This album brought the former Parliament/Funkadelic leader into the '80s with its mix of dance grooves, new wave and early rap bounce. Though it contains the breakthrough...
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In the late '70s George Clinton helmed a massive empire bound to eventually decline -- which it did, in a rather ugly manner. Once he finally distanced himself in the early...
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An uneven but strong comeback album that finds Clinton embracing his hip-hop appeal, and features guest spots from Dr. Dre, Ice Cube (a frequent collaborator these days),...
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Hey Man, Smell My Finger is everything a great George Clinton album should be -- conceptually disjointed, overlong, silly, sloppy, and funky as hell. Thankfully, the music...
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This five-track, 28-minute maxi-single gave George Clinton four opportunities to reconfigure his song "Paint The White House Black," a hip-hop track that he handed over to...
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His fourth solo album continues in the upbeat dance vein of his previous solo releases, and features the killer "Do Fries Go With That Shake." However, the album is overall...
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A definite improvement over the uneven Some of My Best Jokes Are Friends, the considerably more focused and confident R&B Skeletons in the Closet is one of George Clinton's...
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Clinton seems to be trying to stretch here, but with uneven results. The arrangements and musicianship are tight as always, but the songs vary and the humor seems forced....
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With technology having taken over R&B in a major way by the mid-'80s, George Clinton made a point of "updating" his P-Funk by being much more high tech and using keyboards,...
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Clinton's debut for Prince's Paisley Park label has the Purple One's stamp all over it, but lacks the songs or focus of either artists' best work. Not even Chuck D. and...
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On his first album for Prince's Paisley Park record label, George Clinton's willingness to experiment with samplers and hip-hop (including guest appearances by such artists...
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This follow-up to Computer Games was a let-down, though not a total disappointment, as it features the epic "Nubian Nut" and the semi-hit "Last Dance." More dance floor...
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When George Clinton rebounded with Computer Games, an album met with unanimous acclaim, it seemed as if his already long-winded career was about to enter a new era of...
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Concerned about the huge strides being made in the development of samplers, and the ways in which artists were being sampled by everyone from rappers to plunderphonic...
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The title stands for "The Awesome Power Of A Fully Operational Mothership," and it's not too far off the mark. More musical and live-sounding than his last couple of...
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Greatest-hits albums aren't usually included in these reviews, but I've included this one because every song is remixed and features guest rappers, like Coolio, Too Short,...
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George Clinton's solo output of the 1980s and 1990s wasn't as consistent as his work with Parliament/Funkadelic in the 1970s -- nonetheless, the P-Funk innovator has had his...
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Virtually identical to the non-clean version of Greatest Funkin Hits. While the songs on the album are not all necessarily solo George Clinton originals (many from the...
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This compilation features some of the best solo material from the Parliament/Funkadelic crew during the late '70s and '80s under the direction of George Clinton. Ever the...
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