 | The Funk Box by Various Artists - R&B/Soul - Funk
Buy new: $37.47 / Used from: $33.26 Wonderful Package. Exhaustive liner notes. You can get great Rick James tracks without having to tolerate lousy ones. Ditto Gap Band, Bohannon, AWB, Billy Preston, etc.
Some tunes you didn't even know that you knew are here. You NEED this one.
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 | Anthology by Sly & the Family Stone
Buy used from: $3.38 Revolutionary, joyful, angry, bitter, life-affirming, dejected. The entire human experience is here.
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 | Mothership Connection by Parliament
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $7.00 Ga Ga Goo Gaw Gaw. Need I say more? OK. Modern funk begins here.
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 | Star Time (4CD) by James Brown
Buy new: $37.47 / Used from: $29.12 Yes, you must own EVERY James Brown single. But just for fun, start with "Doin' It to Death" - The best trombone solo ever
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 | Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome by Parliament
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $4.19 The obvious hit is here, but the long complicated ones show the genius of Clinton
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 | The Best of Cameo by Cameo
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $7.75 Funky via Julliard, Larry Blackmon's voice is one of a kind
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 | Stretchin' Out in Bootsy's Rubber Band by Bootsy's Rubber Band
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $3.83 Funny, Bass-alicious, child-like, & irresistible.
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 | Maggot Brain by Funkadelic
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $12.60 You may not think that Maggot Brain is fonky... but trust me... it is. Guitar Overlord Eddie Hazel - R.I.P.
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 | It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back by Public Enemy
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $3.78 From beginning to end... a very hard groove. Scary
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 | Urban Dancefloor Guerillas by P Funk All Stars
Buy used from: $13.49 Best side of a album ever recorded by G. Clinton. "you pump up & down, you pump up & down, and then you break it down..." 'Nuff said.
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 | Black on Both Sides by Mos Def
Buy used from: $4.26 Black Intellegentsia becomes super funky. Melody & Beat (& singing) put this in the category of Funk (c.f. Hip-Hip)
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 | In All Languages by Ornette Coleman
Buy used from: $15.00 Stunningly beautiful, eery, and sometimes jarring with 2 great bassist (Charlie Haden, Jamaaladeen Tacuma) & el supremo Ornette Coleman. Cannot be used as background music!
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 | The Best of Brick by Brick
Buy used from: $3.30 yes I know, a minor group. But with a distinctive sound. "Livin From the Mind", "Happy", "We Don't Wanna Sit Down..." exude positivity without idiocy
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 | Pithecanthropus Erectus by Charles Mingus
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $4.04 Would you buy a CD just for the title track? If that track had the most definitive bass line ever. Of course you would.
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 | Stellar Fungk: The Best of Slave by Slave
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $5.43 Their bass licks (and lyrics) are so minimalistic that the listener is firmly planted in stoopid-land. Enjoy.
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 | 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of the Ohio Players by The Ohio Players
Buy used from: $9.06 "Skin Tight", "Sweet Sticky Thing", "Contradictions" are all much better than "Fire". And "Fire" is pretty good.
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