Funky groovy music

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[Pauli]

 

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[Chr1]

 

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[Pauli]

 

[Snarfie]

One of mine ancient sets.

Bits & Pieces from the Groove Fault by Section 31

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Downbeat Vibes for Soul Brotha's & Blues Sista's (10th Anniversary)

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[Multicore]

The Meters​

'nuf said?

A'ite

 

[kemmler3D]

Couldn't let this one slip by:

 

[Timcognito]

 

[Timcognito]

 

[kemmler3D]

The guy dressed up like Rick James in that video reminded me to post Rick James:

(Sure, everyone knows Superfreak but he's got a lot of jams.)

 

[LTig]

Maceo Parker - Life on Planet Groove [1992]
I saw him live twice, on this tour and a later one.

 

[MattHooper]

Definitely uncorked a good bottle with this thread! Watch out! I can contribute some to the good posts already, I will try to restrain myself:

I'll start with an ultra-rare example of Country Western Funk (it completely slaps though):

Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant - Boogie Man:

Ike Turner - Getting Nasty: (lo-fi as it gets, lives up to the name all around)

Scary Pockets - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (a more explicitly funk-coded cover of an already funky song, since we apparently like this tune)

Earth, Wind and Fire - In the Stone - (this thread could have a whole lot of EWF in it, but this is song is too overlooked, I think)

Lakeside - Fantastic Voyage (Really, we're on page 3 and nobody posted this yet???)

Brick - Ain't Gonna Hurt Nobody (I keep coming back to this one lately)

Change - Hold Tight (technically italo disco, but if you listen closely you'll notice the sample shows up in what seems like half of all funky house songs from 1995-2005)

Zapp & Roger - More bounce to the ounce (FUNKIEST SONG OF ALL TIME? )

Zapp & Roger - So Ruff, So Tuff (I view it as a companion piece to the above)

Vulfpeck - It Gets Funkier II (among bands working today, they are among the funkier)

https://youtu.be/C430AWTvMPs?si=X3NuuFRHrA16Gdwh

Fatback Band - Backstrokin' (back to the classics - could post several of their tracks here)

https://youtu.be/dIOTV_ZtIwg?si=PNEB-i7UbZOiHC7c

George Clinton - Atomic Dog (someone had to post it)

https://youtu.be/IyAEUWJlk1Q?si=qMuQJoDilfPscwTg

Prince - Erotic City (not like there aren't a lot of Prince songs we could share, but I like this one for pure funkiness)

https://youtu.be/KY4gnToCXa4?si=7gPlX5l7G-599g6E

Tom Browne - Thighs High (Grip Your Hips & Move) (it was between this and Funkin' for Jamaica)

https://youtu.be/RvlB8OEMBJc?si=acrUs9xXSGZGeIua

Con Funk Shun - Shake and Dance WIth Me (I just really like the bassline for some reason.)

https://youtu.be/xh6P1QTffe4?si=Yu3uq7AyZFflebJT

Jamiroquai - little L (nothing obscure about this one, but it's a bop)

https://youtu.be/1hHSH9sJUEo?si=k-RYNuK5FfK8M48h

The Bar-Kays - Holy Ghost (this one is an all-timer for the bassline, even though the mix is really bad.)

https://youtu.be/sJlAop6SyLI?si=gGDVcfoiguk8emAK

Ice Cube , George Clinton - Bop Gun (A fun way to listen to One Nation Under a Groove, plus if you listen closely he references a lot of songs in this thread)

https://youtu.be/DjsvqQUcqCs?si=JURr9_qUlcVrHpI1

Ohio Players - Love Rollercoaster (I thought I liked the Red Hot Chili Peppers, because they covered this for the Beavis and Butthead movie... turns out no, I like Ohio Players.)

https://youtu.be/_5oGtAKebps?si=uE3Dvl9p4pVBDD7G

OK, I'll stop, already a bit out of control here, I guess I hit the embed limit

Oh man…my funk brother!

You posted some of my favourite gems!

I’m a huge funk and dance music fan and I played in a funk tribute band for something like 13 years. We started it during the mid 80s when the type of funk we liked went out of style - dirty, nasty funk usually, with real horn sections. In the 80s Horn were often being taken over by keyboards and keyboard samples. I’ll never forget the disappointment of going to see the Commodores in the mid 80s, one of our all-time favourite bands, and they had no horn section just a guy on keyboard playing thin cheesy horn samples… and half the songs they were playing they were doing covers! So we decided to put together a big funk band that played all the music “ authentically” and we became a really big hit in our city and surrounding area.
It was a blast. We played of Commodores., Earth wind and fire, Gap band, Rufas, Lakeside (I loved playing fantastic voyage!), Zap, Brothers Johnson, Brick and tons of others.

I agree with you about Zap’s more bounce to the ounce, which is the track I would’ve put up first of all. To me it is the single funkiest track of all time. The essence of funk. If you look up funk on the periodic table, you will see that song. I used to write funk songs, and I was like every single one was really just trying to be more bounce to the ounce.

When you singled out from brick “ ain’t gonna hurt nobody” - that was my sign. This was somebody who knew the deal that’s one of my favourite goto deep cut brick songs.

Anyway, since you already put up more bounce in the ounce I guess I’ll go to some of the favourite songs we used to cover.

Gotta love Jam to the motha from the Gap Band:

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[LTig]

Tighten Up live [1993] with Bernard Purdie

 

[kemmler3D]

Oh man…my funk brother!

You posted some of my favourite gems!

I’m a huge funk and dance music fan and I played in a funk tribute band for something like 13 years. We started it during the mid 80s when the type of funk we liked went out of style - dirty, nasty funk usually, with real horn sections. In the 80s Horn were often being taken over by keyboards and keyboard samples. I’ll never forget the disappointment of going to see the Commodores in the mid 80s, one of our all-time favourite bands, and they had no horn section just a guy on keyboard playing thin cheesy horn samples… and half the songs they were playing they were doing covers! So we decided to put together a big funk band that played all the music “ authentically” and we became a really big hit in our city and surrounding area.
It was a blast. We played of Commodores., Earth wind and fire, Gap band, Rufas, Lakeside (I loved playing fantastic voyage!), Zap, Brothers Johnson, Brick and tons of others.

I agree with you about Zap’s more bounce to the ounce, which is the track I would’ve put up first of all. To me it is the single funkiest track of all time. The essence of funk. If you look up funk on the periodic table, you will see that song. I used to write funk songs, and I was like every single one was really just trying to be more bounce to the ounce.

When you singled out from brick “ ain’t gonna hurt nobody” - that was my sign. This was somebody who knew the deal that’s one of my favourite goto deep cut brick songs.

Anyway, since you already put up more bounce in the ounce I guess I’ll go to some of the favourite songs we used to cover.

Gotta love Jam to the motha from the Gap Band:

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A man of taste and culture!

I think More Bounce to the Ounce is like vodka to the beer or wine that most funk is. It's highly distilled and leaves no ambiguity about what's happening. It may lack nuance but it more than makes up for it in sheer impact. As a wise man once said, "If this don't make your booty move, your booty must be dead."

+1 to all of this. Sounds like a great band, too.

I was never in a funk band, but I did build a talkbox and record some tracks... probably 90% of my inspiration was Zapp & Roger, with an honorable mention to Daft Punk (and that's saying something - I am a big fan of Daft Punk.)

Pretty much anything from Gap Band could find a spot in this thread, I'd put this one up as a slightly deep cut that still feels like it's got legs:

 

[MattHooper]

Funk—even in places where you might not immediately expect it—but take a look at this breakdown and analysis of the superb ABBA bassist Rutger Gunnarsson’s contribution to "Dancing Queen." Funk in spades:

As for the song itself—yes, I agree with you, it’s not funk—but the actual bass playing is funky, which is what I wanted to point out. The professional bass player in the video says the same thing.

Edit:
Admittedly, the bass playing isn't as prominent as it is in, say, the Level 42 pop song mentioned in #30 above (which arguably shouldn't be classified as a funk song either), but the funk bass playing in Dancing Queen is there.

Good call… more light disco than funk. The laid back groove was famously inspired by George McRae Rock Your Baby.

I’m a huge fan of ABBA and if you’re going to go there, I would suggest a very early deep cut from ABBA, My Mamma Said.

It’s a wonderful combination of laid-back R&B groove processed through an icy Scandinavian reserve and coolness.
For me, it has endless replay value (great little guitar solo two), and I think it still sounds amazingly contemporary. I could see an Indie R&B artist putting this out today. Check out the funky bass playing, and the funky guitar solo (somebody edited a weird ABBA video to it):

Also going to throw in this from ABBA. This is from there more disco-oriented Voulez-Vous. But it does have one of the more slinky R&B grooves.

And Agnetha Faltskog is always easy on the eyes (my 70s singer crush)

 

[Soandso]

Boom, chaca-laca !