| | |  | Country | Home » » America Eats Its Young | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | Funkadelic's wild 4th album (from 1972) remastered from the original tapes for the first time in 15 years. This 2005 single CD contains the full double album, plus the single version of 'Loose Booty' and the previously commercially unavailable radio edit of Bernie Worrell's instrumental masterpiece 'A Joyful Process'. Westbound U.S. | | | Product Details: | | | Audio CD Release Date:
| November 01, 2005 | | Studio:
| Westbound Records Us | | Number Of Discs:
| 1 | | Format:
| Original recording remastered | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 8 reviews |
| | | Track Listing: | | | 1. | You Hit the Nail on the Head | | 2. | If You Don't Like the Effects, Don't Produce the Cause | | 3. | Everybody Is Going to Make It This Time | | 4. | A Joyful Process | | 5. | We Hurt Too | | 6. | Loose Booty - Funkadelic, Beane, Harold | | 7. | Philmore - Funkadelic, Collins, William [B | | 8. | I Call My Baby Pussycat | | 9. | America Eats Its Young - Funkadelic, Beane, Harold | | 10. | Biological Speculation | | 11. | That Was My Girl - Funkadelic, Barnes, Sidney | | 12. | Balance | | 13. | Miss Lucifer's Love | | 14. | Wake Up - Funkadelic, Beane, Harold | | 15. | Loose Booty [Mono Version][*][Version] - Funkadelic, Beane, Harold | | 16. | A Joyful Process [Mono Version][*][Version] | |
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Mental Mothers' MilkMar 19, 2010
As other reviewers have stated, this album has it all. I was a young kid in '72 when this came out and I inhaled the "second-hand smoke" from the early Funkadelic records that my then-late-teens older brother was buying. "Free your mind.." was the first one and by the time this album came out, I kinda knew Funkadelic was going to stick around. The first thing that stuck out, naturally, was the album cover design. Every Funkadelic album had some sort of sacreligious element to the album covers AND the music (and pre-teens LOVE that!). I won't get too deep into commentary on the music, only that I love ALL of it. But, for those who critique the music on this album too deeply, I just have one thing to say: You don't get Funkadelic! George Clinton was more about the vibe in his music than all the uptight, serious singing and lyrics. There is a bucket of tongue-in-cheek humor in all of Funkadelics' records, so if George or any other vocalist sang a little funny on a song, that was the point. That this album displayed so many different music styles only served to prove that Funkadelic was very flexible and the band was the best in the world!
Nearly four decades later, still an awesone album!Dec 06, 2009
As well as being an obscure classic. BTW, the radio edit of "A Joyful Process" was released as a commercial single, retitled "A Joyful Noise."
I first had this on a GRT 8-track tape, with a different running order. I played that tape literally to death, and when I was forced to buy the LP I was a bit disappointed by the song sequence...the 8-track version just seemed to have a more logical flow to it. Ultimately I was able to burn a CD with GRT's sequence.
Try programming the CD to play in the 8-track order for an enhanced experience. The tracks are: 8, 9, 14 (program one); 2, 4, 5, 11 (program two); 1, 6, 12 (program three); 3, 7, 10, 13 (program four).
People complained about how 8-tracks mutilated artists' visions. But in this case, GRT inadvertently came up with a winner.
A fresh injection of soul after two rock-heavy albumsNov 05, 2009
This album has more of the soul that graced their first album than Free Your Mind...And Your Ass Will Follow or Maggot Brain, which are both quite a bit heavier. Funky bass and keyboards and dual-gender vocal harmony mix with trademark Funkadelic weirdness. To be sure, the Hendrix-like guitars are here, they just don't dominate as they do on their prior two LPs.
I would recommend this album to any Parliament fan looking for an accessible entry to Funkadelic.
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One of the best Funkadelic Albums!Feb 13, 2009
A real treat it was listening to this CD. Vintage Funkadelic. Great Musicianship. Awesome grooves & Riffs. The thing is (with this particular recording is) that, sometimes they are playing rock, other times Jazz, other times playing odd time signatures, & still other times playing Shuffles & R&B grooves that made this band famous. Great snapshot of this band at that time. What a joy to hear them & what they sounded like then. I could (& will) listen to this repeatedly (running it into the ground is more like it!!!) with great joy. To tell you the truth, I like this as much if not more than their "hits." Everything you could ever want from a Funkadelic album & much more!.....with a little political satire/commentary thrown in for good measure.....TRULY GREAT STUFF!!!
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 Very much a mixed bagDec 13, 2008
Certainly the most unusual Funkadelic album, "America Eats Its Young" sounds little like the band's earlier records and even less like it's later ones. First off, it should be noted that the strongest suit of this album is in the production. It is a beautiful-sounding album, lush and clean with stellar tracking. If you are a fan of sonic achievement, it is worth a listen with a good pair of headphones, it really sounds gorgeous. It needs to be pointed out as well that drummer Tiki Fulwood, bassist Billy Nelson, and ryhtym guitarist Lucien "Tawl" Ross were all gone from the band by this point due mainly to various drug-related issues and in Nelson's case, anger over Clinton's less-than-democratic business practices. Also, Eddie Hazel barely plays on this album as he, too, was running into all sorts of trouble, of both the substance kind and the legal kind. Thus, there is a giant ensemble of various celebrated musicians playing on this record including Bootsy Collins, his brother Catfish, legendary drummer Frankie Waddy and great bassist Prakash John to name but a few of the more notable players. These ace players add a more polished, virtuostic aura to the album. There are some really fine tracks on this one, and the opener ("You hit the Nail on the Head") is one of them, played beautifully as it churns it's way through several abrupt changes in tempo and feel. The classic track "Loose Booty" (featuring some superb driving bass from Collins, and a stunning exploratory Clavinet solo from Worrell) is a glimpse of the future, complete with what would soon be a George Clinton signature- the dirty nursery rhyme. Bootsy sings (in a much more aggressive mean tone than his more celebrated "Casper" still several years away) two rock 'n' roll tinged rave-ups, the riotous and groovin' "Philmore" and the somewhat less successful "Balance". Bernie Worrell stretches out a bit as both keyboardist and arranger on the somewhat dated, but still wonderful "A Joyful Process". "Biological Speculation" is also a terrific song, well sung and well played. Some tracks have great potential but for one reason or another just miss the mark. "Everybody's Going to Make It This Time" is a lovely song, with a lush arrangement and a gorgeous chorus but it is marred by Clinton's careless and poor lead vocal. The song could have been a classic ballad if it had been sung by Gary Shider or perhaps Calvin Simon. The track "We Hurt Too" features singing so comically bad, that I am unsure of wether or not it was intended to be comedy. If it was, then "A+" but if the intention was sincere, then it is embarassing. The same applies to "That was my girl" which also suffers from a lead vocal so terribly delivered that it seems inconceivable that it was laid down in earnest. This is by no means a great record but it is interesting and there are several wonderful tracks. I would say this one should be left only to those who have a keen interest in Funkadelic.
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