I Want the Funk

[KungFuSandwich]

Working on A CD, Recommend me some funky [censored]

Heres what I got so far

Ohio Players~Love Rollercoaster, Fire
George Clinton~FlashLight, Stomp, We Want the Funk
The Temptations~papa was a rolling stone, Shakey Ground
Stevie Wonder~Higher Ground, Superstition
Kool and the Gang~Jungle Boogie
Average White Band~Pick up the Pieces
Curtis Mayfield~Superfly
Earth Wind and Fire~Shining Star
Commadors~Brick House
Carl Carlton~Shes a bad mama jamma
The Spinners~RubberBand Man
Sly and the Family Stone~Thank you fa lettin me be myself
Robert Randolph~I need more love
Walter Murphey~A fifth of beethoven

[Eurotrash]

Carl Douglas - Kung Fu Fighting


kind of appropriate, dont you think?

[KungFuSandwich]

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Carl Douglas - Kung Fu Fighting


kind of appropriate, dont you think?

[/ QUOTE ]Excellent!

[Dirk1963]

Parliament
Wiliam "Bootsy" Collins

should do fine as well

[StevieG]

Very nice list. You need some Gap Band for sure.

The Gap Band - Burn Rubber on Me, Early in the Morning

The Dazz Band - Whip It

[imported_The Vibesman]

James Brown - The Big Payback, (Get Up, I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine, Cold Sweat

Jungle Boogie, I think it's by P-Funk, not sure

Solomon Burke, Got To Get You Off Of My Mind

C Mayfield and the Impressions, Woman's Got Soul

Booker T and the MGs - Hip-Hug-Her

Wilson Pickett - Funky Broadway

Freddie King - Big-Legged Woman

[jakethebake]

Thanks for starting this thread. I love funk.

[lucas9000]

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The Gap Band - Burn Rubber on Me, Early in the Morning

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also you dropped a bomb on me!

[private joker]

Sir Mix-a-Lot -- "Sleepin' Wit My Fonk"

It's mostly a big Parliament sample, very funky and hilarious.

[xadrez]

[elitist funk fan]

Try some of these...

Eddie Bo - Hook and Sling
Lyn Collins - Think
Organization - Smokey Feeling
PLeasure Web - Music Man
Standard of Living - Music Man
Taana Gardner - Heartbeat
Vibrettes - Humpty Dump
Blackbyrds - Rock Creek Park
Charles Wright - Express Yourself
Jean-Jaques Perrey - E.V.A.
Cymande - Bra
Sharon Brown - Family Tree
Gang do Tangarela - Melo da Tangarela
The Gaturs- Gator Bait
Honeydrippers - Impeach the President
Houston Outlaws - Soul Power
Michael Viners Incredible Bongo Band - Apache
Mighty Riders - Evil Vibrations
Soul Saints Orchestra - Bag of Soul
Tony Stewart - Bump and Hustle Music
Expolsions - Garden of Four Trees
Pearly Queen - Quit Jivin'
Tony Alvon and the Belairs - Sexy Coffee Pot
Bad Medicine - Tresspaser
Burning Spear - S.O.U.L.
Ronnie Keaton - Going Down for the Last Time
Daktaris - Super Afro Beat
Oliver Sain - St. Louis Breakdown

To Name a few off the top of my head /images/graemlins/cool.gif

[/elitist Funk Fan]

[raisins]

There used to be a great internet radio station, boombastic. When I googled it it took me to etherbeat.com. The website has a similar look to the old boombastic so it's probably just a cosmetic change. Give it a listen and you'll hear a lot of people that you want to look up and check out.

Africa in the 70's produced a lot of great funk, better than most American. The best compilation is Nigeria 70 although that is out of print. There are a couple of other compilations that are in print. If you like the African stuff (Afrobeat) look at albums by Fela and Tony Allen (his drummer). A good Fela disc to start with is his live album with Ginger Baker. It would take me way too long to describe the man's career but he is well worth reading about. In some ways similar to Bob Marley but a more hardcore life, e.g. had numerous wives, lived in his own compound that he considered it's own state, targeted by police for his political activism, turned out the police chief's teenage daughter as one of his dancers/lovers, had his compound over run by the military/police twice, cops threw his Mom out a window, owned and played regularly at a nightclub in the worst section of Lagos, smoked more weed than just about anyone, prison time, died of AIDS, etc. etc. Damn good musician.

regards,

raisins

[Georgia Avenue]

Wow.

That's real. Really real.
Any funk list must contain some Meters, tho'.
Try: Look-Ka Py Py or Cissy Strut.

[xadrez]

Fela Kuti is the shiznit.

I concur with everything rasisins said. Afrobeat in general is some of the greatest music ever produced.

Raisins, have you heard of Afrodisiac Soundsystem. I dont think its a group, but a producer, maybe more. Anyway they sample all afrobeat and mix it with contemporary hip-hop, and old school disco and funk. Its IMHO, some of the best [censored] thats come out the past couple years.

Kind of hard to track down, and only available on vinyl I think but its worth it.

[Georgia Avenue]

Awesome link. If you like the Funk, and don't mind some mid-90s conscious hiphop thrown in check out http://www.wefunkradio.com a monteal radio show that is sweet.

[xadrez]

I noticed this afterwards, but yeah, the Meters were a gaping omission in the list. "Cissy Strut" is perhaps one of the most essential funk tracks.

Zigaboo Modeliste deserves credit as one of the original "funky drummers".

[sfer]

Not a single mention of James Brown yet. This thread blows.

[imported_The Vibesman]

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Not a single mention of James Brown yet. This thread blows.

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See? I knew no one was reading my posts.

[JaBlue]

Anything by Tower of Power

[xadrez]

Everybody knows James Brown is synonymous with funk music.

[cbragado]

"Across 110th Street" Bobby Womack

[raisins]

No, I'm not familiar with it. I want to check it out though, I'm keeping my eyes open.

raisins