"Funk," as George Clinton so deftly put it, "is its own reward."
Extending that logic, the four-disc, 55-song The Funk Box is truly an embarrassment of riches.
Packed with many of the deepest, funkiest grooves of the music's golden years -- 1970 until 1983 --
the collection gets down and dirty with well-known hits.
A Must Have For your Music Collection.
The Funk Box is the ultimate introductory guide to this deeper, more danceable shade of soul.
The Funk Box is kick-ass party music, its chronological survey of funk's evolution through the '70s also frames the dialectical struggle between the music's two main schools--the James Brown style (hard, sharp, built around drum-and-guitar polyrhythms) and the P-Funk style (goofy, squishy, putting all its weight behind ultraheavy bass)--along with the way both schools dealt with the emergence of disco.
Disc: 1
1. Get Up I Feel Like Being A Sex Machine (full-length single version) - James Brown
2. Express Yourself - Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band
3. Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose (unedited non-overdubbed version) - James Brown
4. Rock Steady - Aretha Franklin
5. Slippin' Into Darkness - War
6. I Know You Got Soul (extended version) - Bobby Byrd
7. Jungle Fever - The Chakachas
8. It's Just Begun - The Jimmy Castor Bunch
9. Outa-Space - Billy Preston
10. Think (About It) - Lyn Collins (The Female Preacher)
11. Goin' To See My Baby - Fatback Band
12. Pass The Peas - The JB's
13. "T" Plays It Cool - Marvin Gaye
14. The Message - Cymande
15. I Can Understand It - The New Birth
16. I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little More, Baby - Barry White
Disc: 2
1. Future Shock - Curtis Mayfield
2. The Bottle (12" mix) - Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson
3. What Is Hip? - Tower of Power
4. The Payback - James Brown
5. For The Love Of Money - The O'Jays
6. Hollywood Swinging - Kool & The Gang
7. Tell Me Something Good - Rufus featuring Chaka Khan
8. Do It, Fluid - Blackbyrds
9. Do It (Till You're Satisfied) - B.T. Express
10. Just Kissed My Baby - The Meters
11. Skin Tight - Ohio Players
12. I Get Lifted - George McCrae
13. Shakey Ground - The Temptations
14. School Boy Crush - Average White Band
15. Erucu - Jermaine Jackson
Disc: 3
1. Fight the Power - Pts. 1 & 2 - The Isley Brothers
2. The Jam - Graham Central Station
3. Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker) - Parliament
4. Get The Funk Out Ma Face - Brothers Johnson
5. Changin' - Brass Construction
6. Dazz - Brick
7. Superman Lover - Johnny Guitar Watson
8. The Pinocchio Theory - Bootsy's Rubber Band
9. Slide - Slave
10. The Hump - Patrice Rushen
11. Running Away (12" mix) - Roy Ayers
12. Brick House (12" mix) - The Commodores
13. Let's Have Some Fun - Bar-Kays
Disc: 4
1. You and I - Rick James
2. I Like Girls - Fatback
3. Let's Start The Dance - Bohannon
4. One Nation Under A Groove - Funkadelic
5. Bustin' Loose (12" mix) - Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers
6. I Just Want To Be (12" extended mix) - Cameo
7. Glide - Pleasure
8. Behind The Groove - Teena Marie
9. More Bounce To The Ounce - Zapp
10. Burn Rubber (Why You Wanna Hurt Me) - Gap Band
11. Atomic Dog - George Clinton
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