Gloryhallastoopid

Artist: Parliament
Label: Polygram Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio Cassette

UPC: 042284262248
EAN: 0042284262248
ASIN: B000001FUG

Release Date: 1991-04-16

Gloryhallastoopid

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Tracks:

Prologue
(Gloryhallastoopid) Pin the Tail on the Funky
Party People
Big Bang Theory
Freeze (Sizzaleenmean)
Colour Me Funky
Theme from the Black Hole
May We Bang You?

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Customer Reviews:

Yes, STOOPID!!!.......2006-09-13

For all intents and purposes--Parliament as we knew them was on a Mothership that was hit by the system. this to me was a pretty-much "Funk You Casablanca" album and Trombipulation was more of "Take this and put it where the Funk don't shine".The "Glory" album set you up for a big let down if you were looking for somethinglike "The Motor Booty Affair" They should have stayed underwater. My favorite track to this day is "The Big Bang Theory" and "Sizzleanmean" those by far are the best tracks and it will remind you of the struggle the group had with "The Clones" album--Music went into different directions, the musicianship was not as tight and that pretty much had to do the the writing of the songs---Maybe that's why Junie Morrison called himself J.S. Theracon--out of pure embarrassment--The newer members of the Pfunk mob are truly great musicians, you cannot get around that but, this album let you know somebody did not want PFUNK underwater, they wanted them to do some commercialization of the Mothership back in outerspace and it was not happening. If you read between the lines which you should always do with a PFunk album, they were about to set off Uncle Jam Records and "The Man" was not going to let this happen. They stole the late great Roger Troutman from George and they still were owed money from Westbound Records. I am pleased to have this album in my collection and love the comics--I am glad Parliament/Funkadelic stuck it to them before there was no more Parliament/Funkadelic but it was a "Stoopid" album in a good way. "Party People" was just too damn long--It was not "Flashlight", it was not "Aqua Boogie", It was NOT "UP For The Downstroke" It was just too damn long.And I still will NOT part with this album for all the funk in the world--It's Funky but it doen't stink..........

The weakest Parliament album I've heard.......2006-07-27

I own all of Parliament's Casablanca albums with the exception of Chocolate City and Trombipulation (that's a damn hard one to find), and Gloryhallastoopid is arguably the weakest, only Up For The Down Stroke can compare to it, but at least Down Stroke featured a band that was experimenting, here it sounds like George Clinton and company did a few hot tracks, and then mailed in the rest of the album.

Highlights:
"The Big Bang Theory" features excellent female vocals and some serious riffing from the horns as they each trade off and everything is anchored by some mean bass.
"Colour Me Funky" features a prominant electric guitar, a rarity in the Parliament catalog, and once again the synth bass holds the song together.
"Theme From The Black Hole" is another booty shaker and continues in the same vein as "Big Bang" offering up more funky horn lines and adding in some of Sir Nose's high-pitched nonsense to top things off. FYI, this served as the source for Digital Underground's "The Same Song".

Lowlights:
Unfortunately, this album has more than its fair share of lackluster funk: "Party People" and "The Freeze". The songs go on for waaaaaay too long thus ruining a good groove, as in the case of "Freeze" which has also features some nice sax riffing from Maceo, or making an annoying one unbearable, "Party People", which is nothing more than a bland, mindless disco song, which is something George Clinton had been railing against for years on previous albums. As for the title track and "May We Bang You", they are polite funk and serve as nice background music. Nothing musically interesting.

At about $7 this is a decent, but albeit not necessary, addition to any funksters catalog. If it were priced higher I'd recommend it to only P.Funk nuts like myself.

Dank Album For Cheap.......2005-07-19

I Scored This Album for 6 bucks and it is one of the funkiest albums of all time. Not as beautiful as the motor-booty affair but it's still awesome. Bernie plays most the bass lines but he is not credited for writing any of the songs, Bernie also rocks the keyboards nicely on party people. Buy this album it's still better than rap

Misunderstood Album (3.5 Stars).......2005-05-12

Gloryhallastoopid is by far the most misunderstood P. Funk album. You have to understand that these guys were trying to keep on evolving musically and stick with the same theme that made them so successful. What you have is a decent album, but there is not enough musical meshing with a bunch of new members coming on around this time. Numerous side projects were also being constructed by George and the gang, and more time could've probably been put into this effort. With that said, it is still killer funk, and certainly better than most of the music put out around that time. Synthesizers are present on every track as less and less real bass is actually used. Bootsy is not on here as much as other albums and Bernie was all but gone. (Worrell did not co-write a single song here.) Once again, Junie Morrison is the main guy behind the keys. The lp starts off in fine fashion with a great intro and "Gloryhallastoopid" is a nice track to get us into the theme. "Party People" is good, but it suffers greatly from legnth and it strays from the theme. It tries too hard to duplicate Funkadelic's "Knee Deep," but doesn't hold a candle to it. "The Big Bang Theory" is a great synth-oriented instrumental song that seems to almost be asking to be sampled by rap artists. "The Freeze" is a creative track, but it too suffers from legnth. The best 2 songs here are "Theme From The Black Hole," and "Colour Me Funky." They are both extremely funky and show that P. Funk was still alive and well. "May We Bang You?" tires on you after a while, but is a decent track none the less and closes out the album nicely. Though Bootsy isn't on here that much, he would practically dominate TROMBIPULATION, which is the last record from Parliament. I strongly recommend that album along with the main P. Funk albums from 75-78.

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Themes From The Black Hole.......2005-03-15

As the later Parliament albums go I tend to favor the next years 'Trombipulation',mainly because of the slightly more focused quality of song as opposed to the endless P-Funk groove.
That is what made this crew and on 1979's 'Glorhallastoopid' (or pin the tail on the funky) the P-Funk mob (then still fully intact) manage to balance both great grooving AND great songwriting as they did on their classic albums in the middle of the decade.The title track begins with an undesipherable prologe and then gets right into a solid,if not immediately classic jam.THEN the real meat of the matter starts with the four on the floor beat of "Party People"-ten minutes of growling funky singing that abolishes the tunes potencial association with disco.On the other hand "The Big Bang Theory" is a 100% CLASSIC
Parliament instrumental-mainly for Bernie Worrell's bouncy,liquid
synthesizer solos."The Freeze (Sizzleman)" deeply funkifies the tempo to more of a crawl but is every bit a deserved classic (and contrary to popular misunderstanding has NOTHING to do with disco)while "Color Me Funky" Worrell's synth work is spikier then usual and adds another dimention to a very similar groove.
"Theme From The Black Hole" is a classic that is worthy of Parliament's classic album jams of yore and at under five minutes perhapes an easier distilation.The album ends with the more R&B-ish funk of "May We Bang You?",an unusually melodic and pop oriented song by George Clinton's standards!
'Glorhallastoopid' is constantly slammed and trashed by even the most reliable R&B and funk album review books (count on my word-I've read 'em all lol) for the main reason it's one of the few P-Funk albums that has any possible relation to the dreaded D-I-S-C-O sound of the period (on that:give it a rest people-would you rather have disco back or LA Reid/Babyface?)
AND for abandoning Parliament's classic jamming groove sound.And while I love all of their old albums and this in fact may not be an indispencable classic it still deserves ALOT more respect then it gets.Like 'Trombipulation' (see my review) this album actually WIPES THE FLOOR with many hard funk concoctions of the day (and that I may add was no easy task)and is a welcome addition to my P-Funk collection.And if truth be known I think those out there who are willing to give 'Gloryhallastoopid' a chance will feel the same way.

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