Released April 21, 1975 | Length 35:57 Release date 21 April 1975 Producer George Clinton | |
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Genres Funk, Soul music, Rock music, Funk rock Similar Funkadelic albums, Funk albums |
Funkadelic good to your earhole
Let's Take It to the Stage is the seventh album by American funk/soul/rock band Funkadelic. It was released in April 1975 on Westbound Records. The album charted at number 102 on the Billboard 200 and number 14 on the R&B Albums.
Contents
- Funkadelic good to your earhole
- Let s take it to the stage 1975
- Music and lyrics
- Critical reception
- Personnel
- Songs
- References
Let s take it to the stage 1975
Music and lyrics
Let's Take It to the Stage is a funk rock album. The closing track "Atmosphere", which begins with a monologue by George Clinton about "dicks and clits", appropriates an extended organ coda from Johann Sebastian Bach. The album's title track has been sampled on several hip hop hits, including Brand Nubian's "Slow Down", Public Enemy's "Bring the Noise", and N.W.A's "100 Miles and Runnin'".
Critical reception
In a contemporary review, Billboard magazine called Let's Take It to the Stage a collection of Funkadelic's "usual good mix of soul and jazz sounds, mixed in with singing and street raps", citing the title track and "Baby I Owe You Something Good" as highlights. In The Village Voice, Robert Christgau said Funkadelic finally does on record "what they've always promised to do in the hype—make the Ohio Players sound like the Mike Curb Congregation." In a 1981 review, he wrote that despite the group's "disturbingly occultish bent", he is "inclined to trust the music, which is tough-minded, outlandish, very danceable, and finally, I think (and hope), liberating", later writing in Blender that it was their "tightest album ... all 10 tracks rock on."
AllMusic's Ned Raggett found Let's Take It to the Stage to be one of the band's most comical records with "more P-Funk all-time greats as well, making for a grand balance of the serious and silly." Sasha Frere-Jones, writing in The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), said it was "a summing-up of everything Funkadelic had done to date, and is still their most playable record." He felt that, although Clinton's "sexual politics weren't at their best" on tracks such as "No Head No Backstage Pass", the album is exemplary of the band's musicianship.
Personnel
Songs
1Good to Your Earhole4:35
2Better by the Pound2:44
3Be My Beach2:39