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{{Short description|Album by Funkadelic}}
{{About|the album|the 1994 television film|Cosmic Slop (film)}}
{{Infobox album
| name         = Cosmic Slop
| type         = studio
| artist       = [[Funkadelic]]
| cover        = Cosmicslopfull.jpg
| alt          = 
| released     = July 1973<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://georgeclinton.com/|title=George Clinton Parliament Funkadelic official website|date=March 4, 2023|website=Official Website of George Clinton Parliament Funkadelic}}</ref>
| recorded     = 1972–1973
| studio       = United Sound Studio, Detroit; Manta Sound Studio, Toronto
| genre        =
* [[Funk]]<ref name=Ducker>{{cite web |url=https://www.albumism.com/features/funkadelic-cosmic-slop-turns-45-anniversary-retrospective |title=Funkadelic's 'Cosmic Slop' Turns 45 {{!}} Anniversary Retrospective |last=Ducker |first=Jesse |date=July 6, 2018 |publisher=Albumism  |access-date=January 4, 2022 }}</ref>
* [[Rock music|rock]]<ref name=Ducker/>
* [[hard rock]]<ref name=Ducker/>
* [[Heavy metal music#History|proto-heavy metal]]<ref name=Ducker/>
* [[psychedelic rock]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ultimateclassicrock.com/funkadelic-cosmic-slop/|title=50 Years Ago: Funkadelic Serves Up a Hot ‘Cosmic Slop’|last=Smith|first=Rob|date=15 May 2023|access-date= 5 March 2025}}</ref>
| length       = 35:32
| label        = [[Westbound Records|Westbound]]
| producer     = [[George Clinton (funk musician)|George Clinton]]
| prev_title   = [[America Eats Its Young]]
| prev_year    = 1972
| next_title   = [[Standing on the Verge of Getting It On]]
| next_year    = 1974
}}
{{Music ratings
|rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
|rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r7888|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]</ref>
|rev2 = ''[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]]''
|rev2score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>[http://www.blender.com/guide/back-catalogue/55204/cosmic-slop.html Blender review] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090821182002/http://www.blender.com/guide/back-catalogue/55204/cosmic-slop.html |date=2009-08-21 }}</ref>
|rev3 = ''[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|Christgau's Record Guide]]''
|rev3score = B<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=Funkadelic|title=Robert Christgau: CG: Funkadelic|work=robertchristgau.com}}</ref>
|rev4 = ''[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]]''
|rev4score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="Tower">{{cite web|url=http://www.tower.com/cosmic-slop-funkadelic-cd/wapi/106840287|title=Music: FUNKADELIC - COSMIC SLOP + 1 : REMASTERED by Funkadelic, 106840287|work=Tower.com|access-date=2015-07-29}}</ref>
|rev5 = ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]''
|rev5score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name=":0" />
|rev6 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
|rev6score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lRgtYCC6OUwC&pg=PA316|title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide|isbn=9780743201698|last1=Brackett|first1=Nathan|last2=Hoard|first2=Christian David|year=2004|publisher=Simon and Schuster }}</ref>
|rev7 = ''[[Spin Alternative Record Guide]]''
|rev7score = 9/10<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rubin |first1=Mike |editor1-last=Weisbard |editor1-first=Eric |editor2-last=Marks |editor2-first=Craig |title=Spin Alternative Record Guide |date=1995 |publisher=Vintage Books |location=New York |isbn=0679755748 |page=296 |chapter=P-Funk}}</ref>
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'''''Cosmic Slop''''' is the fifth studio album by [[Funkadelic]], released in July 1973 on [[Westbound Records]]. While it has been favorably reevaluated by critics long after its original release, the album was a commercial failure, producing no charting [[single (music)|singles]], and reaching only #112 on the ''[[Billboard magazine|Billboard]]'' [[Pop Albums|pop chart]] and #21 on the [[R&B Albums|R&B chart]].<ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r7888/charts-awards|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic.com - ''Cosmic Slop'' chart details</ref> The album was re-released on CD in 1991.<ref name=":0" />

''Cosmic Slop'' is the first Funkadelic album to feature artwork and liner notes by [[Pedro Bell]], who assumed responsibility for the band's gate-fold album covers and liner notes until the band's collapse after 1981's ''[[The Electric Spanking of War Babies]]''. Bell's liner notes to ''Cosmic Slop'' include small illustrations next to each song's name, summarizing the song in a picture.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Bradley |first=Lloyd |date=5 March 1991 |title=Funkadelic Cosmic Slop review |journal=Q Magazine |volume=55 |pages=89}}</ref> The album also marks the first Funkadelic album without any input from longtime guitarist [[Eddie Hazel]], who had left the band the year before.

Lloyd Bradley in Q Magazine characterised the album a "cornerstone ... coming just before James Brown sidepersons began defecting to Clinton's outfit' and "a link between fearsomely dark musings and out-and-out strangeness".<ref name=":0" />

== Track listing ==

===Side one===
# "Nappy Dugout" <small>([[George Clinton (funk musician)|George Clinton]], [[Cordell Mosson]], [[Garry Shider]])</small> – 4:33
# "You Can't Miss What You Can't Measure" <small>(Clinton, [[Sidney Barnes (musician)|Sidney Barnes]])</small> – 3:03
# "March to the Witch's Castle" <small>(Clinton)</small> – 5:59
# "Let's Make It Last" <small>(Clinton, [[Eddie Hazel]])</small> – 4:08

===Side two===
# "Cosmic Slop" <small>(Clinton, [[Bernie Worrell]])</small> (released as a single-Westbound 218) – 5:17
# "No Compute" <small>(Clinton, Shider)</small> – 3:03
# "This Broken Heart" <small>(William Franklin)</small> – 3:37
# "Trash a Go-Go" <small>(Clinton)</small> – 2:25
# "Can't Stand the Strain" <small>(Clinton, Hazel)</small> – 3:27

== Personnel ==

* [[Bernie Worrell|Bernard Worrell]] – keyboards, melodica, strings on "Broken Heart"
* [[Cordell Mosson|"Boogie" Mosson]] – bass guitar
* Tyrone Lampkin – percussion
* [[Garry Shider]] – lead and rhythm guitar
* Ron Bykowski – lead and rhythm guitar
* [[Tiki Fulwood]] – drums on "Nappy Dugout"
* [[Parlet]] members [[Mallia Franklin]] and [[Debbie Wright]] – vocals (uncredited)
* Engineers: Lee De Carlo, Manta Sound, Toronto

== Songs ==

=== You Can't Miss What You Can't Measure ===
This song is a reworking of the 1965 [[The Parliaments|Parliaments]] single "[[Heart Trouble (The Parliaments song)|Heart Trouble]]". The instrumental portion of this song was reworked into "Do That Stuff" for the 1976 album [[The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein]].

* Lead Vocals: [[George Clinton (funk musician)|George Clinton]], [[Ray Davis (musician)|Ray Davis]], [[Garry Shider]]

=== Cosmic Slop ===

* Lead vocals: [[Garry Shider]]
* Guitars: Garry Shider and Ron Bykowski
* Drums: Tyrone Lampkin
* Bass: Cordell Boogie Mosson

This track was remade several times by future lineups of Parliament/Funkadelic. A live version (recorded during a rehearsal) appears on the 1976 Funkadelic album ''[[Hardcore Jollies]]''. Several Parliament/Funkadelic members contributed to a full cover of the track for [[Bill Laswell]]’s Axiom Funk project, released on the 1995 album ''[[Funkcronomicon]]''.

Another live version, from 1983 and released in 1990 on ''[[Live at the Beverly Theater]]'', features Dennis Chambers on drums, Rodney Curtis on bass, and Eddie Hazel, Garry Shider, and Michael Hampton on guitar.

=== No Compute ===

* Lead vocals: [[George Clinton (funk musician)|George Clinton]]

=== This Broken Heart ===

* Strings: [[Bernie Worrell]]
* Lead Vocals: Ben Edwards
* Drums: Geezer McGee (disputed)

== ''Cosmic Slop'' compilation ==
In 2000, Castle Music released a 10-track compilation album, also called ''Cosmic Slop'' – although it bore no relation to the studio album of the same name.<ref>[https://www.allmusic.com/album/release/cosmic-slop-castle-mr0000708832 AllMusic, Funkadelic - Cosmic Slop &#91;Castle&#93;, CD, 2000],</ref> The album's track listing consisted of: "One Nation Under a Groove", "Comin" Round the Mountain", "Cholly (Funk Getting Ready to Roll!)", "Freak of the Week", "Uncle Jam", "Groovallegiance", "Smokey", “Cosmic Slop", "Soul Mate" and "(Medley) Funk Gets Stronger (Killer Millimeter Longer Version)/ She Loves You". The album was subtitled "Original Recordings from the Masters of Funk!"

== See also ==
* [[The Space Traders]]

== References ==
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* {{cite book| title = Cosmic Slop album liner notes by Dean Rudland (2005) | publisher = Westbound Records Inc.}}
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==Further reading==
*{{cite book|title=A Brief History of Album Covers|first=Jason|last=Draper|publisher=Flame Tree Publishing|location=London|year=2008|pages=128–129|isbn=9781847862112|oclc=227198538}}

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[[Category:Albums with cover art by Pedro Bell]]