Funk on Friday

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To help free your mind for the weekend to follow, and to celebrate an old friend of mine playing the Jazz Cafe next Friday, over the next few weeks I intend linking to some of my favourite tracks that fall loosely (or in some cases tightly) into the Funk Groove.

I had planned on starting with something in keeping with the F-ing theme, but last minute decide to lead with an altogether harder edge:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6xxgLzdQnM



[Oh, go on then, in true De Agonisti style - get part 2 free with part 1, here's the "cheesey" one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twICykaRRvY ]

BTW, please feel free to add your own favourite funk tracks - but only on a Friday, mind!

[Alfie Noakes]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuUy2ShGLyo

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Episode 3

Classics choon that many of you will recognise (and a classic hat):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je5aTUS8 ... w&index=24

[This is arguably a bertter sounding version, but the hats aren't a patch on the above: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF24CaUr ... re=related ]

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Episode 4

Anyone still following this thread might be quite surprised, even shocked by the source of this week's slab o Fun'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20XAL2DO ... re=related

[gtw]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od_7u20vyMQ

[Alfie Noakes]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCk0x7w8Cjw

[Szabo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNcohPUr1PI

[Cold Ethyl]

getting me through the ironing right now -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-_30HA7rec

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[Note: the views expressed may not reflect those of the author]

http://www.mp3rocket.com/mp3/-1_00/Nirv ... nk-Jam.htm

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..and to atone for all the white punks on dope, here's ...er something different (on Factory):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o28Rwg5OWAQ

[.. and here's the full version, but no visuals: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyjuN6AIbpE ]

[Airbrushed From History]

Never mind that it's Monday.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7LkDbnmsC0

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Thunderbird 5

Golly, Fridays come round quickly.

One of my all-time favourite tracks, and quite "safe" for here, even if one would have to be brain dead from the waist down to maintain stationary feet whilst listening:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-ZC_EeqtWE

[gtw]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72NMsRyD-6Q

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Birmingham 6

OK, this might be stretching the boundaries of Funk, but its genre is a definite evolution that owes a lot, if not everything to Funk. In essence it's a drinking song featuring a German Punk band and a rapper - what more could you want?.

It came out some 28 years ago and was a Peel favourite (where I first heard it). Bought it on vinyl, but gave it away to a work colleague for some reason lost in the mists of time and alcohol.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xy61OLA ... re=related

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Double dose

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24KKwn0i ... re=related