THE FUNKY SIDE OF DISCO

[QUINNY]

Welcome all to a list of tracks that I've been movin' my groove thing to this week.
They're on a Minidisc I've put together, just to lay some tracks down before I put them back in storage.
I remember playing all of these pretty heavily back in the early - mid '70s on.

Do It 'til you're Satisfied - B.T. Express
Soul Makossa - Afrique (even better than Manu's)
Gangster Boogie Bump - Willie Henderson
The Boogie Man - Greg Perry
Who's Makin' Love - Johhny Taylor
Mr. Bump Man - Jackie Beavers
Follow the Wind - Midnight Movers Unlimited
Get On Down - Eddie Harris (what a groove)
I'm Mad as Hell - 100 Proof Aged in Soul
You're The One - Little Sister
Black Water Gold - African MUsic Machine (is this the same tune as made by the Sunshine Band some years later?)
Mas Zacate - El Chicano
K Jee - Niteliters
I Don't want to Work Today - New York Port Authority
If You're GOnna Do It - Peoples Choice
Do it Fluid - Blackbyrds
Shake Your Body - Made In USA
Shake Your Rump To The Funk - Bar Kays
If you Feel Like Dancin' - Al Huson & soul Partners
Sexy - MFSB
Foot Stompin' Music - Bohannon
Dynomite - Tony Camillo's Bazuka

Then I dragged out some slightly newer tracks just for a good mixture. All of these earnt their keep too.
Tee's Happy - Northend
Something That You Do to Me - T. Life
Do It anyway you Wanna - Mike T (I can't tell you how much I like this record)
Zulu - The Quick
A little Bit Of Jazz - Nick Straker Band
Dance Freak - Chain Reaction
The Rock Is Gonna Get You - Gordon's War
Let Her Feel It - Simplicious
Still In The Groove - Raydio with Ray Parker Jnr.
Dance It Up - Matt Fretton

So, I make that tracks from 1969 - 1984 and I still love 'em.

[Funky Dude]

Hi QUINNY. Fantastic list you have there. I'm familiar with half the ones you mentioned and I LOVE "Follow The Wind" by Midnight Movers and "You're The One" by Little Sister, very catchy funk songs.

Here are some more great funk tracks to add to your list:

Dennis Coffey - Scorpio 1971
Dynamic Corvettes - Funky Music Is The Thing Pts 1 & 2 1974 (Part 2 is even better because it has a KILLER superfunky synthesizer wah wah sound)
Bobby Sax & The New Messiah - Out House 73 1973
Sylvers - Don't Stop Get Off 1978
Memphis Horns - Get Up & Dance 1976
Brass Construction - Movin'/Dance 1975
Curtis Mayfield - Junkie Chase 1972
Parliament - Side Effects/Mothership Connection 1975
Rhythm Makers - Zone 1975
Jimmy Castor Bunch - E-Man Partay/Maximum Stimulation 1977
Kool & The Gang - Love The Life You Live 1971
Patti Jo - Make You Believe In Me 1975
Temptations - Happy People 1974
Commodores - I Feel Sanctified/Gonna Blow Your Mind 1974
Commodores - Slippery When Wet 1975
Van McCoy - Turn This Mother Out 1975
Con Funk Shun - FFun 1977
Kool & The Gang - Caribbean Festival/Spirit Of The Boogie 1975
Jackson 5 - Hum Along & Dance 1973

[HustleBaby]

Well I don't think my list is as funky as the both of yours so here it goes:

1.Ghetto Child/Mighty Love - The Spinners
2.Love In C-Minor - Cerrone
3.I Need You/I Feel Love - Donna Summers
4.Ten Percent/My Love Is Free - Double Exposure
5.Quiet Village/Arabian Nights/Brazil/Best Disco In Town/African Queens -Ritchie Family
6.Orient Express/From East To West - Voyage
7.Standing Ovation - GQ
8.Tangerine/Nasty/Ritzy Mambo/Magic Bird of Fire - Salsoul Orchestra

*DISCO DELIGHT*

[QUINNY]

FunkyDude: Nice to see your list YET AGAIN! :lol: I can see you're going to be a serious '70s funk head pretty soon.
I just hope you don't get too bogged down in the '70s. It was a magical time for me, 'cos I was playing all that stuff, getting people on the dance floor to it and getting paid to do it, but I have to tell you that a lot of the '70s stuff sounds like it came from the ark now. It even sounds older than some of the '60s stuff to me, especially some of the more obscure funk tracks. There was lots of it around at the time and unfortunately the funk equivalent of the Northern Soul brigade push a lot of titles as being 'gems' just because of their rarity. I could never be into all of that.
May the FUNK be with you Funky Dude.

[Blaxman]

On 2002-08-27 23:22, HustleBaby wrote:
Well I don't think my list is as funky as the both of yours so here it goes:

1.Ghetto Child/Mighty Love - The Spinners
2.Love In C-Minor - Cerrone
3.I Need You/I Feel Love - Donna Summers
4.Ten Percent/My Love Is Free - Double Exposure
5.Quiet Village/Arabian Nights/Brazil/Best Disco In Town/African Queens -Ritchie Family
6.Orient Express/From East To West - Voyage
7.Standing Ovation - GQ
8.Tangerine/Nasty/Ritzy Mambo/Magic Bird of Fire - Salsoul Orchestra

*DISCO DELIGHT*

Hi Hustlebaby,

For sure your list is not so funky but, it is great!! Specially Spinners, Double Exposure (love it), Cerrone and QG!!! :grin:

Peace

[Blaxman]

To Quinny and Funky Dude: FUNK RULES!!! :grin:

Peace

[jazz_pilgrim]

I would tend to disagree, Quinny.

For me, personally, the Seventies was the best era for music - and funk music is definitely a part of that. There were a few Seventies funk records that didn't make the grade, to be sure, (and Northern Soul as well), but you make it sound as if the whole genre were bad records.

And that can't be right!. When I play a funk record like "Brick House" by the Commodores or "Funky Stuff" by Kool and the Gang or a host of other records, I am still 100% KNOCKED OUT by them - exactly the same as I was 25 years ago!! I will never be able to get enough of that bass line in "Brick House"! Never! :grin: :grin:

And, yes, I do keep up with and enjoy the new stuff as well!

[Funky Dude]

QUINNY wrote:
FunkyDude: Nice to see your list YET AGAIN! I can see you're going to be a serious '70s funk head pretty soon.
I just hope you don't get too bogged down in the '70s. It was a magical time for me, 'cos I was playing all that stuff, getting people on the dance floor to it and getting paid to do it, but I have to tell you that a lot of the '70s stuff sounds like it came from the ark now. It even sounds older than some of the '60s stuff to me, especially some of the more obscure funk tracks. There was lots of it around at the time and unfortunately the funk equivalent of the Northern Soul brigade push a lot of titles as being 'gems' just because of their rarity. I could never be into all of that.
May the FUNK be with you Funky Dude.

Hi QUINNY. It depends on the individual's opinion. I'm only 20 years old turning 21 in October this year and I'm a hardcore 70's funk and disco fan, plus I also love 70's Australian rock and heavy metal and glam rock. Anyhow I've listened to 80's dance music and some 90's/millenium stuff on radio but to me it doesn't compare to the 70's. Looking at today and 90's, the dance music is good but it sounds too pop oriented and sounds lipstick/candy/barby doll music to me, there are a few exceptions such as "I've Changed My Mind" by Quannum and "Hard Funk" by Moby they are fantastic but the majority of funk I hear today is in that awful "motherfucker/suck my dick" rap/hip-hop music that goes on about pimps, prostitutes, raping, gangster shootings and getting women to suck their whackers and I HATE that sort of music. Also there's those awful boy bands like NSTINK, Backseat Boys, Human BLOODY Nature, Savage Garden and a few others who give dance music a very bad name. Looking at the 80's funk was pretty good especially around 1982 with songs like "Dance Wit Choo" by Rick James, "Body Slam" by Bootsy Collins, "Do It" by Bar-Kays, "Last Night A DJ Saved My Life" by Indeep etc... but later in the 80's music became more techno dance/house and a some of these funk groups like Kool & The Gang and Commodores adopted this dance style plus they went bit soft opposed to what they sounded like in the 70's, I like the 80's dance/house music but not as much as the 70's funk and disco music.

The funk from the 80's, 90's and today most of of it ain't as HARDCORE as it was in the 70's. The stuff from the recent years doesn't compare to:
Parliament - Side Effects 1975
Commodores - Slippery When Wet 1975
Bar-Kays - Son Of Shaft 1972
Kay Gees - Hustle With Every Muscle 1975
Dynamic Corvettes - Funky Music Is The Thing Pts 1 & 2 1974
Brinkley & Parker - Don't Get Fooled By The Pander Man 1974
Betty Davis - This Is It 1975 (NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL FUUUUUUUUUNKY MUSIC!!!!)
Kool & The Gang - Jungle Boogie 1973 (That shits on their 80's "Cherish")
Isaac Hayes - Chocolate Chip 1975
Bar-Kays - Shut The Funk Up 1977
Brothers Johnson - Get The Funk Outta Ma Face 1976

Just for the record I don't mind "Cherish" by Kool & The Gang, it's nice but it's no way near as cool as their 70's funk material.

And 70's disco to me sounds more cool than the Barbie doll techno we have today that sounds too pop oriented and souless. Speaking of Barbie dolls, on Australian TV there was a Barbie Doll music CD compilation called "Barbie's Pool Party Mix" advertised and of course the album cover is very PINK and it features a lot of the popular pop diva techno music like Kylie Minogue, Britney Spears etc... plus techno music from those BLOODY boy bands like NSTINK, Human Nature etc... and thinking that dance music of today has become like this makes me bloody sick mate! Barby dolls, YUUUUUCK!!!

Anyhow here's the link to the playlist of that "Barbie's Pool Party Mix":
http://www.nzgirl.co.nz/articles/238

And here's a pic of the album cover too "YUCK!":


Okay the little girls will love this CD, good for them, I cannot stand Barbie Dolls nor Barbie Doll music especially "Barby Girl" but that's my opinion.

Anyhow seeing I'm 20, I should be by so called peer pressure standards listening to techno, rap or death metal but I chose the music I like and I'm stickin' to it.

Anyhow please don't take my comments to heart, they are just my own personal opinions. What I say may well be a load of crap to some of you :lol: .

Cheers

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Australia mate! The land of many great funkateers!


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[Blaxman]

On 2002-08-28 08:49, Funky Dude wrote:

What I say may well be a load of crap to some of you :lol: .

Not to me Funky, be sure!! I totally agree with you!!

Peace.

[QUINNY]

FunkyDude: I know you have your opinions and I'd like to see more of them, instead of the same thing over and over and over. It just gets a bit boring seeing parts of the same list for the umpteenth time.
Just MY opinion mate. :lol:
I'll cross you off of my Christmas card list then? :cry:

[Funky Dude]

I've got hundreds of disco/funk songs to list. Reason I put those particular ones is because they are the funkiest to I use them as best examples of funk. Also I guess you already read my comment about modern dance in your "Rap Killed Disco" thread. Anyhow reason I repeated my comments on dance music today opposed to dance music of the 70's is to emphasize why I like the 70's better.

Anyhow with playlists I will still include songs I usually mention as I REALLY like them, but I do vary the list with other songs as well, it depends on what subject of disco and funk we're looking at.

As for my comments on todays dance opposed to 70's dance, I'll shut up about that now as everyone knows my opinion for the third time as I've posted about it 3 times.

Cheers