vainandy said:

That's one of the few songs by them that I don't like.Really terrible song.Another one that I don't like is "She's A Star".Like most funk bands that started in the 70s,their music lost something in the mid-80s.

They also put out a live cd in 1996 that was hellfied funky.

Here's some more info:

One of the premiere funk bands of the 70s and 80s, ConFunkShun developed a huge following with a string of memorable funky cuts and slow jams that are still receiving airplay twenty-plus years after they were originally released.

Formed in the early 70s by a number of Vallejo California high school friends, ConFunkShun followed the burgeoning self-contained funk band movement that was being led by the Isley Brothers, Earth Wind & Fire and the Commodores. After a short period working under other names, the group members finally picked the name "ConFunkShun" after the title of the old Harvey Fuqua and the Nite Liters song. Their initial break came with a gig backing Stax Records act Soul Children.

Their work with Soul Children as well as some minor releases on a small label resulted in the group being signed by Mercury Records and releasing their 1976 eponymous major label debut. It provided a moderate hit single with “Sho Feels Good To Me,” but major acclaim would arrive a year later with the first single from their next album. “Ffun” became an out of the box dance smash, hitting #1 on the Soul charts and leading the album Secrets to gold status.

Led by multi-instrumentalist/vocalist Felton Pilate and singer Michael Cooper, the prolific group produced a solid string of hits that continued for nearly a decade. Their funky dance numbers such as “Ms. Got the Body,” “Chase Me” and the Earth Wind & Fire influenced “Too Tight” were complimented by great slow jams such as “Love’s Train” (recently remade by Dru Hill) and their smooth crossover hit, “Baby I’m Hooked.”

By 1986, the group had run its course and Pilate left for a successful career as a producer, most notably working with M.C. Hammer. Cooper split a year later and began a notable solo career, scoring big with the singles “To Prove My Love” and “Should Have Been You.” On New Year's Eve 1993, the group reunited for a show with Zapp in Oakland, California. They had a blast and word got around that ConFunkShun had played again as a unit, leading to offers around the world for more gigs. That began a rebirth for the group that has continued to this day, and which included a well received live album for Intersound Records in 1996.

ConFunkShun continues to perform in multi-act funk shows (the group still sounds terrific) and plays at least annually on the Tom Joyner show. The current line-up consists of Michael Cooper, Felton Pilate, Karl Fuller, Eric Young, Ron Moton, Kurt Clayton and Brian Collier. There have been a number of very good compilations of ConFunkShun’s biggest hits, the best of which are the Mercury Records “Funk Essentials” collection The Best of ConFunkShun and the 1998 Ballads Collection.

Though ConFunkShun continues on as a popular performing group, some of the members have put out solo side projects, the latest of which is singer/multi-instrumentalist Felton Pilate's Nothing But Love Spoken Here. In what may be a surprise to funk-loving fans of the group, the disc is an unabashed romantic album filled with falsetto-led ballads. The best of the bunch is the title cut, a smooth, melodic nighttime song that would rank among ConFunkShun's best ballads (and which includes an excellent Ernie Isley-like guitar solo to give it some punch). Nearly as good is Pilate's tribute to 70s Philly soul, the very nice "Keepin' You To Your Promise," a nice reworking of the Stylistics cut that Pilate wrote years ago. The rest of the disc is a melodic - if surprisingly tame - combination of slow a mid-tempo cuts, with the slightly dated feel of an album by an early 90s pop/soul group like 4 p.m. Nothing earth-shattering here, but a decent outing of catchy, late night music.


http://www.soultracks.com...nkshun.htm