# Funkiest song ever **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 2, 2009, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funkiest-song-ever/505095 "2009-08-02T21:57:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funkiest-song-ever/505095/21 "2009-08-03T00:44:11Z")
“Got to Be Real” by Cheryl Lynn ---
**Author:** ![GameHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed655f/32.png) [@GameHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GameHat)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funkiest-song-ever/505095/22 "2009-08-03T00:46:08Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Flashlight by Parliament/Funkadelics seconded ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funkiest-song-ever/505095/23 "2009-08-03T00:54:46Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > Which is the funkiest song ever? > > I nominate _Thank You (Falettinme be mice elf agin)_ by **Sly and the Family Stone**. Another vote for the OP’s suggestion. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funkiest-song-ever/505095/24 "2009-08-03T00:57:43Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > Thread over. So far listening to the other offerings I am convinced that we are right. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funkiest-song-ever/505095/25 "2009-08-03T00:57:49Z")
Jungle Boogie by Kool and the Gang. ---
**Author:** ![Hammer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/bc79bd/32.png) [@Hammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hammer)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funkiest-song-ever/505095/26 "2009-08-03T01:09:54Z")
Flashlight. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funkiest-song-ever/505095/27 "2009-08-03T01:14:27Z")
> [@elelle](#): > > Out of everything from Parliament, the ultimate root of the style, _Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker)_ IS the rallying cry of Funk from the 70’s. This. _GUTF_ is the song I crank on the stereo in my classroom when I think my students are acting too white. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funkiest-song-ever/505095/28 "2009-08-03T01:26:07Z")
> [@JimmyFlair](#): > > Slightly off-topic, are you having any issues with your Sirius? Ours is taking forever to acquire a signal in the last few days… No, we haven’t been, but that sounds exactly like the issue we were having a few months ago. There was a 4-5 day period in May in which it’d give an “acquiring signal” message, and be silent, about 95% of the time. After those few days, it started acting normally again, and we haven’t had an issue since. ---
**Author:** ![RedWood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f08c70/32.png) [@RedWood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedWood)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funkiest-song-ever/505095/29 "2009-08-03T01:33:30Z")
Mos’ Scocious, Dr. John ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funkiest-song-ever/505095/30 "2009-08-03T01:38:50Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > This. _GUTF_ is the song I crank on the stereo in my classroom when I think my students are acting too white. 😃 Heh, it’s a great song, but it’s highly repetitive. Which is why I think Superstition wins out. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funkiest-song-ever/505095/31 "2009-08-03T02:07:12Z")
Yo Pretty Ladies around the world … Word Up…Just for the codpieces, I felt that they created funkatronic. ---
**Author:** ![GameHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed655f/32.png) [@GameHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GameHat)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funkiest-song-ever/505095/32 "2009-08-03T02:08:47Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > Thread over. _Superstition_ is a mind-blowingly awesome song. Same for _Machine Gun_. Both worthy contenders. I submit for the thread’s pleasure: [Stevie Wonder and his band performing _Superstition_ live on _Sesame Street_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ul7X5js1vE). Check out the little kid with the loose afro just completely rocking out. Seconding of course JimmyFlair’s link to [The Commodores performing _Machine Gun_ on _Soul Train_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i55F51nQrjo) God, I wish I had been alive back then. I had forgotten about _Jungle Boogie_ - great, great song, but for me it’s only legendary because of its use in _Pulp Fiction_. Sorry guys, but [Flash Light](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JbUP-skb7E) still wins out 😉 You cannot resist the Bop Gun. Sir Nose D’VoidofFunk couldn’t, sucka! ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funkiest-song-ever/505095/33 "2009-08-03T02:09:32Z")
or War- Lowrider/Spill that Wine. Carribafunk. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funkiest-song-ever/505095/34 "2009-08-03T02:16:03Z")
Ok… my final nomination. Booker T and the MG’s- [Green Onions](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-7QSMyz5rg) ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funkiest-song-ever/505095/35 "2009-08-03T02:36:20Z")
Old thread by yours truly: [Your favorite funkadelic song.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=470636) I’m still going with Stevie Wonder’s I Wish but Robert Randolph’s [Ain’t Nothin Wrong with That](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5CALmf7ziQ) is powerful funky. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funkiest-song-ever/505095/36 "2009-08-03T03:14:38Z")
I have to say that every song mentioned in this thread rubs that special spot in my brain that says, “get your fat white ass up and dance”. However, for funkiest song ever, I think the OP had it. To me Thank You (Falettinme be mice elf agin) is the proto-funk song… It is what I hear if someone mentions funk without mentioning a specific song. ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funkiest-song-ever/505095/37 "2009-08-03T03:19:24Z")
> [@KRM](#): > > Old thread by yours truly: [Your favorite funkadelic song.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=470636) I’m still going with Stevie Wonder’s I Wish but Robert Randolph’s [Ain’t Nothin Wrong with That](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5CALmf7ziQ) is powerful funky. I was thinking of ["I Need More Love"](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4zpzEIdoPc)by Robert Randolph for contemporary funk. (The studio version is a bit better than this live version). But for all time, the funkiest song belongs to the funkiest bass player which, to me, is the backbone for funk. [Bootsy Collins’ (Bootsy’s Rubber Band) “Bootzilla”.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4zpzEIdoPc) You can feel that bass in your soft palate. ---
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Mama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5ac83/32.png) [@Atomic\_Mama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Mama)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funkiest-song-ever/505095/38 "2009-08-03T03:34:25Z")
I’m real partial to Magic Sam and Freddie King … John Lee Hooker (really early stuff), and add early Howlin’ Wolf to that mix. Charley Patton, Tommy Johnson … you’d be surprised what might turn you on. Prewar blues is all full of double entendres & weird “English” … intreresting. :eek: Well, hell, so is early postwar Chicago blues. Snooky Pryor. Johnnie Young, a mandolin player: “Let Me Ride Your Mule.” You get the idea. ---
**Author:** ![Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellis_Aponte_Jr)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funkiest-song-ever/505095/39 "2009-08-03T03:43:12Z")
What about the theme song to _Sanford and Son_? That’s _dirty_ funky. Also “Bold Soul Sister” by Ike & Tina Turner, which features Tina rapping about “things and stuff” over a groove like that of Sly & the Family Stone’s “Sing a Simple Song.” Or Funkadelic’s “Loose Booty,” whose hard-to-hear lyrics make me imagine the song is extra nasty. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funkiest-song-ever/505095/40 "2009-08-03T03:50:28Z")
No love for James Brown? I know he’s the “Godfather of Soul”, but his shit is funky to me. “I Got You (I Feel Good)” “Man’s World” “Hot Pants” Also, Red Hot Chili Peppers “Sir Psycho Sexy”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funkiest-song-ever/505095.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funkiest-song-ever/505095.md?page=3)