Would Urgent from Foreigner count?
Thomas Dolby - “Hyperactive”
I love Dolby, like Hyperactive, but think he had much funkier tracks on the Aliens Ate My Buick album. Aliens Ate My Buick - Wikipedia
‘May the Cube be With You’ is the obvious choice on that album, but ‘Airhead’ has some funk to the rhythm. Though George Clinton is listed as having written ‘Hot Sauce’, I don’t think it’s as funky as other tracks on the album.
Add a few tracks from Speaking In Tongues: Girlfriend is Better, and Making Flippy Floppy.. Let me keep wandering around youtube, and I’m sure I’ll find some more.
Again, I think the live tracks are better, (Stop Making Sense, that RAI concert I mentioned earlier, but the studio stuff is still awfully funky.
Tina Weymouth added a lot of funk to the Talking Head, but I agree that Girlfriend is Better is a winner. I’ll add it.
Nobody, that song isn’t that funky – do they have any really funky deep tracks?
Shoeless and GG, which Dolby song should I choose? I know Hyperactive and it is pretty funky. I’ll give the others a listen.
I’ll reduce the Stones selection to Hot Stuff.
Joan Osborne - “Spider Web”
I dreamed about Ray Charles last night…
OK, added!
Thomas Dolby has very few songs on Spotify and Hyperactive isn’t one of them. 
Difficult-to-categorize Austrian band, KONTRUST, can get pretty funky!
Hey DJ!
Bernie Worrell may have had a little to do with it too… Do take a listen through Fear of Music and Remain in Light though.
For Dolby, I’d recommend May The Cube Be With You as his funkiest song. At least the one that sounds the most like he’s aping Funkadelic. I’d link, but copying/pasting youtube links on mobile is a PITA. Easy to google.
Another band that might qualify is Clutch. Particularly “A Quick Death in Texas”. Clutch - A Quick Death in Texas - YouTube
(And now I can select the link text in the address bar. How weird.)
YouTube link:
Not that I’m aware of.
Would “Come Together” be considered funky? Probably not?
Rittersport: This one you won’t be adding…One of my old bands - Mexican Power Authority - started off “Final Dignity” (from our 141-song Haiku…Gesundheit 2 X LP) with a funky bass line (before veering into a damaged ska ditty about a nurse approaching an old patient who’s looking at the last thing he’ll ever see - a Bugs Bunny rectal thermometer). (featuring, at end of song, Jason’s wimpering, upon receiving said final dignity)
There, that is my funk contribution.
Thanks! I would have added it, but no luck on Spotify. 
Pretty cool sound! If it’s your stuff, I think you can pay to have it added to Spotify – I don’t know how much it costs, though.
Thanks for the props - spotify’s something I considered and still might do.
Bowie was mentioned earlier - can’t remember if “Golden Years” was mentioned.
(not sure if there’s too much intrinsic funk in DB [like there is in Talking Heads] to sorta disqualify him here.)
I’m going to stick with Fame for Bowie. He has a fair amount of funky stuff, but nothing like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, for example.
Except, I question designating Talking Heads as “non-funky” because they always had funk at the core from the beginning. I’m convinced David Byrne taught himself to play rhythm guitar off of James Brown records. Chris Frantz is an outspoken James Brown acolyte. Tina Weymouth’s funkativity on the bass has already been noted.
I get where you’re coming from. As a counter argument, I’d say that I really love that song. 
It’s not like they’re Rick James or even the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Not sure if that’s addressing my post, which I admit could’ve been worded better, because I’m in total agreement about the funk element in TH.
I feel like EVH was at his funkiest on “Drop Dead Legs” from 1984.
