Funk is coming back.
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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
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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 live for the day when ska, funk, reggae, hip hop, and punk coincide in popularity peaks once 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?
The world needs more funk right now.
AFAIC funk never went away. -
Do you want an example? Here is an example. It's Californian but still good.
@futurebird thank you for sharing that
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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
God I hope so.
Nothing like seeing a really good funk band play live
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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
KNOWER is a good example of this growth. Started with two members. All of the sudden: full choir and brass section performing in a house. A year after that, full orchestra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv83lZfp7Zg -
I live under a rock. A prog rock. But even I have noticed this.
@futurebird the rock I live under has polka dots painted on it, I think it's a math rock.
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this is Ohio music in every good and bad way
@futurebird 'Honest' is a slapper of a track fr
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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.
@futurebird @TrickTim gotta bring da noise while you get the funk. I don't want to go out twice
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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 This makes me very, very, very happy. Point out the funky new tunes if you have some you like.
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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 it will absofuckinglutely happen again. The time to get the funk out is NOW. We NEED the funk. Funk can and will destroy tyranny.
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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?
"Owww, we need the funk. Gotta have that funk..."
Parliament Funkadelic
True back then, never ceased being true. I remember it well.
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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 I read that Brazilian funk is big on TikTok.
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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.)
@pare @futurebird Bootsy Collins still* does an amazing live show.
*just realized this memory is nearly a decade old
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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 Only if it lives up to the stylings of Bootsy Collins!!
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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 hearing Lords of the Underground sing
"But they don't understand how I feel about the funk
I walk with the funk, I talk with the funk
I eat with the funk, I sleep with the funk
I live for the funk, I'll die for the funk"Was like being reborn. Learning about funk after that taught me so much, it's almost indescribable the effect it had on me, it was profound.
