Time to Get Funky!
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Was funk the greatest genre of the 1970s? Post some of your favorite funk songs and funk acts here.
Is Nigerian Funk or American Funk superior? Discuss!
>tfw from the funk capitol of the world
>tfw just heard Earth, Wind, and Fire's s/t for the first time yesterday and it blew my mind
My old elementary scchool art teacher made outfits for funk bands like Slave
Nigerian Funk is definitely better if you want something that grooves longer but with more repetition+overall better arrangements. American Funk is all about emotion, dancing and passion. Both are tied for me man I really can't decide between the best of both worlds.
>>65193911
Same here, I love all funk
mu can't deal with the funk, unfortunately
>>65194158
Apparently not. Next time I should disguise it as a radiohead thread or something
as a genre, I don't think anything else managed to make itself as utterly ubiquitous as funk, if not itself then via its immediate offshoots: disco & hip hop. James Brown's music from '67-'73 stands as some of the strongest music I've ever heard.
but I always say the best album artist in funk is Sly & The Family Stone. Agree or disagree? There's a Riot Goin' On and Fresh stand as some of the strongest albums full stop for me.
>>65193371
>tfw from the funk capitol of the world
tell me where this is so I can go there :3
>>65193252
>Was funk the greatest genre of the 1970s?
No, it was a lot less influential than prog rock, punk or disco. It carried on some influences but mostly it's remembered for being sampled in hip-hop and being in the soundtracks of old porno movies.
>>65194207
There's A Riot Goin' On is so amazing and I know I'm just repeating what a bunch of people has said but I love that such an uplifting genre of music has something so cynical and fucked up as that album, I've searched real hard and the kind of shit that I've seen like it is stuff like Black Nasty or East of Underground.
Time is also the best song Sly has ever done and maybe one of the greatest songs of the entire genre.
>>65194226
Yeah, because so many people sample prog songs
>inb4 power
>>65194226
Ok sick opinion so it's established that you obviously don't know shit about this kind of music so what's next for you? Shitposting?
>>65194258
Because sampling defines the longevity of a genre? It's nothing more than a shout out saying "hey, remember this?" today.
>>65194344
Yeah, I was a bit snarky, but what I meant was hip hop is arguably the most popular genre currently, and funk has had a huge influence on it's sound. One of the ways we see this is through sampling.
>>65194207
Dayton, OH
Nationally known uber well, we have Ohio Players & Zapp (Roger Trautman), but in the 70s Dayton had a stupid amount of funk acts. They're actually opening up a funk museum herep
P-Funk is best funk.
/end thread
>>65194251
search "I'm Just Like You: Sly's Stone Flower 1969-70" if you want to catch a few more precious glimpses of what Sly was working with on that album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrAc04Nh6M4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCRkjcQ0KVM
but it's the hard-edged lyrics on Riot that really get under my skin (Fresh too, without getting so dark):
>and who's believing who? who's doin' the fishin'?
>do what you want to do or keep on wishin'
>>65194226
is synthponi back?
>>65194386
Oh okay I see what you mean. I don't listen to hip-hop too often so I forget how much sampling was/is a part of it. Then in that case I guess funk really did influence the majority of music today.
Does anyone know if there's an essential funk chart out there? I'd make one, but I'm not confident I know enough about the genre yet.
>>65194521
Gee you fucking think so?
>I don't listen to hip-hop too often
It shows buddy, talking a whole bunch of shit about a whole bunch of shit you don't know "too much" about. Pretentious little dickhead get the fuck out of here
Funkadelic/Parliment niggas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WOZwwRH6XU
>>65194549
Calm down, dude. No need to get so mad over a 4chan post.
>>65194528
The essential funk chart done by /mu/ is so retarded, it's just cliche parroting with no real cratedigging at all.
>>65194407
that sounds really great - I'm sure there's like a dozen locally-known acts that most people don't know about too, right? let me in on a few I probably don't know about yet
>>65194441
I saw George Clinton bring the Parliament-Funkadelic gang to Toronto last year and they instantly became one of my favourite live acts. but what he does is an amalgam of different artists: doo wop, James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Sly Stone...
I prefer James Brown's recordings to theirs - his stuff is the real Pure Funk. but plenty of his band crossed over into Clinton's in the mid-'70s anyway: Bootsy Collins, Maceo Parker, Fred Wesley - how the hell can that PLUS Eddie Hazel, Bernie Worrell...be anything but great?
>>65194568
You're just retarded, you literally have no idea about anything if you think funk is just "hip-hop sampling and porn" like that's an underage mentality you got there, without funk there is literally no hip-hop at all, people like Gil Scott Heron, Baby Huey, Last Poets and Blowfly are the reasons Jay-Z and Beyonce are billionaires, it's one of the most trailblazing movements in all of American music and we got the typical dipshit like being all "hurrr porn music bow chicka wow wow hippity hop sample"
Do yourself a favor and start listening to funk and start listening to music you don't know anything about before speaking any kind of authority on it.
>>65194528
I'll give a list, if you want. hell, I have a few old uploads if you're down
>>65194620
>people like Gil Scott Heron, Baby Huey, Last Poets and Blowfly
I don't know who these are. You just need to say hip-hop, bro. Like I got that after your first response, no need to throw some crap about me speaking on authority. Like I said, it's just a 4chan post.
>>65194610
"Bootsy's Rubber Band, The Ohio Players, Lakeside, Slave, Aurra, Heatwave, Sun, Dayton, Faze O, and Zapp featuring Roger Troutman."
>>65194628
Sure, if you feel up for it. I'd totally listen to that.
>>65194528
/mu/ knows fuck all about anything not white as hell or popular like rap
From reggae to r&b to funk it's a mess
I've got a bit to dump. /mu/ could use a change of styles for damn sure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5YkVfpy_LI
>>65194891
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCDAfa-NI-M
>>65194805
Most of the stuff in those genres aren't really that memorable outside of a few of the big famous acts. The best stuff comes from random compilations of obscure bands.
>>65194937
Spoken like a true untermensch
>>65194922
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbkqE4fpvdI
>>65194805
Yeah, it feels circlejerky to say "mu has shit taste" but I honestly feel like there are like a dozen people with cool, diverse, tastes who hang out in sharethreads and everyone else just bitches about radiohead and fantano
>>65194729
thanks for the list!
>>65194753
alright, for me I can't see any more than 4 main sources for funk in America. there's a semi-separate New Orleans thing that coalesced as the instrumental funk of the Meters. I really like their Josie label albums the best, but people jump on Rejuvenation too. I think all of their full albums are on youtube already
James Brown basically took something that already existed in black music and intensified it. I started with the Star Time box set, that traced his entire career from "55-'83 - but I think listening to a few anthologies that focus on the funk, as well as giving us extended cuts that improve the longer they go on:
>Foundations of Funk: 1964-1969
>Funk Power: 1970
>Make It Funky: 1971-1975
Sly & The Family Stone's Stand! is what a lot of people focus on, but I go to their 1970 greatest hits, 'cause it sums up their entire career up to that time, while collecting singles found on no other album. also:
>There's a Riot Goin' On
>Fresh
George Clinton's groups Parliament and Funkadelic were two different configurations of the same personnel - more on the smooth, pop side, and the anarchic, rock side respectively. I was introduced to them both by double-disc anthologies, and now that I've heard their stuff from start to finish, I realize they knew what they were doing:
>Parliament: Tear the Roof Off 1974-1980
>Funkadelic: Motor City Madness 1970-1976
also you need Funkadelic's One Nation Under a Groove, you need to hear the song Knee Deep, and George Clinton's debut album Computer Games (ha)
so I'll go get those links ready.
>>65194158
Sad but true
>>65194991
It's not even corclejerky, it's just a fact
Had i not got a job at a record store with people who love funk, i'd be clueless. I still am clueless!
>>65194226
Prog Rock is a meme
Punk is a dead meme
Funk birthed disco
>>65195018
This is a great overview, thank you for this.
>>65194700
how the fuck do you not know who gil scott heron is
>>65194407
I fucking hate Ohio but I'd make the 7+ hour drive to go to a funk museum.
>>65195221
GIL. SCOTT, HERON.
>>65194805
this is a problem with most online music nerdy communities unfortunately, it's massively focused on the tastes of 20-something white people. not that this is inherently negative, of course 20-something white people have their own interests, but then you have entire genres spanning decades that hardly anybody will even give mild attention to.
if you're going to get into this shit you're probably going to have to go outside of /mu/.
>>65195275
The problem is exacerbated by the fact that a large portion of listeners here are actively opposed to listening to anything that differs too much from their worldview. It's why threads about TPAB or riot grrrl tend to get out of hand very quickly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qopLm8JjIA&list=PL_hVvquNwBVrQaunpuAUDaoSHOFN3SYEB
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAatPPEaZDA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbO2c2_vIvA
>>65195155
no prob
>>65195018
alright, so here're the links:
The Very Best of the Meters:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/o93wzp8z04nttc2/M-VB.zip
an even better collection is the double-disc anthology Funkify Your Life - which splits the Josie recordings on the first disc, and their later stuff on the second disc. but most of this is online free to sample anyway. to compensate, here's a great collection of New Orleans Funk:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/tlkx6auox07o7sg/VA-NOF.zip
James Brown - Star Time:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/vmpsdudv01q25ua/JB-ST1.zip
http://www.mediafire.com/download/007kcyym90t0164/JB-ST2.zip
http://www.mediafire.com/download/l6vwjnqwxn8dcx5/JB-ST3.zip
http://www.mediafire.com/download/l6vwjnqwxn8dcx5/JB-ST3.zip
Foundations of Funk:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/jw63cqsd2b8lena/JB-FOF1.zip
http://www.mediafire.com/download/f9or80e9pm4xp7i/JB-FOF2.zip
Funk Power 1970
http://www.mediafire.com/download/f9or80e9pm4xp7i/JB-FOF2.zip
http://www.mediafire.com/download/rzqb5pj9btu5c7b/JB-FP.zip
Make it Funky
http://www.mediafire.com/download/kj7g22ih4t9m46w/JB-MIF1.zip
http://www.mediafire.com/download/kw8x3yby7tqufz1/JB-MIF2.zip
Sly & The Family Stone:
1970 - Greatest Hits
http://www.mediafire.com/download/m0qi3gil4lq03ye/S%26FS-GH.zip
1971 - There's a Riot Goin' On
http://www.mediafire.com/download/c0e0fef6sg5witc/S%26FS-TARGO.zip
1973 - Fresh
http://www.mediafire.com/download/l0i6r16tocouy40/S%26FS-F.zip
Parliament - Tear the Roof Off!!!
http://www.mediafire.com/download/bh4ftxovi4uiaor/P-TTRO_1.zip
http://www.mediafire.com/download/koctdrsiafvwbf7/P-TTRO_2.zip
Funkadelic - Motor City Madness
http://www.mediafire.com/download/m3qtq9t8tkg7cl8/F-MCM_1.zip
http://www.mediafire.com/download/5m5n0dy2d1f3fc1/F-MCM_2.zip
Funkadelic - One Nation Under a Groove
http://www.mediafire.com/download/0uv1icuwm2do46a/F-ONUAG.zip
enjoy!
>>65195715
Awesome! Thank you so much! :)
>>65195782
no sweat :D
also, I see one link didn't copy properly for Star Time, so:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/ddqqo87osc9dbdd/JB-ST4.zip
>>65195715
Glad to see Sly & the Family Stone on /mu/. There's a Riot Goin' On is badass.
Where does one start with Parliament and Funkadelic. I've heard One Nation Under a Groove already.
>>65196323
Personally I listened to Mothership Connection first and loved it. Pretty quintessential stuff but it has such good flow as a record.
>>65194979
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGmNgS4wj4E
Now vs now is sooooo good check this for some of the best
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JXzj0ALlG68
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=550-_VJp3nk
post lesser known psych funk gems
>>65196498
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb3-ciZ-3iQ
>>65196323
if you want to focus on just albums, for Parliament I rec Mothership Connection and Funkentelelchy vs. the Placebo Syndrome
for Funkadelic, I'd say Maggot Brain is the representative choice for that earlier period of their career, but I'm going to go out of my way to say that Motor City Madness skims what I feel are all the important tracks from that period into one collection - I really recommend it, if only because they seemed to cover that whole period beautifully. also, because their studio albums are famously messy, and often of inconsistent quality throughout. that collection is a motherfucker
>zomg /mu/ is so basic plebs
>everyone posts James Brown and George Clinton
classic, thick groove. reminds a bit of curtis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4XRHj8T3sk
