Cosmic Slop

Released on Westbound, it reached number 112 on the Billboard pop chart and number 21 on the R&B chart, and produced no charting singles. It is the first Funkadelic album with artwork and liner notes by Pedro Bell, who handled the band's gatefold covers until after The Electric Spanking of War Babies in 1981, drawing a small picture next to each song title. It is also the first without Hazel.

Garry Shider sings the title track, Cosmic Slop, and plays on the album with Ron Bykowski on guitars, Bernie Worrell on keyboards, melodica and strings, Cordell Mosson on bass and Tyrone Lampkin on percussion. You Can't Miss What You Can't Measure reworks the Parliaments' 1965 single Heart Trouble. Lloyd Bradley wrote in Q that it was a cornerstone, arriving just before James Brown's sidemen began defecting to Clinton, and a link between dark musings and outright strangeness.