I’ll Stay
Funkadelic
Standing On The Verge of Getting It On, 1974
And the prize for best album title ever goes to…(drum roll)…Standing On The Verge of Getting It On! My entry point for lesser known Funkadelic music was the Music For Your Mother Compilation (which I recommend if you don’t already have a somewhat in depth knowledge of their music) which I picked up at the recommendation of Bryan Adams. I remember being a little shocked at how out-there and original song titles like “If You Don’t Like The Effects, Don’t Produce the Cause,” “Biological Speculation” and “Jimmy’s Got A Little Bit of Bitch in Him” were. The range of the music was equally as surprising and varied, from gospel to soul-folk to electric-psychedelic craziness.
This song didn’t make the compilation, but my brother was nice enough to put me onto it and then give me the record on semi-permanent loan. Aside from being a masterpiece of hypnotic night-timey-ness, this song also belongs to the annals of samples because it’s the bulk of De La Soul’s “Millie Pulled A Pistol On Santa.” Millie’s “If you will suck my soul, I will lick your funky emotions” intro is also from Funkadelic’s “Mommy, What’s A Funkadelic?”
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