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Michael Jackson had the highest number of top hits at the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1980s (9 songs). In addition, Jackson remained the longest at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1980s (27 weeks). Madonna ranked as the most successful female artist of the 1980s, with 7 songs and 15 weeks atop the chart.
Title Album details Funkadelic's Greatest Hits: Released: 1975; Label: Westbound; Format: Vinyl; The Best of the Early Years Volume One: Released: 1977
Psychedelic funk (also called P-funk or funkadelia, and sometimes conflated with psychedelic soul [1]) is a music genre that combines funk music with elements of psychedelic rock. [3] It was pioneered in the late 1960s and early 1970s by American acts like Sly and the Family Stone, Jimi Hendrix, and the Parliament-Funkadelic collective.
Arguably one of the best decades of music, the 1970s saw the rise of disco, long shaggy hair, the continuation of the free love movement, and, of course, Rock and Roll at its height of fame ...
Overall, the collective achieved thirteen top ten hits in the American R&B music charts between 1967 and 1983, including six number one hits. Their work has had an influential effect on subsequent funk, post-punk, hip-hop, and techno artists of the 1980s and 1990s, [6] while their collective mythology has helped pioneer Afrofuturism. [7]
The B-side to the song is "Nuclear Dog" which is guitar solo by P-Funk guitarist Dewayne "Blackbyrd" McKnight. Funkadelic had a major influence on a large number of hip-hop artists, and the genre of hip-hop as a whole. [14] In particular, Dr. Dre references Funkadelic's sound as a major influence on his music, especially his G-funk sound. [15]
Funkadelic signed to Westbound in 1968. Around this time, the group's music evolved from soul and doo wop into a harder guitar-driven mix of psychedelic rock, soul and funk, much influenced by the popular musical (and political) movements of the time. Jimi Hendrix, Sly Stone, The MC5, and Vanilla Fudge were major inspirations. [3]
The song is included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's list of 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll. [11] It is also ranked number 474 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of "the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". It was dropped in the 2010 version but it has been updated to number 210 in the 2021 version.