1969 was a momentous year. Man first walked on the moon; Nixon arrived in the White House. Woodstock seemed to celebrate the peace and love of the decade, but the disintegration of the Beatles and the murder of Meredith Hunter at the Rolling Stones’ Altamont concert towards the end of the year proved to be a more accurate prediction for what was to come. In Detroit, a city that had been scarred by rioting in 1967, a new group, Funkadelic, were issuing their first singles in 1968. Although a black group, they revelled in many of the outward signs of the peace and love of the 60s: psychedelic clothes, loud crunching guitars and plenty of drugs, but they were offering no vision of Utopia. One listen to their early single, ‘Music For My Mother’, would show you that, as it is a disturbed blues dirge whose opening line is “Man, I was in a place called ‘Keep Running’, Mississippi”. From 1969 to 1981 they made many ground-breaking tracks, rewriting the rules of what a group could do. This compilation is the very first that looks at the band’s entire career, from their previously unreissued debut 45 for their own Funkedelic (sic) label through to their chart-topping 45s for Warner Brothers. In between we see a twisted vision and many musical high-points.

Tracklist:
A1 Cosmic Slop
A2 Standing On The Verge Of Getting It On
A3 You Can't Miss What You Can't Measure
A4 One Nation Under A Groove Pt1
A5 Better By The Pound
A6 Sexy Ways
B1 Loose Booty
B2 (Not Just) Knee Deep Pt1
B3 A Joyful Process
B4 Whatever Makes My Baby Feel Good
B5 Can You Get To That
C1 Maggot Brain
C2 I Wanna Know If It's Good To You
C3 I'll Bet You
C4 Hit It And Quit It
D1 Red Hot Mama
D2 I Got A Thing, You Got A Thing, Everybody Got A Thing
D3 Comin' Around The Mountain
D4 Let's Take It To The Stage
D5 Undisco Kidd