Music for Your Mother: Funkadelic 45s

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Music For Your Mother: Funkadelic 45s
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Compilation album by
Released1993
Recorded1968–1976
Genre Funk, psychedelic soul, rock
Length131:33
Label Westbound
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Village Voice favorable [4]

Music For Your Mother is a compilation album by Funkadelic, featuring songs recorded for Westbound Records during the band's career with that label from 1968 to 1976. The compilation includes the A-sides and B-sides of every Funkadelic single released during Funkadelic's tenure at Westbound. Some of the tracks here originated as alternate versions of album tracks or as non-album B-sides, and some were previously unreleased. Two tracks, "I Miss My Baby" and "Baby I Owe You Something Good" (original version) were originally released by Westbound under the group name U.S. Music With Funkadelic , which was probably meant to denote "U.S. with music by Funkadelic" or simply "U.S. with Funkadelic." U.S. refers to the band United Soul that had been discovered and produced by George Clinton in 1971, and which contained future Parliament-Funkadelic members Garry Shider and Cordell Mosson.

Contents

The CD booklet features an extensive 20,000-word article by music writer and Parliament-Funkadelic historian Rob Bowman. In the 2000s, many of the non-LP tracks included in this anthology were added as bonus tracks on Westbound CD reissues of their respective original albums.

Track listing

Disc One

No.TitleWriter(s)AlbumLength
1."Music for My Mother" (W 148, 1969)Clinton, Nelson, Hazel Funkadelic (alt. version)5:18
2."Music for My Mother [Instrumental]" (W 148, 1969)Clinton, Nelson, Hazel 6:13
3."Can't Shake It Loose" (previously unreleased, scheduled as W 149, 1969)Clinton, Barnes, McCoy, Jackson 2:28
4."As Good As I Can Feel" (previously unreleased, scheduled as W 149, 1969)Clinton, Haskins 2:32
5."I'll Bet You" (W 150, 1969)Clinton, Barnes, LindseyFunkadelic (alt. version)3:58
6."Qualify and Satisfy" (W 150, 1969)Clinton, Hazel, NelsonFunkadelic (edit)3:02
7."Open Our Eyes" (W 150, 1969)Lumkins 4:01
8."I Got a Thing, You Got a Thing, Everybody Got a Thing" (W 158, 1970)HaskinsFunkadelic (edit)2:59
9."Fish, Chips and Sweat" (W 158, 1970)Clinton, Nelson, Hazel 2:59
10."I Wanna Know If It's Good to You" (W 167, 1970)Clinton, Nelson, Hazel, Haskins Free Your Mind... and Your Ass Will Follow (edit)2:51
11."I Wanna Know If It's Good to You [Instrumental]" (W 167, 1970)Clinton, Nelson, Hazel, HaskinsFree Your Mind... and Your Ass Will Follow (edit)3:10
12."You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks" (W 175, 1971)Clinton, Worrell, Jones Maggot Brain (extended version)3:48
13."Funky Dollar Bill" (W 175, 1971)Clinton, Hazel, DavisFree Your Mind... and Your Ass Will Follow (alt. mix)3:06
14."Can You Get to That" (W 185, 1971)Clinton, HarrisMaggot Brain2:49
15."Back in Our Minds" (W 185, 1971)HaskinsMaggot Brain2:39
16."I Miss My Baby" (W 197, 1972, by U.S. Music with Funkadelic)Haskins 4:18
Total length:56:11

Disc Two

No.TitleWriter(s)AlbumLength
1."Baby I Owe You Something Good" (W 197, 1972, by U.S. Music with Funkadelic)Clinton 3:50
2."Hit It and Quit It" (W 198, 1972)Clinton, NelsonMaggot Brain (edit)2:46
3."A Whole Lot of BS" (W 198, 1972)Clinton, Worrell 1:18
4."Loose Booty" (W 205, 1972)Clinton, Beane America Eats Its Young (edit)3:13
5."A Joyful Process" (W 205, 1972)Clinton, WorrellAmerica Eats Its Young (edit)3:25
6."Cosmic Slop" (W 218, 1973)Clinton, Worrell Cosmic Slop (edit)3:22
7."If You Don't Like the Effects, Don't Produce the Cause" (W 218, 1973)Clinton, ShiderAmerica Eats Its Young (edit)3:33
8."Standing on the Verge of Getting It On" (W 224, 1974)Clinton, Cook Standing on the Verge of Getting It On (edit)3:18
9."Jimmy's Got a Little Bit of Bitch in Him" (W 224, 1974)Clinton, CookStanding on the Verge of Getting It On2:29
10."Red Hot Mamma" (W 5000, 1975)Clinton, Hazel, WorrellStanding on the Verge of Getting It On (edit)3:24
11."Vital Juices" (W 5000, 1975)Clinton 3:11
12."Better By the Pound" (W 5014, 1975)Clinton, Cook Let's Take It to the Stage 2:42
13."Stuffs and Things" (W 5014, 1975)Clinton, CookLet's Take It to the Stage2:12
14."Let's Take It to the Stage" (W 5026, 1976)Clinton, Collins, ShiderLet's Take It to the Stage (edit)3:20
15."Biological Speculation" (W 5026, 1976)Clinton, HarrisAmerica Eats Its Young3:08
16."Undisco Kidd" (W 5029, 1976)Clinton, Collins, Worrell Tales of Kidd Funkadelic (edit)4:12
17."How Do Yeaw View You" (W 5029, 1976)Clinton, Collins, WorrellTales of Kidd Funkadelic3:42
Total length:53:05

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References

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Other sources

Liner notes to Music For Your Mother by Rob Bowman, 1992.