Artist: Parliament
Album: Gloryhallastoopid (Pin the Tale on the Funky)
Genre: P.Funk, Soul
Label: Casablanca/Universal Music
Released: 1979/2009
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- Prologue (0:47)
- (Gloryhallastoopid) Pin the Tale on the Funky (4:09)
- Party People (10:11)
- The Big Bang Theory (7:13)
- The Freeze (Sizzaleenmean) (9:02)
- Colour Me Funky (4:54)
- Theme from the Black Hole (4:39)
- May We Bang You (4:46)
- Theme from the Black Hole (Original 12" Disco Version) (11:47)
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Though Gloryhallastoopid boasts a couple great songs, "Big Bang Theory" and "Theme from the Black Hole," it's unfortunately one of the least essential Parliament-Funkadelic albums. In particular, the ten-minute "Party People" and the nine-minute "The Freeze (Sizzaleenmean)" plod on (and on, and on) for no good reason. Unlike other epic P-Funk songs, most notably "(Not Just) Knee Deep," these songs are terribly uneventful. Shorter songs like "May We Bang You?" are better, but "Big Bang Theory" and "Theme from the Black Hole" are far and away the chief draw to Gloryhallastoopid. Thankfully, the two songs are easily found on a number of best-of compilations, making this album -- along with its similarly vacuous successor, Trombipulation (1980) -- one best left to completists.
Review by Jason Birchmeier