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| Various Artists |
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| Marvin Gaye: Got To Give It Up; James Brown: Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine; Commodores: Brick House; Jermaine Jackson, Kool & The Gang, Billy Preston, more. |
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| 1 Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine - Brown, James |
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| 2 Look-Ka Py Py - Meters |
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| 3 Express Yourself - Wright, Charles [1] & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band |
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| 4 Super Bad - Brown, James |
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| 5 Rock Steady - Franklin, Aretha |
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| 6 Jungle Fever - Chakachas |
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| 7 Outa-Space - Preston, Billy |
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| 8 Think (About It) - Collins, Lyn |
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| 9 Pass the Peas - J.B.'s |
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| 10 Funky Stuff - Kool & the Gang |
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| 11 Let Your Hair Down - Temptations |
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| 12 Tell Me Something Good - Rufus |
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| 13 Pick Up the Pieces - Average White Band |
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| 14 Love Rollercoaster - Ohio Players |
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| 15 Get the Funk Out Ma Face - Brothers Johnson |
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| 16 The Payback - Brown, James |
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| 17 Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker) - Parliament |
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| 18 I'll Be Good to You - Brothers Johnson |
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| 19 Too Hot to Stop - Bar Kays |
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| 20 Got to Give It Up - Gaye, Marvin |
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| 21 Brick House - Commodores |
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| 22 Running Away - Ayers, Roy Ubiquity |
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| 23 It's Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next to Me - White, Barry |
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| 24 (Every Time I Turn Around) Back in Love Again - L.T.D. |
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| 25 Ffun - Con Funk Shun |
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Album Review
Hip-O's "Funk Gold", a two-disc set, is somewhere between an addendum and an alternate version of "The Funk Box", released by the same label nearly five years prior. Between the two releases, there are several overlapping selections (Charles Wright's "Express Yourself," Billy Preston's "Outa-Space," the Brothers Johnson's "Get The Funk Out Ma Face"), but it's just as likely that artists are represented with different songs (here, there's Jermaine Jackson's "Let'S Get Serious" instead of "Erucu," Kool & the Gang's "Funky Stuff" instead of "Hollywood Swinging," Marvin Gaye's "Got To Give It Up" instead of "'T' Plays It Cool"). Unlike "The Funk Box", "Funk Gold" is heavy on single/radio edits -- that's a definite negative point, since most of these songs deserve to be enjoyed to the fullest extent possible. Regardless, this is a decent starter kit and a way for fans of funk to plug a few gaps. It's by no means definitive, but it does strike a rather favorable balance between the obvious and the novel. The sound is vibrant and the packaging is thoughtful, which only helps in the war against the heaps upon heaps of cheap funk compilations that have plagued bins throughout the years. ~ Andy Kellman, All Music Guide
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