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Cosmic Slop is the fifth studio album by Funkadelic, released in July 1973 on Westbound Records. While it has been favorably reevaluated by critics long after its original release, the album was a commercial failure, producing no charting singles, and reaching only #112 on the Billboard pop chart and #21 on the R&B chart. The album was re-released on CD in 1991.
Cosmic Slop is the first Funkadelic album to feature artwork and liner notes by Pedro Bell, who assumed responsibility for the band's gate-fold album covers and liner notes until the band's collapse after 1981's The Electric Spanking of War Babies. Bell's liner notes to Cosmic Slop include small illustrations next to each song's name, summarizing the song in a picture.
Lloyd Bradley in Q Magazine characterised the album a "cornerstone ... coming just before James Brown sidepersons began defecting to Clinton's outfit' and "a link between fearsomely dark musings and out-and-out strangeness".
Track listing
= Side One
=“Nappy Dugout” (George Clinton, Cordell Mosson, Garry Shider) – 4:33
“You Can’t Miss What You Can’t Measure” (Clinton, Sidney Barnes) – 3:03
“March to the Witch’s Castle” (Clinton) – 5:59
“Let’s Make It Last” (Clinton, Eddie Hazel) – 4:08
= Side Two
=“Cosmic Slop” (Clinton, Bernie Worrell) (released as a single-Westbound 218) – 5:17
“No Compute” (Clinton, Shider) – 3:03
“This Broken Heart” (William Franklin) – 3:37
“Trash a Go-Go” (Clinton) – 2:25
“Can’t Stand the Strain” (Clinton, Hazel) – 3:27
Personnel
Bernard Worrell - keyboards, melodica, strings on "Broken Heart"
"Boogie" Mosson - bass guitar
Tyrone Lampkin - percussion
Garry Shider - lead & rhythm guitar
Ron Bykowski - lead & rhythm guitar
Tiki Fulwood - drums on "Nappy Dugout"
Parlet members Mallia Franklin and Debbie Wright - vocals (uncredited)
Engineers: Lee De Carlo, Manta Sound, Toronto
Songs
= You Can’t Miss What You Can’t Measure
=This song is a reworking of the 1965 Parliaments single "Heart Trouble". The instrumental portion of this song was reworked into "Do That Stuff" for the 1976 album The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein.
Lead Vocals: George Clinton, Ray Davis, Garry Shider
= Cosmic Slop
=Lead Vocals: Garry Shider
Guitars: Garry Shider & Ron Bykowski
Drums: Tyrone Lampkin
Bass: Cordell Boogie Mosson
This track was remade several times by future lineups of Parliament/Funkadelic. A live version (recorded during a rehearsal) appears on the 1976 Funkadelic album Hardcore Jollies. Several Parliament/Funkadelic members contributed to a full cover of the track for Bill Laswell’s Axiom Funk project, released on the 1995 album Funkcronomicon.
Another live version, from 1983 and released in 1990 on Live at the Beverly Theater, features Dennis Chambers on drums, Rodney Curtis on bass, and Eddie Hazel, Garry Shider, and Michael Hampton on guitar.
= No Compute
=Lead Vocals: George Clinton
= This Broken Heart
=Strings: Bernie Worrell
Lead Vocals: Ben Edwards
Drums: Geezer McGee (disputed)
Cosmic Slop Compilation
In 2000, Castle Music released a 10-track compilation album, also called "Cosmic Slop" - although it bore no relation to the studio album of the same name. The album's tracklisting consisted of: "One Nation Under A Groove", "Comin" Round The Mountain", "Cholly (Funk Getting Ready To Roll!)", "Freak Of The Week", "Uncle Jam", "Groovallegiance", "Smokey", “Cosmic Slop", "Soul Mate" and "(Medley) Funk Gets Stronger (Killer Millimeter Longer Version)/ She Loves You". The album was subtitled "Original Recordings From The Masters Of Funk!"
See also
The Space Traders
References
Further reading
Draper, Jason (2008). A Brief History of Album Covers. London: Flame Tree Publishing. pp. 128–129. ISBN 9781847862112. OCLC 227198538.
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Funk rock
- Chi McBride
- Cosmic Slop
- Cosmic Slop Shop
- Cosmic Slop (film)
- Big Lurch
- Hardcore Jollies
- America Eats Its Young
- Rick Rock
- The Space Traders
- This Broken Heart
- Paula Jai Parker
