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10-31-2005, 11:05 AM
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A bit of a weird topic...
I like funk... the music... the energy... the groove.
Not so much the lyrics/singing. I think that's what stops me from listening to more funk, the lyrics are usually party lyrics. Nothing beyond the fact that they are in fact there to funk you and that is a fact.
I dig Sly and the Family Stone alot because the lyrics usually seem to be about coming out of a bad place and making the most of it. But I'd like something perhaps more profound or ambigious than that.
Funk Rock tends to be even worse. I like Fungo Mungo, but that is some of the worst lyrics I've ever heard. And no Joe Nerve, I don't think RHCP are much better  (Except in the later years, but they started unfunking).
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10-31-2005, 12:42 PM
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10-31-2005, 06:53 PM
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10-31-2005, 06:58 PM
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10-31-2005, 07:05 PM
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Originally Posted by The_Ryst Funkadelic/Parliament stuff has really smart, political lyrics. Check it out | We want the funk, gotta have the funk?
I would say that is precisely the funk that Senor Till is trying to avoid. |
10-31-2005, 07:54 PM
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10-31-2005, 07:57 PM
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Thats some smart funk.
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10-31-2005, 08:27 PM
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Originally Posted by abark000 We want the funk, gotta have the funk?
I would say that is precisely the funk that Senor Till is trying to avoid. |
uh... no  clearly he was referring to:
"make my funk the P funk, gots to get funked up"
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10-31-2005, 08:27 PM
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Originally Posted by jerry Stevie Wonder | Okay, I think I can close this thread now.
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10-31-2005, 09:41 PM
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10-31-2005, 10:15 PM
| | | | I've been trying to think of something witty to post in this thread . . . but haven't come up with anything.
But you guys are missing the point . . . that's all I can really say.
The occasional gutteral grunt are the only lyrics I need to hear in a funk tune, a catchy 1-liner is ok too. My favorite is John Gros, who usually has lots of lyrics, none of which I can understand even though I've been known to sing along . . . |
11-01-2005, 07:03 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Edinboro, PA | | | I know the point of funk is stupid feel good music... but I don't like stupid feel good music. I want some funk that is missing the point. Not really caring if that's cool or not...
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11-01-2005, 07:07 AM
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Heh, I'm a dumb funk.
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11-01-2005, 07:35 AM
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11-01-2005, 09:34 AM
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Originally Posted by Matt Till Not so much the lyrics/singing. I think that's what stops me from listening to more funk, the lyrics are usually party lyrics. Nothing beyond the fact that they are in fact there to funk you and that is a fact. | Ha ha ha. I concur, thats why my favorite funk usually has little to no lyrics. Check out some JB's "Food for Thought" or "Damn Right I'm Somebody" are great albums.
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11-01-2005, 10:12 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Dallas, TX. | | | Alan Evans has a really good funky kinda album. Most of the songs dont have lyrics, some have the chant type lyrics, like Do It Again, which pretty much just repeats that line, but there are several with great lyrics as well. Alan Evans is the drummer for Soulive, which also has some great instrumental funk, like MMW.
If you can find Soulive at the Bowry Ballroom with Reggie Watts on vocals, you'd prolly dig that too. |
11-01-2005, 10:19 AM
|  | Unprofessional TalkBass Contributor | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Brighton, England, UK, Europe | | The obvious answer is to go for Jazz Funk with no lyrics - like Billy Cobham's album 'Stratus' has some great funky grooves that have been sampled many times, but is all-instrumental - lots of others in the same genre - like Weather Report - "Cucumber Slumber" is very funky ...etc etc.
I have a couple of other reccommendations - Average White Band - very funky and decent lyrics!
Incognito - very funky and sophisticated!! 
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11-01-2005, 10:49 AM
| | | | "I know the point of funk is stupid feel-good music" . . . a bold statement coming from a metalhead in rural Pennsylvania . . . |
11-01-2005, 10:58 AM
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Originally Posted by jerry Stevie Wonder | Ummm, Stevie really isn't a funk player...he's more R & B (not to say he isn't funky, though)
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