FUNK/SOUL/RNB YOUTUBE BATTLE

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Is it funk?  Is it rock?  Who cares? 

 

[Randy]

http://youtu.be/hF_m0v_S6B8

 

[Burgundy LaRue]

That Nirvana cover by Charles Bradley is hotter than fire.

 

 

[Death From Above]

http://youtu.be/LEwm_8LGGW4

 

[Thomas Bugg]

Y'all did think you'd have a funk thread and not have me contribute, did ya?

 

I'm gonna contribute with some Willie Hutch pimp shit!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcFzDJnXBys

[Elsalvajeloco]

How Brainstorm didn't blow up is one of music's biggest mysteries. Belita Woods is easily one of the top 5 greatest female vocal talents I ever heard.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[DEAN]

I am a child of the 70's.

 

The Natural 4- Can This Be Real

 

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Stevie Wonder- Looking For Another Pure Love

 

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Sly and the Family Stone- Frisky

[Elsalvajeloco]

Another person who should have been a star

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWzsCMhymZk

 

 

And fuck it, throw in some Tina and Ike

 

[DEAN]

Kool and the Gang- Hollywood Swinging

 

 

ZAPP- More Bounce to The Ounce extended version

 

Patrice Rushen- Forget Me Nots

[Burgundy LaRue]

[Elsalvajeloco]

The Collins brothers (Catfish and Bootsy) = pure awesomeness

 

 

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[Lazlo Woodbine]

[Joel Martin]

http://youtu.be/MHW0INuEzrE

 

http://youtu.be/UEQIUtawRTg

[supremebve]

Seriously...no Isley Brothers?  This is some shameful shit.

 

 

 

 

[John E. Dynamite]

Alright. Let's do this.

 

I like to track down and collect lots and lots of deep funk and soul tracks. Big fan of what the Numero label is doing, I dig the hell out of Daptone, but I also like buying regional funk compilations.

 

FROM THE FAIR CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, COMES BAND OF THIEVES with the song "Thieves In The Funkhouse"

 

 

File this under "How the Hell Has Nobody Sampled This?".

[Cole Miner]

Doris Troy and Chuck Jackson- Tell Him I'm Not Home

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SolcqDA0x0M

 

Kim Weston- Take Me In Your Arms

 

Arthur Conley- Sweet Soul Music

 

Solomon Burke- Cry to Me

 

Professor Longhair- Big Chief 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJM7-0SpENU

 

[ohtani's jacket]

http://youtu.be/cBW9Gt2ha44http://youtu.be/RGkMyWWcQTEhttp://youtu.be/jAv_P2Z-5LUhttp://youtu.be/XPkd9ZQOtbIhttp://youtu.be/4zWyj3eQ8wE

[Elsalvajeloco]

I have never believed in dressing up for Halloween, but always been tempted to go dressed up like a member of the Gap Band.

[MADCAP]

I got put onto this last year.  Suddenly Dr. Dre doesn't seem like such a genius, seeing as he lifted the whole damn instrumental:

 

 

This one too:

 

 

 

[Fat Spanish Waiter]

This went tremendously, I will be listening to all of it tomorrow before Breaking Bad.

[DEAN]

Curtis Mayfield- Future Shock

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s39Ix87aEA

 

Rick James- You and I

 

 

Cameo- Shake your Pants

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHpNfdqPYB4

[Burgundy LaRue]

http://youtu.be/sbbZ_k1Z8gU

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Cole Miner]

JJ Jackson- But It's Alright

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AouUSyel7M

 

Los Canarios- Get On Your Knees

 

Big Maybelle- 96 Tears (Big Maybelle covering ? and the Mysterians sure why not)

 

Foundations- Baby Now that I've Found you

 

Wee Willie Walker- There Goes My Used to Be

[Pete]

Dennis Coffey and the song that launched a million hip-hop samples, SCORPIO.

 

 

 

You know you've got extra-funky chops if you're a bunch of white dudes from Scotland who can go on Soul Train like it ain't no thing.  AVERAGE WHITE BAND for the win.

 

http://youtu.be/n60E8-Wt4Mk

 

 

A little Billy Preston to seal the deal. The song could be awful (spoiler alert: it's Billy motherfucking Preston, so it isn't) but this would be a must-see just for the AMAZING Afros he and his band are all rocking.

 

[Lazlo Woodbine]

Seeing the one and only Wee Willie Walker in the post by Cole Miner up there reminded me of this storming Beatles cover he did.