collect 100 definitive funk albums

Here are the next twenty albums that I’ll be adding to my funk collection.

In the mail

27. Parliament Mothership Connection

28. War All Day Music

29. Bootsy Collins Stretchin’ Out in Bootsy’s Rubber Band

At the library

30. Blue Funk [Blue Note] / LPCD 85624

31. Talkin’ Verve / LPCD 79285 79286-

32. The best of Roy Ayers / Roy Ayers / LPCD 87543

33. Change up the groove / Roy Ayers Ubiquity / LPCD 119,453

34. Shaft : music from the soundtrack LPCD 82231

Next From Amazon

35. The Fatback Band The Fattest of Fatback

36. Parliament Motor Booty Affair

37. Donald Byrd Black Byrd

38. The Commodores Machine Gun

39. The Time

40. Average White Band Show Your Hand

41. How Sweet Can You Get

42. Average White Band

43. The Time What Time is It?

44. Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band Express Yourself

45. Parliament Up for the Down Stroke

46. Parliament The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein

47. Funkadelic One Nation Under a Groove

48. Lyn Collins Mama Feelgood: The Best of Lyn Collins

49. Funkadelic Cosmic Slop

50. Maggot Brain

51. War Deliver the World

52. The World is a Ghetto

53. Prince Controversy

54. Dirty Mind

55. Jimmy Castor 16 Slabs of Funk

56. Kool & the Gang Live at the Sex Machine

57. The Time Ice Cream Castle

58. Ohio Players Pleasure

59. Pain

60. Zapp and Roger All the Greatest Hits

Here are the next twenty albums that I’ll be adding to my funk collection.

In the mail

27. Parliament Mothership Connection

28. War All Day Music

29. Bootsy Collins Stretchin’ Out in Bootsy’s Rubber Band

At the library

30. Blue Funk [Blue Note] / LPCD 85624

31. Talkin’ Verve / LPCD 79285 79286-

32. The best of Roy Ayers / Roy Ayers / LPCD 87543

33. Change up the groove / Roy Ayers Ubiquity / LPCD 119,453

34. Shaft : music from the soundtrack LPCD 82231

Next From Amazon

35. The Fatback Band The Fattest of Fatback

36. Parliament Motor Booty Affair

37. Donald Byrd Black Byrd

38. The Commodores Machine Gun

39. The Time

40. Average White Band Show Your Hand

41. How Sweet Can You Get

42. Average White Band

43. The Time What Time is It?

44. Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band Express Yourself

45. Parliament Up for the Down Stroke

46. Parliament The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein

47. Funkadelic One Nation Under a Groove

I’ve made my list on Amazon. I’ve pillaged the UNT library for some great James Brown, Stevie Wonder, Funkadelic, Donald Byrd, and Roy Ayers. Now, I just have to buy five to eight albums per month for the next year. (I have three in the mail!)

I’m going for James Brown, Stevie Wonder, and Funkadelic.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers are to funk what the Rolling Stones were to blues and R&B: a white band that took a largely black musical genre and added elements of popular white music. The result with both groups was a highly successful, if somewhat derivative, sound. The genre that the Chili Peppers helped create might be called funk-metal and includes bands like Fishbone and Primus. I already have most of Chili Peppers’ stuff (including Freaky Styley, The Uplift Mofo Party Plan, and Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magik,), but I need to buy Mother’s Milk complete my collection. This is way down on the list.

1. Curtis

2. Roots!

3. Superfly

All Music.com’s list of Top Funk Albums

Saafir’s Funk You Amazon list