Showing posts with label funk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label funk. Show all posts

The Meters - Original Album Series (5 CD, 2014/FLAC)




1972 - Cabbage Alley 
1974 - Rejuvenation 
1975 - Fire On The Bayou 
1976 - Trick Bag 
1977 - New Directions 

Tower Of Power - Original Album Series (5 CD, 2013/FLAC)


 


1972 - Bump City 
1973 - Tower Of Power 
1974 - Back To Oakland 
1974 - Urban Renewal 
1975 - In The Slot 

Red Hot Chili Peppers - collection of demos & outtakes

 Huge collection of RHCP demos, outtakes, remixes and rough mixes

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Singles collection 1989-2011 [FLAC]

 California alternative rockers who mixed biting guitars with funk rhythms to become superstars by the 1990s and inspire legions of imitators.



1989 - Higher Ground (Single)
1989 - Taste the Pain (Single)
1991 - Give It Away (Single)
1992 - Breaking the Girl (Single)
1992 - Higher Ground If You Want Me To Stay (Promo)
1992 - Suck My Kiss (Single)
1992 - Under the Bridge (Single)
1993 - Soul to Squeeze (Single)
1995 - My Friends (Single)
1995 - Warped (Single)
1996 - Aeroplane (Single)
1996 - Love Rollercoaster (Single)
1999 - Around The World (Single)
1999 - Otherside (Single)
1999 - Scar Tissue (Single)
2000 - Californication (Single)
2000 - Road Trippin' (Single)
2002 - By The Way (Single)
2002 - Can't Stop (Single)
2002 - The Zephyr Song (Single)
2003 - Fortune Faded (Single)
2003 - Universally Speaking (Single)
2006 - Dani California (Single)
2006 - Snow ((Hey Oh)) (Single)
2006 - Tell Me Baby (Single)
2007 - Desecration Smile (Single)
2007 - Hump De Bump (Single)
2011 - The Adventures Of Rain Dance Maggie (Single)

Tower Of Power - Original Album Classics (3 CD, 2011/FLAC)

 





1976 - Ain't Nothin' Stoppin' Us Now 
1978 - We Came To Play! 
1979 - Back On The Streets 

VA - The Sound Of Funk Volume 01 -10 (2000 - 2005)

 

If you like uncut funk, you'll love this compilation of obscure 70's funk sounds

The Meters - Funkify Your Life: Anthology (2 CD, 1995/FLAC)

 Funkify Your Life: The Meters Anthology is a compilation album by the funk group The Meters. The album was released in 1995 by Rhino Records. It is a comprehensive compilation of the band's work.

Disc one is a compilation of work released under Josie Records from 1969 to 1972. It includes 19 songs from the band's first three albums, arranged chronologically, followed by 7 songs released as singles. It starts off with instrumental tracks and vocal tracks appear later. In 1972 the band signed with Reprise Records, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Records. Disk two, also arranged chronologically, is a compilation of 17 songs from the band's five albums under Reprise from 1972 to 1977. Most tracks feature vocals and tracks 8 through 17 include Cyril Neville as a band member.

The Meters disbanded in 1979. There have been several reincarnations and reunions including a 2015 performance at the New Orleans Jazz Festival, however, there were no studio album releases under the original band name after 1977. 

VA - Funk Anthems (2 CD, 2015/FLAC)

 





Bobby Rush discography [1991-2019]

 

The creator of a singular sound that he dubbed "folk-funk," vocalist, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Bobby Rush is among the most colorful and enduring characters on the contemporary chitlin circuit, honing a unique style that brings together a cracked lyrical bent with elements of blues, soul, and funk.

Al Green - The Legendary Hi Records Albums, Volumes 1, 2 & 3 (6 CD, 2006)


Albert Leornes Greene (born April 13, 1946), better known as Al Green, is an American singer, songwriter and record producer best known for recording a series of soul hit singles in the early 1970s, including "Take Me to the River", "Tired of Being Alone", "I'm Still in Love with You", "Love and Happiness", and his signature song, "Let's Stay Together". After an incident in which his girlfriend died by suicide, Green became an ordained pastor and turned to gospel music. He later returned to secular music.

VA - Stax '68 A Memphis Story (5 CD, 2018)

 

2018 marks the 50th anniversary of a pivotal year for Stax Records and for American history: 1968. This period immediately follows the untimely passing of Otis Redding; it s the year that Stax parted ways with Atlantic Records, and it's also when Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis. This 5-disc CD box set compiles every single (A- and B- sides) released on Stax and its subsidiary labels in '68 over 120 iconic songs from era-defining artists, including Otis Redding, The Staple Singers, William Bell, Booker T. and the M.G.'s, Carla Thomas, Johnnie Taylor, Albert King, Isaac Hayes, Linda Lindell, Rufus Thomas and many more.

Bobby Womack - Original Album Classics (3 CD, 2011/FLAC)

 






1976 - Home Is Where The Heart Is
1978 - Pieces
1979 - Roads Of Life

Earth, Wind & Fire - Original Album Classics (5 CD, 2008/FLAC)

 






  • That’s the Way of the World (1975) 
  • Gratitude (1975) 
  • Spirit (1976) 
  • All ’n All (1977) 
  • I Am (1979) 

Stevie Wonder - At the Close of a Century [4 CD, 1999/FLAC]

 

At the Close of a Century is a box set album of Stevie Wonder's greatest hits from the 1960s through the 1990s. The box set spans four CDs and the songs are placed in chronological order.

James Brown - The Singles Vol. 1-10 (1956-1979) [20 CD, 2006-2011]


In 2006, Hip-O Select Records began a multi-volume reissue of James Brown's complete singles (both A-sides and B-sides) on CD. As of March 2011, ten volumes have been released, covering the periods 1956–1960, 1960–1963, 1964–1965, 1966–1967, 1967–1969, 1969–1970, 1970–1972, 1972–1973, 1973–1975 and 1975-1979.

VA - The Complete Motown Singles Vol. 12b (1972) [5 CD, 2013/FLAC]

 





VA - The Complete Motown Singles Vol. 12a (1972) [5 CD, 2013/FLAC]





VA- The Complete Stax - Volt Soul Singles Vol. 2, 1968-1971 [9 CD]

 

The first Stax-Volt box was a monolith, standing as the definitive document of the labels and, therefore, gritty Southern soul. Its sequel, The Complete Stax-Volt Soul Singles, Vol. 2: 1968-1971 is considerably more problematic. Covering only four years compared to its predecessor, which showcased nine years, Vol. 2 contains 216 tracks, including all of the A- and B-sides released during that era. Most critics consider these four years to be substantially less interesting than Stax's earlier years, and in a sense, they're right. There's no Otis Redding or Sam & Dave, and the music doesn't have the same innovative, kinetic spark of the early years. There's still a lot of great, great music here, but it's difficult to sort it out among these nine discs. About three or four discs' worth of material is truly essential, and it might have been better to boil this era down to a smaller box set, since that would have made for a necessary purchase. As it stands, it's too sprawling and comprehensive to be an essential purchase for anyone other than soul fetishists and hardcore collectors, but those listeners should find much of this fascinating.

Teddy Pendergrass - Original Album Classics (5 CD, 2014/FLAC)

 






1977 - Teddy Pendergrass
1978 - Life Is A Song Worth Singing
1979 - Teddy
1980 - TP
1981 - It's Time For Love

VA - The Complete Motown Singles Vol. 11b (1971) [5 CD, 2009/FLAC]