What are some funk essential albums (besides Prince)?

All things James Brown.

All things Parliament/Funkadelic.

All things Zapp & Roger.

Don't know if you can find it, but here's a good record.

Songs? Albums? Groups?

Can you be a bit more specific?

Sly Stone

Dyke and the Blazers

Charles Wright

Kool and the Gang

Cameo

Meters

Isley Brothers

Harlepolis said:

All things James Brown.

All things Parliament/Funkadelic.

All things Zapp & Roger.

1. to all of THAT^!

2. All things The Meters.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Sly Stone

Dyke and the Blazers

Charles Wright

Kool and the Gang

Cameo

Meters

Isley Brothers (3+3 line-up)

There, that's more specific! We don't want a first time funk solider to waste his/her money on The Isleys during that era with R.Kelly!

I was looking for specfic albums because many of these groups/individuals have put out many albums.

Are there any other (specific albums)?

MickyDolenz said:

Don't know if you can find it, but here's a good record.

Own it, i'll post a pic for proof if you like

You can try reading through the funk section of all music guide, that might give you a few ideas.

http://www.allmusic.com/explore/metastyle/funk-d13

Maybe it would help if you told us something you like and we can recommend something similar?

Cinema - Wrong House LP

rialb said:

You can try reading through the funk section of all music guide, that might give you a few ideas.

http://www.allmusic.com/explore/metastyle/funk-d13

Maybe it would help if you told us something you like and we can recommend something similar?

I like funkadelic funk.

buist said:

rialb said:

You can try reading through the funk section of all music guide, that might give you a few ideas.

http://www.allmusic.com/explore/metastyle/funk-d13

Maybe it would help if you told us something you like and we can recommend something similar?

I like funkadelic funk.

Hmm, maybe some Ohio Players (Orgasm or Gold)? Early Kool and the Gang (Best of 1969-1976)? Rick James (one of the two disc compilations)?

Funkadelic is a bit more rock than the above acts so none of them are great recommendations but they are somewhat similar.

try the Undercover Brother Soundtrack......amazing!.....my fave funk song is Shes A Bad Mamma Jamma - Carl Carlton ....or Play That Funky Music White Boy - Wild Cherry....also on teh soundtrack has a new song Snoop Dogg Ft Bootsy Collins (Parliament/Funkadelic)...which is funky as hell! >

http://www.youtube.com/wa...playnext=1

IAintTheOne said:

MickyDolenz said:

Don't know if you can find it, but here's a good record.

Own it, i'll post a pic for proof if you like

skip right to photowhoring!

I've heard it, I never owned a copy myself though

TonyVanDam said:

Harlepolis said:

All things James Brown.

All things Parliament/Funkadelic.

All things Zapp & Roger.

1. to all of THAT^!

2. All things The Meters.

Basically!!

MickyDolenz said:

Fantastic album, i love it.

I came across this website that is pretty good.

http://www.warr.org/funky.html

TonyVanDam said:

Harlepolis said:

All things James Brown.

All things Parliament/Funkadelic.

All things Zapp & Roger.

1. to all of THAT^!

2. All things The Meters.

3. All things..

Brass Construction

Slave/Steve Arrington

Crown Heights Affair

Cameo

Con Funk Shun

Fatback

Gap Band

Lakeside

LTD

Maze

Midnight Star

Mtume

Ohio Players

One Way

Skyy

Starpoint

T Connection

The Brothers Johnson

The O'Jays

minneapolisFunq said:

Cinema - Wrong House LP

My kind of Funk..

I'll add Jak I Go Wild.

Sly & The Family Stone, forgot to mention them.

Sly is the link between James Brown & George Clinton. So his music is pretty pretty essential.

I've never really thought of Maze as funky, they're more like plain R&B to me.

Its hard to say which funk-albums are the best.

Funk works best in a live-environment IMO. The individual albums delivered by the 'classic artists' have always been quite uneven.

So, to me the compilations are the best:

- Sly and the family Stone - Anthology

- Parliament - Greatest hits (The Bomb)

Funkadelic don't have a best-of album, but their best songs can be found on: Free your mind and your ass will follow, Maggot Brain and One nation under a groove

George Clinton's best solo effort is Computer Games, but don't ignore Tweakin (from Cinderella theory, his paisley park album).

James Brown has a very large discography, I would go for his sixties and early seventies work.

A collection of The Meters music should not be forgotten.

When it comes to the eighties, i have never been very fond of Rick James, Cameo, Zapp or the Gap band: too much disco, too much dated sounding synths.

Rick James was named the one inventing punk-funk, when he was simply incorporating AOR-rock elements and disco-elements into his music, while Prince was incorporating new wave (Devo, Elvis Costello), left-field electronical music (Kraftwerk) and hip-hop (Africa Bambata) into his music (just listen to the 1999 album). Prince wasn't punk, but he was sure far more 'punky' then Rick James.

When it comes to funk in the eighties you can't go wrong with Prince's 1999, The camille album and the Black album.

When you are looking for funk in the nineties and beyond, don't expect to find much pure funk, many of it is mixed with rock, dance or house-music.

But if you have an open mind and don't mind funky grooves being mixed with rock and other elements you should try: The first three albums by dutch band Urban Dance Squad, Blood Sugar Sex Magik by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, The debut album by Rage against the Machine, Living Colours 'Vivid' and some of Fishbones work.

Harlepolis said:

Sly & The Family Stone, forgot to mention them.

Sly is the link between James Brown & George Clinton. So his music is pretty pretty essential.

Good catch. Prince would have personally scolded you for that one.