This pick is sort of a repost. I've always been a fan of Funk. And was happy that during the 80's and 90's some alternative bands were incorporating it into their musical output. I made at the time a couple of cassettes with some old and new funk. I translated that pick into CD playlists. Here is volume 1 or cassette one but better quality than before. This pick of mine was also posted on another great blog site by ButterBoy. Check him out! Either way, I liked mixing the old with the new funk. I haven't seen the Stone Funkers anywhere since I got their CD decades ago (from the band direct), but I like their album. I also like having a George Clinton cover and George (and Parliament/Funkadelic) on the same tape. Here you get Bop and Fopp and Slop all in one. The original tape was all red with the funky lettering all hand done, this is designed, but still looking cool. Volume two will be in a couple of days.
Funk You 1 (repost)
01 Parliament - Bop Gun (Endangered Species)
02 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Police Helicopter
03 James Brown - I Got You (I Feel Good)
04 Ohio Players - Fopp
05 Commodores - Slippery when wet
06 Sun - Pure Fire
07 Bootsy's Rubber Band - Jungle Bass
08 24-7 Spyz - Jungle Boogie
09 Kool & The Gang - Funky Stuff
10 Isley Brothers - Livin' In The Life-Go For Your Guns
11 George Clinton - Do Fries Go With That Shake
12 Primus - Tommy the Cat
13 Cameo - Rigor Mortis
14 Material - Cosmic Slop
15 Earth Wind & Fire - In The Stone
16 Limbomaniacs - Shake It
17 Johnny Guitar Watson - What The Hell Is This
18 Bootsy Collins - Bootzilla
19 Stone Funkers - S.T.O.N.E.F.U.N.K. Theme
20 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Catholic School Girls Rule
Hope you find some space for Sly Stone, Graham Central Station, Trouble Funk or Prince Charles & The City Beat Band, Cain and Able, Gil Scott Heron, George Duke, Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers, Fatback Band.
ReplyDeleteThe Voltaire Brothers made a fantastic one-off, or Jamiroquai
and the ever underestimated Bohannon
Good suggestions
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