How about a funk song titled “January First”? This song could have been titled January FUNKst. The album Furthermore… could have been titled FUNKthermore…
I’m honored.
If it dares to have “funk” in the title, it must be judged:
Like nine cans of shaving powder!
No worries, it’s on the OP’s Excellent Funk Playlist (pat pend).
I Wanna Get Next To You gives me the tingles where I don’t mind getting the tingles.
" I Wanna Get Next To You gives me the tingles where I don’t mind getting the tingles."
Yepper, another good one. ^
I love all of these entries.
That song was used to great effect in a Missy Elliot song, too.
Killer bass, and one of my all-time favorite vocals.
mmm
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.
[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]
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.
Oh man, those dancers are something else.
I wouldn’t say it’s my #1 — it’s too hard to narrow down that list — but “Ai No Corrida” is definitely somewhere near the top.
Technically, this is a ska-punk band, but the Interrupters do a pretty funky cover of Billie Eilish’s “Bad Guy”.
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.