One Nation Under a Groove
Template:Infobox album One Nation Under a Groove is the tenth studio album by American funk rock band Funkadelic, released on September 22, 1978, on Warner Bros. Records. Recording sessions took place at United Sound Studio in Detroit, with one song recorded live on April 15, 1978, at the Monroe Civic Center in Monroe, Louisiana.[1] The album was the first album to include keyboardist and frequent songwriter Walter "Junie" Morrison.
One Nation Under a Groove was Funkadelic's most commercially successful album, reaching number 1 on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, number 16 on the Billboard 200, and being certified platinum in the US. It reached number 58 in Canada.[2] It was acclaimed by critics, and appears in several "best album" lists. It was featured on Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century and 51 Essential Albums lists.[3][4] The album was ranked number 177 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time in both 2003 and 2012 editions,[5][6] before moving to number 360 in the 2020 edition.[7] The album is included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.[8]
Music
[edit]According to the academic Bill Martin, One Nation Under a Groove is indebted "a good deal more to progressive rock than most critics are willing to admit, as well as progressive soul, Hendrix, and Sly Stone".[9]
Critical reception
[edit]Template:Music ratings Susan Toepfer of the New York Daily News called the album "another skillful funkcollection from George, Bootsy and a considerable portion of the P-Funk crew."[10]
Steve Huey of AllMusic claimed that "the whole album is full of fuzzed-out, Hendrix-style guitar licks, even when the music is clearly meant for the dancefloor...One Nation Under a Groove is the best realization of Funkadelic's ambitions, and one of the best funk albums ever released."[11]
Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly found, "One Nation Under a Groove is a deep source of riffs and ideas for '90s rock and rap ... a glorious distillation of Funkadelic founder George Clinton's concepts of verbal anarchy and tight funk grooves."[12]
Track listing
[edit]Original LP
[edit]In the US, the original album came with a bonus 7-inch EP.[13] In Europe, the bonus EP was replaced by a bonus 12-inch 45 rpm mini-album containing the 3 EP tracks on one side and an extended version of "One Nation Under a Groove" on the other.
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US Priority CD
[edit](note that the UK Charly Groove presents side one of the EP (Lunchmeat/PE) as tracks 7 & 8 and side two (Maggot Brain) as track 9. Template:Track listing
Personnel
[edit]Funkadelic Main Invasion Force (as given in the liner notes):
- Throbbasonic Funkgeetarists:
- Banjo'd Muthaplucker:
- Avatarian
- Mike Hampton
- Keybo' Dans & Synthezoidees:
- Rotofunkie Drum & Percussionatin' Thumpdans:
- Bass Thumpasaurians:
- Funkadelic Blamgusta Vocaloids (Voices For Da Nation!):
- George Clinton, Raymond (Stingray) Davis, Ron Ford, Mallia Franklin, Lynn Mabry, W. 'Junie' Morrison, Cordell Mosson, Dawn Silva, Gary "Dowop" Shider, Greg Thomas, Jeanette Washington, Debbie Wright
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ Tower.com: One Nation Under a Groove Archived March 10, 2009, at the Wayback Machine. Tower.com. Retrieved on August 11, 2008.
- ↑ "RPM Top 100 Albums - November 25, 1978" (PDF).
- ↑ "51 Essential Albums". Vibe. Vol. 12 no. 9. New York. September 2004. p. 205. ISSN 1070-4701. Archived from the original on September 12, 2016.
- ↑ "The Vibe 100". Vibe. Vol. 7 no. 10. New York. December 1999. p. 160. ISSN 1070-4701.
- ↑ 177) One Nation Under a Groove : Rolling Stone. Rolling Stone. Retrieved on August 11, 2008.
- ↑ "500 Greatest Albums of All Time Rolling Stone's definitive list of the 500 greatest albums of all time". Rolling Stone. 2012. Retrieved September 18, 2019.
- ↑ "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". Rolling Stone. September 22, 2020. Retrieved June 27, 2021.
- ↑ Robert Dimery; Michael Lydon (March 23, 2010). 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die: Revised and Updated Edition. Universe. ISBN 978-0-7893-2074-2.
- ↑ Martin, Bill (2015). Listening to the Future: The Time of Progressive Rock, 1968-1978. Open Court. p. 243. ISBN 9780812699449.
- ↑ Toepfer, Susan (November 12, 1978). "Top Of Pop". New York Daily News. p. 310. Retrieved April 27, 2025.
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