"Uh, what's happening CC? / They still call it the White House / But that's a temporary condition." And only 33 years later, George's prediction came true! "God bless CC and its vanilla suburbs." CC is Chocolate City, a term for a major black-inhabited city. This album features the classic P-Funk lineup with George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, and Bernie Worrell, who cowrote most of the songs. This disc is highly groovy, crammed with uptempo funk, showing considerable jazz, gospel (like in "I Misjudged You"), blues, and doo-wop influences. A highly booty-shakeable album. Favorite tracks: "If It Don't Fit (Don't Force It)" and "Ride On," two of the funkiest!
The album is dead, for sure. But there's no reason we can't dig it up and do a little two-step with its rapidly decomposing corpse.
Apart From the Crowd, Great Buildings
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Apart From the Crowd , Great Buildings, 1981, :40 ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ Solid jangle-pop from a now largely-forgotten group featuring two guys who went ...
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