Music For Your Mother is a compilation album by Funkadelic, featuring songs recorded for Westbound Records during the band's career with that label from 1968 to 1976. The compilation includes the A-sides and B-sides of every Funkadelic single released during Funkadelic's tenure at Westbound. Some of the tracks here originated as alternate versions of album tracks or as non-album B-sides, and some were previously unreleased. Two tracks, "I Miss My Baby" and "Baby I Owe You Something Good" (original version) were originally released by Westbound under the group name U.S. Music With Funkadelic, which was probably meant to denote "U.S. with music by Funkadelic" or simply "U.S. with Funkadelic." U.S. refers to the band United Soul that had been discovered and produced by George Clinton in 1971, and which contained future Parliament-Funkadelic members Garry Shider and Cordell Mosson.
| Music For Your Mother: Funkadelic 45s | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Compilation album by | |
| Released | 1993 |
| Recorded | 1968–1976 |
| Genre | Funk, psychedelic soul, rock |
| Length | 131:33 |
| Label | Westbound |
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |  [1] |
| Q |  [2] |
| Rolling Stone | favorable (1993)[2] (2004)[3] |
| Village Voice | favorable[4] |
The CD booklet features an extensive 20,000-word article by music writer and Parliament-Funkadelic historian Rob Bowman. In the 2000s, many of the non-LP tracks included in this anthology were added as bonus tracks on Westbound CD reissues of their respective original albums.
Track listing
editDisc One
edit| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Album | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Music for My Mother" (W 148, 1969) | Clinton, Nelson, Hazel | Funkadelic (alt. version) | 5:18 |
| 2. | "Music for My Mother [Instrumental]" (W 148, 1969) | Clinton, Nelson, Hazel | 6:13 | |
| 3. | "Can't Shake It Loose" (previously unreleased, scheduled as W 149, 1969) | Clinton, Barnes, McCoy, Jackson | 2:28 | |
| 4. | "As Good As I Can Feel" (previously unreleased, scheduled as W 149, 1969) | Clinton, Haskins | 2:32 | |
| 5. | "I'll Bet You" (W 150, 1969) | Clinton, Barnes, Lindsey | Funkadelic (alt. version) | 3:58 |
| 6. | "Qualify and Satisfy" (W 150, 1969) | Clinton, Hazel, Nelson | Funkadelic (edit) | 3:02 |
| 7. | "Open Our Eyes" (W 150, 1969) | Lumkins | 4:01 | |
| 8. | "I Got a Thing, You Got a Thing, Everybody Got a Thing" (W 158, 1970) | Haskins | Funkadelic (edit) | 2:59 |
| 9. | "Fish, Chips and Sweat" (W 158, 1970) | Clinton, Nelson, Hazel | 2:59 | |
| 10. | "I Wanna Know If It's Good to You" (W 167, 1970) | Clinton, Nelson, Hazel, Haskins | Free Your Mind... and Your Ass Will Follow (edit) | 2:51 |
| 11. | "I Wanna Know If It's Good to You [Instrumental]" (W 167, 1970) | Clinton, Nelson, Hazel, Haskins | Free Your Mind... and Your Ass Will Follow (edit) | 3:10 |
| 12. | "You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks" (W 175, 1971) | Clinton, Worrell, Jones | Maggot Brain (extended version) | 3:48 |
| 13. | "Funky Dollar Bill" (W 175, 1971) | Clinton, Hazel, Davis | Free Your Mind... and Your Ass Will Follow (alt. mix) | 3:06 |
| 14. | "Can You Get to That" (W 185, 1971) | Clinton, Harris | Maggot Brain | 2:49 |
| 15. | "Back in Our Minds" (W 185, 1971) | Haskins | Maggot Brain | 2:39 |
| 16. | "I Miss My Baby" (W 197, 1972, by U.S. Music with Funkadelic) | Haskins | 4:18 | |
| Total length: | 56:11 | |||
Disc Two
edit| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Album | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Baby I Owe You Something Good" (W 197, 1972, by U.S. Music with Funkadelic) | Clinton | 3:50 | |
| 2. | "Hit It and Quit It" (W 198, 1972) | Clinton, Nelson | Maggot Brain (edit) | 2:46 |
| 3. | "A Whole Lot of BS" (W 198, 1972) | Clinton, Worrell | 1:18 | |
| 4. | "Loose Booty" (W 205, 1972) | Clinton, Beane | America Eats Its Young (edit) | 3:13 |
| 5. | "A Joyful Process" (W 205, 1972) | Clinton, Worrell | America Eats Its Young (edit) | 3:25 |
| 6. | "Cosmic Slop" (W 218, 1973) | Clinton, Worrell | Cosmic Slop (edit) | 3:22 |
| 7. | "If You Don't Like the Effects, Don't Produce the Cause" (W 218, 1973) | Clinton, Shider | America Eats Its Young (edit) | 3:33 |
| 8. | "Standing on the Verge of Getting It On" (W 224, 1974) | Clinton, Cook | Standing on the Verge of Getting It On (edit) | 3:18 |
| 9. | "Jimmy's Got a Little Bit of Bitch in Him" (W 224, 1974) | Clinton, Cook | Standing on the Verge of Getting It On | 2:29 |
| 10. | "Red Hot Mamma" (W 5000, 1975) | Clinton, Hazel, Worrell | Standing on the Verge of Getting It On (edit) | 3:24 |
| 11. | "Vital Juices" (W 5000, 1975) | Clinton | 3:11 | |
| 12. | "Better By the Pound" (W 5014, 1975) | Clinton, Cook | Let's Take It to the Stage | 2:42 |
| 13. | "Stuffs and Things" (W 5014, 1975) | Clinton, Cook | Let's Take It to the Stage | 2:12 |
| 14. | "Let's Take It to the Stage" (W 5026, 1976) | Clinton, Collins, Shider | Let's Take It to the Stage (edit) | 3:20 |
| 15. | "Biological Speculation" (W 5026, 1976) | Clinton, Harris | America Eats Its Young | 3:08 |
| 16. | "Undisco Kidd" (W 5029, 1976) | Clinton, Collins, Worrell | Tales of Kidd Funkadelic (edit) | 4:12 |
| 17. | "How Do Yeaw View You" (W 5029, 1976) | Clinton, Collins, Worrell | Tales of Kidd Funkadelic | 3:42 |
| Total length: | 53:05 | |||
References
edit- ^ Music for Your Mother: Funkadelic 45s at AllMusic
- ^ a b "Music: Music for Your Mama (Cassette) by Funkadelic (Artist)". Tower.com. 1992-12-15. Retrieved 2017-06-16.
- ^ The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. p. 316. Retrieved 2017-06-16.
- ^ "Loose Canon: George Clinton". Robert Christgau. 1993-11-02. Retrieved 2017-06-16.
Other sources
editLiner notes to Music For Your Mother by Rob Bowman, 1992.