Mutiny91 said:

Prince live in Syracuse, the Purple Rain Tour 1985, Irrasistable Bitch&Possessed ! That's so funky I almost get tears in my eyes!

That, for me, is the funkiest moment !

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Dewrede said:

the bass in Let's Work

Yea, thats funky!

You know your playng funky when something just happens. You don't exactly know what. But your sound comes from a place that makes sense. Not contrived or forced. Easy to be exact, yet funk. Thats when your head bobs, the Aunt Esther Face kicks in. Time to cook some monster cookies!

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muskiediver said:

Whats interesting is what people are considering FUNK these days. Chelsea Rogers was and still is horrible. Horrible because we heard this before in the 70's and expect so much more from Prince. Yet a bunch of people thought it was funky. Daring Funk was Sex MF, Gett Off. He woudl reach way in there and pull out something nasty! Nasty isn't what he says, it's the way the music sounds. The bending of a guitar, a funky keyboard off key, a thumping baseline that pulls the tiles off the floor. A sratchy off key throught, a drummer who needs a hand replacement. Funk is what makes your head bop and your eye twitchy. It makes you make a face like Aunt Esther.

Do you people even know what funky is? Maybe thats why people are not posting to this thread. They don't know what funk is. Yet everyone talks about it.

Funksters can you join in?

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Not sure if it makes my face go Aunt Esther, but here a little from the funkypedia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHE6hZU72A4

There would be far too many too mention. Lets face it, the man is just funky.

1 week with no deodorant funk

Irresistible - whole song, esp. the intro

DMSR - whole song, esp. the intro

Automatic - esp. when the "torture segment" kicks in

Lady Cab Driver

Black Sweat

2 Nigs United 4 West Compton

Bob George

LRC ext'd - the mayday section!

Hot Thing ext'd - particularly near the 4:50 mark (guitar embellishments)

Raspberry Beret ext'd - intro (& reprise of intro near the end)

U Got the Look ext'd - intro

3-5 days with no deodorant funk

Old School Company

Lemon Crush (does it for me!)

Two days with no deodorant funk

Sticky Like Glue

Letitgo

all i got off the top of my head

JBK said:

The bass solo in la la la, he he he The intro in OLD SCHOOL COMPANY

Similar to Electric Chair thus similar to Rave.

Prince rarely does "funk" and he's certainly not funky like the stuff that Sly, George, Bootsy, James and Larry did in their hey-days. But he's got his thing and on the funk tip he is surprising. As far as moving to complete funk, I guess the time around the Come album/Exodus album he was closest to being funk and not also new wave/pop/rock/whatever.

If I have to choose one album, I'll go for Exodus. If I have to choose one song, I'll go for Make Believe (funk version). That song is like finding out that that cute girl can shake it and is a hidden freak and you're getting it. Yum. (and for part of a song, I'd go for the extended part of Kiss)

And now I'm reminded I need to finally make that Prince Funk compilation a friend of mine has been bugging me about. I've promised myself I'd keep it to under 35 songs. Wish me luck

mediumdry said:

Prince rarely does "funk" and he's certainly not funky like the stuff that Sly, George, Bootsy, James and Larry did in their hey-days. But he's got his thing and on the funk tip he is surprising. As far as moving to complete funk, I guess the time around the Come album/Exodus album he was closest to being funk and not also new wave/pop/rock/whatever.

If I have to choose one album, I'll go for Exodus. If I have to choose one song, I'll go for Make Believe (funk version). That song is like finding out that that cute girl can shake it and is a hidden freak and you're getting it. Yum. (and for part of a song, I'd go for the extended part of Kiss)

And now I'm reminded I need to finally make that Prince Funk compilation a friend of mine has been bugging me about. I've promised myself I'd keep it to under 35 songs. Wish me luck

Mediumdry can you give us a track list when your done?

Hot Thing.

Gold Nigga

muskiediver said:

mediumdry said:

And now I'm reminded I need to finally make that Prince Funk compilation a friend of mine has been bugging me about. I've promised myself I'd keep it to under 35 songs. Wish me luck

Mediumdry can you give us a track list when your done?

Sure! I can tell you that I'm now down to 95 tracks (I include tracks by side acts, so Nasty Girl, the Stick, G Spot and some more tracks are in, and I've got some stuff to cool down, as it were, so I've also got Adore, Crazy You, Do U Lie? in there. Of course, they may not make the cut in the end, for now Cloreen Baconskin is still in too )

Five Women

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Prince & the Revolution: D.M.S.R. 8:01 min 1st Avenue 8.1983

the Revolution solos were slickly funky & that was a steamy night anyway

hot how Prince had that echoed voice like on the album

Wendy on guitar

Lisa on keyboards

Bobby Z on drums

Dr Fink on keyboards

and this little cutie pie over here BrownMark

this is when it really got funky

Give me some horns!!

Piano solo look out

Telephone hello

Horns give me some horns

Thanks U good night we gotta go

wwwaaahhhhhhh

Turn around

Wendy & Bobby Wendy & Bobby

Give me some horns ooohh

Alright that's enough come on yall that's hot

don't don't wwaaaahhhh

OldFriends4Sale said:

Prince & the Revolution: D.M.S.R. 8:01 min 1st Avenue 8.1983

the Revolution solos were slickly funky & that was a steamy night anyway

hot how Prince had that echoed voice like on the album

Wendy on guitar

Lisa on keyboards

Bobby Z on drums

Dr Fink on keyboards

and this little cutie pie over here BrownMark

this is when it really got funky

Give me some horns!!

Piano solo look out

Telephone hello

Horns give me some horns

Thanks U good night we gotta go

wwwaaahhhhhhh

Turn around

Wendy & Bobby Wendy & Bobby

Give me some horns ooohh

Alright that's enough come on yall that's hot

don't don't wwaaaahhhh

FOR SURE!!!!!

muskiediver said:

mediumdry said:

And now I'm reminded I need to finally make that Prince Funk compilation a friend of mine has been bugging me about. I've promised myself I'd keep it to under 35 songs. Wish me luck

Mediumdry can you give us a track list when your done?

Well.. that turned out to be harder than I thought. So in the end I settled on lucky number 7. 7 compilations that is. All well under 35 songs All with a loose theme to them. There's 2 comps where I'm not happy with the flow yet, I may change them still. All regular album versions of the tracks, also by associated artist, unless mentioned. (unless unreleased, in which case the regular unreleased version)

Some of the jarring breaks are intentional (like adding Bob George), some of the weird choices just worked better in the flow (like reversing the order of High Fashion and Mutiny. It's amazing how well High Fashion flows into Jungle Love)

Prince has a lot of types of funk and I think this is a relatively good overview. I'm sure I missed tracks that are unforgiveable (I wanted Musicology and PoomPoom in there somewhere, for instance, and I had to cut the Stick), but feel free to comment.

"Disco"

I Feel For You
Lavaux
Soft And Wet
Do U Lie?
What's My Name
Sexy Dancer (12")
We Can Work It Out
Strange Relationship (ONA live)
Crazy You
Just As Long As We're Together

"Rock"

Calhoun Square
When Eye Lay My Hands On U
Lady Cab Driver
The Dance Electric
Shockadelica (12")
Rebirth Of The Flesh
Hide the Bone
When Will We Be Paid
Mad
Funk
Family Name
Anotherloverholenyohead (12")
The Exodus Has Begun
Joy in Repetition (full version, not segued in)
Crystal Ball
Let's Go Crazy (12")

"Headbob"

Jam of the Year
The Greatest Romance Ever Sold (Eve remix)
Ol' Skool Company
18 & Over
Emale
Return of the Bump Squad
Props N Pounds
Sticky Like Glue
3121
Madsex

"MPLS"

Controversy
Mutiny
High Fashion
Jungle Love
Bob George
A Love Bizarre
Erotic City (12")
Head
G Spot
If a Girl Answers (Don't Hang Up)
The Walk
Old Friends For Sale (first version, no strings)

"PRN"

Kiss (12")
La, La, La, He, He, Hee (12")
Scarlet Pussy (12")
Let's Work (12")
Movie Star
Wonderful Ass
Gett Off
Last Heart
Hello (12")
Chocolate (Prince version)
Le Grind
Mountains (12")

"Drums"

The Everlasting Now
Dead On It
Data Bank (Prince version)
Slphabet Street
Nasty Girl
Housequake
Irresistible Bitch
Tricky
Tamborine
The Work Part 1

"Horns"

Make Believe (Funk version, from I'll do anything sessions)

Black M.F. In The House
Freaks On This Side
Come home
Mellow
Get Wild (Pret-A-Porter OST)
Come
It's About That Walk
The Latest Fashion (Corporate World version)
Pretty Man (un2, not in2)
Adore
She Spoke 2 Me (Girl 6)
Oilcan
New Power Soul
The Sex Of It (Prince version)
Sexy M.F.

And right now, I'm really digging the horn mix.

Shafty said:

Mutiny91 said:

Prince live in Syracuse, the Purple Rain Tour 1985, Irrasistable Bitch&Possessed ! That's so funky I almost get tears in my eyes!

That, for me, is the funkiest moment !

[Edited 4/8/11 8:16am]

25 Yeah Yeah !!!

Well, since we're bringing Syracuse up, we can't forget about Baby I'm A Star from Atlanta (Jan 4, 1985), all 23 minutes of it. Now THAT was some funky shit!

"I got a green coat on. Can't fuck wit me. I got a green coat on. Can't fuck wit me!"

Day's Of Wild (Crystal Ball Version)

P Control

Erotic City

Controversey

Chelsea Rodgers

Little Red Corvette 12" Version

Housequake

Musicology

Dig U Better Dead

Pope Remix

Acknowledge Me

Face Down

Cloreen Bacon Skin

Feel U Up

Dewrede said:

the bass in Let's Work

that is a real touchstone of funk - classic

Come On

Ol Skool Company

both are underrated from underrated albums that took unfair criticism

Are some time songs funkeir than Prince songs?

Time songs (except Pandemonium) ARE Prince songs, so feel free to include them.

In "Sexual Suicide," during the beginning of the second verse, where he sings, "Baby...if u only knew." The interplay that happens between the bass, drums, and horns is absolutely sickening. In more recent years, I'd say the guitar line that runs through the "think ya better dig me now" part of "Sticky Like Glue," is pretty lose-your-stomach funky.

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purplenuts said:

Come On

Ol Skool Company

both are underrated from underrated albums that took unfair criticism

yes i dig Old Skool Company......funnly enuff ive just ordered New Power Soul from amazon....and i do believe Come On...is featured on there hmmmm...i thought New Power Soul was just a ballad album??

Roadhouse Garden (live) 1st Avenue 6.7.1984

xlr8r said:

KeithyT said:

wab wab wab wab, wab wab wab wab...

I think his latest funky jam is "$". I know it is kind of rockabily, but my little boy can't keep his feet still listening to it, so it must be foonky

Extra loveable. A heavy dose of rock-funk awesomeness!

I don't have the date for the show but

International Lover from the 1999 Triple Threat tour

hearing the screams combined with the band do their thing puts a serious smile on my face

Megas1 said:

Extra loveable. A heavy dose of rock-funk awesomeness!

YES!