“FUNKADELIC” self titled S/T soul funk LP WESTBOUND orig first press ’70 NICE

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126

Artist:  FUNKADELIC                                     

Title:  “Funkadelic” 

Label:   WESTBOUND.  Stereo pressing on medium weight vinyl.  Label is multi-colored with black text.  Catalog number is WB 2000.  

Year:  1970. 

Condition:  

DISC:  Vinyl is EXCELLENT with full original gloss.  Has been played a small number of times and handled with care.  There are a couple slight hairline paper scuffs but no serious or audible marks or problems.  Plays beautifully with superb fidelity.  Labels are clean.  This hard-to-find LP is one that you will never need to upgrade.                       

JACKET:   Jacket is EXCELLENT.  Front artwork is clean and bright, with a few slight traces of ring wear just beginning to appear.  Bit of wear on seams, spine and corner tips.  Reverse is clean with no writing or stickers.  Not a cutout.  Overall a very nice jacket to accompany the beautiful disc.              

Track Listing:  

Side 1: 

• Mommy, What’s a Funkadelic

• I Bet You

• Music for My Mother

• I Got a Thing, You Got a Thing, Everybody’s Got a Thing 

Side Two: 

• Good Old Music

• Qualify & Satisfy

• What is Soul 

Review:  

“Funkadelic's self-titled 1970 debut is one of the group's best early- to mid-'70s albums. Not only is it laden with great songs -- "I'll Bet You" and "I Got a Thing..." are obvious highlights -- but it retains perhaps a greater sense of classic '60s soul and R&B than any successive George Clinton-affiliated album. Recording for the Detroit-based Westbound label, at the time Funkadelic were in the same boat as psychedelic soul groups such as the Temptations, who had just recorded their landmark Cloud Nine album across town at Motown, and other similar groups. Yet no group had managed to effectively balance big, gnarly rock guitars with crooning, heartfelt soul at this point in time quite like Funkadelic. Clinton's songs are essentially conventional soul songs in the spirit of Motown or Stax -- steady rhythms, dense arrangements, choruses of vocals -- but with a loud, overdriven, fuzzy guitar lurking high in the mix. And when Clinton's songs went into their chaotic moments of jamming, there was no mistaking the Hendrix influence. Furthermore, Clinton's half-quirky, half-trippy ad libs during "Mommy, What's a Funkadelic?" and "What Is Soul" can be mistaken for no one else -- they're pure-cut P-Funk. Successive albums portray Funkadelic drifting further toward rock, funk, and eventually disco, especially once Bernie Worrell began playing a larger role in the group. Never again would the band be this attuned to its '60s roots, making self-titled release a revealing and unique record that's certainly not short on significance, clearly marking the crossroads between '60s soul and '70s funk.” 

(courtesy Jason Birchmeier, allmusic.com). 

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