# Ring in the New Year with Funk! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [January 1, 2025, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ring-in-the-new-year-with-funk/1012436 "2025-01-01T12:46:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ring-in-the-new-year-with-funk/1012436/21 "2025-01-01T16:00:02Z")
How about a funk song titled “January First”? This song could have been titled January FUNKst. The album _Furthermore…_ could have been titled _FUNKthermore…_ [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/HHXfrbuMedg/maxresdefault.jpg "January First") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHXfrbuMedg) ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ring-in-the-new-year-with-funk/1012436/22 "2025-01-01T16:04:59Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > That Funk Yourself song is going on the list for sure. I’m honored. If it dares to have “funk” in the title, it must be judged: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/bSIb4T5vu9E/hqdefault.jpg "Ohio Players - Funky Worm") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSIb4T5vu9E) Like nine cans of shaving powder! ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ring-in-the-new-year-with-funk/1012436/23 "2025-01-01T16:14:21Z")
My favorite Parliament song. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/FsIqDxssLYg/maxresdefault.jpg "Funkadelic - Cosmic Slop (1973) | Music Video") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsIqDxssLYg) ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ring-in-the-new-year-with-funk/1012436/24 "2025-01-01T16:14:27Z")
No worries, it’s on the OP’s **Excellent Funk Playlist** (pat pend). ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ring-in-the-new-year-with-funk/1012436/25 "2025-01-01T16:42:20Z")
OK, I’ll stop spamming the thread after I post one of my favorite songs of all time. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/3ZCGDZzytBg/maxresdefault.jpg "I Can't Stand the Rain") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZCGDZzytBg) ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ring-in-the-new-year-with-funk/1012436/26 "2025-01-01T16:51:56Z")
_I Wanna Get Next To You_ gives me the tingles where I don’t mind getting the tingles. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Passing\_Through](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Just\_Passing\_Through](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Passing_Through)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ring-in-the-new-year-with-funk/1012436/27 "2025-01-01T17:08:39Z")
_" I Wanna Get Next To You gives me the tingles where I don’t mind getting the tingles._" Yepper, another good one. ^ ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ring-in-the-new-year-with-funk/1012436/28 "2025-01-01T17:14:06Z")
I love all of these entries. That song was used to great effect in a Missy Elliot song, too. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ring-in-the-new-year-with-funk/1012436/29 "2025-01-01T17:26:54Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > I love that song! I can’t believe I didn’t already have it on the playlist. That’s remedied. Killer bass, and one of my all-time favorite vocals. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ring-in-the-new-year-with-funk/1012436/30 "2025-01-01T17:47:18Z")
I get a feeling that they could’ve kept jamming for about four hours [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/QB5jk2ZbkoM/maxresdefault.jpg "Tom Browne - Funkin' for Jamaica (Official Music Video Extended)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB5jk2ZbkoM) ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ring-in-the-new-year-with-funk/1012436/31 "2025-01-01T21:28:56Z")
David Bowie on “Soul Train”? Oh, yeah! [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/oy80bUKt54I/maxresdefault.jpg "David Bowie 'Fame' 1975.") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy80bUKt54I) ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ring-in-the-new-year-with-funk/1012436/32 "2025-01-01T21:34:41Z")
Fame is definitely funky, but I doubt anyone thinks it’s the funkiest song. ETA: Ok, I added a couple more from this thread to my playlist. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ring-in-the-new-year-with-funk/1012436/33 "2025-01-01T21:51:32Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > Fame is definitely funky, but I doubt anyone thinks it’s the funkiest song. [slight hijack] I remember a documentary about Bowie recording “Young Americans”, and there was an interview with one of the female African-American background singers hired for the recordings (sorry, I don’t remember her name). So she went to the gig without knowing anything about Bowie, and when she was introduced to him, she thought “That’s the goddamn whitest guy I’ve ever met, and we’re supposed to record a _soul_ album?”. But in the end, all turned out well. [/sh] ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ring-in-the-new-year-with-funk/1012436/34 "2025-01-01T21:59:54Z")
> [@Treppenwitz](#): > > Aside: hey, @EinsteinsHund , d’ya know this cover? Strangely, no, though I have some Magazine recordings, but I don’t remember that cover. And I’m always a bit torn about British post-punk, I like the attitude, but sometimes it’s too minimalist for my taste. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ring-in-the-new-year-with-funk/1012436/35 "2025-01-01T22:13:07Z")
We can do old school. _Really_ old school: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/AG_0fna99p0/maxresdefault.jpg "Here Come The Mummies - Do You Believe") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG_0fna99p0) ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ring-in-the-new-year-with-funk/1012436/36 "2025-01-01T22:14:12Z")
I guess this _might_ qualify in the “something more disco” department: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/g621LhVnjG4/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AHOBYAC4AOKAgwIABABGDYgWCh_MA8=&rs=AOn4CLACNaijcT6Qqm9SMk0_JqVCAftBUw "Rock Love") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g621LhVnjG4) ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ring-in-the-new-year-with-funk/1012436/37 "2025-01-01T22:23:10Z")
Oh man, those dancers are something else. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ring-in-the-new-year-with-funk/1012436/38 "2025-01-02T00:17:02Z")
I wouldn’t say it’s my #1 — it’s too hard to narrow down that list — but “[Ai No Corrida](https://youtu.be/NVTVheyDY4s)” is definitely somewhere near the top. 🎶 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ring-in-the-new-year-with-funk/1012436/39 "2025-01-02T00:19:19Z")
Technically, this is a ska-punk band, but the Interrupters do a pretty funky cover of Billie Eilish’s “Bad Guy”. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/gmRy-JW5aps/maxresdefault.jpg "The Interrupters - Bad Guy (Billie Eilish cover)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmRy-JW5aps) ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ring-in-the-new-year-with-funk/1012436/40 "2025-01-02T04:10:19Z")
You can’t go wrong with Parliament Funkadelic, James Brown, or Sly and the Family Stone. But my favorite is a cover of Swamp Dogg’s _Total Destruction to Your Mind_. [Total Destruction to Your Mind - Stoneground (live)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9n6p9Mbhzs) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ring-in-the-new-year-with-funk/1012436.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ring-in-the-new-year-with-funk/1012436.md?page=3)