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Standing on the Verge of Getting It On

Title of album: Standing on the Verge of Getting It On

Artist: Funkadelic

Release date: 1974

Record label: Westbound[?]

On this album, the lyrics generally take a backseat to the music and the jamming. It is one of the most popular Funkadelic albums among fans, and considered an essential Eddie Hazel-album. This is a much more cohesive album than the previous Funkadelic forays; it sticks with a musical style (hard-edged funk) throughout, instead of veering through genres.

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Personnel: (all the below is from the liner notes)

Critical response:

  • ?Standing on the Verge is a full-bodied, crazy mess in the best possible way, with heavy funk jams that still smoke today while making a lot of supposedly loud and dangerous rock sound anemic."

Other external links:

  • the Motherpage (http://www.duke.edu/~tmc/motherpage/albums_funkadelic/alb-standing)


Title of song: Standing on the Verge of Getting It On

Artist: Funkadelic

Title of album: Standing on the Verge of Getting It On (see above)

Year of first release: 1974

Trivia:

Musically, Standing on the Verge of Getting It On is a hard rock song with audience-participating, chanting vocals.

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Songwriters: George Clinton, Grace Cook (aka Eddie Hazel)

Memorable Lyrics:

  • "Even if you don't admit it/The time for change is here and here we are/We're just for you"
  • "Music is designed to free your funky mind/We have come to help you cope/Out into another reality/You will be/Through our music we bring you hope"

Complete lyrics at the Motherpage (http://www.duke.edu/~tmc/motherpage/lyrics_funkadelic/lyr-standing#lyr-s-standing)

The singer exhorts the listener to get Funky with it. In contrast to several previous songs with a similar lyrical theme, "Standing on the Verge of Getting It On" shows tremendous growth in songwriting as the suggestion to get Funky also explicity includes a connection with social change and an awakening of the mind, and not just dancing. The definition of the Funk (as described in P Funk mythology) could be said to have started with this song.

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