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
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
Anything by Earth, wind and fire and Funkadelic
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.
Farewell, Sly Stone.
Today sucks.