Red Mosquito • View topic - Please recommend me some great funk albums

withoutrings · **Joined:** Thu Mar 03, 2005 6:24 am **Posts:** 6234

Yes, I was at a bowling alley yesterday and they were playing many great funk tunes. thanks in advance guys and gals

jnash85 · **Posted:** Tue Sep 16, 2008 12:45 am

It doesn't get any funkier than the Ohio Players Fopp.

glorified_version · **Posted:** Tue Sep 16, 2008 12:56 am

James Brown - The Payback
Parliament Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Miles Davis - On the Corner

off the top of my head

withoutrings · **Joined:** Thu Mar 03, 2005 6:24 am **Posts:** 6234

i have The Payback, but need to spin it a few more times. the first go round didn't grab me as i thought it would.

thanks for the suggestions

Johnny Carwash · **Posted:** Tue Sep 16, 2008 2:49 pm

Some of my favorites....

Herbie Hancock - Thrust
Herbie Hancock - Headhunters
Grover Washington Jr - Mister Magic
The Meters - Look-Ka Py Py
The Isley Brothers - The Heat Is On
BT Express - Do It
The Blackbyrds - The Blackbyrds

EastHastings · **Joined:** Sat Dec 11, 2004 8:08 am **Posts:** 6583

Any "Nomo" albums are funky as fuck. It's like some of the old afrobeat (which is also pretty funky). Antibalas, etc.

Johnny Carwash · **Posted:** Tue Sep 16, 2008 6:57 pm

EastHastings wrote:

Any "Nomo" albums are funky as fuck. It's like some of the old afrobeat (which is also pretty funky). Antibalas, etc.

I'm not familiar with "Nomo". Tell me more...

BlueNote · **Posted:** Tue Sep 16, 2008 11:23 pm

No one's yet mentioned the mother of them all, Parliament's Funkentelechy vs the Placebo Syndrome. Immerse yourself in a lot of P-Funk.

EastHastings · **Joined:** Sat Dec 11, 2004 8:08 am **Posts:** 6583

Johnny Carwash wrote:

EastHastings wrote:

Any "Nomo" albums are funky as fuck. It's like some of the old afrobeat (which is also pretty funky). Antibalas, etc.

I'm not familiar with "Nomo". Tell me more...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOrNrLCIPug

Not traditional funk like some of the others mentioned, but it does have a really nice groove and bassline.

Walter Sobchak · **Posted:** Wed Sep 17, 2008 7:18 pm

Go with Maceo Parker : Life on planet Earth, it's one of the funkiest thing I've ever heard
oh and you cant go wrong with some James Brown too

Human Bass · **Posted:** Wed Sep 17, 2008 9:18 pm

EastHastings wrote:

Johnny Carwash wrote:

EastHastings wrote:

Any "Nomo" albums are funky as fuck. It's like some of the old afrobeat (which is also pretty funky). Antibalas, etc.

I'm not familiar with "Nomo". Tell me more...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOrNrLCIPug

Not traditional funk like some of the others mentioned, but it does have a really nice groove and bassline.

Lefty...

BlueNote · **Posted:** Wed Sep 17, 2008 11:34 pm

Also check into these, not pure funk albums but some great r&b with strong a funk element:

Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
Stevie Wonder - Innvervisions
Al Green - Call Me

withoutrings · **Joined:** Thu Mar 03, 2005 6:24 am **Posts:** 6234

nice, will do. thanks to all

givintoofli · **Posted:** Mon Sep 22, 2008 1:53 am

BlueNote wrote:

No one's yet mentioned the mother of them all, Parliament's Funkentelechy vs the Placebo Syndrome. Immerse yourself in a lot of P-Funk.

LOTS OF P-FUNK, AND OR GEORGE CLINTON

Johnny Carwash · **Posted:** Tue Sep 23, 2008 3:05 pm

thanks for the Nomo recommendation. they're great.

i just picked up Joe Bataan's Call My Name and it's unbelievably good. highly highly recommended.

bart d. · **Joined:** Fri Jun 03, 2005 1:32 am **Posts:** 17563

How did I miss this thread? Also, how has Sly Stone not come up? There's a two disc comp out there that has everything a casual fan would need of his. And no Mothership Connection? Too obvious? Some 70s stuff that hasn't already been mentioned:

Dorothy Parker - Afroharping (great jazz-harpist's funkier companion the her other equally good album, The Rubaiyat of Dorothy Parker)

War - The World is a Ghetto (not really pure funk, rock and latin tinged)

In a Jungle Groove is my fav James Brown cd, I really don't like The Payback all too much.Anything live from him up through the mid seventies is also bound to be good.

Rufusized by Rufus (featuring Chaka Khan on vocals). Also the subtly-titled Rufus Featuring Chaka Khan.

Bill Whithers' first two albums are really, really good. Obviously stuff like Lean on Me doesn't scream "funk," but much of his other stuff (like Use Me) is in the vain of what you might like.

Average White Band is way overlooked. Try Soul Searching by them.

Eddie Hazel's solo album is great, although more psychedelic than funk. Bootsy's early solo career is nearly as good as Parliament.

There are also a number of compilations like Cold Heat and What It Is that have a wide overview of the genre.

klehtun · **Posted:** Fri Sep 26, 2008 12:39 am

yeah i was just goin to mention sly

love that 'fresh' album

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qhOzq2JDPo

Johnny Carwash · **Posted:** Fri Sep 26, 2008 1:28 pm

bart d. wrote:

Average White Band is way overlooked. Try Soul Searching by them.

i love AWB. Cut the Cake and AWB are both great albums.

Soul Searchers are another amazing band. they were sampled a lot in the early days of hip hop if i recall correctly.

Owl_Farmer · **Posted:** Mon Mar 07, 2011 4:16 am

i'm so into everything funk it's sickening

i'll be checking out some of the other stuff in this thread.

withoutrings · **Joined:** Thu Mar 03, 2005 6:24 am **Posts:** 6234

This thread really panned out well.

Please recommend me some great funk albums

Who is online