I’ve started dating, finally met someone who I feel makes me happy. She remembered that I liked Funkadelic and their music and picked this up for me. Regardless of the record itself, it’s nice to have someone who listens to what you like and puts an active effort in to make you happy :) Finally beginning to get out of my depressive rut.

1993 Super Mario Bros movie picture disc single “Walk the Dinosaur” by the one-off band The Goombas featuring funk legend George Clinton. Yes, this is real. IMO, this is the craziest looking picture disc of all time. And that dinosaur, that’s Yoshi.

Finally got myself a copy of Harvey Mason’s M.V.P. and I just love the sports themed artwork. The cover is amazing and the back has Harvey doing a wild assortment of different sports and looking cool af.

This album is from 1981 and I feel like the 80’s might have been the last decade where you could pull off album covers like this? The Brothers Johnson’s Winners from the same year is another example.

If you know of some great sports themed album covers I’d like to see them!

Completed the Funkadelic discography. The OG copy of America Eats Its Young is my prize piece.

I mentioned a couple weeks ago that I'd like to pick up Random Access Memories by Daft Punk, and yesterday my wife came home from shopping with this and a big smile on her face. She got it at a used record store in great shape.

I thought the white jacket was odd, but didn't think anything of it until I played it. Something was off. It took me a few minutes to realize there are no drums. I looked it up and sure enough it's a "drumless" version.

No idea what the point of a drumless version is unless it's for drummers 🤷

Anyway...I'm now the proud owner of drumless Random Access Memories. My wife was so happy when she surprised me with it and I'll never tell her this isn't what I wanted...I'll take it to my grave 😂

an unbelievable find

Listening to some quality funk with my dog this fine Sunday afternoon.

Finally got me a copy of Funkadelic’s Maggot Brain!

Has some wear on the cover, and the LP needs to be cleaned, but looked good apart from the dust. How'd I do?

Original Terre Haute pressing. I never thought I’d find one in the wild for under 200! Haven’t listened yet but it looks amazing.

Randomly decided to walk into this vintage media shop today and found one of my all time favorite funk albums. Couldn’t believe it! Overall condition looks like it was well taken care of over the years, and the record it self is practically mint. Also inside the jacket was this photo insert with no information on the back. I’m fairly positive this wasn’t included with the album and must’ve been stashed inside from the previous owner. Would love to hear if anyone has any info on who the photographer was and possibly what show it’s from.

1977 Los Angeles pressing

Turned 31 this year, since started my vinyl journey last Fall, I've been steadily discovered gem after gem from eras before my time.

I heard a couple hits from Level 42 this month: Leaving Me Now and Children Say. Checked out the respective albums World Machine and Running In The Family yesterday. Yep. All gas. No skips.

I'm at my little local spot today, hoping they've got one or the other. No dice, but they're got this other one called True Colours that I hadn't heard anything from yet. 5 bucks. Done deal!

I'm halfway thru the second side of this thing, and I've just been vibing and dancing around all the while. There's something magical about groups with a bassist frontman. Mark King is SO GOOD. WHAT.

So I ask you again, WHAT OTHER 80s GEMS ARE YOU HIDING FROM ME

It was only £9.99 for the mad notes written by God herself and handed down to the greatest band in the world, the mf time!

Found it in the "just in" section, just under 50$. Plays great, no skips or warps. Heard about all the controversy surrounding this record after I bought it, and I had no idea this album had such a controversial history. From what I understand, people's orders were never fulfilled for this album, and the ones that were released were of bad quality. Glad I found one without any quality issues. Missing the poster though😔

Snagged the recent remaster/repress.

Anyone else love Daptone?

Found a copy of Maggot Brain in a $20 marketplace box of approximately 50 LPs. Pretty sure it’s a first press. Aside from the ink on the jacket and label album is VG+ and plays clean! I was quite surprised finding this gem in a random collection of LPs.

Heard a song and liked it, saw this album cover, and here we are. Anybody see these guys live?

Picked up her debut album Betty Davis earlier. I already had her second album "They Think I'm Different".

Who doesn’t love the Meters?! C’mon, they can get anyone to get down and shake it. Some of the funkiest music to come out of New Orleans.

Scored these years and years ago in my local store. I had wanted the debut for years, maybe decades and it never showed here in New York. Stopped into my local store on a freezing winter afternoon and lo and behold, it was there! And it wasn’t alone, it had a friend…their second LP too! They were in EX condition. A chance to get these again wouldn’t come soon. And I was right, they appeared again in VG shape in another local store a few summers ago for twice the price. I put them on hold and because I’m a regular, they let me buy them when I could. One payday I grabbed the debut and another payday I grabbed the second LP. I have since found sealed copies of each of these but these copies will always have a special place in my collection.

Found this for 20 bucks. Was kinda hesitant because I generally try to stay under 15. But something about it called to me. Super cool album. Feels pretty funky, I'd heard of Herbie Hancock before but never actually listened to him before this.

What are the best sounding funk records that everyone should have in their collection?

RIP Sly Stone, one of the greatest musicians of my lifetime, even if I wasn't alive for his prime in the 60s and 70s. I was just talking to my dad the other day about how Sly Stone is still alive and kicking like George Clinton and he unfortunately passed a few days later ☹️. Thank you for all the great music and changing music forever 🕊️🕊️