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Rikuff




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  • Posted: 10/27/2013 20:32
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What is your favorite funk albums?
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MrFrogger
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  • Posted: 10/27/2013 20:46
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There's A Riot Goin' On by Sly And The Family Stone
Only funk album that I've had an emotional connection with
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  • Posted: 10/27/2013 20:58
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Pieces Of A Man by Gil Scott Heron


Superfly by Curtis Mayfield

If these count as funk.
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Norman Bates



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  • Posted: 10/27/2013 21:01
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Mothership Connection by Parliament


One Nation Under A Groove by Funkadelic

Cool
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  • Posted: 10/28/2013 11:35
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Not familiar with funks.
There's a riot going on is the only one I know・・・・・・・・
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  • Posted: 10/28/2013 12:02
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OK, albums I love that contain some semblance of 'funk':

Curtis Mayfield - Curtis
Curtis Mayfield - Super Fly
Curtis Mayfield - There's No Place Like America Today
Curtis Mayfield - Roots
Fela Kuti - Zombie
Fela Kuti - Sorrow, Tears and Blood
Fela Kuti - Alagbon Close
Fela Kuti - Expensive Shit
George Clinton - R'n'B Skeletons in the Closet
Parliament - everything you can find
Funkadelic - everything you can find
George Duke - everything you can find
Dam-Funk - Toeachizown
Steve Arrington & Dam-Funk - Higher
The Egyptian Lover - On the Nile
Sly & The Family Stone - Stand
Sly & The Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On
Luther Vandross - Never Too Much
Herbie Hancock - Headhunters
Miles Davis - Jack Johnson
Miles Davis - On the Corner
Prince - The Black Album
Prince - Dirty Mind
Prince - Prince
Art Webb - Mr. Flute
The Brothers Johnson - Right on Time
Tower of Power - Urban Renewal
Gil Scott-Heron - Pieces of a Man
Gil Scott-Heron - Bridges
Gil Scott-Heron - 1980
Gil Scott-Heron - Winter in America
James Blood Ulmer - Are You Glad to be in America?
Cymande - Cymande
Zapp - Zapp
Zapp - Zapp II
The Meters - anything pre-1978
Earth, Wind & Fire - anything pre-1982
Isaac Hayes - Shaft
The Weather Report - everything you can find
Donald Byrd - Places and Spaces
Donald Byrd - Stepping Into Tomorrow
Lonnie Liston Smith - Cosmic Funk
Lonnie Liston Smith - Expansions
Slave - everything you can find
Rufus & Chaka Khan - Rufusized
Rufus & Chaka Khan - Rags to Rufus
Roy Ayers - anything 1968-1980
Rose Royce - the first three albums
Kool & The Gang - Kool & The Gang
James Brown - The Payback
The Incredible Bongo Band - Bongo Rock
War - The World is a Ghetto
UGK - Super Tight
Outkast - the first three albums

There's loads I'm forgetting, but you can't go wrong with those. Check out Inell Young's fantastic song 'What Do You See In Her?' too.
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