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Tag: Funk
James Brown – Star Time: #272 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I feel good, I knew that I would.
Beck – Midnite Vultures: #278 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Touch it real good if you want a piece. Party people know I’m that type of freak.
KC & The Sunshine Band – KC & The Sunshine Band: #305 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Do a little dance, make a little love, get down tonight.
Curtis Mayfield – Super Fly: #364 of best 1,000 albums ever!
We can deal with rockets and dreams, but reality, what does it mean?
Yolk – Yolk: #500 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Capturing beauty of something as precious as life.
Stevie Wonder – Songs in the Key of Life: #562 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand, with an equal opportunity for all to sing, dance, and clap their hands.
Prince – Dirty Mind: #667 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Raw, grimy, funked up danceable R&B pop. Also: fun.
Kool & The Gang – The Very Best of Kool & The Gang: #682 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Get down, get DOWN.
Sly & The Family Stone – Greatest Hits: #744 of best 1,000 albums ever!
There are very few bands that have better expressed the pure joy, the pure jubilation of music.
Jamiroquai – Emergency on Planet Earth: #775 of best 1,000 albums ever!
When you gonna learn?
Curtis Mayfield – Curtis: #795 of best 1,000 albums ever!
If there is a hell below, at least we’ve got Curtis in the meanwhile in the here and now.
Funkadelic – Maggot Brain: #813 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A work of psychedelicized funk/soul/rock bizarro-genius that you may choose to hit and/or quit.
The Meters – Look-Ka Py Py: #843 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Get down with the funky miracle.
Living Colour – Collideoscope: #933 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A lesser work of one of great hard rock bands still easily makes this here list.
Mr. Bungle – Mr. Bungle: #958 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Definitely not for everyone, but this wildly and weirdly experimental rock album has dizzying and genre transmorphing moments that are tremendously exciting.
The Sugarhill Gang – 8th Wonder: #997 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s a fun (very) old school hip hop party album, and/but “Apache” is the towering achievement here that merits best 1,000 albums ever consideration.