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| | Gloryhallastoopid | | | Music Artist : | | Parliament | | Music Style : | | Disco | | Record Label : | | Mca Special Products | | Release Date : | | 1990-10-05 | | Store Price : | | $6.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $6.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Prologue
2. (Gloryhallastoopid) Pin the Tail on the Funky
3. Party People
4. Big Bang Theory
5. Freeze (Sizzaleenmean)
6. Colour Me Funky
7. Theme from the Black Hole
8. May We Bang You?
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Yes, things were startin' to get 'stoopid'.
Submitted on: 2009-09-11 |
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| This album was a big step down from the previous Parliament LP, although it wasn't as bad as their next one (Trombipulation). The title cut was alright, your typical Parliament intro song with a George Clinton monologue. I liked it. Couldn't wait to hear the rest of the LP. Sad to say, the next song let me down....tremendously. I was at a P-Funk concert in NY right after Funkadelic's 'Uncle Jam Wants You' came out, and they were giving away copies of 'Party People' 45's. I wasn't able to get one at the time, and I couldn't wait for the Parliament LP to come out so I could hear what I missed. Needless to say, I didn't miss anything. The fact that Parliament would record a disco song really bothered me (I heard that they were under pressure from the record company to put out a disco song). Fortunately, they more than made up for it with 'The Big Bang Theory', in my opinion the best song on the album. 'The Freeze (Sizzaleenmean)' was kinda interesting. It had a James Brown feel to it. But it really didn't fit in on this LP. 'Colour Me Funky' was a good, mellow funk tune that would've worked better on the 'Uncle Jam Wants You' album. I'm probably the only person in the world who wasn't impressed with 'Theme From The Black Hole'. It just sounded corny to me, plus, I was beginning to get a little tired of Sir Nose. I wasn't wild about 'May We Bang You' at first, but after repeated listenings, I really like this song. Overall, the Mothership was starting to run out of gas. |
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 Sir Nose Wins?!?!?
Submitted on: 2009-06-18 |
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| Well, even though it's not as good as the earlier Parliament albums, Gloryhallastoopid is not one to be disregarded. Bernie Worrell really makes this album fun to listen to. This album begins with an almost unknowledgeable prologue that leads right into the title track "Gloryhallastoopid (Pin the Tale on the Funky)", a nice tune that introduces the audience to Wellington Wigout. Even though the next song, "Party People", is what the band self-claimed to be their "worst song ever", it's really not too bad considering it is nearly 10 minutes long and close to the one thing pure funk musicians live to loathe-DISCO. It actually has a nice beat to it. The next one's my personal favorite, "The Big Bang Theory", a synth-filled instrumental featuring the one and only Bernie Worrell; I always try to not dance to this but fail to do so. The next one is what I believe is the worst on this album-"The Freeze (Sizzaleenmean)", which is more repetitive than "Party People" and is less thrilling. But George Clinton bounces back in a great ballad in "Colour Me Funky", what I believe is really a Funkadelic song that is a continuation of "One Nation Under a Groove" and a prelude to the album "Uncle Jam Wants You" that would come in the same year (1979). It appears that Sir Nose D'Voidoffunk will emerge as this victor as he really "pins the tale on the funky" in the next tune "Theme From the Black Hole" where Starchild is unfortunately on the losing side with Sir Nose pestering him at the end. The album concludes with another great song in "May We Bang You?". This is an album I would recommend if you want to pursue a P-Funk collection like me. |
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 Try to forgive them for "Party People," and it's an okay album
Submitted on: 2008-06-01 |
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This album is commonly reviled, and as mentioned in my title, this is primarily due to the 10-minute "Party People," Parliament-Funkadelic's one song to unironically embrace disco. After a promising start with "Prologue"/"Gloryhallastoopid," a standard-but-solid song featuring Starchild, this third track's cheesy commercialism kind of sours you to the rest of the album. On the album after that come two songs universally recognized as among Parliament's best: "Theme From the Black Hole" and "Big Bang Theory." "The Freeze," though sometimes criticized as overlong and uninteresting, also grows on you and has more going on instrumentally than you may appreciate at first. There's also little wrong with "Colour Me Funky" or "May We Bang You," though the two songs are certainly nothing to seek out.
I'd give this album 3.5 stars, on the strength of the two essential songs plus enjoyable lesser tracks "Gloryhallastoopid" and "The Freeze." Serious fans won't regret having it (especially for a mere $6.95), but it's not a key recording since the best two songs are available on most compliations. |
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WOW!!!!
Submitted on: 2007-06-11 |
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I was only ten when this album was release in the fall of 1979. The first single released off this album, which seem like a sequel to "Aqua Boogie" but this time, the P-Funk crew are back in space again, was "Theme From The Black Hole" featuring Sir Nose of course.
But, the main single that blew me away on this album is no other than: THE BIG BANG THEORY!!! When I heard that track, that single alone did it for me. One listen, I was SOLD!! WOW!!! Just pure hardcore funk instrumental. Enough said period. |
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Yes, STOOPID!!!
Submitted on: 2006-09-13 |
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| 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.......... |
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