I tell ya, I'm mad as hell tonight y'all. Not one, but both my my CD players wanted to act a damn fool tonight. They're finally playing out on me and are on their last legs. Well, I guess they've lived their life, I've had 'em since 2001. Yeah, I've got two turntables but it is so much easier to just go in the computer, burn two identical CDs, put them in the CD players and go ta mixin' instead of diggin' through stacks of records. Plus, since the CD age and the downloading age, I've acquired so much more funk on CDs than vinyl, although I have lots of vinyl.

Anyway, those damn CD players were acting such a fool tonight, honey I felt like Wonder Woe-man trying to beat a timer on a bomb while I was cueing songs and when I FINALLY would get the song cued, my frustration would affect the flow of the mix when I would slide the crossfader.

Anyway, it was too damn good of a tracklist to let go to waste so here's the mix in all it's pissed off glory. It's still better than anything these tired asses on the radio these days are doing.

Here's the link....

http://vain-andy85122.podomatic.com/

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[Edited 6/11/11 22:16pm]

Aw hell, I know what I'm streaming tomorrow. I always play your pods on Sundays.

What you got against tracklist anyway?

Will check it out, I'm def looking out for the Local Funky Bands

[Edited 6/12/11 9:36am]

Harlepolis said:

What you got against tracklist anyway?

Tracklists always ruin the surprise of which song is coming up next.

Oh well, here goes....

Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry

Holy Ghost - The Barkays

Get The Funk Out Ma Face - The Brothers Johnson

Which Way Is Up - Stargard

Car Wash - Rose Royce

(You're A) Foxy Lady - Graham Central Station

Too Hot Ta Trot - The Commodores

We Don't Wanna Sit Down, We Wanna Get Down - Brick

Soul Makossa - Manu Dibango

Funkin' Around - Rick James

Rated X - Kool and The Gang

Get Up, Get Down, Get Funky, Get Loose - Teddy Pendergrass

Get Off Your Ass And Jam - Funkadelic

Git In There - Betty Davis

I agree, Andy, I love the element of surprise! Fuck a tracklist. Sorry Harley.

Harlepolis said:

Will check it out, I'm def looking out for the Local Funky Bands

We used to have our own little mini Minneapolis scene going on down here and that was just the funk bands. Since then, there's been tons of blues artists.

vainandy said:

Harlepolis said:

Will check it out, I'm def looking out for the Local Funky Bands

We used to have our own little mini Minneapolis scene going on down here and that was just the funk bands. Since then, there's been tons of blues artists.

I love the blues but sometimes you can have too much of one thing until you get sick of it. We had a mini-funk scene in NC too but like you, it's all blues or country or beach music. You know how we Carolinians get with beach music. YEECH!

vainandy said:

Harlepolis said:

Will check it out, I'm def looking out for the Local Funky Bands

We used to have our own little mini Minneapolis scene going on down here and that was just the funk bands. Since then, there's been tons of blues artists.

Well, its not exactly Mississippi but ever since you dropped the "Libra" bomb on me two years ago. I've been glueing my ears to whatever I could find from that HCRC label, thats how I came to find out about Margie Joseph's "Knockout"(I didn't know she recorded an album in 1982 prior to finding out about "Ride This Pony").

Lemme tell you something, every single shit I heard from that label is a gym's wet dream well, my version of gym anyway because if I hear Akon & Rihanna blasting through the sound system one more time, I'm gonna commit battery in this motherfucker

Timmy84 said:

I agree, Andy, I love the element of surprise! Fuck a tracklist. Sorry Harley.

Plus you never know who may be lurking the threads at the org that might get their panties in a wad and throw a hissy fit if they see songs by particular artists in the mix....you know which ones I'm talking about. There ain't none in this particular mix but I'm just sayin'.

vainandy said:

Timmy84 said:

I agree, Andy, I love the element of surprise! Fuck a tracklist. Sorry Harley.

Plus you never know who may be lurking the threads at the org that might get their panties in a wad and throw a hissy fit if they see songs by particular artists in the mix....you know which ones I'm talking about. There ain't none in this particular mix but I'm just sayin'.

Word.

Timmy84 said:

vainandy said:

We used to have our own little mini Minneapolis scene going on down here and that was just the funk bands. Since then, there's been tons of blues artists.

I love the blues but sometimes you can have too much of one thing until you get sick of it. We had a mini-funk scene in NC too but like you, it's all blues or country or beach music. You know how we Carolinians get with beach music. YEECH!

I liked a lot of the local blues back in the early 1980s but they have worn the blues scene out since then. Lots of older people down here, and some younger people also, have gotten to the point that they listen to only blues and nothing else. It started in the early 1990s when more and more shit hop started taking over the R&B stations and people started turning their dials over to the blues station and leaving them there. Being gay, I at least had the house music scene for a few more years until acid and trance had to come in and ruin that. When that ended, I didn't switch to the blues station, I just pulled out my old records and said the hell with current music.

But the blues they are making isn't the same anymore either. I see they've started using some of those same shit hop sounding drum machines in their music lately. But for decades, the blues artists always seemed to sound ten years behind the times anyway. Next decade, I guess they'll be using whatever Lady Gaga uses in her music.

vainandy said:

Timmy84 said:

I love the blues but sometimes you can have too much of one thing until you get sick of it. We had a mini-funk scene in NC too but like you, it's all blues or country or beach music. You know how we Carolinians get with beach music. YEECH!

I liked a lot of the local blues back in the early 1980s but they have worn the blues scene out since then. Lots of older people down here, and some younger people also, have gotten to the point that they listen to only blues and nothing else. It started in the early 1990s when more and more shit hop started taking over the R&B stations and people started turning their dials over to the blues station and leaving them there. Being gay, I at least had the house music scene for a few more years until acid and trance had to come in and ruin that. When that ended, I didn't switch to the blues station, I just pulled out my old records and said the hell with current music.

But the blues they are making isn't the same anymore either. I see they've started using some of those same shit hop sounding drum machines in their music lately. But for decades, the blues artists always seemed to sound ten years behind the times anyway. Next decade, I guess they'll be using whatever Lady Gaga uses in her music.

They ain't even TRYING to be "blues" anymore so I ignore those acts...

Harlepolis said:

vainandy said:

We used to have our own little mini Minneapolis scene going on down here and that was just the funk bands. Since then, there's been tons of blues artists.

Well, its not exactly Mississippi but ever since you dropped the "Libra" bomb on me two years ago. I've been glueing my ears to whatever I could find from that HCRC label, thats how I came to find out about Margie Joseph's "Knockout"(I didn't know she recorded an album in 1982 prior to finding out about "Ride This Pony").

Lemme tell you something, every single shit I heard from that label is a gym's wet dream well, my version of gym anyway because if I hear Akon & Rihanna blasting through the sound system one more time, I'm gonna commit battery in this motherfucker

But the thing with Libra's "Ride This Pony", is it became totally forgotten after the summer of 1982. We had three R&B stations back then and only the FM one played it and they didn't play it many times. I heard it in one of the skating rinks about twice and that was it. I don't know why that one didn't catch on. Years later in recent years, I just happened to be browsing on some funk blog somewhere that wasn't even in English but recognized the song title so I downloaded it.

vainandy said:

Harlepolis said:

Well, its not exactly Mississippi but ever since you dropped the "Libra" bomb on me two years ago. I've been glueing my ears to whatever I could find from that HCRC label, thats how I came to find out about Margie Joseph's "Knockout"(I didn't know she recorded an album in 1982 prior to finding out about "Ride This Pony").

Lemme tell you something, every single shit I heard from that label is a gym's wet dream well, my version of gym anyway because if I hear Akon & Rihanna blasting through the sound system one more time, I'm gonna commit battery in this motherfucker

But the thing with Libra's "Ride This Pony", is it became totally forgotten after the summer of 1982. We had three R&B stations back then and only the FM one played it and they didn't play it many times. I heard it in one of the skating rinks about twice and that was it. I don't know why that one didn't catch on. Years later in recent years, I just happened to be browsing on some funk blog somewhere that wasn't even in English but recognized the song title so I downloaded it.

Hmm, I gotta see if there's a full album with that song...

Timmy84 said:

vainandy said:

But the thing with Libra's "Ride This Pony", is it became totally forgotten after the summer of 1982. We had three R&B stations back then and only the FM one played it and they didn't play it many times. I heard it in one of the skating rinks about twice and that was it. I don't know why that one didn't catch on. Years later in recent years, I just happened to be browsing on some funk blog somewhere that wasn't even in English but recognized the song title so I downloaded it.

Hmm, I gotta see if there's a full album with that song...

I think it was only a single. It would be cool as hell if there was an album with that joint.

Harlepolis said:

Timmy84 said:

Hmm, I gotta see if there's a full album with that song...

I think it was only a single. It would be cool as hell if there was an album with that joint.

Dammit.

Timmy84 said:

I agree, Andy, I love the element of surprise! Fuck a tracklist. Sorry Harley.

This is like Christmas comes every Sunday .... I just opened up my iTunes Andy's funk is downloading as I type. I didn't read any further, I'll know the tracklist soon enough.

TD3 said:

Timmy84 said:

I agree, Andy, I love the element of surprise! Fuck a tracklist. Sorry Harley.

This is like Christmas comes every Sunday .... I just opened up my iTunes Andy's funk is downloading as I type. I didn't read any further, I'll know the tracklist soon enough.