Track Listing

1. Prelude
2. Gamin' on Ya!
3. Dr. Funkenstein
4. Children of Productions
5. Getten' to Know You
6. Do That Stuff
7. Everything Is on the One
8. I've Been Watching You (Move Your Sexy Body)
9. Funkin' for Fun

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10816 in Music
• Released on: 1990-05-18
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Customer Reviews

FUNK ME BABY!
I didnt become a p.funk fan until 1993 (1'm only 25 years old). I had already collected MOTHERSHIP CONNECTION, FUNKENTELECHY VS THE PLACEBO SYNDROME, CHOCOLATE CITY, and MOTOR BOOTY AFFAIR and with these goodies already doin it in my earhole, i was all but ready to get funked when i picked this one up in '95. I must say out of all the parliament albums i've picked up (i have since collected them all), this is the one that i listen to the most, although i don't consider it their best because actually their all good in their own funky way. Musically, and vocally this album is good from beginning to end. From the Prelude and the keyboard intro of Gamin on Ya to glen goins' ever a'funkin vocals on the Funkin' for Fun fadeout, i can never get enough of hearing this one! Of course standouts are the hits Do that Stuff and Dr. Funkenstein, but the jam on this album (to agree with some other reviewers) has got to be I've Been Wathching You Move Your Sexy Body! Man, I swear this jam features the greatest vocal contribution to p-funk ever captured on record by glen goins! Only Bop Gun comes a close second! It's timeless! Overall the horn and vocal arrangements on this album are also more superior on this album, than any other pfunk album. Some feel this one was the more commercial (by p-funk standards that is) of the p-funk releases at that time but in my opinion this one is probably the more underground of all of parliament albums. Oldies stations rarely play any of the songs, including the hits off this album and it's certainly not as well known as MOTHERSHIP CONNECTION or FUNKENTELECHY VS. THE PLACEBO SYNDOME, but its still every bit as funky and essential as those albums! Oh, another good kick is the cover of this album, probably the best of all of parliaments' album covers! Dont'sleep on it, get this one now if you don't have it, if you have it already, then buy it again! This funk is somethin' you can never get enough of!

Maybe not totally deep, but still super-funky
"The Clones of Dr Funkenstein" was Parliament's move towards the more commercial. But don't let that stop you - the funk is still here in spades. It's just that it's not a flat-out dance album. The horn section is more present and it's very singable. And there are a bunch of great songs on this record. "Dr Funkenstein" is lyrically hilarious. "Children of Productions" furthers the concept - check out the band's playing on this one and how they orient themselves on the beat in relation to the singers. "Gettin' to Know You" is an uncharacteristic groove but one of the best songs on the album. The vocals are great and the song keeps your interest. The other songs more than keep up the pace and round out a great funk effort from Parliament. One standout: "Funkin' for Fun," which will get you up and dancing. While it's not as pure dance as "Funkentelechy" and the concept isn't as everpresent as on "Motor Booty," this record is a fine example of P-Funk at the height of its power. Definitely go for it.

Triangulation, or, Fear of a Black Planet
If you've ever followed the P-Funk Earth Tour's venues, you will find that Roswell, New Mexico, is not on the list. Is this a coincidence? I think not.

You don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to note the many similarities in the prognostication and supergroovalisticprosifunkstications of the good Dr. Funkenstein. Over twenty years before President William J. Clinton made the cloning of humans illegal, one George Clinton was flying his mothership under the radar and engaging in human cloning experiments, after reading Ira Levin's cloning thriller "The Boys of Brazil." CIA evidence that Clinton flew to Paraguay on several occasions in the early 1970s to meet with deranged Nazi geneticist Dr. Josef Mengele have been supressed by the federal government, but the Transnational Academy of Bootknocking Scientists sent a FOIA request to the government in 1997, which unearthed over 1,437 pages of evidence of collaborative conference between Drs. Mengele and Funkenstein. Just as FBI authorities were closing in on Clinton's operations, his front organizations, Parliament and Funkadelic -- two innocuous disco/funk/psychedlic rock bands -- released this document, "The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein," an LP record designed to put one nation under a groove, and to hide the monstrous truth in plain sight. This preposterous album led an unwitting populace to believe that the good doctor was just "Funkin' For Fun," that his genome splicing activities were nothing more than a dance move designed to "put a glide in your stride and a zip in your hip."

But, has anyone actually come aboard the Holy Mothership? Despite uncorroborated sightings over Oakland, Gary, Newark, Washington, D.C., New Orleans, Atlanta, Cleveland, Detroit, and other Chocolate Cities, the Holy Mothership allegedly went into mothballs in the early 1980s after a copyright infringement suit forced Clinton to abandon ship. This ruse, disguised as a multi-million dollar squabble over publication rights to the Parliament/Funkadelic catalogue, was actually the government's way of keeping the brothers in their place. The Nation of Islam, subsequently, has attempted to legally expropriate the legal use of the Holy Mothership (cleverly changing the name to "Motherplane"), but most funkateers regard the Minister Louis Farrakhan as nothing more than Sir Nose D-Void of Funk in black nationalist's clothing.

Most relevant to the case are the numerous videotaped sightings of the Mothership over Area 51, as documented on Art Bell's radio program "Coast to Coast," but of course, you can't show videotaped evidence over the radio. Convenient. "Funk not only removes, it removes, dig?" The desired effect is what you get when NASA, the FBI, the CIA and the Pentagon suppress evidence of interplanetary funksmanship.

Dr. Funkenstein has gotten too close to the truth, too close to breaking the government's monopoly on cloning and space travel, which is why in the early 1970s, COINTELPRO agrents got Geo. Clinton hooked on cocaine, marijuana, heroin, mushrooms and peyote. Periodically, Clinton has been busted by local authorities under various drugs possession charges, which is cover for the CIA's keeping the atomic dog on a short leash, lest he upset the power structure that has since fled the inner cities and moved to the vanilla suburbs.

Further proof of how Dr. Funkenstein's afronauts have subverted popular culture as well as the history books rests in evidence of the Princess Diana murder long suppressed by INTERPOL, which was a covert operation designed to draw attention from the fact that funk saucers had landed outside of Cairo to reclaim the pyramids. How DID an otherwise slow news day move this very black achievement off the front pages and onto page A31 of the New York Times? I submit: Conspiracy by the Vanilla Power Structure.

Nonetheless, if your mind can handle it, spin this wax on your platters and let Dr. Funkenstein and his brides work they roots into your soul. This preternatural musical document from the band that predicted alien anal probes for mind control ("Free Your @ss, and Your Mind Will Follow") will blow the cobwebs outchyour mind.