I am not talking about that childish Korn / Limp Bizkit nu-metal shit, but artists who kept the funk (rock) alive during the nineties (and 00's)

Some of my favourites:

Rage against the Machine - Freedom

http://www.youtube.com/wa...mp;ob=av2n

Urban Dance Squad - Fast Lane

http://www.youtube.com/wa...2a4MPP7zRI

Fishbone - Everyday Sunshine

http://www.youtube.com/wa...mp;ob=av2e

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Give it away

http://www.youtube.com/wa...r_uHJPUlO8

King's X - We where born to be loved

http://www.youtube.com/wa...282ar709NE

Living Colour - What's your favourite colour?

http://www.youtube.com/wa...-R4OTK2eb0

http://youtu.be/JZn48KPeCwk

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Dan Reed Network are a bit too superficial and cheesy to my taste, like Mazeratti

A little Faith No More???

....

24-7 Spyz- Sireality

24-7 Spyz - Stuntman

http://www.youtube.com/wa...zsHgSZNHYs

24-7 Spyz - Earth and Sky

Fishbone - Fight The Youth

Fishbone - Black Flowers

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Riverman37 said:

Dan Reed Network are a bit too superficial and cheesy to my taste, like Mazeratti

Dan is one of the coolest and most sincere people you could ever meet.

Riverman37 said:

I am not talking about that childish Korn / Limp Bizkit nu-metal shit, but artists who kept the funk (rock) alive during the nineties (and 00's)

King's X - We where born to be loved

http://www.youtube.com/wa...282ar709NE

Started or wedged them into quite a few threads over the years.
Most recently this one: http://prince.org/msg/8/363761

Love King's X however they're much too diverse to be boxed into any singular "ROCK" category.

I think they fly over most people's heads.
They don't dress weird.
They don't have members on hard drugs.
They're not on TMZ making inane comments.
They're not in the news for trashing hotels/clubs/etc
You know, all the stuff it takes to be famous these days.

All they do is write excellent material and put on great shows.


Music for adventurous listeners

tA

Tribal Records

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Kings X Are... well the king for me on this.

Red Hot Chili Peppers behind them...

but Fishbone, Faith No More, Living Colour, Urban Dance Squad, Rage Against The Machine

An often overlooked one is Whte Zombie who on La Sexorcisto make a perfect combo for this with killer grooves on the guitar & bass.

A lot of my fave bands in this thread.

Especially,

Fishbone,

Living Colour,

and King's X

Infectious Grooves

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Um Kings X are definately not Funk Rock, Gretchen Goes To Nabraska is one of my favourite albums of all time, i have all bar the last one (don't know why!) I saw them on the Mr Bulbous tour and they were fantastic.

And YES to Infectous Grooves! i'm going to add Incubus to the conversation, their early stuff is very Faith No More ish.

Maybe funk-metal wasnt the best word to use, but to me King's X were a band that were part of an era that saw certain artists cross the borders of all kind of (black and white) musical genres, and create something exciting out of it (late eighties / first half of the nineties)

And its always nice to find a way to put attention to one of my favourite, but criminally overlooked, bands.. lol

King's X werent 'strictly cross-over' in the way they were playing funk-rock, but they used elements of funk in some of their riffs and when i listen to Doug Pinnicks vocals and basslines, i hear some Sly Stone-influence on certain songs. Next to that they had of course: the beatlesque vocal harmonies, the heavy black-sabbath / Led Zep kind of riffs, the prog-rock elements in their longer jams and i also hear a bit of a Queen influence in some of their material / solo's.

When you listen to Gretchen goes to Nebraska (still my favourite of album of them) you could even say they were predating the grunge-era. A song like Black Hole Sun from Soundgarden could almost have been a King's X song.

Anyway, some new additions to this thread:

Urban Dance Squad - Good grief

http://www.youtube.com/wa...5yKWIRwgq4

Gotcha - Words and music from the lowlands

http://www.youtube.com/wa...GBj_nL9qpM

Fishbone - Naz-Tee May'en

http://www.youtube.com/wa...sCwJq1YfsU

Corey Glover - Do you first then do myself

http://www.youtube.com/wa...85o_qcP-HM