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best funk songs

Salad
Salad Posts: 10,189
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not a genre I'm particularly keen on, but like most genres there's a few gems I like, here are the ones I have in iTunes

Parliament - Flashlight / Tear The Roof Off Sucker
Lowell Fulsom - Tramp
Archie & The Drells - Tighten Up
Zapp & Roger - More Bounce To The Ounce
Isley Brothers - Fight The Power
A Certain Ration - Shack Up
The Clash - Overpowered By Funk

appreciate any more suggestions!
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  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    Marvin Gaye - Inner City Blues & What's Goin' On?
    Sly & The Family Stone - Everyday People
    James Brown - Say it Loud, I'm Black & I'm Proud
    Gil Scott Heron - Pieces of a Man
    Stevie Wonder - Livin' for the City
    Solomon Burke - The night they drove Old Dixie Down
    Isaac Hayes - Shaft
    The Four Tops - Am I my Brother's Keeper?
    Isley Bros - Fight the Power

    You have to have Curtis Mayfield - "Move on Up" and the Isley Brothers "Summer Breeze" in there.


  • red_murph
    red_murph Posts: 2,460
    Salad, there are so many great funk tunes out there mate.

    To name a few from my funk playlist on iTunes...

    Maceo & the Macks - Cross the tracks
    The JB's - Gimme some more
    Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
    Marva Whitney - Things got to get better
    Bobby Byrd - I know you got soul
    Fatback band - Do the bustop
    Sly & the family stone - Thank You
    Quantic Soul - Don't joke with a hungry man
    Lyn Collins - Rock me again and again and again
    Richie Havens - Going back to my roots
    Charles Wright - Express yourself
    Labbe Sifre - I got the soul
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    You're The One For Me - D-Train

    Best Jazz Funk track ever!
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,049
    edited May 2013
    Funkadelic - One Nation Under A Groove
    Groove is in the Heart - Delite
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,380
    edited May 2013
    Time is Tight ... Booker T & MGs .... amongst many more
    Word Up .... Cameo
    Right on Time .. Brothers Johnson
  • Cardinal Sin
    Cardinal Sin Posts: 5,233
    A great oxymoron.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,380
    Let It All Blow ... Dazz Band
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,241
    Actions Speak Louder Than Words - Chocolate Milk
  • Saga Lout
    Saga Lout Posts: 6,845
    One Nation Under a Groove
    I thought Cameo were great - Word Up (of course), She's Strange, Back and Forth, etc.
    Low Rider
    Summer Breeze (great guitar sound)
    Boogie Wonderland
  • Vinnie V.
    Vinnie V. Posts: 1,509
    I want your love - Chic. The best bass line ever. Simple pure funk from Nile and Bernard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzqZPhafPr0&feature=youtube_gdata_player

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  • Vinnie V.
    Vinnie V. Posts: 1,509
    Betty Davis awesome sex oozing funk.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxKBnR_8LIM&feature=youtube_gdata_player
  • paulbaconsarnie
    paulbaconsarnie Posts: 9,427
    Rock creek park - the blackbyrds
  • QatarNapsy
    QatarNapsy Posts: 998
    Manu Dibango - Hot Chicken
  • sillav nitram
    sillav nitram Posts: 10,170
    so does funk represent, disco, motown and soul or a genre of its own?
  • BIG_ROB
    BIG_ROB Posts: 5,274
    Very Superstitious by Steve Wonder keeps me in a steady rhythm!

    Oh sorry you said FUNK songs......
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  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,621
    SE23 said:

    Roy Ayers. End of..

    Wouldn't class him as funk but one of my favourite artists. Seen him loads of times and got practically all his albums. Some of his early vinyl probably worth a few quid now.
  • aliwibble
    aliwibble Posts: 26,464
    In addition to those already mentioned, "It's Your Thing" by The Isley Brothers, "Play That Funky Music" by Wild Cherry and maybe "You Haven't Done Nothin'" by Stevie Wonder
    sillav nitram said:

    so does funk represent, disco, motown and soul or a genre of its own?

    Dunno, I'd say it can overlap all of those. The important thing is the bassist gets to have a lot more fun than normal.
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  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    sillav nitram said:

    so does funk represent, disco, motown and soul or a genre of its own?

    other types of music can be funky, but to me there is a genre of funk in its own right; so Parliament are funk whereas Chic are definitely disco.


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  • Viewfinder
    Viewfinder Posts: 4,913
    Barry White, sweating in his suit, singing about Luuurve in baritone! Sharp, tight, funked-up band behind him. Let's daaance!
  • Pelham123
    Pelham123 Posts: 379
    Brass Construction - movin. BT Express - express.
  • mickc
    mickc Posts: 573
    Doctor Buzzards Original Savannah Band, I'll play the fool, Cherchez La Femme.
  • Loco
    Loco Posts: 1,037
    Do you mean Jazz funk !/?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSn7vp9YC1M

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSn7vp9YC1M

    LA funk !/?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xTGrfs5TXM

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJV2pWFyfn4

    or just any old soul funk !/?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COiIC3A0ROM

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtBbyglq37E

    ????????????????????????????????

  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,118
    edited June 2013
    Funkin for Jamaica - Tom Browne

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuUy2ShGLyo
  • sillav nitram
    sillav nitram Posts: 10,170
    edited June 2013
    across 110st - bobby womack
    who is he - bill withers
    shelter-brand new heavies?
  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    download the jackie brown soundtrack
  • sillav nitram
    sillav nitram Posts: 10,170
    kentaddick said:

    download the jackie brown soundtrack

    I've already got it but thanks.

  • Essex_Al
    Essex_Al Posts: 3,585
    Anything by War, Low Rider etc.

    Play that funky music - Wild Cherry, fills a few dance floors
  • holyjo
    holyjo Posts: 1,328
    Lonnie Liston Smith - expansions
    Chocolate milk - actions speak louder than words
    The blackbyrds- doing it in the park

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