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Highlights include Jerk Out, with Morris smacking his ladies-man lips in anticipation for the funk; Chocolate, with crazy-Prince-styled funk for a main course and a dessert of Prince and Morris talking goofy; Data Bank, a smooth jam with all the elements for a mixed drink; and Sometimes I Get Lonely, about the most introspective dish you'll ever hear Morris Day get.

I purchased the CD for one single song, "Cooking Class," which was sampled to make a great early 1990s .mod file called "Cooking it Up." The lyrics sampled were "Gimme little bit o' that pepper, gimme little bit o' that salt, put it in a skillet and cook it, on that stove I bought!" These lyrics were even hummed by Chef in South Park on one episode near the beginning of the show's run.

Fans of Parliament Funkadelic will find some similarly-flavored funk to sink teeth into here, with not quite as much self-referential, crazy stuff: it's a little more down-to-earth, but still plenty o' fun.

Original Time members are back!!!!!!!
I put this album in the category of the first two albums by the Time (The Time & What Time is it?). On this album you can tell they had alot of fun as the first two. Ice Cream Castle album didn't have the same feel, although my favorites off that album was "Jungle Love", "My Drawers" and "The Bird". If you are a dedicated Prince fan, you know that some of these songs on this album has a hint of Prince on it, just like the first two albums. It was Prince who actually wrote (and possibly played) on "Jerk Out","Chocolate"(you can hear Prince doing his impression of the waiter sounding like Morris near the end of the album.), "Donald Trump Black Version","Databank"(there's a free for all jam on one of Prince's bootlegs called "Pretty Face", but he sings "Databank",the arrangement is faster, the bass line is the same and lyrics are similar), and "My Summertime Thang"(which is the same as "The Latest Fashion" from the "Graffitti Bridge" album by Prince). But overall, it was the band that actually got to play on this album, unlike the first two, with the exception of Jesse Johnson. I happen to like the funky "Its Your World". Jazz saxophonist Candy Dulfer adds her two cents on this album.

The Return Of The Magnificent Seven...
I hadn't listened to this LP for a year or two and decided to give it a spin, wow! Jesse Johnson's guitar work is the main reason I've placed this back in heavy rotation in my car. His tone is crystal clear and razor sharp on "Jerk Out", "Skillet" and the LP highlight, "Blondie" whose harmonies on the chorus and extended coda will have you hitting rewind several times! The entire band seems happy just to be playing together again and though his pimp schtick gets a little tired over the course of the album, Morris Day proves to be a good focal point, an electrifying frontman who plays his character to the hilt. Even when he plays it straight (the lovely "Sometimes I Get Lonely") you still feel a sense of cartoonish fun lurking just beneath the surface. Solid, Funky, Hard Rocking and Fun from start to finish, "Pandemonium" was a fitting farewell one one the finest bands on the planet.