Cosmic Slop
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| Studio album by Funkadelic | ||||
| Released | July 9, 1973 | |||
| Recorded | 1972-1973 United Sound Studio, Detroit Manta Sound Studio, Toronto |
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| Genre | Funk, psychedelic soul | |||
| Length | 35:32 | |||
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Westbound WB-2022 |
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| Producer | George Clinton | |||
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| AllMusic |   |
| Blender | |
| Robert Christgau | B |
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| Rolling Stone |  |
| Spin | (9/10) |
Cosmic Slop is the fifth studio album by Funkadelic, released in 1973 on Westbound Records. While it has been favorably reevaluated by critics long after its original release, the album was a commercial failure, producing no charting singles, and making only #112 on the Billboard pop chart and #21 on the R&B chart.
Cosmic Slop is the first Funkadelic album to feature artwork and liner notes by Pedro Bell, who assumed responsibility for the band’s gate-fold album covers and liner notes until the band’s collapse after 1981’s The Electric Spanking of War Babies. Bell’s liner notes to Cosmic Slop include small illustrations next to each song’s name, summarizing the song in a picture.
Mallia Franklin and Debbie Wright both contributed vocals and were not credited.
“Nappy Dugout” is a slang term referring to the vagina.
The singer explains why he is sad, because his woman has left him for someone else. He claims to have noticed water in his house and called a plumber, who told him that the water did not come from his sink, but from his tears. He also claims his "nerves are shot" and he has devoured most of his fingernails in his pain. This song is a reworking of the 1965 Parliaments single "Heart Trouble". The instrumental portion of this song was reworked into "Do That Stuff" for the 1976 album The Clones Of Dr. Funkenstein.
This was one of the first P Funk songs to deal with the Vietnam War.
The song’s title refers to a meeting of Vietnam vets and President Nixon at the White House. An overtly political song, “March to the Witch’s Castle” concerns the tribulations of Vietnam veterans coming home to the United States, and deals with adjusting to a non-wartime society and addiction. The soldier has become addicted (presumably to heroin) and found that his wife, thinking he was dead, married someone else. The soldier did not understand why he was fighting the war, and why he gave so much of his life to fighting abstract concepts that he cared little about. Rock band My Morning Jacket reworked the main guitar part for the song "Run Thru" on their 2004 release, It Still Moves.
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