Let's Take It to the Stage [Original recording remastered]

Track Listings

1. Good to Your Earhole

2. Better by the Pound

3. Be My Beach

4. No Head, No Backstage Pass

5. Let's Take It to the Stage

6. Get Off Your Ass and Jam

7. Baby I Owe You Something Good

8. Stuffs and Things

9. Song Is Familiar

10. Atmosphere

11. Baby I Owe You Something Good [Mono Version][*] - Funkadelic, U.S. Music, U.S. Music

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
The classic 1975 Funkadelic album - with plenty of Bootsy Collins - remastered from the original master tapes for the first time in 15 years. This is the album that saw Bootsy invent his classic "Casper" vocal style on the mighty "Be My Beach". It was Funkadelic's sixth Top 20 R&B album. This release includes the original 10-track album and the original 1972 version of album track "Baby I Owe You Something Good" taken from the earlier "US Music with Funkadelic" 45. Includes in-depth notes from funk expert and series compiler Dean Rudland. These include a band history and details of the recording of this album. The booklet includes a full color reproduction of Pedro Bell's phenomenal artwork from the original album, as well as original adverts and rarely-seen band pictures. Westbound U.S.

Let's Take It to the Stage,Funkadelic,Westbound Records,Funk,Pop,Rock,Soul/R & B

Tracks:

Good To Your Earhole
Better By The Pound
Be My Beach
No Head No Backstage Pass
Let's Take It To The Stage
Get Off Your Ass And Jam
Baby I Owe You Something Good
Stuffs & Things
The Song Is Familiar
Atmosphere

Customer Reviews:

Funk used to be a bad word........2007-07-01

This is another example of how creative the music was in the 1970's. "Chocolate City" was already doing something. Funkadelic's album was a little more "coarse". With intense guitars, booming bass', pocket drum beats. Slick vocals, they were at thier best here. The album cover almost made me not buy the album. Every song here is a favorite. The opening song "Good To Your Earhole. I love Eddie Hazels guitar solo. Better By The Pound was also a great dance number with "Billy Bass" Nelson on the bass. "No Head" is a funny song about a girl trying to get backstage but the bouncer told her "No head, no backstage pass" (blush). Be My Beach is a slow song but it's a hot one. Bootsy Collins on bass & Lead vocals who sounds a lot like the late Jimi Hendricks. He's sharing vocals with George Clinton, the late Sting Ray (Bass singer) Davis & Calvin Simon, who sounds like Walter from the O'Jays. Title Cut is slammin'. "Get off your ...& Jam" was the song. Eddie Hazel sho nuff plays a hysterical guitar. "I Owe U Something GOod" WIth Garry & Calvin on vocals, they are holding it down, while the guitars sounds like some middle eastern play! Stuff & Thangs is great. Bernie Worrell is holding it down. "The Song IS Familiar" sounds real churchy. Garry Shider again, singing that song with so much soul. "ATmosphere" Bernie takes a stab at the Hammond B3& other keyboards, while George is obviously saying something "common" in the intro. This is one of the best albums that was ever released. RIP Eddie, Ray, & Tiki Fulwood!
THis album concept was actually the stuff going on backstage at the time. Who's going to go on first, equipment being sabatoged...stuff like that. I heard that some times fist fights happened. Funk says....Let's Take It To The Stage......

This is good for your collection.......2006-09-15

You cannot have a Funkadelic collection without "The Stage" album. It totally works in the chronicological order of things and Funkadelice let's you know, "We don't care what you think, if you can do better, let's take it to the stage". They would win the battle hands down! I saw an interview with Earth, Wind and Fire and when they were descibed as a funk band they said they thought they could funk but Parlaiment/Funkadelic could funk! What does that tell you? They put out some good stuff here. "Baby I Owe You Something Good" with lead vocals by Gary Shider was superb and "Get Off Your A__ And Jam" just let you know as they always said, "Ain't nuthin' but a party baby"."Let's Take It To The Stage" is a ribbing of other groups and it was good advertisement for the Funk Mob. Read all the liner notes you can and you will see that the U.S. Funk Mob were "musical thugs" who could back up all that they spewed out. Nice "in your face music George".....

Back & Forth.......2006-08-26

I go back & forth between this album and Standing on the Verge being my favorite Funkadelic albums. Gun to my head, I'd probably say "Let's Take It To The Stage" most days. My father brought this home for me on 8-track (I was 14), and to this day I still don't know if he had any idea... The album smokes from start to finish, from Earhole to Atmosphere. More accessible than the earlier stuff, not as commercial as the later stuff, this is the band at the peak of its powers.

So good to your earhole..........2006-03-02

It bothers me when Parliament and Funkadelic are lumped together as the same entity. For example, VH1 claims that the 99th greatest rock act of all time is Parliament/Funkadelic. Although both groups, spearheaded by George Clinton, had rotating line-ups of musicians that usually overlapped, each band had their own sound and boasts an impressive catalogue of music that is not related to the other in any way. In my opinion, BOTH Parliament and Funkadelic should be included separately in any "Greatest" list, and both in at least the top 20! I just had to get that off of my chest. On to the review.

Let's Take it to the Stage is easily a top-3 Funkadelic album, maybe even the best. It opens with the rocking one-two punch of "Good to Your Earhole" and "Better by the Pound". I've always considered Funkadelic a rock band that is extremely funky, not vice versa, and these two tracks add credence to that way of thinking. Next is "Be My Beach" which is one of the most unique, trippy songs they have ever made. Bootsy's vocals are fantastic. Fourth is Clinton's updated take on Sly and the Family Stone's "Jane is a Groupie". "No Head, No Backstage Pass" is hilarious, sleazy, biting and to the point. It's also on the verge of heavy metal, a concept that was being invented by Black Sabbath and, to some extent, Led Zeppelin at the time. Next is the title track which is the biggest "hit" off of the album. Memorable for the funk mob's playful skewering of their contemporaries, this statement of dominance doesn't hold up as well, to me, as the wonderfully crafted tunes that surround it. One track that holds up exceedingly well, however, is "Get Off You're A$$ and Jam". Fueled by Michael Hampton's frenzied guitar solos, this live staple practically assaults you when you listen to it. Hampton (along with his predecessor and inspiration, Eddie Hazel) still ranks among rock's greatest guitarists, and his performance on this album is one of the reasons why. "Baby I Owe You Something Good" is an epic track with tremendous vocals by Gary Shider (I think...). "Stuffs and Things" is a ludicrously suggestive and goofy track that lampoons traditional R&B's less than subtle use of innuendo to talk about sex. It literally cracks me up every time I hear it ("I'm gonna do my utmost to your stuff..."). Musically, its the funkiest track on the disc with Bernie Worrell's synths doing crazy things in the background. Alas, Funkadelic can't quite keep up the incredible pace, and the last 2 songs are somewhat of a drop-off. "The Song is Familiar" is a nice-enough ballad, and "Atmosphere" is an eerily catchy little keyboard experiment.

While Let's Take it to the Stage doesn't get the recognition of Maggot Brain or One Nation Under a Groove, it is every bit as essential. Clinton and company were at a song-writing apex, giving us several 2-5 minute blasts of brilliance. The assertion that Funkadelic is the "black Beatles" is not far off base. Strip away the psychedelia, the dark humor, the monstrous bass of Bootsy and the general Funkadelic craziness, and you've got a perfectly crafted pop album. Of course, strip all of that away, and you don't have Funkadelic.

Get Off Your WHAT And Jam?.......2004-09-12

I personally believe that Funkadelic were hitting a peak when they made 'Let's Take It To The Stage".They had certainly perfected their mix of funk and psychedelic rock and
had it down to a science.And in the pure funk-rock idion
"Good To Your Earhole","Stuffs And Things" and the unforgettable
"Get Off Your Ass And Jam" are the real deal!The zany title track and the cryptic "Better By The Pound" are P-Funk basics with the latter featuring a brilliant percussion section.And the
whole shabang ends off with the dirty,dirty "Atmosphere",nothing
but gospel organ and a filthy lyric-it so sacreligious I LOVE it!
"Be My Beach" is one of those psychedelic Bootsy ballads that just punches you out (at least it does me) and
"No Head,No Backstage Pass" is trashier then anything I've
heard Aerosmith or Sabbath or ANY groovy hard rock band do!
"This Song Is Familiar" is yet more of Funkadelic at their
irreverant best-almost acapella gospel of sorts!To me this is
one Funkadelic album that got pretty overlooked at first but that the years have treated VERY kindly!This is the kind of music that Digital Underground and Outkast have cut their teeth on and as it is it's still out and out FUNKY!Not to mention how
it steers out of the long winded jam band style that had become a Funkadelic clishe'.I'd actually recommend this to anyone as the Funkadelic album to start with-their first album is at the
same level but this is somewhat easier to get into!

Average customer rating:

remastering job great, but edited version on atmosphere HORRIBLE

Let's Take It to the Stage
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Manufacturer: Westbound Records Us
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Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 2005-11-01

Tracks:

Good to Your Earhole
Better by the Pound
Be My Beach
No Head, No Backstage Pass
Let's Take It to the Stage
Get Off Your Ass and Jam
Baby I Owe You Something Good
Stuffs and Things
Song Is Familiar
Atmosphere
Baby I Owe You Something Good [Mono Version][*] - Funkadelic, U.S. Music, U.S. Music

Album Description

The classic 1975 Funkadelic album - with plenty of Bootsy Collins - remastered from the original master tapes for the first time in 15 years. This is the album that saw Bootsy invent his classic "Casper" vocal style on the mighty "Be My Beach". It was Funkadelic's sixth Top 20 R&B album. This release includes the original 10-track album and the original 1972 version of album track "Baby I Owe You Something Good" taken from the earlier "US Music with Funkadelic" 45. Includes in-depth notes from funk expert and series compiler Dean Rudland. These include a band history and details of the recording of this album. The booklet includes a full color reproduction of Pedro Bell's phenomenal artwork from the original album, as well as original adverts and rarely-seen band pictures. Westbound U.S.

Customer Reviews:

remastering job great, but edited version on atmosphere HORRIBLE.......2006-01-02

the remastering job and cover art and liner notes are great, but westbound edited the beginning of atmosphere. i bought this version instead of the import because i read that the import had this edit also, so i figured that westbound wouldn't make the same mistake but they did. the edit is just stupid because it's only about 10 seconds they take off the beginning of the song and it makes no sense to do it.

don't buy until you know for sure that the edit has been fixed.

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Average customer rating:

The style is the man--and the song

A Room With a View: Complete Recordings, Vol.1

Manufacturer: Naxos
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ASIN: B000054BF6
Release Date: 2001-04-17

Tracks:

This Year Of Grace: Dance, Little Lady
This Year Of Grace: A Room With A View
This Year Of Grace: Mary Make-Believe
This Year Of Grace: Try To Learn To Love
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Customer Reviews:

The style is the man--and the song.......2001-05-02

Many composers have chosen to perform their own material and commit it to discs, with mixed results. Only with Noel Coward do we feel that a good deal of the charm of his numbers lies in the very way he performs them. For proof, we now have the Naxos Nostalgia (8.120529), which dishes up 16 tracks of the ultra-refined son of W. S.Gilbert, giving us six selections from "This Year of Grace," one from "Bittersweet," a medley of treasures from his "Cavalcade," another from his other works, and a few other trifles that are better than most of what is written today.

Add to all this two classical scenes with Coward and co-star Gertrude Lawrence from his "Private Lives," incredibly valuable for those local drama groups who butcher this work in that this CD can teach them the tone and rhythms that are essential in making this classic succeed.

The subtitle of this set is "The Complete Recordings, Volume 1: 1928-1932." So we can look forward to future offerings featuring this fascinating composer-lyricist-performer. Thank you, Naxos, yet again.

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