I am working on a nice 'History of Funk' compilation, track listing below, but I can't make my mind up about the Prince track that's gonna be on it.

Any suggestions...?

1. James Brown - Cold Sweat
2. Dyke & The Blazers - Funky Broadway
3. Watts 103rd St Band - Express Yourself
4. '68 Parliaments - I Wanna Testify
5. Sly & the Family Stone - I Get High on You
6. Temptations - Don't Let The Joneses Get You Down
7. Undisputed Truth – You + Me = Love
8. Bobby Bird – I Know You Got Soul
9. Marvin Gaye - Got To Give It Up
10. Isaac Hayes - Theme From Shaft
11. Curtis Mayfield – Pusherman
12. Bootsy, Phelps & The Complete Strangers - Fun In Your Thang
13. Stevie Wonder - Jesus Children of America
14. War - Low Rider
15. The JBs - The Grunt
16. Funkadelic - Let's Take it to the Stage
17. Eddie Bo - Hook and Sling
18. Meters - Cissy Strut
19. Bootsy Collins - I'd Rather Be With You
20. Fatback Band - (Are You Ready) Do the Bus Stop
21. The Commodores - Brick House
22. Kool & The Gang - Funky Stuff
23. Isley Brothers - That Lady
24. Parliament - Bop Gun
25. Graham Central Station - The Jam
26. Ohio Players – Fire
27. Earth, Wind & Fire - Saturday Nite
28. Maceo & The Macks - Soul Power '74
29. Cameo - Funk Funk
30. Rose Royce – Car Wash
31. Rick James - Super Freak
32. The Jacksons - Can You Feel It?
33. Chic - Le Freak
34. George Clinton - Atomic Dog
35. Michael Jackson – Workin’ Day and Night
36. Prince - WHAT SHOULD GO HERE??
37. Outkast - Dracula's Wedding

D.M.S.R. and Erotic City (Extended Version)!

Also Controversy is very funky!

2 Nigs United 4 West Compton and Dead On It!

Yeah, "D.M.S.R." is a good choice.



edit: i mean, it fits in well with what you're doing there. good list!
[Edited 1/23/05 22:32pm]

I second 'Let's Work'. Now that's funk!

thats a cool list..i dunno..ummm maybe somthing like cloreen bacon skin,lets work, dmsr, housequake, or its gonna b a beautiful night

I think "Head" would be appropriate. It's very representative, both lyrically and musically.

Vanity - Nasty Girl

possibly erotic city actually. it's very very prince, very funk, and its amazing. but its not like one of those songs thats just pure fan fave.

you have to choose something representative but not really obscure and "fan" like. let's work doesn't strike me as the the greatest funky prince song. DMSR might be a good one. y'see sexy dancer is very trad. funky but not very original. head i do think would be representative actually.

tambourine? nah, just "fan" like. girls and boys? i suppose housequake would be an uber prince funk song?

i'd say erotic city, dmsr or housequake

I wish you heaven (part 1,2,3) 12" , U need another lover like you need a hole in yo head, Irresistable bitch.
Any one of these will show up MJ's working day and night appropiately.
No P Funk "one nation under a groove" ?

Rev said:

It's not finished yet. This is not a definitive list... I have considered One Nation... but went for Let's Take It To The Stage (Funkadelic) and Bop Gun (Parliament).

Irrestible Bitch would be cool.
I'm currently trying Controversy.
Erotic City is another great idea.
If any of you have SOULSEEK I've got this collection assembled. Its' called Funk List and my user name is kalowski.

ESCAPE! EsCaPe!! EScaPE!!! Free your mind from this rat race!!!

Could choose Pop Life. Not totally funky, but that bassline is pure funk. What about 1999, guitar riff is pure funk. There's always Kiss. As with many Prince songs funk is an element and not the total basis of the song. D.M.S.R, Head, Controversy, and others I can't think of right now are more purely funk.

how can you have a history of funk and not have zapp/roger troutman on it??

I agree Erotic City or DMSR

I would say sexyMF is funky as Hell.
But musicology could do the job as well, and talking about funkadelic I would put another song like ...one nation under a groove.
I would also add freak power which was a cool funky band before fat boy slim turned fat.

i actually think irresistable bitch could be better than dmsr. so i'd go for erotic city or IB, or maybe the song controversy

cloreen bacon skin
make your mama happy
sexual suicide
the work
tambourine
dmsr

DMSR definitely jumps to mind, but what about:

New Position!!!!

Housequake's an otion but I think it's too JB-reminiscent to stand out in this company. Ok, it would always STAND OUT, butit's still not distinctive enough style-wise.

ooh or dream factory
or his version on hide the bone

edit: i cant believe i 4got pop life..i jus remembered after readin another post on this thread
[Edited 1/24/05 12:59pm]

Rock Hard in a Funky Place Thats all I gotta say

I'd say D.M.S.R.

BorisFishpaw said:

you'd be smart 2 listen 2 boris -- he knows a helluva lot about prince!
listen 2 him!

DMSR

Militant said:

Hmmmmm.....
"More Bounce To The Ounce"
Enuff said.....

I've always thought it odd that Prince is left out of funk history books and music. But, he's always kind of been an oddball who doesn't really fit neatly eanywhere

What about Gap Band, burn rubber is a funk masterpiece.

are the o'jays on that?
"for the love of money"?