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Help me build a FUNK/SOUL playlist...
Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 3:11 pm
by jess_is_not_ok
Please add as many FUNK/SOUL songs to this thread to make the most comprehensive funk/soul playlist EVER.
I'm thinking rotary connection, meets womack and womack, meets al green, meets aretha franklin... etc. classics welcomed. rarities welcomed too. feel free to spit out the obvious ones. i'm going to use this as a rubric for a gigantic playlist for my ipod.
Please name songs if possible. <3 thanks!
Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 4:36 pm
by optimum
Marvin Gaye 'Heavy Love affair'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt-Jl-izxak
Little known tune but one of his best imo! Also 'What's Happening Brother?' from 'What's Going On', fav track off that album, all about the chord changes
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9KC7uhMY9s
And lastly Sam Cooke "A Change Is Gonna Come"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUULrCJvwBQ
These songs should be on any playlist, soul or not

Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 4:58 pm
by Coppola
Watermelon Man - Headhunters.
it's the intro that does it for me.
Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 5:05 pm
by datura
Bettye Lavette - Let Me Down Easy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcM5V5PM4Nc
Etta James - I'd Rather Go Blind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd5c7kdo ... re=related
James Carr - The Dark End of The Street (why isn't this on youtube! this version is representative but Carr's voice is a lot better
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyzuxNLVG0o)
Sam Cooke - A Change Is Gonna Come
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUULrCJvwBQ
Jaibi - You Got Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl4CSjPXb6Y
Irma Thomas - Time Is On My Side
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ3Pv1VaIAA
Ann Peebles - I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-YIGfMv ... re=related
Sam & Dave - When Something Is Wrong With My Baby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeBeTedm ... re=related
Aretha Franklin - Don't Play That Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAa8vwmeewU
Otis Redding - Try A Little Tenderness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UlQVhMAbwg
Wilson Pickett - In The Midnight Hour
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO3F2gsuz28
Arthur Conley - Let Nothing Seperate Us
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYuUHeHRwfU
Ben E King - Stand By Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x325VCoA8Jw
Percy Sledge - When A Man Loves A Woman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u_OnVhh82E
Toussaint McCall - Nothing Takes The Place of You (again, can't find it on youtube so have a Prince Buster version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aW8G4M93fk )
Soloman Burke - Cry To Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Vb2F1mQZ58
Gwen McCrae - 90% Of Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH0zCPsGcgA
Bobby Blue Bland - Ain't No Love In The Heart of the City
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bDsSfXq_VY
Timmy Thomas - Why Can't We Live Together
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikrz4RFDhjA
William DeVaughn - Be Thankful For What You Got
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHQJi6lfm6Q
Al Green - Simply Beautiful
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUrghxZpVSw
That should be enough for a while

Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 5:06 pm
by amitai
where do I begin........ so many great tunes. :-/
Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 5:49 pm
by jess_is_not_ok
agreed. niiiice one.
keep em coming.
Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 5:58 pm
by jess_is_not_ok
Roy Ayers - Running Away :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7fNWT3omcE
(this isn't necessarily funk/soul, more doowop) The Flamingos - I only have eyes for you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTkcu4GVRe8
Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 1:18 pm
by jess_is_not_ok
bump please.
Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 12:24 am
by umkhontowesizwe
not much funk so far...have some bootsy collins:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McGEmF94yEM
Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 1:13 pm
by squnt
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 4:55 pm
by skipple
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 6:21 pm
by Jubz
Any Millie Jackson.
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 8:43 pm
by jess_is_not_ok
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 1:36 am
by zoso
George Benson - Give me the Night
Stevie Wonder - Superstitious
Change - Glow of Love
Funkadelic - One Nation Under a Groove
George Clinton - Flash Light
Laid Back - White Horse
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 2:29 am
by gwa
Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 7:33 pm
by diss
Some of My Favourites
Eugene McDaniels - Cherrystones
Ike Turner - The Funky Mule
Funky Nassa - Come Down
War - Me and Baby Brother
Herbie Hancock - Hang Up Your Hangups
Nolan Porter - If I Could Only Be Sure