Artist: Funkadelic
Release date: 1975
Record label: Westbound[?]
Compared to most Funkadelic albums, Let's Take It to the Stage features many short and to-the-point songs, and fewer epic jam sessions.
Track Listing:
- Good To Your Earhole (George Clinton, Grace Cook, Fuzzy Haskins)
- Better By The Pound (Clinton, Cook)
- Be My Beach (Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell)
- No Head No Backstage Pass (Clinton, Ron Bykowski[?])
- Let's Take It To The Stage (Clinton, Collins, Garry Shider)
- Get Off Your Ass And Jam (Clinton)
- Baby I Owe You Something Good (Clinton)
- Stuffs And Things (Clinton, Cook)
- The Song Is Familiar (Clinton, Collins, Worrell)
- Atmosphere (Clinton, Shider, Worrell)
Personnel: (given as credited in liner notes)
- Vocals: 'Cool' Cal Simon, 'Bad Bosco' Bernie Worrell, C 'Boogie' Mosson[?], Garry 'Dowop' Shider
- Bass Vocals: 'Sting' Ray Davis[?]
- Genie Vocals: 'Shady' Grady Thomas[?]
- Werewolf Vocals: Clarence 'Fuzzy' Haskins
- Maggot Overlord: George Clinton
- Congas: Calvin Simon
- Keyboards: Bernie Worrell
- Bass: C Boogie Mosson
- Percussion: R Tiki Fulwood
- Guitar: Michael Hampton, Garry Shider
- Alumni Funkadelic: Bootsy (vocals), Billy Bass, Eddie Hazel, Ron Bykowski[?]
- Guest Funkadelic: Paul Warren[?], Reggie McBride[?], Frosty[?], Mello Garcia[?], Honeys[?], Denise Hurd[?], Delores whats-her-name[?], Gary Cooper, Parliament
Critical response:
- "One of Funkadelic's goofiest releases, Let's Take It to the Stage also contains more P-Funk all-time greats as well, making for a grand balance of the serious and silly."
- the All Music Guide (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=SEARCH&sql=Ar69us37ba3xg)
Other external links:
- the Motherpage (http://www.duke.edu/~tmc/motherpage/albums_funkadelic/alb-2stage.html)
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Title of song: Let's Take It to the Stage
Artist: Funkadelic
Title of album: Let's Take It to the Stage (see above)
Year of first release: 1975
Trivia: (Includes covers, alternate versions)
The incomprehensible noise at the beginning of the song is actually a voice repeating "oh, yeah!" repeatedly.
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Songwriters: George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Garry Shider
Memorable Lyrics:
- "Everybody funking and don't know how/They shoulda seen the bull when he funked the cow/He funked her so hard they saw some smoke/He said, let's get in the bed and funk like folks"
- "Little Miss Muffet sat on her tuffet snorting some THC/Along came a spider, slid down beside her/Said: what's in the bag bitch/She said I'm laughin' at ya, ha, ha!/(Hey Fool and the Gang!)"
- THC is the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana
- "Fool and the Gang" spoofs the band Kool and the Gang
- "Crazier than a sex maniac in a whorehouse with a credit card!"
- "Sittin in the woods upon a log/(Tricky Dick wasn't worried about no incriminating Watergate)/Finger on the trigger/My eyes on a hog/(Information being on those tapes)"
- "Tricky Dick" refers to Richard Nixon
- "Watergate" refers to the scandal that ended Nixon's career
- "Information being on those tapes" refers to gaps in recordings of Nixon and other administration officials, presumably information deleted because of its incriminating nature
Complete lyrics at the Motherpage (http://www.duke.edu/~tmc/motherpage/lyrics_funkadelic/lyr-2stage.html#lyr-s-2stage)
The lyrics are a rhyme-heavy, nursey-rhyme-styled, seemingly stream-of-consciousness-style and only borderline coherent.
Personnel:
- Lead Vocals: George Clinton
Critical response: