Rhino's WHAT IT IS box , the rare-ish Funk/Soul thingy late 60s/early 70s- as awesome as it seems?

(This box also got a positive review in Blender, but the writer gave hip-hop WAAAAAAY too much credit - it's like the person couldn't review this set on its' own terms without discussing who sampled what.)

yesss

some obvious stuff on this thing, but I still gotta get it...

Yeah, "Funky Thang" by the Unemployed - the guy I DJ with at our soul nites has the 45 on Cotillion, and the first time I heard him spin that, it was all over but the shouting...great song.

"some obvious stuff on this thing, but I still gotta get it..."

It's obvious if you're one of those dyed-in-the-wool, heard-everything funk collectors like Dante C. (who is thanked in the credits), but for the rest of the world, there are hardly any overplayed radio hits on this thing...this is far superior to, and digs far deeper than, those IN YO' FACE funk comps that Rhino released a decade ago, which were geared more towards funk novices and 70's nostalgia fans.

PERSONAL TO STORMY DAVIS (AND ANY OTHER CHICAGO RESIDENTS READING THIS!): we're deejaying classic soul and funk at the Hideout this Saturday at 11:30!

Ah, maybe the fact that this time the artists are getting PAID? :-)

BUT SERIOUSLY...
There are some significant differences...this mixes up the house-party funk with the jazzier stuff, and it flows together well (a lot of those compilations they sell at Dusty Grooves focus on either one or the other). And the liner notes are pretty thorough (I still see a lot of funk and soul anthologies that have no liners at all, apart from shoutouts to Northern Soul deejays).

BESIDES...me personally, I see no need to compare and contrast with other funk compilations. This box set stands on its' own. I'm a big fan of this music, so it's not like I'm so tired of the genre that I won't be buying any more records in that vein ("well, I already have five volumes of SOUND OF FUNK that I got from Dusty Grooves, so I won't be needing the Rhino funk box"). I just think it's a good disc to own, and as many funk records as I own (both comps and originals), there's a lot of crucial shit here that I don't possess in any format.

I'm getting this (I sorta get every Rhino box, sad to say), but... "Rock Steady", "Funky Nassau", "Soul Finger". Nitpicking, I know.

Then again, that'd probably be a great comp.

I have the first volume. Not sure why.

Technically a previously-unreleased alternate take, so even that's kind of not played out there.

I wonder if all those little reissue labels will ever run out of "rare funk and soul" to reissue and start selling stuff like "Sophomoric Grooves: Deep Cuts from 1970s Milwaulkee Public High School Jazz Bands."

Then again, that'd probably be a great comp.

Damn straight.

As for apartment space, it's a nicely designed box that's about the size of a handful of 45s.

Guh?

on sale in november i believe. if not already.

Someone should release a box called 100 High School Stage Bands From The Early 1970s Alone That Play Better Than The Shitty Indie Rock Band You Like

JUST PUT THE DAMN THING ON THE STEREO

:-)

"I'm getting this (I sorta get every Rhino box, sad to say), but... "Rock Steady", "Funky Nassau", "Soul Finger". Nitpicking, I know."

(1) As somebody just mentioned, "Rock Steady" is a previously-unreleased alt take, or remix, or something.
(2) And they chose "Funky Nassau - Part 2."
(3) There are some popular hits on this box, but they're spread out far and wide; the obscurities take up most of the space.

-- Rev. Hoodoo

Kinda like telling an insomniac to "JUST LIE DOWN ON THE BED AND CLOSE YOUR DAMN EYES"!

(And anyways, I'd never even HEARD of that "Funky 16 Corners" thing until it was mentioned in some random thread a month ago or so.)

75% of the track listing I've never heard of let alone heard!

hmmmmmmmmmm