Bootsy Collins - This Boot Is Made For Fonk-N '1979

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Following three straight masterworks that balanced hard funk workouts with
laid-back bedroom jams, This Boot Is Made for Fonk-N ditched the balancing act,
offering up straight, relentless hard funk. This is great for those who just
want the sweaty workouts Bootsy Collins had proven himself well capable of
delivering on his own as well as with Parliament-Funkadelic. In fact, if that's
what you're looking for -- hard-hitting, unrelenting funk -- look no further,
for This Boot Is Made for Fonk-N is absolutely teeming with it. However, the
lack of slower, softer material can quickly lead to weariness if you're not
ready for a nonstop dance party. Endurance is required here, make no mistake.
"Under the Influence of a Groove," "Bootsy Get Live," and "Jam Fan (Hot)" are
all standouts, reflecting the kookiness of "Bootzilla" from the year before. But
without slower songs à la "I'd Rather Be with You," This Boot Is Made for
Fonk-N is just too much for anyone who's not a hardcore funkateer. Consequently,
the album isn't as easily recommended as Bootsy's past few, and really is of
primary interest to P-Funk aficionados. With so many excellent P-Funk albums
released throughout the 1970s, it's easy to pass over this one, as it certainly
features some first-rate hard funk but is relatively short on ideas, with an
absence of new ones altogether. This shortage of new ideas would lead to the
varied degrees of experimentation that would characterize Bootsy's subsequent
albums, Ultra Wave (1980) and, especially, The One Giveth, the Count Taketh Away
(1982). Granted, those albums weren't as successful as This Boot Is Made for
Fonk-N -- just as it wasn't as successful as its predecessors -- but they're
more interesting for their experimentation and their eccentricities. In
comparison to their flights of fancy, as well as the balance songwriting of
Bootsy's first three albums, This Boot Is Made for Fonk-N seems unmemorable in
retrospect. It's a wild, heart-racing listen while it's playing, yet afterward
leaves little impression otherwise.

Tracklist:
1.01 - Bootsy Collins - Under the Influence of a Groove (8:39) 
1.02 - Bootsy Collins - Bootsie Get Live (6:18) 
1.03 - Bootsy Collins - Oh Boy Gorl (7:49) 
1.04 - Bootsy Collins - Jam Fan (Hot) (9:08) 
1.05 - Bootsy Collins - Chug-A-Lug (The Bun Patrol) (6:28) 
1.06 - Bootsy Collins - She Jam (Almost Bootsy Show) (5:03) 
1.07 - Bootsy Collins - Reprise (Get Live) (0:40)

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