Let's Take It to the Stage
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Compared to most Funkadelic albums, Let's Take It to the Stage features many short and to-the-point songs, and fewer epic jam sessions.
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Track listing
- "Good To Your Earhole" (George Clinton, Grace Cook, Fuzzy Haskins)
- "Better By The Pound" (Clinton, Cook)
- "Be My Beach" (Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell)
- "No Head No Backstage Pass" (Clinton, Ron Bykowski)
- "Let's Take It To The Stage" (Clinton, Collins, Garry Shider)
- "Get Off Your Ass And Jam" (Clinton)
- "Baby I Owe You Something Good" (Clinton)
- "Stuffs And Things" (Clinton, Cook)
- "The Song Is Familiar" (Clinton, Collins, Worrell)
- "Atmosphere" (Clinton, Shider, Worrell)
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Personnel
- Vocals: 'Cool' Cal Simon, 'Bad Bosco' Bernie Worrell, C 'Boogie' Mosson, Garry 'Dowop' Shider
- Bass Vocals: 'Sting' Ray Davis
- Genie Vocals: 'Shady' Grady Thomas
- Werewolf Vocals: Clarence 'Fuzzy' Haskins
- Maggot Overlord: George Clinton
- Congas: Calvin Simon
- Keyboards: Bernie Worrell
- Bass: C Boogie Mosson
- Percussion: R Tiki Fulwood
- Guitar: Michael Hampton, Garry Shider
- Alumni Funkadelic: Bootsy (vocals), Billy Bass, Eddie Hazel, Ron Bykowski
- Guest Funkadelic: Paul Warren, Reggie McBride, Frosty, Mello Garcia, Honeys, Denise Hurd, Delores whats-her-name, Gary Cooper, Parliament
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The title track
The album's title track was written by George Clinton, Bootsy Collins and Garry Shider, with lead vocals by Clinton. The lyrics are a rhyme-heavy, nursey-rhyme-styled, seemingly stream-of-consciousness-style and only borderline coherent. An incomprehensible noise at the beginning of the song is actually a voice repeating "oh, yeah!" repeatedly.
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Memorable lyrics
- "Everybody funking and don't know how/They shoulda seen the bull when he funked the cow/He funked her so hard they saw some smoke/He said, let's get in the bed and funk like folks"
- "Little Miss Muffet sat on her tuffet snorting some THC/Along came a spider, slid down beside her/Said: what's in the bag bitch/She said I'm laughin' at ya, ha, ha!/ (Hey Fool and the Gang!)"
- "Fool and the Gang" spoofs the band Kool and the Gang
- Other popular bands 'called out' on the track include Earth, Wind and Fire ("Earth, Hot Air and No Fire!") and Rufus ("Hey Snufus! Tell Me Something Good!"). Clinton apparently hoped that his insults might spark some kind of tongue-in-cheek "beef", similar to later Hip hop rivalries, but none of the bands took him up on it.
- "Crazier than a sex maniac in a whorehouse with a credit card!"
- "Sittin in the woods upon a log/(Tricky Dick wasn't worried about no incriminating Watergate)/Finger on the trigger/My eyes on a hog/ (Information being on those tapes)"
- "Tricky Dick" refers to Richard Nixon
- "Information being on those tapes" refers to gaps in recordings of Nixon and other administration officials, presumably information deleted because of its incriminating nature
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