Favorite Funk LP's

[button]

Ok, so I was speaking in hyperbole, but I do consider the Make Up to be a funk group. And maybe with the exception of the Poets of Rhythm, the best since the original era past. Do they sound like JB note for note and beat for beat? No, but I don't think they should. Groups like the Dap-Kings are just fine, but I'll listen to the originals before I ever want to listen to them. The Make Up's main influence was gospel music and thus their sound tended to be more raw and feral than the a lot of the chunky disco-funk pre-cursors listed in this thread.

To me, these Make-Up cuts:







sound a lot closer to a cut like this:



than pretty much anything else listed on this thread so far. There's a million great funk tracks on soul LPs, but generaly the best funk IMO is on 45. And Faux, personally if I found a Payback LP in the field, it would be flipped within 24 hours for a David Batiste, or perhaps 3 Marva Whitney singles... but I've been called crazy about a lot of things.

Just curious if the strut would call this LP funk or not:

 

[faux_rillz]

And Faux, personally if I found a Payback LP in the field, it would be flipped within 24 hours for a David Batiste, or perhaps 3 Marva Whitney singles.

"If I found that $20 record I would sell it within twenty-four hours!"

Jeezus, dude, you are dangerous. About to challenge Reynaldo for the title.

 

[button]

Here's another! Jan Jan is the classic cut on here I guess, but Dirty Red is one of my favorite funk instrumentals.

 

[pickwick33]

Ok, so I was speaking in hyperbole, but I do consider the Make Up to be a funk group.

Now if only the guy would shut up and let the band play, then I could hear these tracks as really good funk instrumentals. As it stands, we gotta get past them cheeky vocals, see, and it comes off like just another decadent indie-rock band. Calling them funk would be trying way too hard, being too liberal and giving them too much credit. Gotta draw that line SOMEwhere, now. Just cause James Brown once cut an album with the Louis Bellson group doesn't make him jazz, either.

Just curious if the strut would call this LP funk or not:

Is that the Poets of Rhythm? (Sorry, but that is a mighty small image.) Never heard that album, but those guys are alright with me. "It Came Over Me" is up there with any ten classic soul ballads you can name. And their funk is a hell of a lot closer to what we've been talking about than the Make-Up.

 

[drewnice]

LOL at your instance that those songs should be classified as "funk".

Funky drums don't just make anything "funk".

It encompasses so much more than that.

Put that against any of the other LPs in this thread.

 

[pickwick33]

LOL at you instance that those songs should be classified as "funk".

Funky drums doesn't make just anything "funk".

It encompasses so much more than that.

Put that against any of the other LPs in this thread.

In the words of Funkadelic, "you hit the naaail on the head..."

 

[button]

Oh is that what that's worth? I always thought it went for more. I know saw one sell a couple months ago for around $75, but I guess its not a record I really keep tabs on. Congratulations man, you are the official James Brown expert of Soulstrut. I bow before your immense knowledge of all that is funk:

As far as funk LPs, I am of the mind that if you've got a dozen or so JB-related LPs, the first three Meters, and the first Kool and the Gang, then you are good. Watts 13rd Street Rhythm Band is cool, too. And I like the Marvin Holmes LP.

 

[pickwick33]

Why hasn't anyone mentioned this one yet?

I think that comeback album she did last year is WAAAAAAY funkier.

Everything else I've heard by her, from back in the day, has too much of a loungey O.C. Smith/Nancy Wilson-ish aura to it. I'm stickin' with my Charles Wright/Watts Band records.

 

[faux_rillz]

LOL at you instance that those songs should be classified as "funk".

Funky drums doesn't make just anything "funk".

He is a baller, though!

Funk classics are the metal and his hand is magnetic! He is pulling JB joints all day for $10 and flipping them for $20 tomorrow! He made $10 while you made a batch of kool-aid! He made a further $10 while you chefed up some french toast!

I advise you to fall back!

 

[button]

LOL at your instance that those songs should be classified as "funk".

Funky drums don't just make anything "funk".

It encompasses so much more than that.

Put that against any of the other LPs in this thread.

Would you mind explaining what it encompasses then? Strictly speaking in terms of "new" music, would you call the Dap-Kings a funk band? True funk to me is raw, primal, and a little unhinged sounding. Seeing The Dap-kings is like watching a Broadway play. To me there is funk, and funky cheeseball music, as in the kind of stuff that my mom and car companies like.

And to Pickwick33 on the vocals, you can't tell me there's not some P-funk tracks with wack make-you-blush lyrics

 

[aleit]

i will say that i still like hearing old Nation of Ulysses shit though....

but c'mon- influence of the Make Up is gospel music???
the influence is heroin
and pants too tight in the crotch

influence is prince
in the sense of a rip-off routine.

continue.

 

[Otis_Funkmeyer]

A few that haven't been mentioned:

 

[pickwick33]

And to Pickwick33 on the vocals, you can't tell me there's not some P-funk tracks with wack make-you-blush lyrics

I ain't talkin' 'bout the lyrics, I'm referring to the actual vocals! And I know I was talking earlier about the similarities between funk and rock, but I'm sorry, the Make-Up are coming from a whole nother field entirely for me to mistake them for funk...this is a ROCK band pure and simple.

 

[faux_rillz]

Oh is that what that's worth? I always thought it went for more. I know saw one sell a couple months ago for around $75, but I guess its not a record I really keep tabs on. Congratulations man, you are the official James Brown expert of Soulstrut. I bow before your immense knowledge of all that is funk:

As far as funk LPs, I am of the mind that if you've got a dozen or so JB-related LPs, the first three Meters, and the first Kool and the Gang, then you are good. Watts 13rd Street Rhythm Band is cool, too. And I like the Marvin Holmes LP.

LOL, how did I miss this?

The above post isn't reflective of the extent of my "knowledge"; it is reflective of my opinion, that opinion being that if the templates are readily available, there's little reason to bother with all of the less competently executed derivatives.

And, yes, I have been in the game long enough to know that not only is The Payback a common record, it's also a much better one than lots of funk pieces that sell for 10x the price.

And by the way, unless you've got mint copies of all of the above--which I highly doubt, since you seem to think that The Payback is some ballerific schitt--I don't think you're in a position to talk them down.

 

[Otis_Funkmeyer]

LOL at your instance that those songs should be classified as "funk".

Funky drums don't just make anything "funk".

It encompasses so much more than that.

Put that against any of the other LPs in this thread.

Would you mind explaining what it encompasses then? Strictly speaking in terms of "new" music, would you call the Dap-Kings a funk band? True funk to me is raw, primal, and a little unhinged sounding. Seeing The Dap-kings is like watching a Broadway play. To me there is funk, and funky cheeseball music, as in the kind of stuff that my mom and car companies like.

And to Pickwick33 on the vocals, you can't tell me there's not some P-funk tracks with wack make-you-blush lyrics
Dude. Tell me the Dap-Kings "Genuine" isn't raw, primal, and unhinged.
You'd probably think seeing James Brown is also like seeing a Broadway play.

 

[noz]

hey guys what about

 

[faux_rillz]

hey guys what about

I see we have a veteran funk-o-naut in the place. May I suggest another "funk bomb" well-known to disciples of Rickey Vincent?

Owwww! So fonk-ay!

 

[mr.brett]

hey guys what about

I see we have a veteran funk-o-naut in the place. May I suggest another "funk bomb" well-known to disciples of Rickey Vincent?

Owwww! So fonk-ay!

Thanks guys. I just ordered these on ebay.

No, but I really do appreciate the suggestions. I've checked out the nite-liters and maxayn so far and really like some cuts off them. I'll get to the others soon.

 

[hcrink]

Wow.

 

[TrueStu]

One of the best funk LPs is Bobby Williams' Funky Superfly.

I haven't heard the normal version, but the fan club one sounds magnificent.