'' is a
1972 album by
Funkadelic . This was the first album to include the whole of the
JB's , along with
Bootsy Collins ,
Catfish Collins ,
Chicken Gunnels ,
Rob McCollough and
Kash Waddy .
- "You Hit the Nail On the Head" ( George Clinton , Clarence Haskins , Bernie Worrell )
- "If You Don't Like the Effects, Don't Produce the Cause" (Clinton, Garry Shider )
- "Everybody Is Going To Make It This Time" (Clinton, Worrell)
- "A Joyful Process" (Clinton, Worrell)
- "We Hurt Too" (Clinton)
- "Loose Booty" (Clinton, Harold Beane )
- "Philmore" ( Bootsy Collins )
- "Pussy" (Clinton, Billy Bass Nelson , Eddie Hazel )
- "America Eats Its Young" (Beane, Clinton, Worrell)
- "Biological Speculation" (Clinton, Ernie Harris )
- "That Was My Girl" (Clinton, Sidney Barnes )
- "Balance" (Clinton, Worrell)
- "Miss Lucifer's Love" (Clinton, Haskins)
- "Wake Up" (Clinton, James W. Jackson , Worrell)
- , Tiki Fulwood , Ty Lampkin , Kash Waddy
- , Catfish Collins , Ed Hazel , Garry Shider
- , Prakash John , Boogie Mosson
- , Arnie Chycoski , Ronnie Greenway , Chicken Gunnels , Al Stanwyck
- , Albert Pratz , Bill Richards , Joe Sera
- , Stanley Solomon
- , Peter Schenkman
- , Diane Brooks , Bootsy Collins, Catfish Collins, George Clinton , Ray Davis , Ronnie Greenway , Clayton Gunnels , Fuzzy Haskins , Ed Hazel, Prakash John, Steve Kennedy , Garry Shider, Calvin Simon , Grady Thomas , Frank Waddy , Randy Wallace , Bernie Worrell
This song is vaguely political, with the central lyrical thrust of the song quoted above. Essentially, though the current entrenched power-holding class may win a battle, they are still morally wrong.
This song has two interrelated themes. The beginning focuses on hypocrites who want to change reality without accepting the blame if anything goes wrong. This is extended in the latter part of the song to those who make half-hearted attempts at social change, and who protest the "big" problems but are not willing to make changes in their own lives to respect what they claim is right for all of society.
The song was recorded in
London in
1968 , with the assistance of
Ginger Baker (
Cream ), one of Clinton's favorite drummers.
This song proclaims that the human race (the titular "everybody") is capable of growing and reforming, but at the present, nobody is willing to learn from past mistakes, and has sacrificed wisdom for material comfort.
Personnel:
This song starts off borrowing the music from the children's
Christian song, "
Jesus Loves Me ."
This is widely considered one of Funkadelic's weakest songs, lyrically and musically.
This song claims that men are also capable of crying (presumably, in addition to women) and feel just as sad as the other sex.
This is widely considered one of the better songs off what is an otherwise relatively weak album. It was a remake of a
Parliament song.
This song is an obscene
Nursery Rhyme . This would eventually become a whole group of
P Funk songs, all with the same nursery rhyme-quality, yet obscene and perverse lyrics.
This song seems to be about the singer's sexual prowess, as he woos a woman who is uncaring and cruel.
The song is, essentially, about lust and its tremendous power over the singer, who is incapable of resisting his (perhaps former) lover.
George Clinton sang lead vocals, with
Frank Waddy on drums.
The song's deliberately suggestive (but oblique) lyrics such as "I'm the tomcat and you're my li'l ol' pussy" and "Wild and warm is my pussy/ My pussy is where it's at" are common for the genre, a tradition followed in
R&B .
This song has largely inscrutable lyrics that seem to be claiming that
America is a "bitch" that "suck(s) the brains" of her "great grandsons and daughters."
This song is about how
Mother Nature will fix any unbalanced elements of society, sooner or later. The singer takes the position that any oppression is only temporary, and will eventually and inevitably be destroyed by Mother Nature acting through human agents.
It is widely considered one of the weaker songs on a very weak and uneven album.
This is a sugary sweet love song, in which the singer describes his former girl, a beautiful woman who could always "drive the fellas wild."
- Lead Vocals: Bootsy Collins
"Miss Lucifer's Love" features vocals by
Bernie Worrell and string and horn arrangements by
Bernie Worrell . Its songwriters are
George Clinton and
Fuzzy Haskins .
In Miss Lucifer's Love, the singer describes his love for "Miss Lucifer." Although she is referred to as "the devil," Miss Lucifer is not necessarily
Satan (see
Lucifer ) as certain critics (predominantly
Christian Fundamentalists ) have argued. The singer could be addressing a former lover, whom, in retrospect, he sees as being similar to the devil in both her exciting, passionate danger and her cruel and sadistic nature.
This is the only fully-developed politically-oriented song off what is commonly considered a weak album.
This song exhorts the listener to "wake up" to political and social action. Humanity is characterized as sleeping through oppression, ignoring (by choice) what would otherwise be scandals and outrages demanding immediate action.
