Recommend me some funk

[rainbownorth]

Hi all,
This thread is pretty self explanatory. Recommend me some funk that will make me sh*t myself with delight. It doesnt have to be stuff for me to play, it can just be for enjoyment. At the moment, I'm listening to a bit of Kool & the gang, e,w & f. Anything else is good.
Cheers.

[wolfs]

Sly and the Family Stone's There's a Riot Going On

Funkadelic's Maggot Brain

[markjazzbassist]

parliament - mothership connection
funkadelic - one nation under a groove
jamiroquai - the return of the space cowboy, travelling without moving, emergency on planet earth
the ohio players - skin tight, fire, honey
prince - musicology
pleasure - future now
heatwave - central heating
tower of power - self-titled, urban renewal, back to oakland
average white band - self-titled, soul searching

[bigfatbass]

Tower of Power-East Bay Grease. It will ALWAYS be my fav, that singer was the best they ever had. Social Lubrication is a masterpiece.

If you REALLY want to feel the funk, the single funkiest man alive is still Chuck Brown. Until you've heard Funny Valentine with a Go-Go beat, you ain't livin'!

Also, IMHO, the pinnacle example of how to play THE dripping-slow, nastier-than-Roseannes-crack, so-deep-in-the-pocket-you-can-scratch-your-ankles, funk beat is the tune by Cameo simply titled: Funk Funk
The Star Trek goof intro is worth the iTunes price alone, and that snare is so late you almost walk up on it from behind.

This lyric says it all: "We can be as funky as we want to be, and even funkier than that!"

[James Hart]

The Meters
The Funky Meters
The Neville Brothers
Dumpstafunk
Ivan Neville and the New Orleans All Stars

[Juneau]

Old School:

The Brothers Johnson
The Meters
Herbie Hancock + The Headhunters
Lakeside
+ 1 to the others already mentioned

Newer stuff:

Soulive
Alan Evans
Lettuce
Sam Kininger Band
Garage a Trois
Skerik's Syncopated Taint Septet
Medeski Martin and Wood
Metorite
Groove Collective
Christian McBride (I know he's old school - but Live at Tonic is newer and awesome hehe).
London Funk Allstars
Marcus Miller (old and new)

And I have almost all of this + others mentioned on mp3, PM if you want a link.

[rainbownorth]

That sounds good juneau, i sent you a pm a little while ago, but havent heard anything back from you. Still interested in posting a link? If not thats cool, ill find them elsewhere.

[sloppyjaloppy]

medeski martin and wood - awesome funk/jazz/fusion band
older incubus stuff - rock funk feel.
the aquabats - ska boss <<downlaod that song
have a suss at the band "voodoo glow skulls" - they are like a weird mixture of latin/ska/funk/punk its good stuff