I need a t-shirt that says
“Bow wow wow yippie yo yippie yea!”

IFYKYK

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1000 Day Album Challenge (#49) George Clinton: Computer Games (1982) [18.02.24]

bow-wow-wow-yippie-yo-yippie-yeah / bow-wow-wow-yippie-yo-yippie-yeah…

I’m pretty sure that George Clinton’s Computer Games which came out during the fall of my sophomore year of college was my true introduction to that Parliafunkadelicment Thang. I certainly knew some of his/their music before Computer Games, but I don’t think I had bought any of the records yet.

I remember as a kid at Two Guys, a local department store in Kearny, NJ, studying the covers of some of the early Parliament and Funkadelic albums and wondering what the heck was going on, but was never adventurous enough to actually buy one. “were they the black version of Kiss?”

all I know was that it fit right in with the Hip Hop and Electro that was beginning to take hold in my musical world. Afrika Bambaataa’s Planet Rock was probably the most significant record of 1982. 1982 was also when Prince released 1999. Thriller was released at the end of the year. it was an incredible time to be alive as far as I was concerned.

this was technically George Clinton’s first solo record, but a scan of the liner notes reveals plenty of the same musicians and singers to be found on many a Parliament or Funkadelic album. I soon discovered that it was always a family thing as it was for James Brown and his cast of characters and Prince with his. it must be something about bringing the funk that necessitates family.

if they hadn’t known it already every Gen Xer certainly learned Atomic Dog through Snoop Dogg’s appropriation of it for his first solo hit, Who Am I (What's My Name)? (1993). I’m guessing more than anything the whole west coast Hip Hop scene of the 1990s has kept George Clinton and P-Funk alive for the generations that have followed mine.

Atomic Dog and Computer Games are great places to start, but there is an immense amount of George Clinton produced funk to discover beyond those. dig deep! that’s certainly what I did. I ended up owning just about every Parliament and Funkadelic studio album released in the 70s plus The Electric Spanking of War Babies (1981) by Funkadelic and various other solo and offshoot albums. I bought the next four solo albums by George Clinton too.

let’s just say I became a fan and started right here.

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Funk up your weekend with the extended version of Atomic Dog from George Clinton from 1982

https://youtu.be/WOOye9EB7Uo

George Clinton at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Clinton_(funk_musician)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_Dog

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