℗ 2021 UMG Recordings; A Mercury Records Release
| Released | April 8, 1975 |
| Duration | 36m 40s |
| Record Label | Def Jam West |
| Genre | R & B |
Chocolate City (Expanded Edition)
Parliament
Available in 192 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
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1.1
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Chocolate City
Parliament |
5:35 | |||
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1.2
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Ride On
Parliament |
3:34 | |||
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1.3
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Together
Parliament |
4:07 | |||
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1.4
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Side Effects
Parliament |
3:13 | |||
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1.5
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What Comes Funky
Parliament |
2:23 | |||
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1.6
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Let Me Be
Parliament |
5:37 | |||
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1.7
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If It Don't Fit (Don't Force It)
Parliament |
2:07 | |||
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1.8
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I Misjudged You
Parliament |
5:14 | |||
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1.9
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Big Footin'
Parliament |
4:50 |
The third Parliament album, and their second for the Casablanca label, limped to No.91 in the album charts. The two singles from the album did no better. But what do the charts know? Released on April 8, 1975, Chocolate City is a stone-cold classic: funky, cheeky, calm yet energized, fun yet irritated, innocent yet political, simple yet baroque, provocative yet smiling, complex yet funky. This is life as pure funk, brothers and sisters, striking at the heart of the non-funky world. Chocolate City? Let’s move there.
The stars of the show? They’d claim it was a collective effort, but rumbler Bootsy, conservatoire Worrell, and Father George Clinton drive Chocolate City upwards towards the big-selling, soaring Parliament of the mid-70s. While they might mess around here and there, this is still a hungry group longing to be acknowledged as the funk monsters they truly were. The horns and harmonies are perfect, the grooves deep, and the attitude edgy and snickering, as well as sharp and sincere.
Chocolate City helped build Parliament, and it remains a funk classic. No way is it a temporary condition.
192 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Def Jam West Studio Masters
Tracks 1-9 – contains high-resolution digital transfers of material originating from an analogue master source
Tracks 1-9 – contains high-resolution digital transfers of material originating from an analogue master source
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -0.34 -0.34 to -0.34 | -14.14 -15.63 to -12.57 | -10.88 -12.30 to -9.30 | 9 8 to 10 | |
| 1 | Chocolate City | -0.34 | -15.63 | -12.3 | 10 |
| 2 | Ride On | -0.34 | -13.97 | -10.2 | 9 |
| 3 | Together | -0.34 | -14.55 | -11.6 | 10 |
| 4 | Side Effects | -0.34 | -13.93 | -10.7 | 9 |
| 5 | What Comes Funky | -0.34 | -14.75 | -11.4 | 9 |
| 6 | Let Me Be | -0.34 | -14.89 | -11.5 | 9 |
| 7 | If It Don't Fit (Don't Force It) | -0.34 | -12.70 | -9.6 | 8 |
| 8 | I Misjudged You | -0.34 | -14.32 | -11.3 | 9 |
| 9 | Big Footin' | -0.34 | -12.57 | -9.3 | 8 |