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2 | [[caption-width-right:270:Give up the funk, you punk]] |
3 | %% |
4 | ->''"Oh, we want the funk\ |
5 | Give up the funk\ |
6 | Oh, we need the funk\ |
7 | Gotta have that funk"'' |
8 | -->-- '''Parliament''', "Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker)" |
9 | |
10 | ''Mothership Connection'' is [[Music/GeorgeClinton Parliament]]'s fourth album, released in 1975. |
11 | |
12 | !! Tracklist |
13 | [[AC: Side A]] |
14 | # "P. Funk (Wants To Get Funked Up)" (7:41) |
15 | # "Mothership Connection (Star Child)" (6:13) |
16 | # "Unfunky UFO" (4:23) |
17 | |
18 | [[AC: Side B]] |
19 | # "Supergroovalisticprosifunkstication" (5:03) |
20 | # "Handcuffs" (4:02) |
21 | # "Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker)" (5:46) |
22 | # "Night of the Thumposaurus Peoples" (5:10) |
23 | !!2003 CD remaster bonus track |
24 | # "Star Child (Mothership Connection)" (3:08) |
25 | |
26 | ---- |
27 | !! "Oh, we want the tropes, give up the tropes, oh we need the tropes, gotta have those tropes": |
28 | |
29 | * {{Afrofuturism}}: Acknowledged by Music/GeorgeClinton himself, since he was a big ''Series/{{Star Trek|TheOriginalSeries}}'' fan and had the idea of having black people on a spaceship. |
30 | * TheBermudaTriangle: Mentioned in "Mothership Connection" |
31 | * {{Crunchtastic}}: "Supergroovalisticprosifunkstication" |
32 | * DoNotAdjustYourSet: The opening words: |
33 | -->"Good evening, do not attempt to adjust your radio, there is nothing wrong." |
34 | * EpicRocking: "P. Funk (Wants To Get Funked Up)" runs 7:41, and the shortest song, "Handcuffs," runs 4:02. |
35 | * FlyingSaucer: "Unfunky UFO" |
36 | * FunWithAcronyms: The radio station in "P. Funk" is called [=WEFUNK=]. |
37 | * {{Funk}}: One of the definitive examples. |
38 | * LongestSongGoesFirst: The album opens with "P. Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up)" at 7:41. None of the other tracks cross the 7-minute mark. |
39 | * TheMothership: Along with the title, from the title track: |
40 | -->Put a glide in your stride and a dip in your hip and come on up to the Mothership |
41 | * ObligatoryBondageSong: "Handcuffs," which was officially a {{Parody}} of [[TestosteronePoisoning hyper-macho]] RAndB. |
42 | * PyramidPower: From "Mothership Connection": |
43 | -->"We have come to claim the pyramids" |
44 | * RecordProducer: George Clinton, of course. |
45 | * SingerNamedrop: "P. Funk (Wants To Get Funked Up)" |
46 | * TakeThat: From "P. Funk": |
47 | -->"Then I was down south and I heard funk with some main ingredients\ |
48 | Like Doobie Brothers, Blue Magic, Music/DavidBowie\ |
49 | It was cool\ |
50 | But can you imagine [=Doobiein'=] your funk? Ho!" |
51 |
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