Questions tagged [funk]
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Is Cory Wong's Watercolors giving a nod to The Safety Dance?
In Cory Wong's album Elevator Music for an Elevated Mood, the song Watercolors, the guitar lick at 0:43--0:52 (which repeats several more times as one of the themes) sounds very much like The Safety ...
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In music, what does it mean to "funkify"?
I have heard the term used as "I funkified their album". I assume that funkifying means making something more funky, but I was wondering if there is a more technical or at least genre-...
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Main difference between Soul/Funk/R&B
Why every time I search for albums on Funk or Soul, for example in music apple, most of the albums that are supposed to be funk as labeled as soul/R&B?? What makes these three genres different? ...
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Identifying a style of (possibly) gospel funk? [closed]
Back in the 1990s I developed a fondness for the big bouncy synth brass sound of the gospel funk segments - for want of a better term - in the Joyful Joyful number at the end of Sister Act 2. Then it ...
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What genre is the song "Foots" by the band Stuff?
Here I have the link the song foots by a band called Stuff
http://youtu.be/WcA0tJFoL20
What is the genre of this? Is it funk or pop?
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What genre is the music from "A Monster in Paris"? [closed]
I absolutely love the music from "A Monster in Paris". I am having difficulty pinpointing the genre so I can find similar artists and music.
It seems like some kind of upbeat jazz/pop sound.
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David Bowie's influences during the 70s
I am thinking, for instance, of David Bowie's Young Americans album, which has clearly funk/soul influences. My question then would be, what soul/funk musicians influenced Bowie during the 70s, and in ...
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What's definition of 'straight funk'
In "tales from the tourbus" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKWRZBjC95w Mike Judge states that Purple Rain was released during the 'heyday of straight funk, 1984'.
What does he mean by 'straight funk'...
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The lyrics of dazz band's Swoop
I can not find the full lyrics for Dazz Band's "Swoop".
Is there someone who happened to got the full lyrics of this song? Or can someone provide me a transcript? Much appreciated guys!
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Funk Bass Figures
So I was listening to a relatively obscure hit from New Brunswick made in 1965. The one thing I noticed about the song was that while it was clearly rock, the bassline was funky. As in, the bassline,...
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Who is the third featured singer on "Side Effects" by Parliament?
For years I've been unable to figure out who the third featured singer on "Side Effects", off Parliament's Chocolate City album is. He doesn't sound like any singer within the P-Funk crew ...
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The lyrics of dazz band's Open Sesame
Possibly the most emotional song I've ever heard from Dazz Band's album Rock the Room.. I can not find the full lyrics of this song. I just heard something like 'I said "Open Sesame", not I've finally ...
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Earth Wind and Fire - why isn't water included?
The traditional list of the primary elements is earth, wind, fire, and water. The funk-soul band Earth, Wind, and Fire neglects the element of water. Has the band ever explained why they left water ...
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How is/was this guitar vocoder effect achieved?
In Funkify Your Life by the Meters (and many other Funk tracks I've heard), the guitar line blends with a vocoder effect. You can hear it in the first 30 seconds here on YouTube.
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