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From: diy@sb6.UUCP (D. I. Young)
Newsgroups: net.records
Subject: AMERICA EATS IT'S YOUNG (no pun intended!)
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Date: Wed, 30-Nov-83 16:10:32 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 30 16:10:32 1983
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The album "America Eats It's Young" was recorded by a black group called the
Funkadelics.  NONE of the songs were ever played on the R&B radio stations
cause they were almost all offensive.  A little history...

The Funkadelics were (and still are) VERY  popular in the black music world
and their thing was to shock people.  Remember we're talking about the late
60's - 70's, and everything was ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT then.  They first became
popular for flashing on the stage, adn needless to say they packed the house
wherever they played.  They sang about everything our parents told us not to
talk about...especially SEX.  They were new and wild and got very rich very
quickly!  They made no bones about the joys of smoking marijuana and often
did it on stage.  To us high schoolers they were ok as long as they p.o.
the grownups.

Let me correct something real quickly...they wore G- Strings, so it was not
total exposure, but it was different...

Anyway, the music was ok, and some of the titles might give you an idea of
what they were about.  It was a double-album set, and in the liner notes
on that one and all of their other albums they wrote about "Cosmic Churches"
and Armageddon (one of the songs) and other weird stuff.

THE HIT off the album, and NEVER played over the air, was the song "I Call
My Baby (censored)"  Yep, it's just what you think it is!!! Other songs
from this and other albums:

Cosmic Slop
It Does Not Compute (Spit don't make no babies)
Loose Booty  (which was their first DANCE hit)
Biological Speculation
Maggot Brain

So you see the what's happening now, happened before!
By the way, for John Smith, the title was a protest of the Vietnam war!



dennis