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Old 01-06-2009, 12:54 PM   #21 (permalink)
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You can't funk, without the creator Larry Graham mentioned.
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Old 01-12-2009, 10:18 PM   #22 (permalink)
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Rufus and Chaka Khan....Tell me something good
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Old 01-16-2009, 07:51 PM   #23 (permalink)
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Bootsy Collins - Party on plastic
The Commadores - brick house
Graham Central Station - Hair
Marcus Miller - Power - When this song kicks in it's so funky I have to watch to make sure I keep control of my bowels).
Fishbone - Bonin' in the boneyard ( I don't care what you say, with that bassline It can't be called anything else but funk).
James Brown - Get Up Offa That Thing
Funkadelic - Cosmic Slop
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Old 01-17-2009, 09:36 AM   #24 (permalink)
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Old 01-29-2009, 06:27 AM   #25 (permalink)
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You can't funk, without the creator Larry Graham mentioned.
Or the band Mandrill
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Old 02-03-2009, 12:50 PM   #26 (permalink)
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Tell Me Something Good - Chaka Kahn, Rufus Thomas

Let's Get It On - Marvin ***e

Superstition - Stevie Wonder

Let's Stay Together - Al Green

Last edited by Flower Child; 02-03-2009 at 12:50 PM. Reason: haha. it edited marvin g-aye haha
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Old 02-04-2009, 01:23 AM   #27 (permalink)
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I am at this exact moment in time forcing my musical taste upon the office by playing the following compilation.

Undisputed Truth U + Me = Love
The Showstoppers - Aint nothin' but a house party
Geno washington - michael (the Lover)
Billie davis - Just walk in my shoes
Dobie Gray - Out on the floor
Edwin Starr - 25 Miles
Gladys Knight - So Sad The Song
Mongo Santamaria - Watermelon Man
Otis Redding-I've been loving you too long
Ray Parker Jr. & Raydio - Two Places At The Same Time
Ruth Swan - Tainted Love
Norman Brown - Take Me There
Ottilio Patterson - Baby please don't go
Gene Chandler - In my bodys house
Jimmy Radcliffe - Long After Tonight Is All Over
Dobie Gray - The 'In' Crowd
Philadelphia All Stars - Let's clean up the ghetto
Frank Popp Ensemble - Hip Teens
Garnet Mimms-Cry Baby
Sister Sledge-Love Don't You Go Through No Changes On Me
Tyrone Barkley - Man Of Value
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Old 02-04-2009, 10:06 AM   #28 (permalink)
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I give a great deal of credit to Sam Cooke for being the first soul singer to break through the color line and acheive a great deal of crossover success.

James Brown, Joe Tex, Al Green were all independent label soul singers who had creative control over the recording careers. Most of the roster of Stax and Atlantic artists produced the kind of music they wanted, for better or for worse. Curtis Mayfield started off as a producer for the Okeh black music indie label and Mayfield and had the business know-how negotiate creative control over his music when he moved to the larger white owned Paramount label.

Otis and Aretha at Atlantic Records set the gold standard for soul music. Both artists worked with the brillant in-house production staff who had a keen sensitivty for artisitic control because Atantic Records was originally founded as a record label for black jazz musicians who were quite demanding about having creative control over their music.

Stevie Wonder and Marvin G.'s careers were hampered by the tyrannical Motown owner,Barry Gordy who stifled the creative impulses of his artists by attempting to present them like squeaky clean, tuxedoed cabaret performers with precision choreography and a watered down version of soul music. Gordy engaged in the unethical practice including himself in songwriting credits to steal royalty payments from his artists and keep ownership of his artist's music under his control. Stevie and Marvin rebelled against Gordy's policy of of banning socially relevant music and they won that fight and were able to release their groundbreaking What's Going On and Talking Book albums.

A lot of the contemporay neo-soul sound uses the same old fashioned production techniques as Stax and Atlantic music producers did in their heyday. I like a lot of the newer neo-soul singers like Sharon Jones, Bettye LaVette and Anthony Hamilton.
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Old 02-08-2009, 11:40 AM   #29 (permalink)
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In my opinion this is one of the best dance records of all time.
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Old 03-04-2009, 12:02 AM   #30 (permalink)
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You can't funk, without the creator Larry Graham mentioned.
right?

some kid posted this in another forum, this was my first time seeing it but...UGH! :horns:

*headscratch*

aw man, i got to post 15 times before i can put up a URL? tss..
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