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Funkadelic
Band Plainfield United States Active 1968–1981 original funk band
Funkadelic formed in 1968 in Plainfield, United States and was active until 1981. Funkadelic has 12 chart appearances on 7 radio countdowns from 5 stations on RockLists, spanning 2012–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Maggot Brain”, which appears on 5 lists with a best position of #63. The station that charted Funkadelic most often is 90.9 The Bridge (Kansas City, MO), with 5 appearances.
Funkadelic started in Plainfield, New Jersey, in 1968 as the backing band for George Clinton's vocal group the Parliaments, and they didn't stay in the background for long. On their own records they went heavier and weirder, bolting psychedelic rock onto funk until the grooves came out fried, and they became one of the two flagship bands of Clinton's sprawling P-Funk collective, the other being Parliament itself.
Maggot Brain, in 1971, is the acclaimed one, and its title track is the reason: an anguished, acid-soaked lament that sounds like the whole of the late '60s bleeding out slowly. The cast over the years was enormous, from Eddie Hazel, Tawl Ross and Fuzzy Haskins to Bootsy Collins, Glen Goins, Jerome Brailey and Michael Hampton, with Westbound Records among their labels.
In 1978 One Nation Under a Groove made its case in the title, a fat, rubbery call to the dance floor that treated funk as a nation all its own, and the band helped build the funk culture of the '70s from the ground up.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Funkadelic on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maggot Brain | 5 | #63 | – | – | |
| 2 | One Nation Under A Groove | 4 | #487 | – | – | |
| 3 | You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks | 1 | #485 | – | – | |
| 4 | One Nation Under a Groove (Part 1) | 1 | #600 | – | – | |
| 5 | Can You Get to That? | 1 | #904 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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