015: Parliament - Mothership Connection (1975)
You can’t have the funk unless you have the whole funk and nothing but the funk, so Discord a Rhyme is treating you to a second round of P-Funk. This time, Mike rounds out the story by discussing Parliament, who are tighter and much more orderly than the looser, rougher Funkadelic, and feature a truly excellent horn section. Their 1975 masterpiece Mothership Connection officially declared Parliament-Funkadelic as a cohesive, galactic entity, and its space-age soundscapes have massively influenced music since, even spawning the “G-Funk” subgenre of hip-hop most famously associated with Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg. Even more relevant to this podcast’s very particular tastes — it’s kind of proggy!See https://discordpod.com/listen/015-parliament-mothership-connection-1975 for complete show notes and a quotation from George Clinton that backs up our "funk is prog" theory.
