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CD #1
1: Funk Express Card    [5:54]
2: J.R. (Just right)    [6:48]
3: Blasters of the Universe    [6:46]
4: Bad Girls    [5:41]
5: Back N The Day    [6:17]
6: Where R The Children    [4:36]
7: Female Trouble    [4:43]
8: Wide Track    [5:09]
9: Funk Me Dirty    [5:40]
10: Blasters featuring Eddie Hazel    [6:59]
11: Good Nite Eddie    [4:24]
12: A Sacred Place    [3:36]
13: Half Past Midnight    [2:38]
14: It's A Silly Serious World    [5:18]

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CD #2
1: J. R. (Just Right)    [5:05]
2: Funk Express Card    [4:51]
3: Back N The Day    [6:29]
4: Bad Girls    [4:59]
5: Good Nite Eddie    [4:31]
6: Where Are The Children    [4:21]
7: Funk Me Dirty    [5:54]
8: It's A Silly Serious World    [5:09]
9: A Sacred Place    [4:21]

Bootsy heads back to his Seventies sound here, with a couple of great tunes ("Wide Track" with the Horny Horns, "Back N The Day"), and an homage to Eddie Hazel, who died in 1992. The rest of the record is recycled from his earlier work--it's effective, but you keep feeling like you've listened to this record before. (DBW)

3.5 Stars - Good - "...propelled by sticky polyrhythms that will have even Dr. Dre doing a double take. Throw in a stanky bottom, horns, some female vocalists and the whirling guitar licks that Bootsy perfected with James Brown, and you have original uncut funk for the '90s..."
Rolling Stone  10/20/94, p.147

"...is the work of an artist expanding without losing
Vibe  9/94, p.136

3 Stars - Good - "...the whole album pulses with the rhythmic wizardry of the classic P-Funk cuts of years past..."
Q Magazine  10/94, p.106

"...This is the hot stuff Prince should be making and contains some of the phunkiest Bootsy in years..."
Melody Maker  9/10/94, p.38

"...The operative word in all things Bootsy is "funk" and this...is an extravagant double-disc groovescape..."
Option  11-12/94, p.101

Personnel: Catfish Collins, Razor "Sharp" Johnson, David Spradley, Frankie "Kash" Waddy, Rick Gardner, Kush Griffith, Mike Mitchell, Vince Campbell, Don "Tiger" Martin, Sweat Band, Gary "Mud Bone" Cooper, Robert P-Nut Johnson, Anthony Cole, Wes Boatman, Ronni Harris, Godmoma, Tony, Carol, Casper, The Player, Fuzz Face, Trey Stone, Super-T, Ron Jenning, Pretty Fatt-Sheila, Cynthia, Kristin Gray, Greg Fitz, Dee "Dirty Mug" James, David Cox, Anthony Goodin.

Includes liner notes by Bootsy Collins.

All songs written or co-written by Bootsy Collins.

This is part of The Black Arc series.