Editing Cosmic Slop (section)

{{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" />