George Clinton Dope Dogs CD

George Clinton's most focused album of the '90s slams a barrel of P-Funk down your throat without even giving you the opportunity to swallow. The P-Funk All Stars get a co-credit on this one, bouncing and funking alongside their leader nearly every step of the way. In typical Clinton fashion, Dope Dogs is all over the place: funk, R&B, hip-hop and ass-busting beats cover most of the ground. It all sticks together, however, on a loose-grooved concept about dogs (hasn't most of Clinton's post-"Atomic Dog" stuff been leading to this anyway?), the government and drugs, and how they're tied together in one huge nationwide conspiracy (it makes even less sense on record than it does here). But Clinton always has been about the funk of the matter, and Dope Dogs clearly has that, and its tight astro-rhythms, in the right place. ~ Michael Gallucci

George Clinton's latest album to date and has been widely acclaimed by the public and industry alike. Playing with his band, the legendary P-Funk All-stars, George Clinton delivers us 14 pure funk sure shot classics. Nocturne. 2005.Rolling Stone (11/12/98, pp.116-118) - "...Incredibly, the fifty-eight-year-old Atomic Dog has decided that 1998 is the time for a concept album--about dogs....won't revolutionize the funk. But for damn sure it stays on the one, deploying every P-Funk device..."
Entertainment Weekly (3/15/96, p.64) - "...P-Funk ringleader George Clinton is still top dog when it comes to stretching funk like Silly Putty. The liberating power of Clinton & co's killer bass lines and scatological silliness is as potent as ever..." - Rating: A-
Q (10/99, p.116) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...The loosely canine-conceptual DOPE DOGS emerges on his own label and proves to be perhaps his sturdiest set since 1982's COMPUTER GAMES..."