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What Are your Favourite Soul And Funk Songs ?
I hope I'm not alone in loving really good old skool dance music.These are some of my favourites-
Take Me To The Next Phase-Isleys Is This A Love Thing -Raydio Another Star-Stevie Wonder Just Be Good To Me-SOS Band Pinocchio Theory- Bootsy's Rubber Band Say A Prayer For Two- Crown Heights Affair I never feel down with this sort of music playing! |
Soul:
"(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" - Otis Redding "A Change Is Gonna Come" - Sam Cooke "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" - The Temptations Funk: "(Not Just) Knee Deep" - Funkadelic "Atomic Dog" - George Clinton "Brick House" - The Commodores |
'Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)' is probably my all time favourite Soul track but to create a list would be damn impossible. I like a lot of smooth soul such as Al Green but I also like dirty Funk such as Cane And Able etc but I'm not much of an expert.
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Mothership connection (star child) - Parliament
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Here's a few of my faves...no way to list them all!
Take Me to the River - Al Green Here I Am - Al Green Bring it on Home to Me - Sam Cooke Higher - Sly and the Family Stone Dance to the Music - Sly and the Family Stone Kiss - Prince Love Rain - Jill Scott A Long Walk - Jill Scott PDA (We Just Don't Care) - John Legend Guess the last three might be considered more neo-soul, but I love 'em! |
Link to a couple of my Funk comps-if they still work that is.
http://www.musicbanter.com/soul-funk...ky-intros.html |
It's good to know I'm not on my own in a time warp! Who are Cane and Able? I'm not familiar with them. I don't really get this Genre thing bacause I can't classify what I like except it sounds so good. I love Brick House- but is it Funk or Disco? I think Rose Royce is like that. They made so many brilliant dance tracks.I also love Bop Gun and Flashlight by Parliament, and I still have the LP and comic book to prove it!
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Check these out: Cane and Able: Undisputed Truth: I deserve a Knighthood lol |
Undisputed Truth- Bass Guitars- Ooh Yess!
Cane and Able- Are you sure it's not Shaft in disguise!? I think I'm in for a spot of research! |
Y'all can't forget Sly and the Family Stone......how about "Everybody is a Star".
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Currently, I am most enjoying
Spanky Wilson - Sunshine Of Your Love Al Wilson - The Snake Bobby Lynn - Earthquake Paris Blues - Tony Middleton Soul Time - Shirley Ellis |
I absolutely can't get over Stevie Wonder - Blame It On The Sun right now.
Funk-wise a favourite is Funkadelic - Lunchmeataphobia |
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One of those songs you'll either love forever, or eventually through overplay, be equally glad if you never hear it again. Top of my soul listening at the moment is P.P. Arnold's 1967 version of 'First Cut is the Deepest'. |
Jungle Boogie - Kool & The Gang
Papa's Got A Brand New Bag - James Brown |
Funkadelic - Cholly
Ohio Players - Body Vibes Stevie Wonder - I Wish Cindy Scott - I Love You Baby The Younghearts - A Little Togetherness Nolan Chance - Just Like the Weather The Elgins - Heaven Must Have Sent You The Temptations - I Could Never Love Another (After Loving You) The Isley Brothers - Summer Breeze Sam & Dave - You Don't Know What You Mean To Me And so on... |
Barry White. (Soul, Ponk don't know)
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Did a short write up on A Little Togetherness here ...http://www.musicbanter.com/soul-funk...ul-cellar.html |
You can't funk, without the creator Larry Graham mentioned.
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Rufus and Chaka Khan....Tell me something good
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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 |
Al green
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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 |
I am at this exact moment in time forcing my musical taste upon the office by playing the following compilation. :bringit:
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 |
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. |
Undisputed truth
In my opinion this is one of the best dance records of all time. :bowdown:
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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.. |
see you 6 posts later...
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Cosmic Slop and If 6 Was 9 from Funkronomicon. wow!
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R&b Oldies
DAVID RUFFIN
TEDDY P(i went to school with his daughters) THE QUEEN(A FRANKLIN) MARVIN ***E ISLEYS LIONEL RICHARD |
anything James brown did is tops with me. I realy dig aint it funky now. I like music lover by sly and the family stone. So many are so awesome.
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Wow
I just can't understand why NO ONE has mentioned Donny Hathaway!!!! The best ever (arguably)!!! Pick one...A Song For You...Giving Up...More Than You'll Ever Know...The Ghetto (Live)............y'all starting to get my drift...
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hows about these jams:
Don't disturb this groove - the system I found lovin' - fatback grooveline - heatwave he wants my body - starpoint keep it comin' - jones girls I miss you - klymaxx witch of love - france joli stomp - brothers johnson I miss you love - audrey wheeler feat. larry graham shine on you - Skyy |
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I love it when people link to one of my youtube videos unprompted. :clap:
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