Hi everyone. Relatively new 38 year old fan. I have amassed in a short time, a massive collection of P-funk CDs and as a completist, I would like to get the board’s opinion on what may have missed my radar, and/or what would be the next-most relevant releases to branch out to.
In order to answer this question effectively, you’ll need to know my collecting habits:
- I only collect CDs
- I typically collect everything by an artist, or nothing. Once I start, I see it through. There are a couple of exceptions: I only got Bernie’s first three albums with the heavy P-funk collaboration. The rest I’m not a fan of. I also got Ruth Copeland’s first two, but not the third.
- The more direct contributions from the core members of P-funk, the more interested I am in it (in order, Clinton, Collins, Worrell, Hazel). As an example, I have the first Praxis album, not the second (as Bernie and Bootsy are on only one track each). But I do have all the Parlet, Brides, 2 from Ruth, Axiom Funk and the Horny Horns because of the heavy P-funk involvement. I drew the line before artists like Mutiny, as they are too far removed from the Clinton/Collins orbit (despite sounding pretty good). Basically, the more involvement from the core P-funk members, the more interested I am.
Here’s what I have:
Parliament | Osmium |
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Parliament | Up For the Down Stroke |
Parliament | Chocolate City |
Parliament | Mothership Connection |
Parliament | The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein |
Parliament | Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome |
Parliament | Motor Booty Affair |
Parliament | Gloryhallstoopid |
Parliament | Trombipulation |
Parliament | Medicaid Fraud Dog (2CD) |
Parliament | Live: P-Funk Earth Tour |
Parliament | Live 1976-1993 (4CD) |
Funkadelic | Funkadelic (RM) |
Funkadelic | Free Your Mind… And Your Ass Will Follow (RM) |
Funkadelic | Maggot Brain (RM) |
Funkadelic | America Eats Its Young (RM) |
Funkadelic | Cosmic Slop (RM) |
Funkadelic | Standing On the Verge Of Getting It On (RM) |
Funkadelic | Let’s Take It To the Stage (RM) |
Funkadelic | Tales Of Kidd Funkadelic (RM) |
Funkadelic | Hardcore Jollies |
Funkadelic | One Nation Under a Groove |
Funkadelic | Uncle Jam Wants You |
Funkadelic | Who’s a Funkadelic? |
Funkadelic | The Electric Spanking Of War Babies |
Funkadelic | By Way Of the Drum |
Funkadelic | Toys |
Funkadelic | First Ya Gotta Shake the Gate (3CD) |
Funkadelic | Live: Meadowbrook, Rochester, Michigan – 12th September 1971 |
George Clinton | Computer Games |
George Clinton | You Shouldn’t Nuf Bit Fish |
George Clinton | Some Of My Best Jokes Are Friends |
George Clinton | R&B Skeletons In the Closet |
George Clinton | The Cinderella Theory |
George Clinton | Hey Man, Smell My Finger |
George Clinton | Dope Dogs (UK) |
George Clinton | T.A.P.O.A.F.O.M. |
George Clinton | How Late Do U Have 2BB4UR Absent? (2CD) |
George Clinton | George Clinton and His Gangsters of Love |
George Clinton & P-Funk All-stars | Go Fer Yer Funk |
George Clinton & P-Funk All-stars | Plush Funk |
George Clinton & P-Funk All-stars | P Is the Funk |
George Clinton & P-Funk All-stars | Testing Positive 4 the Funk |
George Clinton & P-Funk All-stars | A Fifth of Funk |
George Clinton & P-Funk All-stars | P-Funk Unreleased Remix |
George Clinton | Greatest Funkin’ Hits |
George Clinton & P-Funk All-stars | Live at the Beverly Theater |
George Clinton | Mothership Connection Newberg Session |
George Clinton | 500.000 Kilowatts Of P-Funk Power (aka live and kickin’) (aka take it to the stage) (2CD) |
Bootsy Collins | Bootsy’s Rubber Band - Stretchin’ Out in Bootsy’s Rubber Band |
Bootsy Collins | Bootsy’s Rubber Band - Ahh… The Name Is Bootsy, Baby! |
Bootsy Collins | Bootsy’s Rubber Band - Bootsy? Player of the Year |
Bootsy Collins | Bootsy’s Rubber Band - This Boot Is Made for Fonk-N |
Bootsy Collins | Ultra Wave |
Bootsy Collins | Sweat Band - Sweat Band |
Bootsy Collins | The One Giveth, the Count Taketh Away |
Bootsy Collins | What’s Bootsy Doin’? |
Bootsy Collins | Bootsy’s Rubber Band - Jungle Bass (EP) |
Bootsy Collins | Praxis - Transmutation |
Bootsy Collins | Bootsy’s New Rubber Band - Blasters of the Universe (2CD) |
Bootsy Collins | Zillatron - Lord of the Harvest |
Bootsy Collins | Bootsy’s New Rubber Band - Keepin’ Dah Funk Alive 4-1995 (2CD) |
Bootsy Collins | Fresh Outta ‘P’ University (european edition) (2CD) |
Bootsy Collins | Bootsy’s Rubber Band - Live in Louisville 1978 |
Bootsy Collins | Bootsy’s Rubber Band - Live in Oklahoma 1976 |
Bootsy Collins | Play with Bootsy |
Bootsy Collins | Christmas Is 4 Ever |
Bootsy Collins | Science Faxtion - Living on Another Frequency |
Bootsy Collins | The Official Boot-Legged-Bootsy-CD |
Bootsy Collins | Tha Funk Capital of the World |
Bootsy Collins | World Wide Funk |
P-Funk All-Stars | Urban Dancefloor Guerillas |
P-Funk All-Stars | Funk Um Agin… For The First Time (2CD) |
Eddie Hazel | Game, Dames And Guitar Thangs |
Eddie Hazel | Rest in P |
Eddie Hazel | Jams From the Heart (EP) |
Worrell, Bernie | All the Woo In the World |
Worrell, Bernie | Funk of Ages |
Worrell, Bernie | Blacktronic Science |
Incorporated Thang Band | Lifestyles of the Roach and Famous |
US Music with Funkadelic | US Music with Funkadelic |
Axiom Funk | Funkcronomicon |
Parlet | Pleasure Principle |
Parlet | Invasion Of the Booty Snatchers |
Parlet | Play Me Or Trade Me |
Brides Of Funkenstein | Funk Or Walk |
Brides Of Funkenstein | Never Buy Texas From a Cowboy |
Brides Of Funkenstein | Live at the Howard Theatre, 1978 |
Horny Horns | A Blow For Me, a Toot to You |
Horny Horns | Say Blow By Blow Backwards |
Horny Horns | The Final Blow |
Ruth Copeland | Self Portrait/I Am What I Am (2CD) |
Fuzzy Haskins | A Whole Nother Radio Active Thang |
Basically, what makes you say, “wait, you have Lifestyles of the Roach and Famous and you don’t have XXXXXXXXXXX???”?