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Post your favorite boogie/electrofunk tracks from the eighties here! Recently I have rediscovered all the boogie, (electro)funk and post-disco music from the early to mid eighties. Lots of synths and drum machines, plenty of funky (synth)bass and guitar, sultry catchy vocals, and handclaps used in every single track released during those years! Good oldtime funky dance grooves...
I would like to dedicate this thread to posting your favorite videos from that era. To entertain the older ones here that have grown up hearing this music, and to teach the young about the kickass music from that period.
Here is my first contribution:
RIP Prince: thank U 4 a funky Time... |
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Sorry, wrong forum!
Mods, please? RIP Prince: thank U 4 a funky Time... |
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Now that this thread is in the right forum, I would like to add another 1984 classic:
RIP Prince: thank U 4 a funky Time... |
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Here's a Jam and Lewis produced one:
RIP Prince: thank U 4 a funky Time... |
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Now a true classic:
RIP Prince: thank U 4 a funky Time... |
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"Ya see, we're not interested in what you know...but what you are willing to learn. C'mon y'all." | |
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Great pick!! RIP Prince: thank U 4 a funky Time... |
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Kraftwerk: The Telephone Call You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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Jenny Burton "Dancin' for My Love." Hungry? Just look in the mirror and get fed up. | |
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Some very popular ones that fit the vibe.
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Never knew that Monte Moir wrote Pleasure Principle. Now I no longer have to worry about his bankaccount/retirement!
The System is one of my favorites of that era, their best song perhaps being "You Are In My System". The one you posted here always seemed to me like David Frank's way of saying that HE was the REAL mastermind behind Phil Collins' "Sussudio". Which of course he was!
S.O.S. Band (or in fact Jam & Lewis!) are another big factor in this sound, Just Be Good To Me is just pure perfection to me! They definately should pay Yarbrough & People for being a big inspiration for their sound.
BTW, I wouldn't consider Don't Stop The Music off topic, in fact I think that was one of the tracks that started the whole movement/ boogie sound. I have massive respect for them!!!
Or is Don't Stop The Music a 70's track, and is that the reason you consider it off topic? RIP Prince: thank U 4 a funky Time... |
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Funk Is It's Own Reward | |
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2014-Year of the Parties | |
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Some lesser known but very nice choices! Never heard that Graingers one before... RIP Prince: thank U 4 a funky Time... |
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I just love Kraftwerk! RIP Prince: thank U 4 a funky Time... |
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Check the sample...
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Basically anything by Zapp and Roger. | |
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Monte Moir did a super job on Pleasure Principle.
You Are In My System was the obvious choice for The System which is exactly why I didn't select it as an example! DF definitely shows his a$$ on The Pleasure Seekers.
The reason why I said off-topic, not being very familiar with the Electro time frame, wasn't sure if Don't Stop The Music would have been considered pre-Electro.
Music for adventurous listeners
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