*If you were to put together Prince's best funk album..What songs would you slap on that bad boy!?*

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bout' the time Jesus died on the Cross...

that's 3 o'clock pm...

A question - Could someone please define the word 'Funk'

Off the top of my head, and in no particular order:

Let's Work
1+1+1=3
THe Everlasting Now
2 Nigs United 4 West Compton (ONA Live version)
Partyup
Lady Cab Driver
Erotic City
Chocolate
Irresistable Bitch
Dance On
Pretty Man
The Work Part 1
Kiss
Sexy MF
Pheromone
Get Wild
Emancipation
Cloreen Bacon Skin
Crystal Ball
Calhoun Square
The Sex of It

The Camille LP

Here is a tracklist I made in winamp, dunno how many CDs it would take, but this is what I think of when I think of Prince and funk:

Prince - Head
Vanity 6 - Nasty Girl
Prince - D.M.S.R.
Sheila E - A Love Bizarre
Sheila E - Toy Box
The Family - Mutiny
Prince & The Revolution - Girls & Boys
Prince & The Revolution - Mountains [Extended]
Prince & The Revolution - Anotherloverholenyohead [Extended]
Prince & The Revolution - Love or $ [Extended]
Prince & The Revolution - Movie Star
Prince - Housequake
Prince - Hot Thing
Prince - Shockadelica [Extended]
Prince - Feel U Up [Long Stroke]
Jill Jones - For Love
Prince - Le Grind
Prince - Bob George
Prince - Superfunkycalifragisexi
Prince - 2 Nigs United 4 West Compton
Prince - Rock Hard In A Funky Place
Madhouse - 6
Prince - Lovesexy
Prince - Escape (Free Yo Mind From This Ratrace)
Prince - Scarlet Pussy [Extended]
The Time - Chocolate
Prince - We Can Funk
The NPG - Oilcan
The NPG - Goldie's Parade
Prince - Billy Jack Bitch
The NPG - The Return Of The Bump Squad
The NPG - Come On
Prince - The Work pt.1
Prince - 1+1+1=3
Prince - Family Name
Prince - The Everlasting Now
Prince - Xenophobia

gainsbourg said:

"Funk is rhythm and blues without rules. Funk is music that makes your neck and your hips move in ways you can't practice."

- Alan Leeds, tour manager, the James Brown Band


This is from a VERY GOOD documentary which has been shown on PBS. I recorded Part 8 of this 10-part documentary on the history of rock & roll..

here's a link that describes that documentary series in more detail:

www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/ro...funky.html



My "Prince Funk Compilation" would include:

Soft & wet
Just as long as we're together
Sexy dancer
Uptown
Head
Party up
LET'S WORK (12" version, of course)
Lady Cab Driver
17 days
Pop Life (Sheila E remix)
Anotherloverholenyohead
It's gonna be a beautiful night
Alphabet st
We can funk (Graffiti Bridge version)


& maybe 1 or 2 others that escape me presently..


I'm TESTING POSITIVE for the funk!

the future (yes, this is funk brothers & sistas)
calhoun square
crystall ball
rock hard in a funky place (probably prince's funkiest track)
sexual suicide (a semi-truck made of baritone saxes is always funky, right?)
head (still the best synth soli)
housequake (minn. at it's best)
sexy m.f.
shockadelica (the girl must've been a witch)
erotic city
1+1+1=3
irrisitable bitch
the work (prince took james 2 a new high on this groove)
family name (praise God 4 fuzz tones)
tamborine (yes, this track IS funk...put it on real quick)
race (funky)
superfunkycalifragisexy
lady cab driver (prince is mean on those skins)
elephant's & flowers (c tamborine)
mad sex
I NO
girls & boys (eric leeds, thank u)
sex (alien?)
black m.f. in yo house
100 m.p.h. (yes...it is)
cold coffee & cocaine (i never did coke, & i gave up coffee 4 lent...but a man & a piano can b funky)
race (mucho funky)
g-spot (somebody better put this down...where o' where can u b?)
now (the bass line saved this from gettin' axed)
get wild (i love the hornheads)
what's my name (i couldn't sleep 4 days after i 1st heard this...i was so scared...deposition)
soul psychodelicide (this is the place 2 showcase yo body skillz)
and finally...4 now...
("knock knock...joe...
joe mama..." ya'll remember that?) people without!


say ur prayers 2nite
thank u 4 the question *Jesus dies every hour on the Cross*


oh, and Funk means...Black

Soft and Wet
Sexy Dancer
Head
Let's Work
Lady Cabdriver
Darlin Nikki
Pop Life
New Position
Kiss
Housequake
If I Was Your Girlfriend
No
Alphabet Street
Vicki Waiting
We Can Funk
Tick Tick Bang
Cream
Gett Off
Blue Light
Pope
Scarlet Pussy
La La La He He Hee
Erotic City
Space
Pheromone
Papa
Lovesign
319
Had U
Joint 2 Joint
Face Down
Mad Sex
Crystal Ball
Dream Factory
Sexual Suicide
Good Love
Days of Wild
18 & Over
Prettyman
1+1+1 is 3
Strange Relationship (ONAL)

...just off the top of my head.