My thoughts on Jackhammers funk comp.....
1.Kay Gees-Let's Groove
I was bobbing my head 3 seconds into this , nice horns , nice female backing vocals , cool as fuck bassline , ticks off all my funk boxes. Some lead vocals would have just been the icing on the cake though.

2.Backyard Heavies-Chitlin' Strut
Nice groove but I felt it was a little bit on the bland side for an instrumental.

3.Sir Joe Quarterman & Free Soul-The Way I Do My Life
I'm a sucker for waca waca guitars :D , this is going on my ipod.

4.The Notations-Superpeople
Nothing wrong with this track as such other than it made me want to go listen to Curtis Mayfield instead.

5.Scott Moody-(We Gotta) Bust Out Of The Ghetto Part 1
The best one yet for me , fantastic tune with a bit of social commentary to give it a little more substance , exactly the reason why I love Sly Stone so much .... nice.

6.Skull Snaps-It's A New Day
Thought it was a bit generic at first but once it had started to pick up I enjoyed it a lot more.By the end I loved it.

7.Dawson Smith-I Don't Know If I Can Make It (Part 1)
Pleasant, but didn't really do much for me

8.Rasputins Stash-The Devil Made Me Do It
Great song , if I was going to be really picky though i'd say it felt a little lightweight for a song with that title. I was hoping for something a little dirtier or nastier.

9.Johnny Taylor-Aint Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman)
The only song here i've already heard & like Jackhammer I love it.

10.The Crusaders-Stomp and Buck Dance
Pure blaxploitation movie soundtrack , and I fucking loved it. :D

11.Undisputed Truth-Got To Get My Hands On Some Lovin'
This is how funk rock SHOULD sound.
Are you listening to this Red Hot Chili Peppers ??

In summing up , great comp. Although there were songs I liked more than others I didn't hate anything and only skipped one song before it got to the end of it. And that was more because I wanted to hear what was next rather than not liking the track.

Vol 2 please Mr Jackhammer.

I do have a beginning of a volume two. I will wait a couple of days for people to (hopefully) get into this. glad you pretty much enjoyed it Urban. The last track rocks!

1. Overture-Patrick Wolf
2. Fallen Angel-King Crimson
3. By The Time I Get To Arizona-Public Enemy
4. Save Yourself-Aesop Rock
5. Place To Be-Nick Drake
6. The Libertine
7. Paranoid Android-Radiohead
8. Masters Of War-Bob Dylan
9. 1983...(A Merman I Should Turn To Be)
10. Four Winds-Bright Eyes

Yea that last track by undisputed truth is very good. And Urban Hatemonger i found your RHCP comment funny because it is true. I wouldn't mind seeing a little more of that in there music now. It sounded a good deal like some BSSM though.

All in all the compilation was good, a few really good songs, but some were just average funk/rock.

I have to say this is the one song that drove me nuts on the compilation. I'm not exactly sure why but something about the refrain. It sounds like 50% was written in 3 seconds. And the other 50% of the problem is he leans on it too much.

He should have left out the refrain and added more solo's or jamming. I don't know, i'm picky about my funk.

Did you like the comp overall though?

Yeah I did, I have to be honest though, as much as I love funk its a very stagnant (socially) music. It sounds very 70's, its about 30% racial oppression stateside as far as lyrics go. Its something I noticed and I didn't want to repeat what people above were saying but Undisputed Truth is absolutle brilliant.

Funk was the North American paralell to Jamacia's reggae in the 70's. Both dealt extenstively with many racial problems that were prevalent at the time. The message did'nt always work but the result is fascinating to listen to.

Oh well absolutly. I mean the contribution that funk made to music is undisputed. The issue is its a very hard line to walk, and thats why there aren't many good funk bands. All to often funk songs spill too far into jazz or soul and it takes the funk out of it.

I mean as damn foolish as I don't wanna bump with no fat women anymore is, its undisputed funk. And Funk to me was always the brother of rock music. Less about how technical the music was and all about how it felt. You need to feel both with your soul and if you dont it comes off terrible.

But the updated versions of it, what they call "white boy funk" certainly makes the transition to the contemporary worth it.

Prince is a monster, Beck's Midnight Vultures is brilliant, and I can't say enough for whats its done to indie.

----Prince is a monster, Beck's Midnight Vultures is brilliant, and I can't say enough for whats its done to indie.----

I agree wholeheartedly. How about a compilation from yourself? Us mod's have to set a predecent for people. My funk comp is not perfect and is not my favourite genre but I am so desperate for people to expand their tastse and I am hoping these comps will tempt a few people to open up musically! (I got one PM requesting similar music today which is a result)