• Cylob a dit :...
    • Utilisateur
    • 24 sept. 2006, 9h03m

    The Funk Desk:

    Welcome to the Funk Desk:



    Go ahead and leave your queries or recommendations.

    Other Places:

    Funk Panel

    Secret Snacker & Accomplished Pen Thief At:
    Modifié par Cylob le 27 mai 2008, 16h23m
    • [Utilisateur supprimé] a dit :...
    • Utilisateur
    • 24 sept. 2006, 18h21m
    Can somebody recommend me some good funk, please?

    I have a compilation CD: New Orleans Funk - New Orleans: The Original Sound of Funk 1960-75 which is good but most of the tracks could do with a bit extra*... for instance a solo or some more vocals rather than just relying on their undeniably cool ostinatos.

    I also have Superfly, which is possibly a little too cinematic and string heavy.

    *although the Chuck Carbo, Ernie & the Top Notes, Marilyn Barbarin and Aaron Neville tracks stand out.

    I realise this may be a bit too specific...

    • bio-tex a dit :...
    • Utilisateur
    • 24 sept. 2006, 18h30m
    Fear Yourself
    • [Utilisateur supprimé] a dit :...
    • Utilisateur
    • 24 sept. 2006, 18h58m
    I'll give them a listen...

    • Gronkle a dit :...
    • Utilisateur
    • 27 sept. 2006, 12h22m
    FUNKADELIC! Who got tha funk?!

    There aren't enough people into funk these days.

    But anyway, for a modern, funk/hiphop thing goin' on, check out: Breakestra

    I strongly recommend Getcho Soul Together, which is unfortunately only available on a Stones Throw Records 45 vinyl, or on a CD compilation of tracks from Stones Throw's collection of 45's. However, if you're into hiphop as well, it's worth buying the compilation.

    • bio-tex a dit :...
    • Utilisateur
    • 27 sept. 2006, 16h21m
    I am a true funkateer! Every damn time there is a parliament-funkadelic-thang like GC or so playin' near by I am there to be found sweatin' my ass off!

    Fear Yourself
    • Cylob a dit :...
    • Utilisateur
    • 27 sept. 2006, 17h28m
    Get down!

    Gronkle said:
    I strongly recommend Getcho Soul Together, which is unfortunately only available on a Stones Throw Records 45 vinyl, or on a CD compilation of tracks from Stones Throw's collection of 45's.

    Also worth checking out on Stones Throw is Angles Without Edges.

    I'm relatively new to this label, have you got any recommendations Gronkle?

    Secret Snacker & Accomplished Pen Thief At:
    • Gronkle a dit :...
    • Utilisateur
    • 28 sept. 2006, 10h38m
    I waqs going to post but I thought it would be more suited to the hiphop desk...
    So Go Check IT!

    • [Utilisateur supprimé] a dit :...
    • Utilisateur
    • 30 sept. 2006, 15h11m
    Something similar to Carleen & The Groovers, please.

    • [Utilisateur supprimé] a dit :...
    • Utilisateur
    • 9 oct. 2006, 15h47m
    • Emmaneul a dit :...
    • Utilisateur
    • 9 oct. 2006, 16h17m
    This is one of the best (funky soul/soulful funk) records I know.
    Still Bill

    You couldn't be disappointed.

    • [Utilisateur supprimé] a dit :...
    • Utilisateur
    • 9 oct. 2006, 16h21m
    Use Me Is really good too!

    • Emmaneul a dit :...
    • Utilisateur
    • 9 oct. 2006, 22h44m
    Use me is one of the best songs on that album.

  • Great Funk Band..

    The Bamboos - Step It Up


    Blessed with 1960's funk influences, the Bamboos are an Australian band ready to "step it up" in the funk world.
    Fun, like a fiesta and everyones invited, including the Meters, George and Bootsy...Oh yeah baby!

    silence is merely the absence of sound
    • bio-tex a dit :...
    • Utilisateur
    • 10 oct. 2006, 11h29m
    Discern/Define



    Picks
    Smilin' (while your crying)
    Eulogize the source
    Guiding resolution

    Sounds like The Meters gone Ninja...
    Known from doing songs with Blackalicious and Lyrics Born

    Fear Yourself
    • zephirnl a dit :...
    • Utilisateur
    • 29 oct. 2006, 9h37m
    Check out Lefties Soul Connection

    great raw funk band (mostly instrumental), they covered DJ Shadow's Organ Donor, but their own compositions are all good spicy raw funk!

    Also worth checking: Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings and The Quantic Soul Orchestra

    • musikarma a dit :...
    • Utilisateur
    • 22 fév. 2007, 17h20m
    Essential Funk Album
    The J.B.'s - Food For Thought (1972)
    Label: People Records



    Choice Cuts:
    The Grunt
    Pass The Peas
    Gimme Some More

    • BenMH a dit :...
    • Utilisateur
    • 4 mars 2007, 19h10m
    I would like to recommend Sly + The Family Stone - There's A Riot Goin' On as a particularly good funk album. It is both melancholy and desperate, and yet incredibly funky. I thought they were two moods that did not mix. At least not in funk.

    One of my favourite albums.

    Ben
    Modifié par BenMH le 4 mars 2007, 19h35m
  • I checked out Games, Dames and Guitar Thangs from the library yesterday, and I'm thoroughly impressed. The focus is clearly on the solos, but you wouldn't have it any other way, would you?

    • [Utilisateur supprimé] a dit :...
    • Utilisateur
    • 5 mars 2007, 22h20m
    Another essential Funk/breakbeat album
    I've been looking for a long time for some good drummy album, with funky vibe and all the recomendations I had were good but pretty disapointing. But here it came, poping off my TV Set, some DJ starts an incredible boomshakalakalakaboom-vibe sampled on this album, explaining how much it has been used and re-used by every DJs who started the so-called Hip-Hop culture.
    Enjoy my friends!
    Bongo-Rock (1972)

  • Boscoe - S/T
    Pharaohs - The Awakening
    Pharaohs - In the Basement
    Black Merda - S/T
    Fugi - Mary, Don't Take Me on No Bad Trip
    Baby Huey & the Babysitters - The Baby Huey Story
    The Bar-Kays - Money Talks
    Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul
    The Oneness of Juju - African Rhythms
    The Oneness of Juju - Space Jungle Luv
    Lafayette Afro Rock Band - Malik
    Lafayette Afro Rock Band - Afon
    Curtis Mayfield - Curtis
    War - All Day Music

    beelzbubba
    jazzoetry is poetry
    • smc2911 a dit :...
    • Abonné
    • 23 mars 2007, 9h50m
    A couple of classic tracks I would point to are Four Play and the heavily sampled Pick Up The Pieces (pity most of the rest of the material produced by these Scots was pretty awful).

    Classic Funk Mastercuts (disc 1) is a good sampler album for classic funk, which features some of the artists mentioned in this thread, including Mandrill, Fatback and The J.B.s. Some more artists to consider are Kool & The Gang, Earth, Wind & Fire and Booker T & The M.G.s. Of course, we shouldn't forget James Brown.

    After all of these, of course, George Clinton came along and changed everything: became .

  • I was considering getting Maggot Brain as an introduction. Is that a good choice?

    sponge

    That Annoying Guy By The Watercooler At:
    • smc2911 a dit :...
    • Abonné
    • 25 mars 2007, 4h48m
    Maggot Brain is not really representative of . Early on Funkadelic's output is epitomised by the title of their later track Who Says a Funk Band Can't Play Rock? and so Maggot Brain is really more than (albeit with funk sensibilities and influence). Their sister band Parliament is a better place to start for funk and Flash Light is probably one of the best tracks of all time. The later Funkadelic album One Nation Under A Groove is more funky and by that stage the distinction between Funkadelic and Parliament becomes a bit blurred.

  • smc2911 said:
    Maggot Brain is not really representative of . Early on Funkadelic's output is epitomised by the title of their later track Who Says a Funk Band Can't Play Rock? and so Maggot Brain is really more than (albeit with funk sensibilities and influence). Their sister band Parliament is a better place to start for funk and Flash Light is probably one of the best tracks of all time. The later Funkadelic album One Nation Under A Groove is more funky and by that stage the distinction between Funkadelic and Parliament becomes a bit blurred.


    I guess I look at this a little differently--not much, but a little. I see Paliament as a funk/r&b band and Funkadelic as a funk/psychedelic rock band. Both are deep inna funk. Yes, the title track on Maggot brain is more space exploration than funk but "Can You Get to That?" or "Super Stupid"? Man, that's some funk.

    So the initial ninjavsself question was, is Maggot Brain a good place to start with Funkadelic, and your response might have been (and one that I'd TOTALLY agree with):
    One Nation Under A Groove shows the band at their finest, and if you are only buying one, this is the one to buy. But I can't believe for a minute that Maggot Brain is D'void O'Funk. (and for an extra special treat, bop on over to
    Thirteen Cosmic Standards by Sun Ra & Funkadelic). Vandermark, Drake, & McBride give jazz trio reading to these gems.

    If however, you want to slowly creep up onto their best and in the process get some damn fine albums that you ought to have anyway, you should get Funkadelic, Free Your Mind...And Your Ass Will Follow, Chocolate City, Mothership Connection, Maggot Brain, Funkentelechy Vs. The Placebo Syndrome AND One Nation Under A Groove. For starters. Then work into the P-funk, George Clinton, and Parliament or Funkadelic lesser works. Not all are essential, so ask questions, as you did, ninjavsself.

    beelzbubba
    jazzoetry is poetry
    Modifié par beelzbubba le 27 mars 2007, 15h03m
Les utilisateurs anonymes ne peuvent pas poster de messages. Merci de vous connecter ou de créer un compte pour pouvoir intervenir dans les forums.