Funkadelic has inhaled so much acid for its sophomore album that it would be impossible not to free the mind.
As for the ass, it's a completely personal matter if it will, hopefully, follow.
Free Your Mind... sees Funkadelic mix their funky sound with the Psychedelic Acid rock movement for some great effects especially the opening title track and should be known as one of their better records.
Track Review
Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow 9.5/10
Friday night, August 14th 8.5/10.
Funky Dollar Bill 8.5/10.
I Wanna Know If It's Good to You 8/10
Some More 7.5/10.
Eulogy and Light 7.5/10.
Average: 8.3/10
From the minute this started, this was a super trippy experience of an album. The vocal layering, warped instrumental sounds, changes in tone, it's all such an interesting style that was applied here. This uses the same acid rock style that their debut self titled album had to it, except it is just slightly more polished. The title track is really good, but due to it's length it lacks a lot of replay value for me, that seems to be an issue with a lot of Funkadelic tracks though. The guitar work ... read more
Not as crazy about this one as the other two of Funkadelic's first three albums, the self-titled and Maggot Brain are much more interesting and engaging than this one, but I wouldn't say it's necessarily mediocre, just very much underwhelming in comparison to the other two. I really love the opener, and I Wanna Know If It's Good to You is up there in the ranks of their best tracks, but tracks 2, 3, 5 and 6 come off as really boring to me. Stylistically very mundane, it isn't as impressive as ... read more
This sits somewhere in the middle of what I’ve heard from Funkadelic so far, a bit better and more interesting in my opinion than Cosmic Slop and Standing on the Verge of Getting It On, but not as good as their self-titled which preceded it and obviously not up there with Maggot Brain. Very trippy, lyrically pretty interesting for a funk album and some of the lyrics almost have quite a punk attitude as well as the weird spiritual stuff. Great guitars, good spacey effects and generally a ... read more
1 | Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow 10:00 | 97 |
2 | Friday Night, August 14th 5:20 | 92 |
3 | Funky Dollar Bill 3:14 | 87 |
4 | I Wanna Know If It's Good to You 5:54 | 95 |
5 | Some More 2:55 | 76 |
6 | Eulogy and Light 3:29 | 83 |