Biography

While his genre-defying classic bands Parliament and Funkadelic were mired in legal woes and personnel disarray, funk pioneer George Clinton finally went solo in the 1980s with a series of bizarre, colorful albums. Clinton shifted away from the organic big-group chaos of his seminal '70s work, and instead began to utilize all the newer technology, whether it be synths or samples, and inadvertently paved the way for the nascent hip-hop movement. The acid-fried funk on albums like COMPUTER GAMES and SOME OF MY BEST JOKES ARE FRIENDS may have taken its cue from the new kidz, but was still 100% George Clinton in all his funkified psychedelic glory.

Top Tracks

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• As In

• Atomic Dog

• Bop Gun

• Bop Gun (one Nation)

• Bullet Proof

• Computer Games

• Do Fries Go With That Shake?

• Double Oh-oh

• Flashlight

• Flatman & Bobbin

• Freak To Freak

• Funk 'n' Bop

• Funky Kind (gonna Knock It Down)

• Give Up The Funk

• Gypsy Woman

• Heaven

• Hey Good Lookin

• Hollywood (africa)

• If Anybody Gets Funked Up (it's Gonna Be You)

• Leakin'

• Let The Good Times Roll

• Loopzilla

• Lump

• Make My Funk The P-funk

• Man's Best Friend/loopzilla

• Mothership Connection (star Child)

• Nubian Nut

• Pumpin' It Up

• Quickie

• The Mothership Connection

Discography

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• George Clinton and His Gangsters of Love

  Shanachie

  2008

• 500,000 Kilowatts of P-Funk Power

  Fruit Tree

  2004

• Live & Kickin'

  Intersound

  1997

• T.A.P.O.A.F.O.M. (The Awesome Power of a Fully Operational Mothership)

  550 Music / 550 Music/Epic

  1996

• Testing Positive

  AEM

  1996

• Series 1

  Castle Music Ltd.

  1996

• Hey Man, Smell My Finger

  Paisley Park

  1993

• Sample Some of Disc, Sample Some of D.A.T., Vol. 1

  AEM

  1993

• The Cinderella Theory

  Paisley Park

  1989

• R&B Skeletons in the Closet

  Capitol

  1986

• Mothership Connection (Live from the Summit, Houston, Texas)

  Capitol

  1986

• Some of My Best Jokes Are Friends

  Capitol

  1985

• You Shouldn't-Nuf Bit Fish

  Capitol/EMI Records / Capitol

  1983

• Computer Games

  Capitol

  1982

• The George Clinton Band Arrives

  ABC Music

  1974