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1	[[quoteright:270:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mothershipconnection.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:270:Give up the funk, you punk]]
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4	->''"Oh, we want the funk\
5	Give up the funk\
6	Oh, we need the funk\
7	Gotta have that funk"''
8	-->-- '''Parliament''', "Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker)"
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10	''Mothership Connection'' is [[Music/GeorgeClinton Parliament]]'s fourth album, released in 1975.
11
12	!! Tracklist
13	[[AC: Side A]]
14	# "P. Funk (Wants To Get Funked Up)" (7:41)
15	# "Mothership Connection (Star Child)" (6:13)
16	# "Unfunky UFO" (4:23)
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18	[[AC: Side B]]
19	# "Supergroovalisticprosifunkstication" (5:03)
20	# "Handcuffs" (4:02)
21	# "Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker)" (5:46)
22	# "Night of the Thumposaurus Peoples" (5:10)
23	!!2003 CD remaster bonus track
24	# "Star Child (Mothership Connection)" (3:08)
25
26	----
27	!! "Oh, we want the tropes, give up the tropes, oh we need the tropes, gotta have those tropes":
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29	* {{Afrofuturism}}: Acknowledged by Music/GeorgeClinton himself, since he was a big ''Series/{{Star Trek\|TheOriginalSeries}}'' fan and had the idea of having black people on a spaceship.
30	* TheBermudaTriangle: Mentioned in "Mothership Connection"
31	* {{Crunchtastic}}: "Supergroovalisticprosifunkstication"
32	* DoNotAdjustYourSet: The opening words:
33	-->"Good evening, do not attempt to adjust your radio, there is nothing wrong."
34	* EpicRocking: "P. Funk (Wants To Get Funked Up)" runs 7:41, and the shortest song, "Handcuffs," runs 4:02.
35	* FlyingSaucer: "Unfunky UFO"
36	* FunWithAcronyms: The radio station in "P. Funk" is called [=WEFUNK=].
37	* {{Funk}}: One of the definitive examples.
38	* LongestSongGoesFirst: The album opens with "P. Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up)" at 7:41. None of the other tracks cross the 7-minute mark.
39	* TheMothership: Along with the title, from the title track:
40	-->Put a glide in your stride and a dip in your hip and come on up to the Mothership
41	* ObligatoryBondageSong: "Handcuffs," which was officially a {{Parody}} of [[TestosteronePoisoning hyper-macho]] RAndB.
42	* PyramidPower: From "Mothership Connection":
43	-->"We have come to claim the pyramids"
44	* RecordProducer: George Clinton, of course.
45	* SingerNamedrop: "P. Funk (Wants To Get Funked Up)"
46	* TakeThat: From "P. Funk":
47	-->"Then I was down south and I heard funk with some main ingredients\
48	Like Doobie Brothers, Blue Magic, Music/DavidBowie\
49	It was cool\
50	But can you imagine [=Doobiein'=] your funk? Ho!"
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