best funk songs

Salad · May 2013

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!

BlackForestReds · May 2013

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 · May 2013

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 · May 2013

You're The One For Me - D-Train

Best Jazz Funk track ever!

Covered End · May 2013

Funkadelic - One Nation Under A Groove
Groove is in the Heart - Delite

Lincsaddick · May 2013

Time is Tight ... Booker T & MGs .... amongst many more
Word Up .... Cameo
Right on Time .. Brothers Johnson

Cardinal Sin · June 2013

A great oxymoron.

Lincsaddick · June 2013

Let It All Blow ... Dazz Band

iaitch · June 2013

Actions Speak Louder Than Words - Chocolate Milk

Saga Lout · June 2013

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. · June 2013

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

Vinnie V. · June 2013

Betty Davis awesome sex oozing funk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxKBnR_8LIM&feature=youtube_gdata_player

paulbaconsarnie · June 2013

Rock creek park - the blackbyrds

QatarNapsy · June 2013

Manu Dibango - Hot Chicken

sillav nitram · June 2013

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

BIG_ROB · June 2013

Very Superstitious by Steve Wonder keeps me in a steady rhythm!

Oh sorry you said FUNK songs......

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DaveMehmet · June 2013

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 · June 2013

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