Funk is coming back.
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@futurebird Hey, Larry Graham and Bootsy Collins are still alive!
And Nile Rodgers (though I think he would be more disco than funk, but the borders are vague.)
disco is just funk with more computers and dancing
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Funk is coming back. I repeat The Funk is Returning.
I didn't really notice it, just seemed like a musical style or a reference, but so many songs have that funky sound now, and every little band has some guy with the saxophone or other brass instrument instead of just electric guitars.
The thing about a funk band is there is *no upper limit* to the number of brass players you can add. The bands of the 70s just kept expanding in size until they were orchestras.
Will it happen again?
@futurebird So it’s not just my imagination! I’ve been listening to this album all summer:
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@futurebird So it’s not just my imagination! I’ve been listening to this album all summer:
https://album.link/i/1861427630@futurebird It takes me back to the music of my childhood, dimly remembered feel-good songs of the late 70s and early 80s.
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@futurebird So it’s not just my imagination! I’ve been listening to this album all summer:
https://album.link/i/1861427630OMG my husband loves some of those songs.
He's the one who has be exposing me to all of this ... funky stuff
"turn off the rock opera about the wizard and listen to this"
I'm not happy about it, but I can't pretend it isn't good.
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OMG my husband loves some of those songs.
He's the one who has be exposing me to all of this ... funky stuff
"turn off the rock opera about the wizard and listen to this"
I'm not happy about it, but I can't pretend it isn't good.
@futurebird@sauropods.win May I inquire about the rock opera about the wizard? and also the funky stuff.
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disco is just funk with more computers and dancing
@futurebird True, true.
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Funk is coming back. I repeat The Funk is Returning.
I didn't really notice it, just seemed like a musical style or a reference, but so many songs have that funky sound now, and every little band has some guy with the saxophone or other brass instrument instead of just electric guitars.
The thing about a funk band is there is *no upper limit* to the number of brass players you can add. The bands of the 70s just kept expanding in size until they were orchestras.
Will it happen again?
@futurebird No theoretical limit, yes but in practice there's a problem, and it's the same one the Big Bands of the 1940s all ran into - good horn players like to get paid, and so they should, but that makes things extremely expensive and the gigs few and far between.
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Do you want an example? Here is an example. It's Californian but still good.
@futurebird digging the random colour changes of the clothing
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The music chuds who have been saying "hip hop is dead" are missing the real story. Hip hop, like punk can never die. Or it is always dead again and again over and over.
But this thing where you have a cute girl with nice vocals a funky beat and some guys playing brass?
I've never seen so much of it in my life, and I was not alive in the 70s
George Clinton shall rise again.
@futurebird bass and horns FOREVER!
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The music chuds who have been saying "hip hop is dead" are missing the real story. Hip hop, like punk can never die. Or it is always dead again and again over and over.
But this thing where you have a cute girl with nice vocals a funky beat and some guys playing brass?
I've never seen so much of it in my life, and I was not alive in the 70s
George Clinton shall rise again.
@futurebird I got scared for a minute and had to check that George's wiki still says "is"
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Funk is coming back. I repeat The Funk is Returning.
I didn't really notice it, just seemed like a musical style or a reference, but so many songs have that funky sound now, and every little band has some guy with the saxophone or other brass instrument instead of just electric guitars.
The thing about a funk band is there is *no upper limit* to the number of brass players you can add. The bands of the 70s just kept expanding in size until they were orchestras.
Will it happen again?
@futurebird all music is improved by adding brass, and I say that as a string player. I suspect the replies to this might give us a good soundtrack for today's listening!
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OMG my husband loves some of those songs.
He's the one who has be exposing me to all of this ... funky stuff
"turn off the rock opera about the wizard and listen to this"
I'm not happy about it, but I can't pretend it isn't good.
I discovered Redtenbacher's Funkestra a few years ago and this will be the track when I walk in to provide congressional committee testimony
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this is Ohio music in every good and bad way
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Well if you are already out and getting funky you might as well get that noise too, it's just efficient.
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Funk is coming back. I repeat The Funk is Returning.
I didn't really notice it, just seemed like a musical style or a reference, but so many songs have that funky sound now, and every little band has some guy with the saxophone or other brass instrument instead of just electric guitars.
The thing about a funk band is there is *no upper limit* to the number of brass players you can add. The bands of the 70s just kept expanding in size until they were orchestras.
Will it happen again?
@futurebird In that case, Everything I Do Gon' Be Funky From Now On
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Funk is coming back. I repeat The Funk is Returning.
I didn't really notice it, just seemed like a musical style or a reference, but so many songs have that funky sound now, and every little band has some guy with the saxophone or other brass instrument instead of just electric guitars.
The thing about a funk band is there is *no upper limit* to the number of brass players you can add. The bands of the 70s just kept expanding in size until they were orchestras.
Will it happen again?
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Funk is coming back. I repeat The Funk is Returning.
I didn't really notice it, just seemed like a musical style or a reference, but so many songs have that funky sound now, and every little band has some guy with the saxophone or other brass instrument instead of just electric guitars.
The thing about a funk band is there is *no upper limit* to the number of brass players you can add. The bands of the 70s just kept expanding in size until they were orchestras.
Will it happen again?
@futurebird@sauropods.win hopefully this time around they bring some fisarmonicas in as well. That instrument deserves a bit of time in the spotlight. -
I discovered Redtenbacher's Funkestra a few years ago and this will be the track when I walk in to provide congressional committee testimony
@venya @futurebird there's a surprising amount of white people doing good funk... I've been listening to these for a few years too:
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Funk is coming back. I repeat The Funk is Returning.
I didn't really notice it, just seemed like a musical style or a reference, but so many songs have that funky sound now, and every little band has some guy with the saxophone or other brass instrument instead of just electric guitars.
The thing about a funk band is there is *no upper limit* to the number of brass players you can add. The bands of the 70s just kept expanding in size until they were orchestras.
Will it happen again?
@futurebird oh, I hope so!
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Do you want an example? Here is an example. It's Californian but still good.
@futurebird Remi Wolf is so good. See also Amy Gadiaga's Babygoated https://youtu.be/HHt9cmeEzVU
Also, the band Phoebe Rings, which is kinda city pop inspired, but city pop is very nuch inspired by funk, so they're stuff is quite funky
