Various Artists - R&B/Soul - Funk - The Funk Box
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Artist: Various Artists - R&B/Soul - FunkEdition: Music CD
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 2000-11-21
Music Label: Hip-O Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Get Up I Feel Like Being A Sex Machine (full-length single version) - James Brown
- Express Yourself - Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band
- Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose (unedited non-overdubbed version) - James Brown
- Rock Steady - Aretha Franklin
- Slippin' Into Darkness - War
- I Know You Got Soul (extended version) - Bobby Byrd
- Jungle Fever - The Chakachas
- It's Just Begun - The Jimmy Castor Bunch
- Outa-Space - Billy Preston
- Think (About It) - Lyn Collins (The Female Preacher)
- Goin' To See My Baby - Fatback Band
- Pass The Peas - The JB's
- "T" Plays It Cool - Marvin Gaye
- The Message - Cymande
- I Can Understand It - The New Birth
- I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little More, Baby - Barry White
- Future Shock - Curtis Mayfield
- The Bottle (12" mix) - Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson
- What Is Hip? - Tower of Power
- The Payback - James Brown
- For The Love Of Money - The O'Jays
- Hollywood Swinging - Kool & The Gang
- Tell Me Something Good - Rufus featuring Chaka Khan
- Do It, Fluid - Blackbyrds
- Do It (Till You're Satisfied) - B.T. Express
- Just Kissed My Baby - The Meters
- Skin Tight - Ohio Players
- I Get Lifted - George McCrae
- Shakey Ground - The Temptations
- School Boy Crush - Average White Band
- Erucu - Jermaine Jackson
- Fight the Power - Pts. 1 & 2 - The Isley Brothers
- The Jam - Graham Central Station
- Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker) - Parliament
- Get The Funk Out Ma Face - Brothers Johnson
- Changin' - Brass Construction
- Dazz - Brick
- Superman Lover - Johnny Guitar Watson
- The Pinocchio Theory - Bootsy's Rubber Band
- Slide - Slave
- The Hump - Patrice Rushen
- Running Away (12" mix) - Roy Ayers
- Brick House (12" mix) - The Commodores
- Let's Have Some Fun - Bar-Kays
- You and I - Rick James
- I Like Girls - Fatback
- Let's Start The Dance - Bohannon
- One Nation Under A Groove - Funkadelic
- Bustin' Loose (12" mix) - Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers
- I Just Want To Be (12" extended mix) - Cameo
- Glide - Pleasure
- Behind The Groove - Teena Marie
- More Bounce To The Ounce - Zapp
- Burn Rubber (Why You Wanna Hurt Me) - Gap Band
- Atomic Dog - George Clinton
Free Music Notes for The Funk Box
Free Music Review: Fantastic Funky Fun
Hit: 5 Stars
This is what's missing from most of todays sterilized corporate driven music. Its fun. Its on the edge. Its raw. But its addictively fun. You can hear James Brown directing the band in the middle of the songs with his usuall flare. You can hear musicians trying different riffs. You can be sure most tracks were recorded with a full band playing at once, getting into and changing their own groove. You can't help but move to the great baseline and rythyms. Its got that special electricity that you just don't find in most modern music. Great Great collection.
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Of course The Funk Box is kick-ass party music--put "Sex Machine," "Brick House," "One Nation Under a Groove" and "Hollywood Swinging" in the same set, and that pretty much goes without saying. But its chronological survey of funk's evolution through the '70s also frames the dialectical struggle between the music's two main schools--the James Brown style (hard, sharp, built around drum-and-guitar polyrhythms) and the P-Funk style (goofy, squishy, putting all its weight behind ultraheavy bass)--along with the way both schools dealt with the emergence of disco. The set also reveals how the party-time atmosphere of the earliest funk hits gradually evolved into the social consciousness of Cymande and the O'Jays, and then back to the hedonism of Fatback and Zapp. All the big funk stars are here, but the compilers have mercifully gone for as many lesser-known floor-fillers as warhorses: Rick James is represented by "You and I" instead of "Super Freak," George McCrae by "I Get Lifted" instead of "Rock Your Baby." The set also includes a lot of forgotten wonders and DJs' secrets--when's the last time you heard "The New Birth" or "Pleasure"? You can treat The Funk Box as an introduction to funk, as a textbook on how popular music reflects mass culture, or even as the source material for pretty much every hip-hop sample ever. Or you can just put it on and dance your brains away. --Douglas WolkDance & DJ Music CDs
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