One Nation Under a Groove

With George Clinton, a humorous phrase could be nothing more than playful tomfoolery, or it could be a double entendre with a deep political meaning. The phrase "electric spanking of war babies" falls into the latter category – it referred to what the funk innovator saw as the U.S. government using the media to promote imperialistic wars. To Clinton, the American media functioned as a propaganda machine during wartime. But whether or not one cares to examine its hidden political messages, Electric Spanking is an above-average party album. Spanking falls short of the excellence of One Nation Under a Groove and Uncle Jam Wants You and didn't boast a major hit single, but amusing funk smokers like "Electro-Cuties" and "Funk Gets Stronger" aren't anything to sneeze at, nor is the reggae-influenced "Shockwaves." Spanking turned out to be the last album Clinton would produce under the name Funkadelic - when he hit the charts again in 1983, Mr. P-Funk was billing himself as a "solo artist."

This is a collection of mostly re-recordings and live versions. Some of tracks are familiar but there are quite a few less common tracks and that is what makes it interesting to me. I believe there are 20 VA collections in this series.

Between the Ohio Players’ ‘Funky Worm’ and Funkadelic’s ‘One Nation Under A Groove’, across three solo albums Junie Morrison created a unique take on the funk.

This truly is an all-star affair. Parliament and Funkadelic alumni like Bootsy Collins, Eddie Hazel, Walter "Junie" Morrison, and Garry Shider, among others, resurface from various stages in the Mothership's time upon earth to contribute to this stylistically sprawling and urbanely funky session; adding to the impressive roll call are high-profile soul and funk guest stars such as Sly "Sylvester Stewart" Stone, Bobby Womack, Fred Wesley, and Maceo Parker. And leading the charge is the master himself, George Clinton.

' Once described by none other than George Clinton as "the most phenomenal musician on the planet," Walter "Junie" Morrison recorded several albums of his own but made his mark assembling some of the biggest funk extravaganzas of the 1970s and '80s, from the Ohio Players' first number one R&B hit "The Funky Worm" to Funkadelic's "One Nation Under a Groove" and Clinton's own "Computer Games". He also recorded LPs for Columbia 1980's "Bread Alone" and Island 1984's "Evacuate Your Seats", and was a frequent contributor to Clinton's solo releases and those by the P-Funk All Stars.' John Bush at AMG

' …this album follows in the same vein as the last post: live P Funk in wonderful sound quality. This had to be a soundboard recording just by how good it sounds. You can tell the audience is loveing it too judgeing by the way the automatically start gettin' down when the band switches it up. I definitely recommend this as well as the last live P Funk performance "Hydraulic Funk".' contributors.editorial@hqhiphop.net

' 2CD-Set includes all the group's hits from the Warner Bros. era (1976-1981) in unedited format. Because the band included live versions of "Cosmic Slop" and "Maggot Brain", you luckily get those pre-Warner Bros. classics here too.' Jason Birchmeier at AMG