Editing Uncle Jam Wants You (section)

==Reception==
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref name=AM>{{Cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/uncle-jam-wants-you-r7895|title=Funkadelic - Uncle Jam Wants You|author=Raggett, Ned|publisher=[[AllMusic]]}}</ref>
|rev2 = ''[[Bay State Banner]]''
|rev2score = C+<ref name="BS">{{cite news |last1=Freedberg |first1=Mike |title=Soul Dog |work=Bay State Banner |issue=7 |date=13 Dec 1979 |page=13}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]]''
| rev3Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.blender.com/guide/back-catalogue/55206/uncle-jam-wants-you.html |title=Uncle Jam Wants You - Blender|author=[[Robert Christgau|Christgau, Robert]]|access-date=2009-07-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090915175739/http://www.blender.com/guide/back-catalogue/55206/uncle-jam-wants-you.html |archive-date=2009-09-15 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|rev4 = ''[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|Christgau's Record Guide]]''
|rev4Score = B+<ref>{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|publisher=[[Ticknor & Fields]]|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: F|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=F&bk=70|access-date=February 24, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com|title-link=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies}}</ref>
|rev5 = ''[[MusicHound|MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide]]''
|rev5score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="MH">{{cite book |title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide |date=1996 |publisher=Visible Ink Press |page=148}}</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[Record Mirror]]''
| rev6Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name=RecordMirror>{{cite magazine|title= Funkadelic 'Uncle Jam Wants You'|author=Sexton, Paul|date=November 17, 1979|page=15|magazine=[[Record Mirror]] }}</ref>
| rev8 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide|(The New) Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev8Score ={{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac | url-access=registration | page=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/316 316] |title = ((The New)) Rolling Stone Album Guide| publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn = 9780743201698|last1 = Brackett|first1 = Nathan|last2 = Hoard|first2 = Christian David|year = 2004}}</ref>
|rev9 = ''[[Spin Alternative Record Guide]]''
|rev9score = 5/10<ref name="SP">{{cite book |title=Spin Alternative Record Guide |date=1995 |publisher=Vintage Books |page=296}}</ref>
|rev10 = ''[[Colin Larkin|The Virgin Encyclopedia of R&B and Soul]]''
|rev10score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Virgin Encyclopedia of R&B and Soul |date=1998 |publisher=Virgin |pages=129, 130}}</ref>
}}
With a 4 out of 5 star rating, Paul Sexton of ''[[Record Mirror]]'' wrote: "Last year the Funkadelic battle campaign was based on the idea of having one nation under a groove. This year the plan is to ''Rescue Dance Music from the Blahs''. No, I don't understand either, but once again this is marvellously enjoyable comic book funk."<ref name=RecordMirror /> The ''[[Bay State Banner]]'' concluded that, "on Side Two and 'Freak of the Week', we find the sort of directionless noise that sometimes ruins Funkadelic concerts—rhythmic anarchy and vocal chipmunk-ism instead of the clean and nasty, low-register funk and howling, inconsolable guitar solos."<ref name=BS/> The ''[[Globe and Mail]]'' determined that "the cover is misleading; one expects a record jammed with disco tracks and instead receives sensitive, even contemplative rhythm and blues."<ref>{{cite news |last1=McGrath |first1=Paul |title=Uncle Jam Wants You Funkadelic |work=The Globe and Mail |date=15 Dec 1979 |page=F4}}</ref>

''[[The New York Times]]'' noted that "Holly Wants to Go to California" "is the sort of social satire that Frank Zappa and the Mothers used to do so well."<ref name="NY">{{cite news |last1=Palmer |first1=Robert |title=How Funk Grew Up |work=The New York Times |date=21 Oct 1979 |page=D26}}</ref> ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' opined that "the strongest material here—notably the first ten minutes or so of '(Not Just) Knee Deep', with its snazzy synthesizer fills, razor-sharp Michael Hampton guitar solo, raucous vocals, and hook upon hook—is state-of-the-art black pop music."<ref name=RollingStone>{{cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/uncle-jam-wants-you-245777/|title=Funkadelic - Uncle Jam Wants You|author=Keepnews, Peter|date=November 29, 1979|publisher=[[Rolling Stone]]}}</ref>

Ned Raggett of [[AllMusic]] stated that the album starts "out like a parody of patriotic recruitment ads before hitting its full, funky stride... It's still very much a disco effort, but one overtly spiking the brew even more than before with P-Funk's own particular recipe, mock drill instructors calling out dance commands and so forth."<ref name=AM />