Top 10(ish) Funk

[Corabar Steve]

Following from this thread (http://www.mobilediscodirectory.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?p=75390#post75390) What are your top tracks of the genre? (please only list tracks that are proven to actually work in a mobile disco situation & not just because they are of a certain genre. Also must be suitable for all ages)

It doesn't matter if you post a track that somebody else has, the idea is to find good useable tracks of the genre that are proven to work for mobile DJs

Please Stick to the specific genre in the thread title

Make the lists as long as you like as long as they are useable

[Tonsk]

Superstition - Stevie Wonder
One Nation Under A Groove - Funkadelic

[ian8limelight]

Sorry for the delay :D

Phyllis Hyman ‘You Know How To Love Me’
Brass Construction ‘Movin’
Gary Byrd And The GB Experience ‘The Crown’
Fatback Band ‘I Found Lovin’
Herbie Han**** ‘You Bet Your Love’
Jimmy Bo Horne 'Spank'
Cheryl Lynn ‘Encore’
Third World ‘Now That We’ve Found Love’
Wild Cherry ‘Play That Funky Music’
Positive Funk ‘We Got The Funk’

[ianm67]

How about these....?

Too tight - Confunkshun
Bar Kays - Holy Ghost
The Intruders - Who do you love
Isley Brothers - Who's that lady
D-Train - YOu're the one for me
The Players Association - Turn the music up
Stevie Wonder - Do I do
Brass Construction - Movin'
E, W & F - September

I could go on and on and on........:p

IanM

[MickyP]

and another 10

Got to give it up - Marvin
Keep on Truckin - Eddie Kendricks
It's your thing - Isley Bros
Brick House - Commodores
Lets Groove - EWF
Sex Machine - JB
Soul Finger - BarKays
Funky Stuff - Kool & the Gang
Movin' - Brass Construction
Ain't no fun to me - Al Green


MP

[ian8limelight]

How about these....?

Too tight - Confunkshun
Bar Kays - Holy Ghost
The Intruders - Who do you love
Isley Brothers - Who's that lady
D-Train - YOu're the one for me
The Players Association - Turn the music up
Stevie Wonder - Do I do
Brass Construction - Movin'
E, W & F - September

I could go on and on and on........:p

IanM

Two excellent choices if I may say so ............. and I could go on and on and on ................. :D OK ..........

Gary's Gang - Keep on dancin'
Atlantic Starr - Circles
Odyssey - Back to my roots
Instant Funk - Got my mind made up

[Silver]

Average White Band - Pick up the pieces
Bobby Byrd - I know you got soul
Cameo - Word up
James Brown - I feel good
James Brown - Get up offa that thing
KC & the Sunshine band - Sound your funky horn
Kool & the gang - Get down on it
Lonnie Liston Smith - Expansions....TUNE!
Peter Brown - Do you wanna get funky with me
T Connection - Do what you wanna do
Temptations - Cloud nine.........OH YEH!!!
Fatback band - Are you ready (to do the bus stop)
Tom Browne - Funkin' for Jamaica
War - Low rider (on the Boulevard)
Stevie Wonder - Master blaster (Jammin)http://planetsmilies.net/music-smiley-1306.gif

Oh yeh, hell I feel good now I've got those down. http://planetsmilies.net/music-smiley-7532.gif

[Corabar Steve]

http://www.planetsmilies.com/smilies/sign/sign0178.gif

[PropellerHeadCase]

Ohio Players or the Red Hot Chili Peppers 'Love Rollercoaster'
Stevie Wonder or the Red Hot Chili Peppers 'Higher Ground'
Indeep or Sylk 130 'Last Night a DJ Saved My Life'
Grace Jones 'Pull up to the Bumper'
Tom Browne 'Funkin' for Jamaica' (specifically the 1991 Remix)

Funk/Soul/R'n'B crossover Luther Vandross 'Never too Much'

Also, with a sufficiently educated/funk-oriented crowd...
Stock Aitken & Waterman 'Roadblock'
Was (not Was) 'Papa was a Rollin' Stone'

[colint]

Sorry for the delay :D

Phyllis Hyman ‘You Know How To Love Me’
Brass Construction ‘Movin’
Gary Byrd And The GB Experience ‘The Crown’
Fatback Band ‘I Found Lovin’
Herbie Han**** ‘You Bet Your Love’
Jimmy Bo Horne 'Spank'
Cheryl Lynn ‘Encore’
Third World ‘Now That We’ve Found Love’
Wild Cherry ‘Play That Funky Music’
Positive Funk ‘We Got The Funk’

Sorry to say but most of these are disco/soul (apart fron the last 2 which are very funky)

there are loads of funk complations avalable at hmv and other stores and I seem to remember music factory did a funk mix a few years ago (although it could have been dmc) but your on the right track with James Brown

[BeerFunk]

Sorry to say but most of these are disco/soul (apart fron the last 2 which are very funky)
:agree: I was gonna say that, but didn't want to start another genre war!! :D

I'm surprised no-one has mentioned Jamiroquai (*amongst others) - funk didn't just die after the 80s! ;)

[colint]

No! but all the proper funk came from the 70's nowdays you could even say that some amy winehouse tunnes are funk abut all the real stuff came fro the 70's

most of the stuff in that post was disco stuff

cant get my head around some of the things put into diffirent genres these days!
I.e r "n" b nowdays aint nothing like the r n b I know, even the ganster rap aint real, it used to have a proper message but now it's just about guns and rubbish like that! nasty music I don't play any of it!

i was lucky enough to spend most of my youth in the 70's when there was some real wicked music and there was so many difirent type's too everything from pink floyd to bob marley and it all used to get played at gigs too
Sorry showing my age!:o

[colint]

and another 10

Got to give it up - Marvin
Keep on Truckin - Eddie Kendricks
It's your thing - Isley Bros
Brick House - Commodores
Lets Groove - EWF
Sex Machine - JB
Soul Finger - BarKays
Funky Stuff - Kool & the Gang
Movin' - Brass Construction
Ain't no fun to me - Al Green


MP

Now! Thats funk! :cool:

[flatliners]

1 eddie rosemond wake up and move ( funk it )
2 george clinton and the p funk allstars dr funkenstine
3 james brown funky drummer
4 tom brown funking for jamica
5 rufus the funky chicken
6 base construiction move it
7 barry white you see the trouble with me

there is 7 its late and my head is done in

the first one not many people have heard of it let alone own a copy very hard to get a copy but a funking good record 70s funk took me ages to got my copy

[Tony Scott]

Not as late as now!.............makes me wanna spill some of that chicken gravy.......etc etc!

TOM BROWNE - FUNKIN FOR JAMAICA
RUFUS THOMAS - DO THE FUNKY CHICKEN
FATBACK BAND - DO THE BUS STOP
JAMIROQUAI - DEEPER UNDERGROUND
STEVIE WONDER - SUPERSTITION
GWEN McRAE - ALL THIS LOVE THAT I'M GIVIN'
LONNIE LISTON SMITH - EXPANSIONS
FATBACK BAND - I FOUND LOVIN'
PARLIMENT FUNKADELIC - ONE NATION UNDER A GROOVE
MACEO & THE MACKS - CROSS THE TRACKS (not strictly funk but funky enough to be here!)

All of these will do it on the dance floor once you've weeded out the lightweights!! :D :D

Ohhhhh.............the memories!!!!

[Solitaire Events Ltd]

Sorry for the delay :D

Phyllis Hyman ‘You Know How To Love Me’
Brass Construction ‘Movin’
Gary Byrd And The GB Experience ‘The Crown’
Fatback Band ‘I Found Lovin’
Herbie Han**** ‘You Bet Your Love’
Jimmy Bo Horne 'Spank'
Cheryl Lynn ‘Encore’
Third World ‘Now That We’ve Found Love’
Wild Cherry ‘Play That Funky Music’
Positive Funk ‘We Got The Funk’


Sorry to say but most of these are disco/soul (apart fron the last 2 which are very funky)



Ahem! :rolleyes:


and another 10

Got to give it up - Marvin
Keep on Truckin - Eddie Kendricks
It's your thing - Isley Bros
Brick House - Commodores
Lets Groove - EWF
Sex Machine - JB
Soul Finger - BarKays
Funky Stuff - Kool & the Gang
Movin' - Brass Construction
Ain't no fun to me - Al Green


MP

[Solitaire Events Ltd]

MACEO & THE MACKS - CROSS THE TRACKS



That's rare groove man! ;) :D

[Tony Scott]

That's rare groove man! ;) :D

LOL!

I wonder if Maceo & The Macks called it 'Rare Groove' when they recorded it......Funky enough for me but granted probably shouldn't be in the Top 10! ;) :)

Talking of rare groove, loved: The Jackson Sisters - I Believe In Miracles.
I'd love to get the chance to play that again!! That's pretty funky, just listened to it........very funky intro.

[BeerFunk]

I detest that Maceo & Macks track, it is utter :Rob James:!!!!

The horrible screeching in it goes right through me, I don't find it musical at all :(

'I Believe In Miracles' is excellent though, as is the instrumental remix by Basement Jaxx (Miracles Keep On Playin') :thumbs_up: :cool:

[Solitaire Events Ltd]

LOL!

I wonder if Maceo & The Macks called it 'Rare Groove' when they recorded it......Funky enough for me but granted probably shouldn't be in the Top 10! ;) :)

Talking of rare groove, loved: The Jackson Sisters - I Believe In Miracles.
I'd love to get the chance to play that again!! That's pretty funky, just listened to it........very funky intro.

Funnily enough, I have both those tracks on a 12" single when they were released as a double a during the 80s. :cool:

[Corabar Steve]

OI!!
These threads are not a debate (if you wish to dispute whether a track is of a certain genre please start your own thread on the subject), all that is required of you is to post up a list of tracks that actually work for each genre.

[BeerFunk]

Fair enough Steve, but...

Please Stick to the specific genre in the thread title

Make the lists as long as you like as long as they are useable
If someone posts a track which is clearly not of the genre specified, this was bound to happen! And as the thread is designed as a guide for DJs, well without any debate, someone could be misinformed?

[Tony Scott]

Fair enough Steve, but...

If someone posts a track which is clearly not of the genre specified, this was bound to happen! And as the thread is designed as a guide for DJs, well without any debate, someone could be misinformed?

Agreed, scrap Maceo & the Macks though Steve, not coz it's naff, just that it's not quite in the right genre, EH beerfunk??? :D :D :D

[DeckstarDeluxe]

i hope the admins dont mind me bumping this thread as Ive downloaded a few tracks on here and I love em!

Currently getting funky to Bobby Byrd - I know you got soul.