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its feb 06 2002 6:30 pm PST
that means it's time to list me your favorite, most-ass-shakingly-hard-hitting-smoothed-out-greasy-dirty-funk !!!!!

― chaki, Wednesday, 6 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

heres mine listed in record form.
herbie - thrust!
prince - small club bootleg
anything with dennis chambers on drums!
also no one is allowed to say 'gang of four'

― chaki, Wednesday, 6 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"The Grunt", JBs
"Message from the Meters", the Meters
"Sex Machine", James Brown
"Street Walker", Bar-Kays
"Loose Booty", Funkadelic
"Moonshine Heather", Parliament
"Southwick", Maceo Parker
"N.T.", Kool & the Gang
"Thank You Falletinme...", Sly & the Family Stone
"Think (About It)", Lyn Collins
"I Turned You On", The Isley Brothers
"Hair", Graham Central Station
"Weasil", Donald Byrd
"Laid It", Ohio Players
"Booty Butt", Ray Charles Orchestra
"Hamp's Hump", Lou Donaldson
"Sookie Sookie", Grant Green
"Well's Gone Dry", Crusaders
"Eight Counts for Rita", Jimmy Smith

There are a few great ones on that 16 Corners comp as well.

― dleone, Wednesday, 6 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

For me, it's Maceo Parker's "Shake Everything You Got" from his "Live On Planet Groove" album. 13+ minutes of uncut funk bliss. And the part with just Maceo and the drummer is one of those musical moments that makes you glad to be alive. IMO.

― popmusic, Wednesday, 6 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Rhythm Changes", Counts
"Funky Dollar Bill", "You & Your Folks", "Moonshine Heather", "I Bet You", "Cosmic Slop", "Up For the Down Stroke", "Chocolate City" etc. ad infinitum, P- Funk
"Luv'n'Haight", "Poet", "You Caught Me Smilin'"(that tensssssion-RELEASE horn chart at the end!), Sly Stone
"Just Kissed My Baby", Meters
"Fire", Ohio Players
"Dazz", Brick
"Cisco Kid", War
"Beauty & The Beast", Wayne Shorter
"Dirty Movies", Van Halen (Seriously! Check out this track, it's weird - a totally unfunky rhythm section + funky singer comes up with a viable hardrock/funk [as in Sly-Stone-w/overdriven gtrs - and not even very many of them at that, certainly less than on "Superstupid" - NOT Red Hot Sewage] - but ironically here, it would've been way better without the singer! Life is full of surprises. Dig that drum pattern at the beginning, all you samplin' maniacs)

― dave q, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh yeah, how could I forget "The Payback". "I don't know karate, but I know ka-ray-zy!"

― dave q, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

JB's actually saying "ka-RAZOR"--he's pretend to pull a straightedge from his boot and slice up some sucka during his mid-'70s stage show.

also, let us not forget Parliament's "The Goose"--that bass/drum breakdown goes on forever and could just keep going that way as far as I'm concerned.

― M. Matos, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I only own one record which might be described as funk. It is a mini- lp by the Fatback Band. My favourite track is called Burn Baby Burn.

― MarkH, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What I hate about funk discourse: pretends to subjectivity ("you know The Funk when you hear/feel it man") but is actually the most rigorously elitist fandom subgenre ever ("nobody mention the Gang of Four!") more so even than MOD!

Banbarra's "Shack Up" because its hectoring and slightly rigid.

― Tom, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'you know The Funk when you hear/feel it man' - not subjective at all! Just means, 'I have understood and assimilated the theory of the One to be the most viable model for the ebb and flow of the physical universe and understand the energy release/transfers involved and all the revolutionary psychosociomusicultural implications!"

― dave q, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Fuck not mentioning Gang of Four. I love'em. Also love James Chance - apparently he's gonna OPEN up for Jon Spencer Blooz Explosion (repeat one million times for brain fried teenyboppers). Sly, James, Prince and Parliament naturellement.

― helenfordsdale, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

prince - small club bootleg

Tell me about this one, please.

― Curt, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the most rigorously elitist fandom subgenre ever

Which is of course what makes it so great.

Ten for me:

James Brown - "Funky President"
Wilson Pickett - "Engine #9"
The Mohawks - "Champ"
Dennis Coffey - "Scorpio"
Highlighters - "Funky 16 corners"
Bar Kays - "Black Rock" (pushing the definition a bit)
Ernie and the Topnotes - "Dap walk"
Bo Diddley - "Go for broker"
Carleen and the Groovers - "Can we rap?"

― jacob, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

funk when formalized as Funk (eg funkadelic, chili peps) = not sexy

funk when soul/punkrock/country&western gone off the rails (The Parliaments/Minutemen/Jerry Reed) = tres sexxxie

― fritz, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Bootsy Collins solo work. Tha shit.

― Gage-o, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Bootsy Collins solo work = shit. Bootsy in JB's and Deee-lite = Tha shit.

― fritz, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Love Unlimited Orchestra - "Strange Games & Funky Things"
Charlie Watts - "Express Yourself"
Eddie Bo - "Hook & Sling"
Rick James - "Bustin' Out of L7"
Bar-Kays - "Holy Ghost", "Freaky Behavior"
Betty Davis - "Git In There," "Don't Call Her No Tramp," "Shoo Be Doop and Cop Him"

― Chris H., Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Question: Does anybody know about The Quake?

― Keiko, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Housequake? Shut up already. Damn!

― Curt, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Is there a better site?

― dleone, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Funk elitest??? Hardly! The only reason i said "dont mention the Gang Of Four" is beacause all you indies seem to have been orgasming all over their work and labeleing it as funk in the press the last year or so. and i dont want that robitic british unfunky funk in this list. like i said i want greazy ass stank shit.

― chaki, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Funk can jerk as well as sprawl. And after all, weren't Kraftwerk so stiff they were funky? ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

but thats not the kind of funk i asked for.

― chaki, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Here is a small sampling of what I've been listening to...

The Isley Brothers - Fight the Power Brick - Dazz Slave - Slide Roy Ayers - Running Away Fatback - I like girls Cameo - I just want to be Gap Band - Burn Rubber Rick James - Mary Jane Lakeside - Fantastic Voyage Ohio Players - Skin Tight Zapp - Ist LP

― , Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

" prince - small club bootleg Tell me about this one, please. "

this is probably the #1 most requested prince bootleg ever. why? because it is the baddest recorded prince EVER. not only that, its the best live recording ive heard from any artist EVER.

― chaki, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I had this theory about how Sly Stone and George Clinton would be the Bird and Miles of funk, until I realised it didn't work, because Clinton is on a way higher level than Miles ever got to.

― dave q, Saturday, 9 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Is this where someone steps in and says "MENTALIST!"?

― Clarke B., Saturday, 9 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mentalist.

And, Billy Cobham, 'Stratus'

anything by the Meters of course.

the live version of Bootsy's 'psychoticbumpinschool' or whatever on the best of.

Maceo Parker 'Shake Everything You Got' from Life on Planet Groove.

Most stuff with Billy Martin on it.

― Jordan, Sunday, 10 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Who are these ofays, these keepers of yesterday's blues?"

― We Are The Robots, Sunday, 10 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey WATR - I believe they upped to Sheffield

― dave q, Monday, 11 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

1973 king crimson with bruford on drums.

― chaki, Sunday, 17 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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