That's a combination of two musical instruments rather than genres - but equally as awful. Come to think of it, do any of those records actually contain any real drums and real basses anyway?

...somewhat confused as to who comes under the 'jazz-funk' category. I would have seen it as being things like Herbie Hancock's 'Headhunters' period or some of Miles Davis' heady 70s works like 'On The Corner', though I've also seen stuff like Level 42 and Shakatak dubbed 'jazz funk' as well.

Herbie Hancock, Richard 'Groove' Holmes, Maceo Parker, Johnny Hammond Smith all legends of jazz funk. There's plenty more but I'm too outraged to recall them all right now.

and raise you a Country'n'Irish...

this is *not* for the squeamish, and if you've children in the room, you might want to send them out.

watch the way Big Tom scratches his arse on the way out onto the studio floor at 0:15, the "song" itself starts at 3:45.

Now THAT'S how you improve Top of the Pops...

It's all rather silly having a pop at a genre of music. As Niks points out there's loads of really good Jazz Funk and the same goes for Drum & Bass and Jungle

Of course we all know that the exception lies with heavy metal which is just the blues played badly by virgins.

.. and raise you with some funk/metal.

With the exception of some Faith No More this was truly risible stuff. And I'd like to draw people's attention to the genre represented below

Techno-folk everyone. I once djed at a wedding on a remote Scottish Island. I was handed a CD full of this stuff and informed, in no uncertain terms, that this would make up a large portion of the music which would be played. Think Rednex Cotton Eye Joe but with folk music instead of country and you're there. And I know that Shooglenifty are a good band folks, but it wasn't them that the people wanted to hear...

My grandad the amateur geneaologist claimed to be of partly Scottish ancestry. Yet I have little or no affinity for Bagpipe Rock. Which leaves me wondering: Maybe grandad - being, after all, only an amateur - was wrong?

"My old man's a dustMMUUUUURRRGGGGHHHHHHHHNNN"

is in need of some new ears

was quite listenable, as I recall...

Ditto The Brecker Brothers' early records.