The FUNK thread
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kapoo:
audi:
kapoo:
Some great links throughout Auds, you know I dig the funk! Was listening to this Nilsson track earlier today and though I think its predominantly a more bluey song, I was thinking how funky the interplay between his vocal and organ is. early in the mornin I can't do right...
funky, right? so simple, yet so amazing.Funk on!
You know what just became remarkably clear to me? How much you sound like Harry!
The influence is crystal clear in that track! Wow! How did I miss it before???? And, yes, it is funky. The right bass-line and percussion would cement it.
Yeah he's a humungous influence on me musically. I have all kinds of weird sides to my tastes and he's very much in line with my way of thinking musically, he's done all kinds of songs and I'm sort of that way. and the funny thing is I was only introduced to him about 4 years ago, so more that being influenced I'd say we just have similarities in styles. but he's way better
guy was a complete maniac! yet could write like this toohe's on the level with any of the greatest writers of all time IMO. he's just one of those guys though who really didn't appreciate his own abilitiy, and risked everything all the time. like it was all too easy for him that he didn't give it (or his voice) the care he should have. but its the artists perrogative and we're lucky as listeners to have crazy b**tard like Harry out there doing it balls out. this is not a funk track (though perhaps slightly), but listen to this one howl! from the same album, called Down, you heard it?
anyway, here's another track from an album I've been playing quite a bit lately, WAR, The World Is A Ghetto, their hit Cisco Kid. would you consider that funk? perhaps really heavy funk? whatever it is I like it.
One of my all-time fave tracks. WAR is a lot like Earth, Wind & Fire -- multiple influences (Afro-Cuban, etc.). It's certainly funky enough but moreso straight-up r&b. But i'm not gonna quibble.
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audi:
kapoo:
audi:
kapoo:
Some great links throughout Auds, you know I dig the funk! Was listening to this Nilsson track earlier today and though I think its predominantly a more bluey song, I was thinking how funky the interplay between his vocal and organ is. early in the mornin I can't do right...
funky, right? so simple, yet so amazing.Funk on!
You know what just became remarkably clear to me? How much you sound like Harry!
The influence is crystal clear in that track! Wow! How did I miss it before???? And, yes, it is funky. The right bass-line and percussion would cement it.
Yeah he's a humungous influence on me musically. I have all kinds of weird sides to my tastes and he's very much in line with my way of thinking musically, he's done all kinds of songs and I'm sort of that way. and the funny thing is I was only introduced to him about 4 years ago, so more that being influenced I'd say we just have similarities in styles. but he's way better
guy was a complete maniac! yet could write like this toohe's on the level with any of the greatest writers of all time IMO. he's just one of those guys though who really didn't appreciate his own abilitiy, and risked everything all the time. like it was all too easy for him that he didn't give it (or his voice) the care he should have. but its the artists perrogative and we're lucky as listeners to have crazy b**tard like Harry out there doing it balls out. this is not a funk track (though perhaps slightly), but listen to this one howl! from the same album, called Down, you heard it?
anyway, here's another track from an album I've been playing quite a bit lately, WAR, The World Is A Ghetto, their hit Cisco Kid. would you consider that funk? perhaps really heavy funk? whatever it is I like it.
One of my all-time fave tracks. WAR is a lot like Earth, Wind & Fire -- multiple influences (Afro-Cuban, etc.). It's certainly funky enough but moreso straight-up r&b. But i'm not gonna quibble.
Another one from War, crazy funk! Slippin into Darkness
I wanna get that record..
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Mos' def' funk.
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Tom Browne - Funkin' For Jamaica:
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Faze O - Riding High:
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Curtis Mayfield - Give Me Your Love:
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audi:
Curtis Mayfield - Give Me Your Love:
Would love to hear Jamiroquai do this one.
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Earth Wind & Fire - Getaway (live, 199
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Stevie Wonder on Sesame Street
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Great version. So loose....yet, totally tight.
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What is a funk topic without Sesame Street? It just occurred to me, maybe Mitt Romney has nothing against Big Bird. He simply hates the funk.
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One word: DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!
(one of my all-time fave bass-lines)
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funkstar650's Bass play along: "Tonight We Love" by Rufus w/ Louis Johnson:
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Lenny Kravitz - "Come On and Love Me " (Circus World Tour 1995 Osaka, Japan): (featuring Lenny on dums! -- funky!)
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Sting, Kenny Kirkland, Manu Katché, Conversation With a Dog
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Some jazz-hop for ya'.... Groove Collective - Budha Head (1994):
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audi:
JordanOnTheRun:
Yes Audi! My music library is seriously lacking some FUNK!
Here's one that EVERYONE knows and loves: Parliament -- Give Up The Funk (1976)
(an awesome live version) But here's something ya' might not know -- but is an essential amongst funk fans: The Gap Band - Oops Upside Your Head (1980)Love Parliment Flashlight the best. They always played them at the roller rink when I was young.
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A really funky song.
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I thought some of their music was very funky. Roller rink!
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butterpie:
I thought some of their music was very funky. Roller rink!
Soft-rock radio has ruined that track for me.
Whenever I hear "Brick House," the phrase listen-while-you-work enters my brain... ...This is The Commodores that I prefer: