You wants the bomb? You wants the P-funk. You Don't want your funk stepped on. (so we'll) make your funk the P-funk, 'fore you can bring it home.

Does this mean you think you're chocolate coated, freaky & habit forming? So groovy that even you dig you?

Ah, George Clinton came from a town about 30 miles north of where I grew up. In fact my dad's side of the family came from there. & if you ever tried the barbecue they have up that way, you'd understand what put the glide in his stride, the dip in his hip & made him welcome on board the mothership.

But to get deep on ya, tell me if you recognize the following:

1: Swing down sweet chariot stop & - let me ride.

2: To each his reach & if I don't cop it ain't mine to have...

3: ...don't be surprised if Ali's in the White House; Revereand Ike secretary of the treasure...

4: The bigger the headache the bigger the pill

& Next week if you're tired of the cosmic slope, can we do Mother's Finest?

:D

:D Dude, you have it in ya!

Let's see now... (Google is my friend, and that's the only way I'd get these)

1. Elvis Presley did this, and Dr Dre used the line in a chorus of one of his songs, but I'll bet you're thinking about Chaka Khan.

2. Chocolate City. I might recognize this one if I heard it, but the title isn't ringing any bells.

3. No idea.

4. This one I remember. Dr. Funkentstein? According to the search, Parliament did it, someone seems to think The Gap Band did too, and Ice Cube paraphrased it in 1991.

I bow down before your prowess in things funk. :)

With 40,000 watts of P-Funk power, the envelope please.....

1) The Mothership Connection (Star Child)

2)Chocolate City

3)Ditto. Gainin' on ya!

4)Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome-- pay attention, because you can't afford free speech!

Hope that blows the cobwebs out ya mind!

Ted,
Might I suggest Uncut Funk > The Bomb? It's a collection of Parliament's greatest hits.

For #1, you're getting it confused with swing low sweet chariot, which elvis did among other old gospel tunes.

Dre used the P-funk version, not the gospel version if I recall correctly.

You got #2 correct

No 4 - The Gap Band did use it. The Gap Band used a few of P-Funk's phrases, or perhaps vice versa.

Keep in mind though that Clinton (the good one, not Bill) used a very unique dialect when he was composing this stuff. I played a lot of P-Funk in the south (when I was a full time musician) & for some reason most bands had me sit down & write out the lyrics for the vocalists. It's really like Rev. Ike meets Mother Goose meets Socrates. Deep, witty, catchy enough for youngin's & damn if it ain't set to a groove. Funk isn't as popular a genre, at leats not out here in Co. but it has some virtues that deserve more attention than some other more popular genres.

Johno,
You Funkateer you. Is that you breathing down my neck? You defintely didn't trade your funk for what's behind the 3rd door.

No. 4 though - you gave the name of the album. Which is not without merit as it caused me to break it out. I'm listening to the Sir Nose De'VoidofFunk right now. Ahhh, the groove.

The correct answer is Funkentelechy, though I seem to recall it making a brief appearence in some other P-funk tune.

But you know how the game is played: heads I win, tails you lose. :D