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"&lt;p&gt;There are two distinctly different sides to George Clinton&amp;apos;s latest opus. Side one is best described by &lt;em&gt;Uncle Jam Wants You&lt;/em&gt;&amp;apos;s subtitle, &amp;quot;Rescue Dance Music &amp;apos;from the Blahs,&amp;apos;&amp;quot; and is mostly given over to an extended version (a little too extended to sustain interest, unfortunately) of &amp;quot;(Not Just) Knee Deep,&amp;quot; the new Funkadelic single and an example of the group at its funny, funky, infectious best. Side two &amp;#x2014; with the bizarre exception of &amp;quot;Holly Wants to Go to California,&amp;quot; a strained Clinton vocal accompanied by Bernie Worrell&amp;apos;s gospel-style piano &amp;#x2014; serves as an extension of the album&amp;apos;s title and of the mock-militarist, mock-nationalist motif that first surfaced last year with &amp;quot;One Nation under a Groove.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;\r\n&lt;wm:embed type=\"related\"&gt;&lt;/wm:embed&gt;&lt;p&gt;If &amp;quot;One Nation under a Groove&amp;quot; was explicitly an anthem (as well as one of the most irresistible singles of the Seventies), the second side of &lt;em&gt;Uncle Jam Wants You&lt;/em&gt; is a call to arms. Even though nobody&amp;apos;s telling me to go out and kill for the Funk, I confess to feeling just a touch uncomfortable at the martial (albeit syncopated) nature of the music and the manic glee with which a variety of voices urge me to get in line and &amp;quot;Move it!&amp;quot; Still, there&amp;apos;s no denying the characteristic cleverness of the words (&amp;quot;I&amp;apos;m your thrill sergeant... On groove maneuvers ... Disturbing the peace at the bridge on the river Quiet&amp;quot;) or the equally characteristic pull of the rhythms.&lt;/p&gt;\r\n&lt;p&gt;The strongest material here &amp;#x2014; notably the first ten minutes or so of &amp;quot;(Not Just) Knee Deep,&amp;quot; with its snazzy synthesizer fills, razor-sharp Michael Hampton guitar solo, raucous vocals, and hook upon hook &amp;#x2014; is state-of-the-art black pop music. The weakest stuff (&amp;quot;Holly Wants to Go to California&amp;quot; and the aimless final five minutes of &amp;quot;Knee Deep&amp;quot;) sounds like filler. And some of the better songs barely last long enough to make an impression: &amp;quot;Field Maneuvers&amp;quot; is an inspired guitar jam that fades out just as it&amp;apos;s building steam.&lt;/p&gt;\r\n&lt;p&gt;Funkadelic seems to have suffered from the loss of Walter &amp;quot;Juni&amp;quot; Morrison, the singer-keyboardist-composer-arranger whose lively, quirky musical vision was central to the last two Parliament/Funkadelic records. Morrison left the band after helping create &amp;quot;(Not Just) Knee Deep&amp;quot; and doesn&amp;apos;t appear on the rest of the LP. But Clinton, one of the shrewdest talent scouts around, partly compensates for this loss with the addition of ex-Spinners lead vocalist Philippe Wynne, whose mellifluous tenor is first heard singing, somewhat incredulously, &amp;quot;Can this be me? Immersed in funk so deep?&amp;quot; and who fits into the overall ambiance better than I&amp;apos;d have expected. When the next Parliament album comes out, it&amp;apos;ll be interesting to see who else has enlisted in Uncle Jam&amp;apos;s army.&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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