Top 10 Greatest Funk Albums of All Time!
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kind of thrown off by the pick of Marvin Gaye - What's Going On as the #1 funk album.don't get me wrong Marvin has definitely done some funky sounding material but in my opinion What's Going On is not a funk album it's a quintessential soul masterpiece album.
100% with you. A soul album topping a funk list takes away from the validity of said list.
when yer right, yer right.
I’ve been watching you for a while now, this is officially your best video you’ve ever made!
Absolutely agree!
Thanks so much! I’ll try to put more effort in my future videos 🤣
loving the extra effort being put into the editing of these videos. please keep it up this is amazing!
Great show! The first record I ever bought was WAR - “All Day Music”.
Nice list. I am not sure I would call "What's Going On" a funk album but it is a great album.
Mandrill is such a pleasure to listen to. I am excited it got mentioned here. Thanks for pointing out Betty Davis, I listened to her after a mention in one of your other videos and was blown away that I was listening to a 70's artist.
I have been taking a deep dive in funk lately because of you and buying so many records. So pumped to see this notification!
The Bar-Kays are a nice blend of Funk, Rock & Soul. Some favorites are Gotta Groove (1969), Black Rock (1971), Do You See What I See (1972) and the Funkiest of the bunch Too Hot To Stop (1976)
Yeah I Almost put black rock in my honorable mentions, love them!
This has to be my favorite video on your channel so far. Much respect for this top 10. I guess this makes me an old man, but as a teen I saw Parliament/Funkadelic back in the 70's in Roanoke Va. They tore the roof off the sucka, the show visually and sonically blew my mind! Only album on your list I haven't heard is the Betty Davis one, but I got to search that one out.
The intro was over the top awesome! As well as your top 10 list, always good info!
Love the editing in of clips and pics, great video, great content. Thanks for sharing your insights as always
Thanks for watching! 🙏
Awesome intro. Appreciate your perspective and stories always. I always try to make a playlist from your videos and cannot wait to listen to this one 😎
Stay gold.
Been watching for awhile and am really liking your content keep it up! 👍
Dillion, I want to personally thank you for showing my coulter the love that it deserves.
No particular order:
Sly & The Family Stone - There's A Riot Going On
James Brown - Sex Machine
Parliament - Mothership Connection
Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
Kool & The Gang - Music Is The Message
Funkadelic - One Nation Under A Groove
Earth,Wind & Fire - Head To The Sky
Bootsy Collins - Stretchin Out
Ohio Players - Honey
Issac Hayes - Shaft
please do more top tens. i love hearing your picks for the different genres and bands. love from LA man.
Awesome list, you gave me a couple I've never heard of to check out!
Thanks for watching! 🙏
Glad you mentioned Trouble Man (1972). It's a VERY underrated movie and soundtrack. Shaft and Superfly get the attention, but Trouble Man is where it's at.
Love the list! Added some albums to my wish list. And thank you for including Betty Davis. Love her music!
These albums are awesome, listening to them now, thanks!
I love your videos and I'm so glad you're uploading more funk content, which is the main thing in my collection. I would've added Shuggie Otis - Inspiration Information on the list, although i think it's more Psychedelic Soul than actual Funk. Love from Monterrey, Mexico.
Magnum, Fully Loaded? Surprised you didn't include that one. You introduced me to it and you hype it often. Love all the ones you captured! Keep up the awesome videos!
Wellll it’s just too obscure. But to be fair I think I like it more than anything on this list. 🤣
Love your videos, brother!! Maceo (May-cee-o), though. Can't wait to come to your store. Seems like you have such a diverse collection there!!!
Those Betty Davis albums are so good! I remember hearing her second album for the first time and thinking the same thing "Where has this been all my life?"
Awesome 👏 list! Brilliant selections! I would also add at the very top The Baby Huey Story: The Living Legend
I'd have Isley Brothers Go For Your Guns is in my top 10. Added bonus from that incredible album is the greatest guitar riff ever sampled from "Footsteps in the Dark" used on Ice Cubes "It Was a Good Day"..
Ernie Isley on the quitar
Great stuff to check out!
Hey I've been watching your videos for like 3 years I remember you having a 750 subscriber contest..lol that almost seems laughable now considering you have 50,000... But anyway man your videos have not changed the consistently good, you always come off as being laid back and very informative. Thank you for taking the time to do these videos they're very much enjoyed
Thanks for the kind words sir!!!
Great video Dillon! Another record I would have added is Archie Bell and the Drells “Tighten Up” from 1968. One of my favorite records of all time, brilliant writing by Archie and Billy Butler. The story is that Bell was drafted in Vietnam after releasing the album, and later found out while overseas that the title track had become a huge hit in America. Keep up the great work!!
Yes! A great one !
Been following the channel for months now... mainly looking for good/odd psychedelic recommendations, and it turns out... I really like Dillon's funk recommendations. Opened my eyes to music I never really got into before. Great stuff.
I’m glad! Thanks for watching! 🙏
Still can't believe I got to see George Clinton a few years back in my little home town here in South East Queensland Australia.
The best gig ever, and I've seen a lot
I saw Taj Mahal, and little feat in Byron bay
Blues fest
Great funk records! Amazing job you were able to compress it so well to just 10 records. All deserve their spot. Early seventies funk is so addictive. We need more funk! Cheers. /Paul
Felt the exact same way when I first heard Betty Davis back in '93 or so. I thought, how can it be possible that this overwhelming force has avoided my gaze and aural pathways for so long. Immediately became a superfan and started looking for her stuff at every record show and then in '96 or so, started to scour the internet for any info. It was a long journey for her and her fans when she disappeared.
I have a recent red reissue of that Betty Davis record, she's an absolute nuclear bomb. Love that album so much.
Yesss! Thanks for watching! 🙏
Agree 100%. Definitely deserves to be here
Thanks, Great list and video. I saw James Brown in NYC in a small club in 1976 and sometime a bit later at the Apollo Theater; I have truly great memories of both shows. I love many of his 1970’s albums… especially 1976’s Bodyheat. I am happy that you mentioned Booker T and the MG’s. My favorite album is Universal Language. He was touring as a solo artist, up till the pandemic and I’ve seen him 4 times in recent years, great shows that keep getting better!
Also like Chick Corea’s “ No Mystery” which is extra funky, Buddy Miles - “More Miles Per Gallon”, Sly and the Family Stone - “Stand”, Orgone - “The Killion Floor”, Material- “One Down”, Nona Hendryx - “Nona,”Con Funk Shun - “Spirit of Love” and June Millington- “Running.”
What's Going On?....There's A Riot Goin' On!
Love this list and own eight of the albums, just subscribed and looking forward to more content.
Another honorable mention: Pleasure - Accept No Substitutes. Great list. Always interested in finding more obscure funk! Great video
Yes! I actually just got a copy this week!
Don't apologise for including Betty Davis! I felt exactly the same when I heard it the first time after hearing about it from your good self - many thanks for that by the way.
Great video, thanks for including Betty Davis on the list. Don't know why I didn't remember her as I was about 20 when the album you mentioned came out. But after watching your video, I spent the rest of the day watching some UA-cam videos of her life and listening to her music. Thanks again for a wonderful, informative video.
Thanks so much 🙏
@@noblerecords Norm Maslov just did a video on albums he bought just for their covers. I referenced this video, Dillon, and said any of Betty Davis’s albums could be included on his list.
First off, cool to see your "hm" choices of The Meters, Cymande and Mandrill. Love all three of those acts as well!
Also, Isaac Hayes - "Hot Buttered Soul" includes, what I consider to be, one of the baddest grooves ever committed to tape (not to mention one of the wildest song titles) in "Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic"... later in the song, when that piano trill comes in, you-are-in-funk-heaven!! It's simply one of the coolest audio moments in the history of music.
Also love all the FUNKADELIC records from 1969-1975, so your choice of "Maggot Brain" is appreciated and spot on. That's the record I would select as well (Cosmic Slop, s/t, SOTVOGIO are good choices too) but I think Maggot Brain is Eddie Hazel's finest moment. Also dig the wacky-unique and somewhat KISS-like LPs of Parliament as well. Mothership probably the best overall choice.
#A couple good suggestions of my own would be:
1. ISLEY BROTHERS - GO FOR YOUR GUNS (1977) T-Neck (this is one of the greatest meldings of guitar oriented rock and killer, groin thrusting funk!) Really cool album cover too! A fantastic "live on stage" photo. And what with the smoke bellowing stage, logo and light show on display, it looks like it could be Deep Purple as much as The Isleys. Ernie looking very Jimi H. (like we were gifted a ghostly 70s version of Hendrix) and delivering some blazingly hot solos throughout the record. Bought this one new, at 11 years old in '77 (Lyrics Record Shop, Bridgeton, NJ) I basically spent all my allowance on ROCK and FUNK albums and 45s. This LP has stayed with me as a funk fave throughout my life. Such great tracks on this LP ("The Pride, pts.1&2," "Voyage To Atlantis," "Climbin' Up The Ladder," "Footsteps..." "Livin' In the Life") excellent from start to finish!
**side note: "Gene-Gene The Dancing Machine" a funny recurring character on The Gong Show, would do this humorous/barely moving dance to "Livin' In The Life / Go For Your Guns" from this record. Every time Barris called his name, that song, with it's slow heavy groove would start, and Gene-Gene would do his thing. A hoot.
2. WAR - THE WORLD IS A GHETTO (1972) UA (what a great, eclectic underrated band, with so many engaging long grooves and infectious catchy hits, eg Cisco Kid, Low Rider, Slipping Into Darkness, Why Can't We Be Friends and the awesome title track to this excellent album) "City Country City" is a total epic. And watch out for "Beetles in The Bog" too (B-side of my "Cisco Kid" 45rpm)
3. KOOL AND THE GANG - WILD & PEACEFUL (1973) De-Lite (many cool LPs from this iconic 70s funk band, but this was clearly their best. And it includes their 3 biggest and best hits of the 70s in "Hollywood Swinging," "Jungle Boogie" and the absolute killer, "Funky Stuff"
Nods to AWB, The Ohio Players, Roy Ayers, Fatback, O'Jays and The Blackbyrds too.
*Finally, the best comment you made in the clip, was this:
--> "James Brown was to funk what Black Sabbath was to heavy metal"
Well said, and as true as true gets!
Rock on! ⚡
Marc
p.s. had to jump back (kiss myself) on, b/c I forgot to mention that your choice of The Payback (1973) is a good one. Title track, to me, is one of the baddest of the bad, funkiest of the funky!
Also, "Head Hunters" (1973) and Jeff Beck's "WIRED" (1976) might be my two most beloved jazz fusion oriented albums. So good choice on the Herbie too. ✨
Ohio players. Rufus,brass construction,brothers Johnson
What's Going On will be a timeless album for all eternity, its message will never become dated or fade away.
Thanks for making the list! a few more honorable mentions for me...Rick James - Street Songs, Bootsy's Rubber Band - Stretchin' Out, The O'Jays - Back Stabbers, and Kool and The Gang - Wild and Peaceful
Great video. Funk when I was a mere lad in the 70's opened me up to a lot of different music. Still digging it today. And I have most of your top ten except Betty Davis haven't gone down that Rabbit Hole yet.
Ohhh it’s a fun one!
I don’t know enough about funk to have a top 10 list, so this was great education for me! Thanks I will for sure have to pick the ones I don’t have up.
Echoing another commenter … great list & would like to have seen Tower of Power get at least an honorable mention. Love the intro! Another fun video … thanks!
Damn it! My want list grows every time you do one of these videos! BZ!
♥️ The opening! Feel like it's time for a branded channel intro, Dillon.
I’m thinking about it.
Your most interesting show to date. Great job.
Another great video mate, nice to see headhunters! If you like early 70s psychedelic funk have you heard cane and able? Awesome band!
Cool list Dil, y'all on the one
Amazing list, well done !!!
War The world is a ghetto my fav
Thanks for putting together such a great list and for putting out all these awesome videos.
That Marvin Gaye album has been in my collection for at least a few decades and I don’t remember ever listening to it. So I put it on for a spin tonight. It’s in rough shape but wow, what a great listen. Thanks for the tip.
Thanks for watching! 🙏
Suprised that the commodores didn’t make the list. Definitely gave me some records to look out for now 👍
Macinegun
Great funk show I love that Politicians album it’s one of my favourites, Cheers Snowy
Good list! Prince's "Black Album" and D'angelo "Black Messiah" are up there for me
Great video man
Love your channel
Your right 1971 is where its at
Great list! My honorable mention would have been one of Johnny Guitar Watson's late 70s/early 80s albums.
Very nice pics especially that mothership connection Parliament is one of my absolute favorite as far as funk music is concerned but rock and roll hands-down classic rock that is my favorite over everything
Great video
Like always, when I see a new video from Dillon, I think to myself.... "well, this is going to cost me some money" haha! Thanks for all the great recommendations!
A very influential 1972 jazz funk album from Australia, The Exciting Daly Wilson Big Band featuring Kerrie Biddell (vocalist on some tracks). They toured the USA in the 1970's. The album is popular with beat artists and has probably influenced Snarky Puppy.
Best line in a record. The payback. “ I don’t know karate / but I know crazy”. One of the best live shows I ever saw, and I saw a lot. Wilson Picket opened . Amazing night. Great list.
Best line for me, although not funk - ' A man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in Millets' (Half man half biscuit')
James Brown Revolution of the mind and Hot Pants would be on my list. I got my records in the mail yesterday and they were perfect. Going to check a see if your site has that Betty Davis. I need that one. Thank You!
Betty Davis man you are absolutely correct she should be they.
Trouble Man is fantastic! Loved that album for so long 😍
Oh yeah!
Awesome thyme today, great list
Thanks for watching! 🙏
Hmmmmm. This is a good list but you forget funk is still going strong with labels like Colemine, Daptone, Record Kicks, Funk Night Records and so on and so on.
Charles Bradley has a dope album called No Time For Dreaming. Mountain Mocha Kilimanjaro has a album thats super good called Uhuru Peak. Martha Ren and the Groovelettes, The Monophonics...
I enjoyed your video throughout :)
I don’t forget, but even they would tell you these are the foundation. I love those labels, and listen to them frequently, but don’t know of an album that would contend with any of these.
@@noblerecords yes the foundation is important and to not recognize folks like James Brown, The Meters, The Upsetters (the lil richard band) that put the stank in funk is mando. Even esther phillips and the queenie (marie lyons) had a hand in it with the latter being one of those unicorns. But as far as modern albums holding a candle to the classics of yesteryear the sound of sinning by the monophonics is a good contender. from the first song to the last its a well packed album. Kellys voice digs in and conjures up all those old funk and soul sangers and belts out some classics like promises and falling apart. but hey music is subjective and your top 10 might not jive with my top 10.
Great video as usual👍 Couple of interesting side notes: There's a Riot Going On came out 3 months after Marvin's classic and the title was a direct response to his title of What's Going On! Also when Marvin finished the recording he brought the tapes to Barry Gordy and he said he was not going to originally release it because....he thought their were NO HITS🤔🤔 Marvin said he was going to leave the label...and as they say in the Music Industry....the rest is history and Barry and Tamla had it's biggest release ever.....
Can't argue with any of those though my go to Funkadelic is Free Your Mind. A few other great ones but lesser known. Harlem Underground, Purple Image (just got a Map City copy), Lee Moses, Skull Snaps and the Mark III. Great video
Yessss all the ones you mentioned are amazing. I saw you got that purple image. I finally got one earlier this year. All killers🔥
loved that intro
Isaac Hayes SHAFT Soundrack is 50 years old this year. One of the funkiest lps ever dropped.
I recently got a couple EXCELLENT o.g. copies of Head Hunters and America Eats It's Young in my shop and they're just incredible albums. Really tempting to keep them for myself but I definitely throw them on at the shop and enjoy them while they're still there.
Awesome!
The Payback is the rulebook of modern funk!!!
Yeah! Always loved that Mandrill record. Maggot Brain forever.
Excellent content, your research is great. You mentioned Bootsy Collins a number of times however didn't include his albums. Also find out Brides of Funkstein, George Clinton's side female band
Yeah! There’s a ton of stuff in that circle. Thanks for watching! 🙏
'71 is definitely my favorite year for music. Maggot Brain, Eat a Peach, Zeppelin 4, Sticky Fingers, Master of Reality, E Pluribus Funk...i could go on
Dang, it’s about time for a showcase and I 90% agree with this list, I would squeeze in Kool & The Gang or Commodores Movin though, or at least an honourable mention, but that’s how lists go, please get working on that rare Funk albums so I can take notes, or top 11-20 albums, which you pretty much already did with your honourable mentions anyway lol
I’ll try!
Great video. I’ll lob a couple in the mix. The Jimmy Castor Bunch ‘It’s Just Begun’. & Parliements ‘Funkelechy & The Placebo Syndrome’ & ‘Motor Booty Affair’.
Those are great too!
Didn't think you had the funk in you! Brilliant list and much respect for your passion of the genre!
Ha! I talk about funk in almost every video! I like it as much as I like rock. Maybe more 🤫
If I didn’t live in Detroit but North Carolina I would be a loyal customer in your store, you guys are awesome
Higher Ground on Innervisions is one I can play over and over again
So good!
What was the intro song for this video???
I might have put Tower of Power Urban Renewal in place of Trouble Man, but this is a great list!
Thanks!
Tower of Power could definitely be on that list. I also recommend their album Live and in Living Color with the 30 min version of Knock Yourself Out.
Personally , I couldn't imagine this list without Betty Davis , all the choices in your list are spot on , all killer , no filler !
Great List.. Some of my faves are... Fulfillingness' First Finale by Stevie Wonder... Rufus Featuring Chaka Khan... and Tower of Power's Monster on a Leash.
All great! Thanks for watching! 🙏
❤❤Have em all, Except Betty Davis.. Including the special mentions.
And you did pronounce Cymande correctly the first time. I've gotten into Cymande because my sister would play to death the cut, Bra day and night.
And you nailed the description of Mandrill! A funky Santana!
Hey there from a Canadian in Korea!
Like your list!... Fact: Parliament's Spaceship is in the Smithsonian. Fact : James Brown demanded so much from his drummers in concert that he always had back-ups that he would bring in during the show to refresh.. Kinda like relief pitchers in baseball... Honorable mentions : Roger Troutman / Zapp. "More Bounce to the Ounce" Might be one of the greatest Funk song of all times .. The Band WAR .. Defiantly!
Chambers Brothers. Osibisa. Cold Blood. Hmmm…. Gonna have to think about this.
Not mad at all!!! Im pleasantly surprised somebody showed betty davis some love because she’s underrated
What , no Isley brothers ?
"Hell" definitely gets the nod if you judge an album on number of gongs between songs! I remember the first time I heard the album back in the 90s, and laughing at how nearly every song has a gong hit before it.
Ahahahaha
I have a pretty substantial blaxploitation collection and a blaring gap in the collection is Trouble Man. I've been holding out for a clean old school but only ever found beaters. Probably gonna cave and snag a repop.
It’s a tough one. I’ll keep you in mind 😉
What is the intro music?
Completely agree on Bette Davis. Was hoping she was on list
Anyone know the song title during the intro ?
which song is funky on the what's going on album?
Oh shit a fancy funky intro. I'm into it!
🤣
Maggot Brain is a killer album. Not out and out funk but so good. I mean it goes from the opening track, basically an 11 min rock guitar solo, into a gospel sounding song. Yet it works!
I'm glad to see "The Payback" getting some much deserved recognition. 2 LP's-Double your pleasure, Double your Funk.
It’s killer!
I agree with the majority of your choices but feel that the isley bros t-neck years were ground breaking in a big way as well
i was at the age where thats all you would hear non stop,,, starting with the 3 +3 album .....they sure had a big funk impact on me and my friends for sure !
hard ,deep and so melodic at the same time !.. and Ernies relentless solos was the cherry on top !
fight the power was a huge social statement at the time ,,,,than add -midnight sky ,,-hope you fell better ...-.live it up ..and several more ..top funk of the time !