Ooh, I second The Ohio Players!
For P-Funk purposes, mine are “Atomic Dog” and “Flashlight”.
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.
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
Outta Space by Billie Preston does it for me. I start some serious contortin’ when that hits the air.
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
“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”
It’s more Gamble and Huff Philly Soul stuff, but I really love the O’Jays’ Back Stabbers
What they doin?
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.
White Lines (Don’t Don’t Do It) by Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel
Funkadelic – I Bet You
Talking Heads/Burning down the house
Peter Gabriel/Big Time:
Curtis Mayfield/Freddie’s Dead
Bill Withers/Use Me
Staple Singers/I’ll Take You There
Peter Gabriel/Sledgehammer
What a brilliant show Sesame Street was. I hav this clip 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.
…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.
I just had to share this. For obvious reasons, I just tried looking up “funky” in Wikipedia.
…and it redirected me to…
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. 
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.
Dig him on Youtube. I has also bought it.
… there’s a video of him playing with Clapton.
Aw… yeaaaah.
Funkadelic- Who Says a Funk Band Can’t Play Rock Music?
Anytime - glad you like it too! I love a pretty eclectic bunch of music - love to share what I know 
Yes, thanks for this. I picked up a copy from iTunes.