Cosmic Slop

{{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{{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}}

| recorded = 1972–1973

| studio = United Sound Studio, Detroit; Manta Sound Studio, Toronto

| genre =

• Funk{{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 }}
• rock
• hard rock
• proto-heavy metal
• psychedelic rock{{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}}

| length = 35:32

| label = Westbound

| producer = 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}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r7888|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]

|rev2 = Blender

|rev2score = {{Rating|3|5}}[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 }}

|rev3 = Christgau's Record Guide

|rev3score = B{{cite web|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=Funkadelic|title=Robert Christgau: CG: Funkadelic|work=robertchristgau.com}}

|rev4 = Mojo

|rev4score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{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}}

|rev5 = Q

|rev5score = {{Rating|4|5}}

|rev6 = Rolling Stone

|rev6score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{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 }}

|rev7 = Spin Alternative Record Guide

|rev7score = 9/10{{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}}

}}

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 singles, and reaching only #112 on the Billboard pop chart and #21 on the R&B chart.{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r7888/charts-awards|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic.com - Cosmic Slop chart details The album was re-released on CD in 1991.

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.{{Cite journal |last=Bradley |first=Lloyd |date=5 March 1991 |title=Funkadelic Cosmic Slop review |journal=Q Magazine |volume=55 |pages=89}} 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".