Welcome to the funk. With a loose and fun as hell mythology surrounding interstellar travel, spaceships, Thumpasorus people, and the ever-healing powers of the funk, 1975’s Mothership Connection is a concept album whose sole concept is to get your butt out of your seat and dance.
I can sign up for that.
I was first introduced to bassist Bootsy Collins through The Mighty Boosh, a surreal British comedy that, much like the music of Parliament, pushed storytelling to absurdist extremes. The show’s oral history of the funk was a legendary bit for me and my friends in college (one of my nicknames was quite literally “Papa Moon”) and basically has served as a running joke inside my head to this day every time I pick up a bass guitar. I can’t unhear Old Gregg.
And I can’t unhear Bootsy Collins and Parliament. This record is seriously just fun as heck, filled with great musicianship, thumping bass, a rollicking horn section, and grooves aplenty.
Long live the funk. I want my funk uncut. Make my funk the P. Funk. I want to get funked up.
Standout Songs: “P-Funk”, “Give Up The Funk”, “Mothership Connection”
