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Mothership Connection is a funk album by Parliament, released in 1976. This concept album (see P Funk mythology) is usually rated as one of Parliament's best. Mothership Connection was the first P-funk album with Maceo Parker and Fred Wesley, who had left The JB's, James Brown's backing band.
In 2003 the TV network VH1 named Mothership Connection the 55th greatest album of all time. Joe S. Harrington of Blastitude listed it as in his All-time Top 100 Albums, describing it as "the greatest r'n'b album of all time". * Dr. Dre samples the songs "Mothership Connection" and "P-Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up)" on his album The Chronic.
The song Mothership Connection was featured in an EA Sports NBA Live game.
Describing the album, George Clinton said "We had put black people in situations nobody ever thought they would be in, like the White House. I figured another place you wouldn't think black people would be was in outer space. I was a big fan of Star Trek, so we did a thing with a pimp sitting in a spaceship shaped like a Cadillac, and we did all these James Brown-type grooves, but with street talk and ghetto slang."
Mothership Connection
Track listing
Personnel
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Track listing
"Unfunky UFO" (Clinton/Collins/Snider) – 4:23
"Supergroovalisticprosifunkstication" (Clinton/Collins/Shider/Worrell) – 5:03
"Handcuffs" (Clinton/Goins/McLaughlin) – 3:51
"Night of the Thumpasorus Peoples" (Clinton/Collins/Snider) – 5:10
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Personnel
Vocals, Handclaps
Horns
Guitars
Bass
Drums and Percussion
Keyboards, Synthesizers
Produced by George Clinton
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Chart positions
Billboard Music Charts (North America) - album
1976 Pop Albums No. 13
1976 Black Albums No. 4
Billboard Music Charts (North America) - singles
1976 Tear The Roof Off The Sucker (Give Up The Funk) Pop Singles No. 15
1976 Tear The Roof Off The Sucker (Give Up The Funk) Black Singles No. 5
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