Can you imagine? A world without funk? I know all you Prince fans would agree with me, that a world devoid of funk would be like living in Pleasantville. Oh the horror... What 5 funk album/cd would you introduce to Pleasentville if you were transported there?


Mine:

1. Any Parliment/Funkadelic
2. Hot Buttered Soul - Isaac Hayes
3. ONA Box set - Prince
4. The Hits 1,2,3 - Prince
5. James Brown's Greatest Hits

So many others came to mind, but I'd be satisfied with these 5.

Others?




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Would be a boring fuck-up place. :O
Funk is the truest essence of soul.

1.Parliaments Greatest hits.
2.The Barkays Greatest Hits
3.Prince the Hits Set
4.Cameo's Greatest Hits
5.Rick James Greatest Hits

These are the funky album,not the soul or R&B
that's a different category


So soulful the edit
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what!? no Sly?

Ouch! You are one brutal sista, SweeTea! Five albums to chose? Thats impossible! Okay... I will give it a spontanious shot:

1. James Brown - The Popcorn (King)
2. The Undisputed Truth - Cosmic Truth (Motown)
3. Mandrill - Mandrilland (Polydor)
4. Roy Ayers . A Tear to a Smile
5. Cane and Able - Relating a Message to You

In about 2 seconds my choices would be different again.

4LOVE said:

Most definately.


But what about your 5 albums?


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Thecherryloon said:

Oh yeah, Sly was a very funky dude in his prime, but hmmm I only have five what should I do?


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STANLEY CLARKE
GEORGE DUKE
WAR
SLY STONE
BOOTSY COLLINS
ISLEY BROTHHERS ( summer just wasn't summer without the ISLEYS)
JIMMY HENDRIX (yeah he was funky)
MOTHERS FINEST

SweeTea said:

They're up there now


Funk the edit
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00769BAD said:

You are BAD! Thats more than five! And Stanley Clarke and George Duke I'd consider more Jazz (I hate definitions and categories, but with five titles to pick, what can you do?)

soulpower said:

George Duke had a song called "jam" or something like that(a line from the song was"let me take you to the bridge and drop you off into some FUNK").It is as funky as anything parliament ever did

4LOVE said:

He did some funky shit on MPS records as well, but I still wouldnt put him on the essential 5 funk artists list

4LOVE said:

REMIND ME TO PLAY FOR YOU HIS REMAKE OF
"IF YOU HEAR ANY NOISE"

Then I couldn't say: "Put some stank on it". Long live P-Funk!

00769BAD said:

You are only allowed 5. You must remove 3 from this list.


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SweeTea said:

OH...
if i was BORN with extra fingers
you'ld make me CHOP SOME OFF huh?

00769BAD said:

No, extra fingers could come in handy

but these are not fingers, so search hard. I know it ain't easy, but only five ok.


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SweeTea said:

JIMMY HENDRIX: AXIS BOLD AS LOVE
STANLEY CLARKE: THE STANLEY CLARKE (SOMETHING)
GEORGE DUKE: GREATEST HITS
WAR: THE WORLD IS A GHETTO
BOOTSY: GREATEST HITS
sho make it hard on a BTROTHA

00769BAD said:

I know you're BAD enough to take it tho


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No "Headhunters" here anywhere?

I would have to have that and some Temptations stuff if only for one track, "Shakey Ground".

Anyone else feel this track?

sawatdiikhrap said:

for TEMPTATIONS you gotta go "BACK, WAY BACK!!!"
'CLOUD NINE'

sawatdiikhrap said:

Headhunters, yes, reminds me of an old boyfriend. He played the whole damn album everytime I'd visit. I think he may have been huntin for some head.


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SweeTea said:

funny

I like you, you're chirpy.

SweeTea said:

ain't that HERBBIE HANCOCK???
well how 'bout
MANDRIL: MANDRIL
BRASS CONSTRUCTION: THIS HOUSE IS SMOKIN
BYRD and THE BLACK BYRDS: ( that park in D.C.)
OHIO PLAYERS: FIRE
SPINNERS: ???

Herbie Hancock is the shizznohizznobizzle.

5 albums of Funk:

1. Parliament - Tear the Roof off the Sucker 1974-1980
2. Funkadelic - The Very Best of 197-1981
3. Sly Stone - The Essential Collection
4. Prince - The Hits/BSides
5. Ohio Players - The Mercury Anthology

00769BAD said:

Oh shit, I'm about to have a funkattack!! Stop it!

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"We may not have a little house upon a hill...just as long as we have love..." Who?

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4LOVE said:

Oh yeah, Barkays, Cameo, Rick, yeah, yeah, yeah!


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anybody here think "shakey ground" by The Temptations is one of the funkiest tracks ever made???

sawatdiikhrap said:

chirpy? thanks

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Good to see some folks remember MANDRILL, a band who had PFunk OPEN shows for them.

Good to see some folks realize the uncut Funk of the Headhunters album.

Good to see the BAD MAN knows Hendrix Funk when he hears it, though I think it was mainly with the Band of Gypsys that he was most funky.

Good to see Tea giving Hot Buttered Soul the recognition it richly deserves. Needs to be remastered, like all of Isaac's studio albums.

Wave your Funk Flag HIGH.