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Parliament

Mothership Connection

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Song	Lyrics	Save	Buy
PLAY QUEUE 1 P-Funk (Wants To Get Funked Up)		save
PLAY QUEUE 2 Mothership Connection (Star Child)		save
PLAY QUEUE 3 Unfunky UFO		save
PLAY QUEUE 4 Supergroovalisticprosifunkstication (The Bumps Bump)		save
PLAY QUEUE 5 Handcuffs		save
PLAY QUEUE 6 Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker)		save
PLAY QUEUE 7 Night Of The Thumpasorus Peoples		save
PLAY QUEUE 8 Star Child (Mothership Connection)		save

MOG Editorial Review

Make my funk the P-Funk! With the release of the release of this 1976 landmark, George Clinton not only made one of the best albums of his career, but essentially laid out the blueprint for funk music's future. Consisting mainly of songs centered around Clinton's own groovy vision of science fiction, Mothership Connection is as strange as it is fun. By letting their freak flag fly as high as possible on this record, songs like the classic "Give Up the Funk" and its vibrant horns encourage listeners to cut loose and have a good time as well. As if that wasn't enough to solidify its legendary status, Mothership Connection also has the honor of being one of hip-hop's most frequently sampled records as well. Take a listen and see if you can recognize any!
AMG Review of Mothership Connection [Bonus Track]

Jason Birchmeier
All Music Guide

The definitive Parliament-Funkadelic album, Mothership Connection is where George Clinton's revolving band lineups, differing musical approaches, and increasingly thematic album statements reached an ideal state, one that resulted in enormous commercial success as well as a timeless legacy that would be compounded by hip-hop postmodernists, most memorably Dr. Dre on his landmark album The Chronic (1992). The musical lineup assembled for Mothership Connection is peerless: in addition to keyboard wizard Bernie Worrell; Bootsy Collins, who plays not only bass but also drums and guitar; the guitar trio of Gary Shider, Michael Hampton, and Glen Goins; and the Becker brothers (Michael
and Randy) on horns; there are former J.B.'s Fred Wesley and Maceo Parker (also on horns), who were the latest additions to the P-Funk stable. Besides the dazzling array of musicians, Mothership Connection boasts a trio of hands-down classics -- "P-Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up)," "Mothership Connection (Star Child)," "Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)" -- that are among the best to ever arise from the funk era, each sampled and interpolated time and time again by rap producers; in particular, Dr. Dre pays homage to the former two on The Chronic (on "The Roach" and "Let Me Ride," respectively). The remaining four songs on Mothership Connection are all great also, if less canonical. Lastly, there's the overlapping outer-space theme, which ties the album together into a loose escapist narrative. There's no better starting point in the enormous P-Funk catalog than Mothership Connection, which, like its trio of classic songs, is undoubtedly among the best of the funk era. [The 2003 reissue boasts new liner notes, improved sound, and one bonus track: the promo radio version of "Mothership Connection (Star Child)," which is half as long as the album version at three minutes and 18 seconds and is confusingly retitled "Star Child (Mothership Connection)."]