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Title: Favorite Funk
Post by: bwv 1080 on June 04, 2007, 07:03:03 AM
Favorite Funk (broadly defined) tunes?

James Brown - Sex Machine
Miles Davis - Spanish Key
Herbie Hancock & Headhunters - Watermelon Man
Weather Report - Boogie Woogie Waltz (how many other 3/4 funk tunes are there?)
Fela - Sorrow, Tears & Blood (also one of the greatest political protest songs)
John Scofield - Überjam
Title: Re: Favorite Funk
Post by: Sergeant Rock on June 04, 2007, 09:00:42 AM
How about ten?

Dyke and the Blazers - Funky Broadway Part 1

James Brown - Cold Sweat

James Brown - Get Up (I Feel Like Being a Sex Machine)

James Brown - Mother Popcorn

James Brown - Get It Together

James Brown - Give It Up Or Turn It Loose

James Brown - I Got the Feeling

Parliment - Tear the Roof Off the Sucker (Give Up the Funk)

Funkadelic - You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks

Prince Charles - Big Chested Girls

Sarge
Title: Re: Favorite Funk
Post by: Bonehelm on June 04, 2007, 10:01:44 AM
Anything by Earth, wind and fire and Funkadelic
Title: Re: Favorite Funk
Post by: Danny on June 04, 2007, 12:07:05 PM
James Brown (the songs not previously listed): 

Make It Funky
Get Up Off Of That Thing
Hot Pants
PayBack


Sly Stone

If you want me to stay
Higher
Sing a simple song
Thank you

Anything by P-funk, basically

Check out Freakey Styley by the RHCP for some good covers of funk classics, along with some of their own tunes.
Title: Re: Favorite Funk
Post by: KevinP on June 09, 2025, 04:23:57 PM
Farewell, Sly Stone.

Today sucks.