God I love a bit of funk. Sex set to music. We have not had too much funkystuff on the site, time to fix that I feel. Shine up your shoe soles, let out your trousers, grow your hair and dance round your kitchen!
LETS GET FUNKY!
It’s time for a funk thread, I feel.
I often use this to dance up the stairs to work:
Not sure how anyone can beat the Meters… but have this! Stevie live on Sesame Street.
the start of Superstition – defy you to not start moving
The record I’d save on my Desert Island Discs and possibly my favourite youtube video. Was there anybody cooler than Stevie.
Obvious but still great. All funk is founded on a killer bass line.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBWHTVMnut4
As sampled by The Yes for Owner of a Lonely Heart.
Funk, Inc. – Kool is Back
Johnny “Guitar” Watson
(A Real Mother For Ya)
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Funkadelic
(Comin’ Round the Mountain)
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Frankie Beverly & Maze
(Joy and Pain)
Frankie Beverley & Maze – how could I have forgotten about that band ? Thanks for that !
Does this count as funk?
Oh yes.
Choooooon! As heard on Front Runners along with Born To Run and something frightful by Don Fogerty.
Oh yes indeed. Remember this?
In similar vein…
I love me a bit of Cymande…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZP2Uk9vlxY
This is a slick groove made all the more entertaining if you convince yourself it’s Hong Kong Phooey on lead vocals…
All these posts and no JB? For shame.
If the passage between 4:20 and about 5:30 doesn’t move you in any way then I regret to inform you that you are clinically dead.
And yes, that’s a 16-year-old Bootsy Collins.
Speaking of whom…
Cameo: a man with a silly voice and a red codpiece, there’s nothing more to ’em than that, right?
WRONG.
https://youtu.be/xhV1eG1kcxQ
Ditto Kool and the gang. Get Funky!
Splendid JB tribute.
I posted this recently on the blog somewhere else. Any objections? Well you can kiss my spotty white ass.
I ain’t finisht yet.
…and there’s more.
I really am going to bed now.
https://youtu.be/b2BpIBD5MRw
A funky Kid Creole & the Coconuts B-side
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwyQWAoVZcA
(Double On Back)
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Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings
(Pick it up, Lay It In the Cut)
Skeewiff.
(G. Fonk)
Kokomo
(I Can Understand It)
Superb ! Did you see the re-formed band on recent tour?
A few from me…
Anything wit Alice Russell on it is worth a listen…
Alice R – amen to that!
More deliciousness…
I could post these all night but let’s leave it at this lost classic…
Great funkystuff. That’s Tuesday taken care of then.
We can funk until the dawn…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvlhSjObvjk
Was it good for you, was I what you wanted me to be?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjfYQyFQzb4
Someone on this site tipped me to Soul Fire Records, for which I shall be eternally grateful. Here’s one of the highlights of the 4-CD box set….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou0zgjbigjI
Shockingly, there was no room for this on I Am.
Earth, Wind & Fire – Dirty.
Loved this BITD
https://youtu.be/I7SloVbbzZc
This is what happens when white boys with guitars get hold of it. This isn’t what you had in mind at all, is it… 🙂
The Commodores
AWB
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L62VdWyfy6E
I see your Machine Gun, and raise you a Brick House
I was torn between the two!
A little vintage funk from Rio now.
From 1977, Banda Black Rio – Maria Fumaca
Two legends for the prize of one from 1981 : Jorge Ben and Tim Maia. Lorraine.
A bit late to the party
Funk, you say?
From 1979 here’s Frank Zappa with Keep It Greasy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmXMy4p5Mto
Bohannon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBh1869ayNg
Ouch! Check out the attempted auto-kneecapping at 25 secs. I bet he regrets that move these days.
Cosmic Man!
Mmmm, nice!
A friend of mine is currently on holiday inTiblisi. He suggest that I give Georgian singer Nino Katamadze a listen. Fairly extraordinary and also rather funky stuff. Her backing singers look very taken aback: as though their ethno gig has just been hijacked by a scarlet extra-terrestial.
Wild Cherry – Play That Funky Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pHT9yYFdZg
Another JB tribute….
https://youtu.be/fsDEof4hOOo
Hip hop almost couldn’t have happened without this .
…or this
There’s a lot of great Daptone stuff out there, which we all need to appreciate…
Sounds like some of the Ethiopiques stuff I’ve heard, which must surely have derived from hearing this sort of American funk.
Daptone really do seem to have hit upon something that’s been missing in so-called R&B music.
Fabulous!
And the last one for the night, as recently rediscovered by our favourite Gallic robots…
Can’t miss this…
The Fatback Band
Yum Yum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtU34Eb0jZ4
BT Express
Express
Players Association
Turn The Music Up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLBw1AQf_q8
A great version of the Bill Withers classic Who Is He and What Is He To You
Creative Source
Let’s have some Brit funk
Linda Lewis – Sideway Shuffle
I discovered this recently, on the expanded version of Go All The Way in the big Isleys box: the rehearsal take of Pass It On. It’s INCREDIBLE! Play at max vol.
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