I'll Funk Them All With The Greatest Of Ease

That's Marion Barry up there, and he's dancing to DC Go-Go Legends Trouble Funk, and HOLY CRAP the Drop The Bomb LP is OUT OF PRINT?!  That's fucking STUPID.  Here you go, gang!

So, for those of you who are perhaps unclear as to what you're getting... the DC Go-Go scene is mainly remembered as that thing Black Folks liked that helps Minor Threat fans feel less conflicted about "Guilty of Being White" being their fourth-favorite Minor Threat jam.  But WAIT!   The Go-Go scene actually had MUSIC in it, and it was fucking amazing.  We're talking about HARD early 80's Funk chock full of Latin Percussion, call-and-response vocal lines, crazy synthesizer noises, and some sweet proto-rapping.

This party crusher came out in '82, and it's a goddamn BEAST.  Six tracks, not a one under four minutes (it was damn near impossible to pry these guys off a groove once they locked into it).  Only one slow jam, and it's the last track so you can just pull the album off early if you aren't ready to ditch the dance party for a make-out session.  TONS of (fake?) crowd chatter in the background, so the listening experience is sort of like:

YOU:  THIS IS A GREAT PARTY!

DROP THE BOMB:  Chatter mutter party yeah! Chatter DRUMS!  SHOUTING!  SPACE NOISES! 

YOU:  WHAT?  I CAN'T HEAR YOU!  THE BAND STARTED PLAYING!


DROP THE BOMB:  BUBBADABUBBADABUBBADABUBBADAWHEEEEW!


YOU:  AWESOME.


 So get the party started, already.  And my apologies for the skippy-poppy nature of these files, but this LP is MUCH LOVED.  I play it way more often than I play my Minor Threat records, and I view that as a sign of profound maturity.