The funkiest tune ever...

[Flavour]

Superstition: Stevie Wonder.

yes. end of thread. next.

 

[poului]

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Ian Dury - Wake up and Make Love to Me.

 

[JE:5]

I lost my funkometer so I couldn't tell you.

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

Phil Collins - 'Another Day In Paradise'.

 

[Dr. Furface]

Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) - Sly & The Family Stone
Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On) - Talking Heads
One Nation Under A Groove - Funkadelic
Superstition - Stevie Wonder
Shack Up - A Certain Ratio

 

[Sunspots]

Shack Up - A Certain Ratio

It's surely not as funky as the original!

 

[Passdout]

Average White Band:

Pick up the Pieces
Cut the Cake
Schoolboy Crush

Although plenty of other tracks and artists are high on my list...

 

[Bob]

Average White Band:

Pick up the Pieces
Cut the Cake
Schoolboy Crush

Although plenty of other tracks and artists are high on my list...

Quality trivia fact: Archy Kirkwood (an early member of the average white band) went on to become a Liberal / Lib Dem MPs for about 30 years and has recently retired / become a Lord.

Photo here

 

[Bob]

Back OT - surely it has to be something by Stevie Wonder, but I'd put in a bid for Sergio Mendes And Brasil '77 doing Superstition as funkiest cover...

 

[grosun]

Surely,

Soul Searchers - Ashleys Roach Clip

Yes! definitely in my list Frikkin' excellent.

Along with

"Got Made Me Funky" by the Headhunters

and maybe

"Just Kissed My Baby" by the Meters

[i like the slow ones; think it's harder to get the funk at faster tempos, tho' obviously James Brown/the JB's are pretty good at doing so]

Certainly those all used to get me grooving when I used to regularly go to a funk night, & no dis to stevie, but they all kick "superstition"'s ass imho.

 

[Passdout]

Singer/bassist Alan Gorrie, guitarists Hamish Stuart and Onnie McIntyre, tenor saxophonist Malcolm Duncan, keyboardist/saxophonist Roger Ball, and drummer Robbie McIntosh comprised the original Average White Band lineup. When exactly was Archie Kirkwood in the band? I dont remember that name to be honest.

I cant believe that pick up the pieces was 1975! Doesnt seem that long ago to me.

 

[billy_bob]

James Johnson: Last Night on my Back Porch
Robert Parker: Barefooting
Otis Redding: Bama Lama

or, to put it another way,

Stevie Wonder: Superstition
Stevie Wonder: Superstition
Stevie Wonder: Superstition

 

[shoddysolutions]

Phil Collins - 'Another Day In Paradise'.

 

[top_biller]

On a more contemporary tip, the Armand Van Helden remix of Sugar Is Sweeter by CJ Bolland is one of, if not the, funkiest house track ever. The bassline gets me every time, simple yet devastating.

 

[roney]

Aaron Neville - 'Hercules'
JB & Maceoooo - 'Soul of a Black Man'


As da man says...You can't fake the funk

 

[linerider]

white lines-grandmaster flash
one nation-funkadelic
papa was a rolling stone-the temptations

 

[Dask]

Zapp - More bounce to the ounce

 

[EatMoreChips]

Obvious really.

Hot Shot City - David Hasselhoff.

 

[stavros]

I feel we ought to nominate a track from Dr. Dre's funky early 90s period. May I suggest his own "Let Me Ride" or Snoop's "Who Am I (What's My Name)"? OK they're all sampled but he not only preserves the funk, he funks it up some more.

 

[Sunspots]

I feel we ought to nominate a track from Dr. Dre's funky early 90s period. May I suggest his own "Let Me Ride" or Snoop's "Who Am I (What's My Name)"? OK they're all sampled but he not only preserves the funk, he funks it up some more.

Well they both sample Parliament's Mothership Connection.

It's scientifically proven that you can't 'funk up' the P-Funk. It's already waaaay off the scale!...

 

[Callie]

Shack Up - A Certain Ratio

what about the bis version?

 

[stavros]

I don't think Dre ups the funk but he certainly doesn't detract from it. If we were to put together a mix CD we'd have to put a G-funk track on there and those two are as good as any.

 

[Sunspots]

Zapp - More bounce to the ounce

I'm sure I've mentioned this before: when I was a nipper, I was convinced Zapp were actually singing 'Move Out To The Alps'.

At the time, it seemed entirely plausible to me that a couple of brothers from Ohio would be singing all about relocating to a European mountain range...

 

[Sunspots]

what about the bis version?

I haven't heard Bis', but what about Banbara's!?

-The first, and the funkiest, by far!

 

[Boogie Boy]

Zapp - More bounce to the ounce

Great record, and a great tune to do a two copy scratch mix with!
Works every time.

BB

 

[chooch]

Bobby Byrd- i know you got soul

 

[Orang Utan]

Sun Palace - Rude Movements
Roy Ayers - Chicago Chicago
Cybotron - Cosmic Cars

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Blind Lemon reckons Spank-A-Lee off Flood (Herbie Hancock).
Me, I'm with a Meters tune that I can't remember the name of neither can Blind Lemon...he's playing it on his guitar right now....

 

[Orang Utan]

Blind Lemon reckons Spank-A-Lee off Flood (Herbie Hancock).

Indeed. Hancock's a funky little man - Chameleon and Hang Up You rHangups are also great funky numbers - a lot of people would frown at Nobu being described as funky but I think it is.

 

[Orang Utan]

And how can I forget Dexter Wansel's Life On Mars?
And Fela Kuti's Roforofo Fight