George Clinton, The P-Funk Allstars - T.A.P.O.A.F.O.M.(The Awesome Power of A Fully- Operational Mothership) (1996)

Tracklist

01. If Anybody Gets Funked Up (It's Gonna Be You)
02. Summer Swim
03. Funky Kind (Gonna Knock It Down)
04. Mathematics
05. Hard As Steel
06. New Spaceship
07. Underground Angel
08. Let's Get Funky
09. Flatman & Bobbin
10. Sloopy Seconds (feat. Bernie Worrell & Bootsy Collins)
11. Rock the Party
12. Get Your Funk On
13. T.A.P.O.A.F.O.M. (Fly Away)
14. If Anybody Gets Funked Up (It's Gonna Be You) [Colin Wolfe Mix]

The Awesome Power of a Fully Operational Mothership is the first George Clinton album to show signs of a Dr. Dre G-funk influence. Where his previous album, Hey Man, Smell My Finger, was pretty much nothing but standard P-funk, Awesome Power slows the beat down just like Dre does on The Chronic. The difference is, Dre actually works those grooves into songs where Clinton just lets the funk meander. He doesn't even try to write songs -- he operates under the belief that ceaseless jamming and randomly interjected vocals constitues a good groove. And it does, when given the right source material and musicians. On Awesome Power, Clinton has neither. The musicians may have all played with various incarnations of Parliament, but they sound tired and bored on the album -- there isn't a single instant when they latch on to a good groove. And what that means is this: On Awesome Power, George Clinton sounds more out of touch with contemporary funk and R&B than he ever has.

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