Let's Take It to the Stage
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| Studio album by Funkadelic | ||||
| Released | April 21, 1975 | |||
| Genre | Funk rock | |||
| Length | 35:57 | |||
| Label | Westbound | |||
| Producer | George Clinton | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    |
| Blender | |
| Christgau's Record Guide | A– |
| Encyclopedia of Popular Music | |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | |
| Spin Alternative Record Guide | 9/10 |
| The Village Voice | B+ |
Let's Take It to the Stage is the seventh album by American funk/soul/rock band Funkadelic. It was released in April 1975 on Westbound Records. The album charted at number 102 on the Billboard 200 and number 14 on the R&B Albums.
Let's Take It to the Stage is a funk rock album. The closing track "Atmosphere", which begins with a monologue by George Clinton about "dicks and clits", appropriates an extended organ coda from Johann Sebastian Bach. The album's title track has been sampled on several hip hop hits, including Brand Nubian's "Slow Down", Public Enemy's "Bring the Noise", and N.W.A's "100 Miles and Runnin'".
In a contemporary review, Billboard magazine called Let's Take It to the Stage a collection of Funkadelic's "usual good mix of soul and jazz sounds, mixed in with singing and street raps", citing the title track and "Baby I Owe You Something Good" as highlights. In The Village Voice, Robert Christgau said Funkadelic finally does on record "what they've always promised to do in the hype—make the Ohio Players sound like the Mike Curb Congregation." In a 1981 review, he wrote that despite the group's "disturbingly occultish bent", he is "inclined to trust the music, which is tough-minded, outlandish, very danceable, and finally, I think (and hope), liberating", later writing in Blender that it was their "tightest album ... all 10 tracks rock on."
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