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* Audio CD (June 1, 1990)
* Number of Discs: 1
* Label: Westbound Records
* Catalog Number: 2001
* ASIN: B000001TVB
* In-Print Editions: Audio Cassette
* Average Customer Review: based on 18 reviews. (Write a review.)
* Amazon.com Sales Rank: #15,426 in Music (See Top Sellers in Music)
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1. Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow Listen Listen
2. Friday Night, August 14th Listen Listen
3. Funky Dollar Bill Listen Listen
4. I Wanna Know If It's Good To You? Listen Listen
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
Vary underappreciated funk & rock explosion!, December 2, 2002
Reviewer: Kevin S Currie (Eldersburg, MD United States) - See all my reviews
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As a long time fan of the funk, I have to say that this albun is a refreshingly strong staple. Through the years, funk became cursed with a cartoonish image (ironically, due in large part to parliament). This album has none of it. It IS dirty, grungy and sweaty. It IS loud and in a sense, obnoxious and the sound quality IS muddy. But future funkadelic groovers need to recognize that all of that IS deliberate!

This was one of Funkadelic's first albums and it was deliberately recorded in one day during one acid trip. The title track, then, with it's synth-driven ambiance, is absolutely appropriate and trust me; it has an edge that rivals a razor blade. The rest of the album is no less edgy. It grabs you by the a$$ and, like the title suggests, you WILL follow.

With that established, the album is regrettably short, which left me no choice but to subtract a star. Still, the full list price of the CD will be recompensed by two tracks alone: 'Funky Dollar Bill' and 'I Wanna Know if It's Good' which has the coolest lyric and guitar riff that I think Clinton's crew ever came up with. Get the album, even if it's only for these two tracks. It'll be worth it.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
all depends on how free you wanna be..., February 25, 2005
Reviewer: R. Davis "upfromsumdirt" (louisville, ky) - See all my reviews
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looks like folks either love it or hate it... mostly, looks like they jus disgruntled with the sound quality... and yeah, it could sorely use a sonic upgrade!

'free your mind', 'maggotbrain' and 'standing on the verge' are the holy triumverant of funkadelic records, in my book. pure and uncommercialized... nothin experimental feelin at all... jusbeautiful, garage band jam. no preservatives added.

the masters of funk at their zenith.

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Insane psychedelic Hendrix-funk-rock from the Masters, October 2, 2005
Reviewer: the18yroldmusiccritic "Mike" (Michigan) - See all my reviews
Early Funkadelic released some seriously brilliant and completely wigged-out albums, and this very well may be the craziest of them all. It's also the second-best of the mighty early Westbound triumvirate (Funkadelic, Free Your Mind, the astounding Maggot Brain). The later Westbound comp "Music For Your Mother" is also fantastic, featuring a lot of the songs on these albums in far superior mixes.

The CD remastering - for the American version of the CD - is awful, which is practically a crime and saps much of the power out of a glorious acid-funk masterpiece. Unforgivable? Yes. But this doesn't hold true for all issues of the album. My advice is simple. Get The British Version Of This Album. It sounds amazing. Granted, the production and mixing themselves still get in the way, because, like the music, they too were done on acid, but at least with the British version it doesn't sound flatter than a waffle. Instead, it sounds full-bodied and even warm on some of the songs.

The first track, "Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow," is tripped out into regions beyond. Certainly, these were intergalactic Funkateers not of this planet. Are those synth noises at the beginning, or are they just processed feedback? I don't know, but whatever it is, it's brilliant. Then the groove comes in - Tiki Fulwood, possibly the best drummer Funkadelic ever had, comes in with an implacable and totally funky drum entrance, spurring them all into the acid-freakout-funk jam. The screams and LSD-fueled chants are drugged Detroit soul of the purest form, and Eddie Hazel's searing, unutterably awesome and wholly, terrifyingly Hendrix-like guitar work rips out of the speakers, competing with Bernie Worrell's fuzzed-out quasi-classical Hammond organ for dominance. This continues for the rest of the 10 minutes. "Friday Night, August 14th" follows with a bluesy acid-funk shuffle, with more brilliant and radical guitarin' from the Eddie Hazel-Tawl Ross guitar tag team. Fulwood's semi-drum-solo, fed through abusive amounts of analog echo and delay, caps a great song. "Funky Dollar Bill" would be great, but there is a problem. It's all fantastic - the rhythm guitar is unbelievable, the lead bluesy and paint-strippingly loud - but the Worrell jangle-piano part is terrible, I'm sorry to say. It's a painfully obvious overdub, and it's badly out-of-tune and nearly out-of-rhythm; it ruins the song for me, sadly. All is forgiven with THE JAM OF ALL TIME, "I Wanna Know If It's Good To You." The vocal part is amazing, but the instrumental jam afterwards is what really rips me to shreds. That guitar soloing is simply on a plane beyond what most soloists could even think of reaching - the best feedback entrance ever. Ever. Signed, sealed, and delivered. It's also sweet as hell when it all quiets down, Fulwood starts hitting the cowbells in totally funky rhythm (More Cowbell!!!), suddenly the mix turns better, and Billy "Bass" Nelson's astoundingly funky bass playing becomes audible - those trills alone could make you dance like a funky fool. "Some More" comes after that, and predictably can't really compare, as it's a jokey blues song, but it's fun enough - the vocal effects are great, and it's better than "Back In Our Minds" on "Maggot Brain." "Eulogy and Light" is really freaky, and ends the album with a slowed-down and massively reverbed Clinton monologue from the view of a pimp (I guess; I'm not sure, really) showing worship to the God "Big Buck" over a really scary backwards tape; the music is from an old 1969 B-side, "Open Our Eyes," which is God-praising gospel so uncut, so heartfelt, so, well, soulful that it seems like a near-perversion of religion to use it backwards for this terrifying rant, which ends with the tape being sped up as Clinton screams "Is Truth the Light?!?!?!??!!!," showing the pimp's figurative, Divine punishment. A brilliant move on Clinton's part, "Eulogy and Light" ends the album.

Such a brilliant album, even though it's painfully short at 31 minutes, deserves to be heard by everybody. Get the British version, turn "I Wanna Know If It's Good To You" up and feel the light sear your senses. I love Funkadelic.

Funkadelic - Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow
Label: Westbound Records, Inc.
Catalog#: SEWA 012
Format: LP
Country: UK
Released: 1990
Genre: Rock, Funk / Soul
Style: P.Funk, Psychedelic Rock
Credits: Bass - Billy Nelson
Drums - Tiki Fulwood
Guitar [Lead] - Eddie Hazel
Guitar [Rhythm] - Tawl Ross
Keyboards - Bernie Worrell
Producer - George Clinton
Vocals - Calvin Simon , Fuzzy Haskins , George Clinton , Grady Thomas , Ray Davis
Notes: Re-issue of 1970 Westbound LP.
Rating: 4.0/5 (1 vote) Rate It
Submitted by: gmos

Tracklisting:
A1 Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow (10:04)
A2 Friday Night, August 14th (5:21)
B1 Funky Dollar Bill (3:15)
B2 I Wanna Know If It's Good To You (5:59)
B3 Some More (2:56)
B4 Eulogy And Light (3:31) ( )