Hard To Go" is the best known song for the Tower of Power, and exemplifies the sound of 73/74, along with the tender Philly-Soul influenced ballad "Three Ring Circus". In 1975, the harder influences of Funk and Disco began to dominate the soul sound, as can be heard in the danceable "Do It Any Way You Wanna", "I Love Music", "Love Rollercoaster", and "Movin'". "Shoeshine Boy", "Bad Luck", and "Why Can't We Be Friends" are also excellent songs to round out this collection. The 70s soul music lover will enjoy the diverse songs in this collection.

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Burning Time
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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
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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

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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.

Soul Hits of the 70s: Didn't It Blow Your Mind!, Vol. 11

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Lovely tunes form 1972-73

Soul Hits of the 70s: Didn't It Blow Your Mind!, Vol. 11
Eddie Kendricks , and Ann Peebles
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ASIN: B0000032GV
Release Date: 1991-07-30

Tracks:

I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little More Baby - Barry White
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If You're Ready (Come Go With Me ) - Staple Singers
I Can't Stand The Rain - Ann Peebles

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Lovely tunes form 1972-73.......2001-08-10

These are some lovely tunes that graced Soul stations in 1972-73. How can you go wrong with "Walkin In the Rain With the One I Love." Only minor complaint-this only contains pt. 1 of Fred Wesley/james Brown's "Doing It To Death." One portion of that song just ain't enough! You gotta hear the whole thing for the full effect.

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