Funkadelic - "Groovallegiance"

And just listen to that bassline and the guitar solo!

Here's a different jazzy kind of South African funk, "Chapita" from the late Dick Khoza.

When I was 21 I went to the North Sea Jazz festival where Chaka Khan was performing. After her excellent show I wandered off and came across a backstage area sealed off from the public by a rope. Being an impudent oaf I decided that my presence was required at this bash and snuck in. Almost immediately I spotted the good lady I'd been watching on stage a few minutes before. Such is the confidence of youth that I went straight up to her and told her in no uncertain terms how fantastic her concert had been. She beamed, said "Aww, thanks darlin'!" and gave me a slow, deliberate kiss on the lips. I think I became a proper adult in that moment. Sexy, sexy woman.

Funkiest song? This has got to be up there... Look-Ka Py Py by The Meters.

Every week, just before the computer goes off, this comes on...loud, and gets me in the mood for serious weekend funkin ( or a bit of gardening and taking the kids places, just depends what I fancy)

Maceo And The Macks - Cross The Tracks

... that got me into funk to begin with. I may have heard funkier since, but right now I can't think of anything...

Tower of Power

... actually I think the answer is Goliath by James Brown, but I can't find a decent video

I don't know, but it works for me

Gil Scott Heron

This one is hard to beat...

(Funkadelic - (Not Just) Knee Deep) - EDIT: sorry about the awful sound quality!

But this one is my favourite at the moment

(Bobby Patterson - How Do You Spell Love)
A bit cynical...but I do love the way the backup singers spell out the answer; "How do you spell love ?" - "M.O.N.E.Y!"

You can frank me later.

Isn't this a great tune? It's called It's been a Blue Day and was the B-Side of The Shads' 1963 single Shindig.

Note that the YouTube clip opens with a shot of the band up a ladder(!) outside the EMI offices in London's Manchester Square, a subject covered at length in an earlier thread.

Konrad "Conny" Plank, that is. The great German producer was responsible for so much wonderful music from that part of the world.

You can show your gratitude to me later

James Brown's The Boss. Understated, slinky and funky as hell.

for starting endless threads based on the same wafer-thin premise. I even thought as much at the time of posting.

Of course it makes perfect sense to lump them all together.

Perfect for a Sunday morning. Or any other...

sorry

I was very taken with that clip of the Pointer Sisters earlier in this thread. I'm embarrassed to say I've never heard of Gaylord Birch, who it seems died from cancer in 1996. If you watch it on You Tube it links to this, recorded just about a year ago. It's hard to keep up with the Pointers hokey-cokey line-up but it looks like the lady on the left is a Pointer Grand-daughter whereas the other 2 are original Pointer Sisters, both in their 60's. Considering their relative maturity they fairly burn this one down (Neutron Dance, Live at the Greek Theatre LA, August 2010). That's a genuine value-for-money performance

Stevie Wonder. Superstition.

I thought that was a long-established fact.

and here's some Paul Simon - you can call me Al later

Continuing the "Heres some xxx, you can (whatever) me later" threads, I offer the following:

Damned - Blackout

Played this this morning accidentally (I thought I'd picked up 'Machine Gun Ettiquette', but in my bleary eyed comatose state picked up 'The Black Album' instead). Glad of the error, because I forgot how good this album is.

This is not just punk - its punk, goth and psychadelia all on one 5" silver disc. Theres even a touch of Prog on the album.

To Enjoy, or not Enjoy - the choice is yours