# Your favorite funkadelic song. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 5, 2008, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-funkadelic-song/451816 "2008-06-05T00:30:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-funkadelic-song/451816/21 "2008-06-05T15:19:47Z")
Ooh, I second The Ohio Players! For P-Funk purposes, mine are “Atomic Dog” and “Flashlight”. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-funkadelic-song/451816/22 "2008-06-05T15:29:59Z")
[QUOTE=WordMan] No surprise if you know my tastes from previous threads, but \*\*Prince \*\* deserves a mention here. If you’ve never heard **Housequake** , off of Sign o’ The Times, you really, really should. “Shut up already - damn!” [/QUOTE] I saw Prince on the Sign o’ The Times tour and had a blast. Several friends of mine and I went to a little club after the show and who should show up about 2 hours later but…Prince. He even played a few numbers with the house band (who were in complete amazement) and then…poof…he was gone. ---
**Author:** ![davidw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c4cdca/32.png) [@davidw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidw)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-funkadelic-song/451816/23 "2008-06-05T19:22:27Z")
James Brown – Give It Up or Turn It Loose Funkadelic – Standing on the Verge of Getting It On Lyn Collins – Think (About It) George Clinton – Atomic Dog The Meters – The Hand-Clapping Song ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-funkadelic-song/451816/24 "2008-06-05T19:26:12Z")
Outta Space by Billie Preston does it for me. I start some serious _contortin’_ when that hits the air. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-funkadelic-song/451816/25 "2008-06-05T19:53:55Z")
Ever hear ‘Snoop Bounce’? It’s Snoop and Rage Against The Machine covering Atomic Dog. At the moment, “Chocolate City” is on my mental playlist. But lemme think… One Nation under a Groove - Funkadelic Give Up The Funk - Parliment Glide - Pleasure Pass the Peas - The J.Bs More Bounce to the Ounce - Zapp Do it, Fluid - The Blackbyrds ---
**Author:** ![Kuboydal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-funkadelic-song/451816/26 "2008-06-05T20:03:27Z")
“What is soul? Huh, I dunno… soul is a ham hock in your corn flakes ooohhhh yeeeeahhh” I vote for ‘what is soul’ by Funkadelic. “soul is a joint rolled in toilet paper” ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-funkadelic-song/451816/27 "2008-06-05T20:45:57Z")
It’s more Gamble and Huff Philly Soul stuff, but I really love the O’Jays’ [Back Stabbers](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVC2j_Kdw8c) What they doin? ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-funkadelic-song/451816/28 "2008-06-05T21:28:14Z")
[QUOTE=plnnr] I saw Prince on the Sign o’ The Times tour and had a blast. Several friends of mine and I went to a little club after the show and who should show up about 2 hours later but…Prince. He even played a few numbers with the house band (who were in complete amazement) and then…poof…he was gone. [/QUOTE] Hee. I heard he was to play a little club in the San Fernando Valley after a music awards show, and scored myself and a friend some tickets. We saw the whole Sign o’ The Times show in a little club, together with a buttload of music celebrities who had been at the awards show too. It was the best music experience ever - Chaka Khan and Sheila E. showed up and performed with him too. I left at 4:30 a.m. because I just couldn’t keep up with the little whirlwind, who was still going very strong at that hour. Oh, and in addition to Prince, I’m casting another vote for George Clinton. That’s good to hear he’s still touring and still great. I’d like to see him. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-funkadelic-song/451816/29 "2008-06-05T21:29:24Z")
_White Lines (Don’t Don’t Do It)_ by Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-funkadelic-song/451816/30 "2008-06-05T21:56:11Z")
Funkadelic – [I Bet You](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE8DPFqJqGI) ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-funkadelic-song/451816/31 "2008-06-05T22:39:54Z")
Talking Heads/Burning down the house [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=st1lH8zcIuQ) Peter Gabriel/Big Time: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/F0FBi5Rv1ho/hqdefault.jpg "Peter Gabriel Big Time") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0FBi5Rv1ho) Curtis Mayfield/Freddie’s Dead [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Z9nwcpGZE6A/hqdefault.jpg "Curtis Mayfield ~ Freddies Dead") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9nwcpGZE6A) Bill Withers/Use Me [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/CVy5yOs0NSA/hqdefault.jpg "Bill Withers - Use me") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVy5yOs0NSA) Staple Singers/I’ll Take You There [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/D9rh3JTvvlk/hqdefault.jpg "The Staple Singers-- I'll Take You There") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9rh3JTvvlk) Peter Gabriel/Sledgehammer [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ-CKRi_tlw) ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Badger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@Dead\_Badger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Badger)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2008, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-funkadelic-song/451816/32 "2008-06-05T22:57:28Z")
[QUOTE=Zsofia] I also feel the Stevie Wonder, but mine is Superstition. I was first introduced to it as a child, on [Sesame Street](http://youtube.com/watch?v=_ul7X5js1vE). Check out the kid rocking _out_ around 4:15. I don’t care if you’re an imaginary elephant, that is a hell of an awesome performance. [/QUOTE] What a brilliant show Sesame Street was. I hav [this clip](http://youtube.com/watch?v=F45VB4jx1A8) of eminent popper Mr Wiggles performing for them. Check out the sick waves and tuts. They just don’t make kids’ TV like this any more, they really don’t. Oh, and I comprehensively second Superstition. Mozart himself could not have written a better hook, and that’s my final word. Of course, he equally never would’ve written anything as insipid as “you are the sunshine of my life”, but that’s by the by. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-funkadelic-song/451816/33 "2008-06-06T01:52:36Z")
[QUOTE=lobotomyboy63] Peter Gabriel/Big Time: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/F0FBi5Rv1ho/hqdefault.jpg "Peter Gabriel Big Time") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0FBi5Rv1ho) Peter Gabriel/Sledgehammer ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/KJ-CKRi_tlw/maxresdefault.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/KJ-CKRi_tlw?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque [/QUOTE] …So, just what IS funky? Can it be quantified? Or defined? I once looked it up in a dictionary or encyclopedia somewhere. I don’t remember which one now, but it was in a book I found lying around, not an online search, and it crossed my mind to test its mettle by looking up “funky”. The definition it gave was at once very academic, yet very accurate: “Music … characterized by a heavy emphasis on the ‘one’ beat, as compared to traditional blues or rock ‘n’ roll, which emphasizes the ‘two’ or the ‘back’ beat.” Huh. Heavy emphasis on the ONE beat… Hmmm… That’s when the bass guitar hook for Wild Cherry’s _Play That Funky Music_, followed by Stevie Wonder’s _Superstition_ cued up in my mental jukebox, and I thought to myself, _Oh yeah, that’s funky. And that pulsing rhythm is on the one beat, all right._ And Chuck Berry’s _Rock And Roll Music_, and Fats Domino’s _Blueberry Hill_ followed after. _Two beat… Back beat… Checks out._ Which means that, as much as I really, really like Peter Gabriel’s songs _Big Time_ and _Sledgehammer_, they’re not “funky”. Catchy, yes. But they’re definitely back-beat songs. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-funkadelic-song/451816/34 "2008-06-06T01:59:34Z")
[QUOTE=robardin] …So, just what IS funky? Can it be quantified? Or defined? I once looked it up in a dictionary or encyclopedia somewhere… [/QUOTE] I just had to share this. For obvious reasons, I just tried looking up “funky” in Wikipedia. …and it redirected me to… > [@](#): > > **Taco Bell** > From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia > (Redirected from [Funky](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funky)) ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-funkadelic-song/451816/35 "2008-06-06T02:07:07Z")
[QUOTE=melodyharmonius] [This is my newest funkadelic fixation](http://www.myspace.com/robertrandolph). I’m sure he’s probably too neo for your list - but he makes me bop my head and shake my tailfeather - and there ain’t nothing wrong with that 🆒 [/QUOTE] This band is _AWESOME_! And I don’t even usually like funk. But I do like good music that makes you get up and dance. I have ordered two copies – one for car, one for home. Thanks for the link. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-funkadelic-song/451816/36 "2008-06-06T02:13:33Z")
[QUOTE=robardin] …So, just what IS funky? Can it be quantified? Or defined? I once looked it up in a dictionary or encyclopedia somewhere. I don’t remember which one now, but it was in a book I found lying around, not an online search, and it crossed my mind to test its mettle by looking up “funky”. The definition it gave was at once very academic, yet very accurate: “Music … characterized by a heavy emphasis on the ‘one’ beat, as compared to traditional blues or rock ‘n’ roll, which emphasizes the ‘two’ or the ‘back’ beat.” Huh. Heavy emphasis on the ONE beat… Hmmm… That’s when the bass guitar hook for Wild Cherry’s _Play That Funky Music_, followed by Stevie Wonder’s _Superstition_ cued up in my mental jukebox, and I thought to myself, _Oh yeah, that’s funky. And that pulsing rhythm is on the one beat, all right._ And Chuck Berry’s _Rock And Roll Music_, and Fats Domino’s _Blueberry Hill_ followed after. _Two beat… Back beat… Checks out._ Which means that, as much as I really, really like Peter Gabriel’s songs _Big Time_ and _Sledgehammer_, they’re not “funky”. Catchy, yes. But they’re definitely back-beat songs. [/QUOTE] I’d have to wonder about that definition of funk. I was a band nerd. We played plenty of stuff with the emphasis on one. Not much of it was funk. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-funkadelic-song/451816/37 "2008-06-06T02:31:56Z")
Dig him on Youtube. I has also bought it. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/c_RmRvuS4Uo/hqdefault.jpg "Robert Randolph Voodoo Chile") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_RmRvuS4Uo) … there’s a video of him playing with Clapton. Aw… yeaaaah. ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-funkadelic-song/451816/38 "2008-06-06T02:35:28Z")
Funkadelic- [Who Says a Funk Band Can’t Play Rock Music?](http://youtube.com/watch?v=QYVmPo-T6Ls) ---
**Author:** ![melodyharmonius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/melodyharmonius/32/21310_2.png) [@melodyharmonius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melodyharmonius)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-funkadelic-song/451816/39 "2008-06-06T03:00:24Z")
[QUOTE=Jodi] This band is _AWESOME_! And I don’t even usually like funk. But I do like good music that makes you get up and dance. I have ordered two copies – one for car, one for home. Thanks for the link. 🙂 [/QUOTE] Anytime - glad you like it too! I love a pretty eclectic bunch of music - love to share what I know 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-funkadelic-song/451816/40 "2008-06-06T03:59:44Z")
[QUOTE=melodyharmonius] [This is my newest funkadelic fixation](http://www.myspace.com/robertrandolph). I’m sure he’s probably too neo for your list - but he makes me bop my head and shake my tailfeather - and there ain’t nothing wrong with that 🆒 [/QUOTE] Yes, thanks for this. I picked up a copy from iTunes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-funkadelic-song/451816.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-funkadelic-song/451816.md?page=3)