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I can put these in at a family BBQ and everyone can get down to EVERY SONG. Corny cover but great cd.
This album took me back to my partying times back in the armed forces and all the good times I had.
One can't help but recall the local boys feeble attempts at stripping in the movie "The Full Monty" whenever Hot Chocolate's "You Sexy Thing" begins. Just don't tell anyone you think all of this stuff is funk, because it's not. The songs are a bit slower in tempo and might be a better album to play at the end of the night when the party is winding down -- not when you want to crank things up.There are a few highlights, however. The second and more controversial disc in the Pure Funk series, Pure Funk Vol. If you delete the songs on the album you don't consider "Funk," you're only out a few bucks. Hint: She's a Bad Mama Jama.
plus you'll discover what song the Spice Girls ripped off for their album Spice World.
While Queen certainly wasn't a Funk band by anyone's stretch of imagination, they did write one excellent, kickin' base line for "Another One Bites The Dust" that's instantly recognizable anywhere and would make any Funk band proud to call their own.
"Let It Whip" by Dazz Band, "Ain't Nobody" from Rufus & Chaka Khan, D Train's "You're The One For Me," The Gap Band's "Outstanding" were all early to mid 80's hits.
2 contains many Funk band and Funk artist's slightly lesser known hits plus a few from groups not immediately recognizable as masters of Funk.
That doesn't mean you won't enjoy the album as much as I did, just know that the first Pure Funk album is a better `Funk primer.' Like the first Pure Funk album, not everything is from the 70's funk era -- half of the songs in fact.
Stomp twice on the bleachers and clap.
Marvin Gaye's "Got to Give It Up" is always a crowd pleaser and Barry White proves once again in "I'm gonna Love You Just a Little More" that the deep voice gets the girl.For those not of the `Keep on Truckin'' generation, you'll discover the origin of many samples from your favorite songs (you mean they didn't write that rif themselves.).
"Get Down On It" by Kool & The Gang, The Whispers "It's a Love Thing," Rick James' "Give it to Me Baby," Carl Carlton's "She's a Bad Mama Jama," and Junior's "Mama Used to Say" were all released in the year 1981.Twenty songs for ten bucks -- that's 50 cents a song.
Buy this album only after you get the first album first.
A lot of the other reviewers have blasted this CD because it is not a true funk compilation. I'm not a connoisseur of the art form. Well, maybe so. I don't know. All I know is that I enjoyed the hell out of these songs (with the exception of Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust," which I could happily live the rest of my life without hearing again). I was exclusively into metal when these songs came around the first time, so it's a pleasure to be exposed to so many great pop songs that I was only dimly aware of, if I had heard them at all.
Seems like they sold too many of the first volume, and have produced a second just to try to rake in a little more. To me, funk is typified by an active bass line, compelling beat and sharp guitar or brass; any or all of these are lacking on most of the tracks here. Hardly any of the tracks on this album are funk, and as for Queen being the opener. it speaks for itself. What you get instead is a collection of slothful, disparate songs, hardly conducive to dancing. Save your money.
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