Hello everyone!

 

Welcome to the Soul/Funk Appreciation Society. Here you will find a place to discuss the soulful sounds of the good ol' days, from the early 60s to the very early 80s until today, in their most recent forms.

 

Anyone is free and welcome to join the group, whether you're a charter or not.

You can include a small icon in your profile signature if you'd like, I made one that you can find here but you're absolutely free to create your own.

 

Please don't expect binding rules or any kind of leadership in here. This place is meant to share thoughts, ideas, suggestions and of course music! Think of it as a community, much like the ones they had in the 60s (except we wash our hair :D)

 

 

So here's a list of songs that have already been released, there must be a few ones missing so please point me to these songs and I'll add the links. The songs are sorted by artist/band's alphabetical order :

 

A Taste of Honey - Boogie Oogie Oogie

ABBA - As Good As New

ABBA - Chiquitita

ABBA - Dancing Queen (Bass version)

ABBA - Does Your Mother Know

ABBA - Fernando

ABBA - Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (2nd version)

ABBA - If It Wasn't For The Nights

ABBA - Knowing Me, Knowing You

ABBA - Lay All Your Love On Me

ABBA - Mamma Mia (Bass version)

ABBA - Money, Money, Money

ABBA - One Of Us

ABBA - Ring Ring (2nd version)

ABBA - SOS

ABBA - Summer Night City

ABBA - Super Trouper

ABBA - Take A Chance On Me

ABBA - Thank You For The Music

ABBA - The Winner Takes It All

ABBA - Tiger

ABBA - Voulez-Vous

ABBA - Waterloo

Al Green - Let's Stay Together

Al Green - Tired of Being Alone

Alicia Keys - Fallin'

Alicia Keys - If I Ain't Got You

Aloe Blacc - I Need A Dollar

Amy Winehouse - Back To Black

Amy Winehouse - Rehab

Amy Winehouse - You Know I'm No Good

Anita Ward - Ring My Bell

Aretha Franklin - A Change

Aretha Franklin - Chain of Fools

Aretha Franklin - Respect

Arthur Conley - Sweet Soul Music

Average White Band (The) - Pick Up The Pieces

Bar-Kays (The) - Soul Finger

Barry White - Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe

Barry White - You're The First, The Last, My Everything

Bee Gees (The) - More Than A Woman

Bee Gees (The) - Night Fever

Bee Gees (The) - Stayin' Alive

Bee Gees (The) - You Should Be Dancing

Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine OFFICIAL DLC

Bill Withers - Lean On Me

Billy Cobham - Red Baron

Billy Cobham - Stratus

Blondie - Atomic

Blondie - Heart of Glass

Blues Brothers (The) ft. Aretha Franklin - Think

Booker T & The MG's - Time Is Tight

Brick - Dazz

Brothers Johnson (The) - Celebrations

Brothers Johnson (The) - Mista Cool

Brothers Johnson (The) - Runnin' for Your Lovin'

Brothers Johnson (The) - Stomp!

Brothers Johnson (The) - Strawberry Letter 23

Bruno Mars - The Lazy Song

Bruno Mars - Locked Out Of Heaven

Bruno Mars - Treasure : version 1 and version 2

Carl Carlton - She's A Bad Mama Jama

Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band - Express Yourself

Chic - Chic Cheer

Chic - Good Times OFFICIAL DLC for RS2012

Chic - I Want Your Love

Chic - Le Freak

Chic - My Forbidden Lover

Commodores - Brick House

Commodores - Easy

Curtis Mayfield - Freddie's Dead

Curtis Mayfield - Pusherman (no bass !)

Dan Skinner, Adam Skinner, Dave James - Lock Down

Delegation - Darlin'

Delegation - Oh Honey

Diana Ross - The Boss

Diana Ross & The Supremes - How Long Has That Evening Train Been Gone

Diana Ross & The Supremes And The Temptations - I'm Gonna Make You Love Me

Donna Summer - Hot Stuff

Doobie Brothers (The) - Long Train Runnin' (no bass)

Dr. John - Big Chief

Dr. John - Iko Iko

Dr. John - Stealin'

Drifters (The) - Under The Boardwalk

Earth, Wind & Fire - Boogie Wonderland

Earth, Wind & Fire - Let's Groove

Earth, Wind & Fire - September OFFICIAL DLC

Earth, Wind & Fire - Serpentine Fire

Earth, Wind & Fire - Shining Star OFFICIAL DLC

Earth, Wind & Fire - Sing A Song OFFICIAL DLC

Earth, Wind & Fire - That's The Way of The World

Eddie Floyd - Knock on Wood

Edwin Starr - Adios Senorita

Edwin Starr - All Around The World

Edwin Starr - At Last (I Found A Love)

Edwin Starr - War

Fat Larry's Band - Act Like You Know

Fela Kuti - Black Man's Cry

Fela Kuti - Buy Africa

Fela Kuti - Egbe Mi O

Fela Kuti - Fight To Finish

Fela Kuti - Gentleman

Fela Kuti - J'Ehin J'Ehin

Fela Kuti - Lady

Fela Kuti - Let's Start

Fela Kuti - Opposite People

Fela Kuti - Who're You?

Fela Kuti - Yeye De Smell

Fela Kuti - Zombie

Fela Kuti & The Africa 70 - Gbagada Gbagada Gbagodo Gbagodo

Fela Kuti & The Africa 70 - Open & Close

Fela Kuti & The Africa 70 - Swegbe And Pako

Four Tops (The) - Bernadette

Four Tops (The) - It's The Same Old Song

Four Tops (The) - Reach Out I'll Be There

Four Tops (The) - Standing In The Shadows Of Love

Foxy - Get Off

Funk Brothers (The) - James Jamerson's Motown Medley

George Baker Selection - Little Green Bag (2nd version here)

George Michael - Fastlove

Gil Scott-Heron - Home Is Where The Hatred Is

Gil Scott-Heron - Save The Children

Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive

Gotcha - Naked

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - The Message

Gwen McRae - Rockin' Chair

Hall & Oates - Kiss On My List OFFICIAL DLC

Heatwave - Boogie Nights

Hot Chocolate - You Sexy Thing

Hugh Masekela - Dyambo

Hugh Masekela - Kaa Ye Oya

Hugh Masekela - You Told Your Mama Not To Worry

Imagination - Just An Illusion

Incognito - Hats (Make Me Wanna Holler)

Isaac Hayes - Theme From Shaft

Isley Brothers (The) - Between The Sheets

Isley Brothers (The) - I Know Who You Been Socking It To

Isley Brothers (The) - It's Your Thing

Isley Brothers (The) - Ohio/Machine Gun

Isley Brothers (The) - Take Inventory

Isley Brothers (The) - Take Me In Your Arms

Isley Brothers (The) - This Old Heart Of Mine

Isley Brothers (The) - Was It Good To You?

J.B.'s (The) - Pass The Peas

Jackson 5 (The) - Blame It On The Boogie

Jackson 5 (The) - Dancing Machine

Jackson 5 (The) - Darling Dear

Jackson 5 (The) - I Want You Back

Jackson 5 (The) - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

Jackson 5 (The) - Who's Lovin' You

Jaco Pastorius - Come On, Come Over

Jaco Pastorius - Soul Intro/The Chicken

James Gang (The) - Funk #49 OFFICIAL DLC

James Brown - Bewildered

James Brown - Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine

James Brown - Get Up Offa That Thing

James Brown - Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose

James Brown - I Got You (I Feel Good)

James Brown - Make It Funky (Pt.1)

James Brown - Soul Power

James Brown - Super Bad (another version including parts 1 & 2)

Jamiroquai - (Don't) Give Hate A Chance

Jamiroquai - Canned Heat

Jamiroquai - Cosmic Girl

Jamiroquai - Hey Floyd

Jamiroquai - Just Another Story

Jamiroquai - Love Foolosophy

Jamiroquai - Runaway

Jamiroquai - Space Cowboy

Jamiroquai - Time Won't Wait

Jamiroquai - Too Young To Die

Jamiroquai - Travelling Without Moving

Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity

Jamiroquai - When You Gonna Learn

Jocelyn Brown - Somebody Else's Guy

Jr. Walker & The All Stars - Home Cookin'

Jr. Walker & The All Stars - How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You

KC & The Sunshine Band - That's The Way

Kool & The Gang - Celebration

Kool & The Gang - Fresh

Kool & The Gang - Jungle Boogie

Kool & The Gang - Take My Heart (2nd version)

Lee Fields & The Expressions - Faithful Man

Lee Fields & The Expressions - Ladies

Lee Fields & The Expressions - Talk To Somebody

Lipps, Inc. - Funkytown

Luther Vandross - Never Too Much

Luther Vandross - She's A Super Lady

Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk

Martha & The Vandellas - Nowhere To Run

Marvelettes (The) - Don't Mess With Bill

Marvin Gaye - Christmas In The City

Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through The Grapevine

Marvin Gaye - I Want You

Marvin Gaye - Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)

Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye - 'What's Going On' Medley

Marvin Gaye - What's Going On OFFICIAL DLC for RS2012

Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - Ain't No Moutain High Enough

Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing

Meters (The) - Cissy Strut

Michael Jackson - Beat It (2nd version) (and yet another one)

Michael Jackson - Billie Jean (2nd version)

Michael Jackson - Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough

Michael Jackson - Off The Wall

Michael Jackson - P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)

Michael Jackson - Rock With You

Michael Jackson - The Girl Is Mine (ft. Paul McCartney)

Michael Jackson - Thriller

Michael Jackson - Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'

Michael McDonald - I Keep Forgettin' (Every Time You're Near) OFFICIAL DLC

Ohio Players - Love Rollercoaster

Olivia Newton-John & John Travolta - You're The One That I Want

Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock of The Bay OFFICIAL DLC for RS2012

Otis Redding - Hard To Handle

Otis Redding - Try A Little Tenderness

Pacific Gas & Electric - Staggolee

Parliament - Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker) OFFICIAL DLC for RS2012

Parliament Funkadelic - Flashlight

Patrice Rushen - Forget Me Nots

Patrick Hernandez - Born To Be Alive

Peggy Lee - Fever

Prince - Kiss

Prince & Sheila E - Erotic City

Queen - Another One Bites The Dust OFFICIAL DLC

Queen - Dragon Attack

Rick James - Give It To Me Baby

Rick James - Super Freak OFFICIAL DLC for RS2012

Rod Stewart - Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?

Roy Buchanan - Sweet Dreams OFFICIAL DLC

Rufus Thomas - Do The Funky Chicken

Sade - Hang On To Your Love

Sade - Is It A Crime

Sade - Nothing Can Come Between Us

Sade - Paradise

Sade - Smooth Operator

Sade - The Sweetest Taboo

Sam & Dave - Hold On I'm Coming

Sam & Dave - Soulman

Sister Sledge - He's The Greatest Dancer

Sly & The Family Stone - Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)

Smokey Robinson - Being With You

Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - The Tears of A Clown

Spinners (The) - I Just Gotta Make It Happen

Spinners (The) - I'll Be Around

Spinners (The) - It's A Shame

Spinners (The) - Mighty Love

Spinners (The) - The Rubberband Man

Spinners (The) - They Just Can't Stop It (The Games People Play)

Staple Singers (The) - I'll Take You There

Stevie Wonder - All I Do

Stevie Wonder - As

Stevie Wonder - Contusion

Stevie Wonder - Do I Do

Stevie Wonder - For Once In My Life

Stevie Wonder - I Just Called to Say I Love You

Stevie Wonder - I Was Made To Love Her (2nd version)

Stevie Wonder - I Wish

Stevie Wonder - Isn't She Lovely

Stevie Wonder - Living For The City

Stevie Wonder - Master Blaster (Jammin') (second version)

Stevie Wonder - My Cherie Amour

Stevie Wonder - Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours

Stevie Wonder - Sir Duke OFFICIAL DLC

Stevie Wonder - Superstition (live version)

Stevie Wonder - Uptight (Everything's Alright)

Stevie Wonder - What Christmas Means To Me

Supergroove - Sitting Inside My Head

Supergroove - Your White Shirt

Supremes (The) - Love Is Like An Itching In My Heart

Supremes (The) - You Can't Hurry Love

Supremes (The) - You Keep Me Hangin' On

Temptations (The) - Ain't Too Proud To Beg

Temptations (The) - Ball of Confusion (That's What The World Is Today)

Temptations (The) - Get Ready

Temptations (The) - My Girl OFFICIAL DLC for RS2012

Temptations (The) - No More Water In The Well

Temptations (The) - Papa Was A Rollin' Stone

Temptations (The) - Rudolf The Red-Nosed Reindeer

Tower of Power - Clever Girl

Tower of Power - Diggin' on James Brown

Tower of Power - Down to The Nightclub

Tower of Power - So Very Hard To Go

Tower of Power - Soul Vaccination

Tower of Power - Soul With A Capital S

Tower of Power - What Is Hip?

Weather Report - Birdland

Weather Report - Port of Entry

Weather Report - Teen Town

Wild Cherry - Play That Funky Music (OFFICIAL DLC)

Wilson Pickett - Funky Broadway

Wilson Pickett - Hello Sunshine

Wilson Pickett - In The Midnight Hour

Wilson Pickett - Mustang Sally

Wilson Pickett - That Kind of Love

 

 

 

Huge thanks to all the charters, you know who you are!!

There's some stuff in here that goes more in the direction of jazz/fusion which might not totally fit the bill but I'm not a genre nazi and I actually like that it's included here as well.

Also, thanks for taking the time to make the thread and fyi, "What Is Hip?" is a WIP on the other forum. GTLO made the custom and I reworked some parts of the bass line but he wanted to do the guitar parts as well, so that is why there's no official release yet. :)

WAHEY!!! This is exciting stuff! Not only will my bass playing improve by being here but I am also going to be exposed to lots of cool music! Happy Happy! 

There's some stuff in here that goes more in the direction of jazz/fusion which might not totally fit the bill but I'm not a genre nazi and I actually like that it's included here as well.

Yes I know, you're probably talking about the Jaco Pastorius, Weather Report etc...I even included some disco like The Bee Gees or Patrice Rushen...and I'm not entirely sure that Queen belongs here either but I figured what the hell :D Good bass lines in the end...

I'm in! This definetely is an earthly paradise for any bassist! Thanks a lot for taking the time @@justgimmethefunk

Just downloaded like 20 of them that I didn't have :)

So let's start with the sharing, shall we? :)

 

Here's a short selection of my favorite bass transcriptions websites, from which I took most of the tabs that I used to create my CDLCs in this list (these sites are very 60s- and 70s-oriented) :

 

http://www.basslessons.be/transcriptions.php : quite an impressive collection (almost 150 songs) and they tend to tab a lot of old school stuff

http://www.thebassment.info/transcriptions.html : very nice as well, covers all sorts and all generations of music

http://www.cocosbassment.com/transcriptions/ : a bit similar to the previous one in terms of songs' choice

http://nicebasslines.com/bass-transcriptions : lots of cool stuff too in here, although the site has not been updated for quite a while

http://www.redtenbachersfunkestra.com/basscharts/ : excellent songs' choice, but you'll only find notations here, no tabs

http://www.lessonsthatrock.com/resources/free-bass-tabs/ : I found this one recently, they seem to have A LOT of songs with the matching guitar tabs as well

 

All these sites are free, yet they seem to offer more interesting material than monetized sites like MySongBook...

 

 

What are your favorite sites?

Wahey! This is exciting stuff! Not only is being a proud member of the Funk/Soul Appreciation Society going to improve my bass playing by exposing me to the stylings of some of the most creative and electrifyingly stimulating bassists of all time (or least since man figured out how to record shit lol) but it is also going to expose me to cool 'new' music! Happy Happy!

 

Hey! Here is a crazy idea... How about we put one of these songs in the Bass Olympics every week!? Like we just start at the top with A Taste of Honey and we work our way through the funkadelic and soulful wonderlands we are going to encounter one week and one spine tingling song at a time. Or.... because this is a bass thing.... we start at the bottom!  B) lol

@justgimmethefunk: awesome list of links. I just know one site which isn't on your list (http://freebasspart.pv24.pagesperso-orange.fr/Bass_Players.htm; you'll probably love me for this B) ) but I also never did a thorough search to find more because I like to transcribe them myself anyway, even if it's just for practice.
That said, I'm always open for helping out with bass transcriptions should the need arise and I can find the time.
Just let me know. ;)

@majikman: Maybe a special Bassolympics besides the regular one with just one song per week? Let's discuss it with the others.

I just know one site which isn't on your list (http://freebasspart.pv24.pagesperso-orange.fr/Bass_Players.htm; you'll probably love me for this B) )

Oh yeah that one...I have it in my 'transcriptions sites' folder but it's not really the "best-looking" site (I find it very poorly structured) I never paid much attention to it...guess I'll have to take a serious look.

 

I just know one site which isn't on your list (http://freebasspart.pv24.pagesperso-orange.fr/Bass_Players.htm; you'll probably love me for this B) )

Oh yeah that one...I have it in my 'transcriptions sites' folder but it's not really the "best-looking" site (I find it very poorly structured) I never paid much attention to it...guess I'll have to take a serious look.

 

It might not look like much but the transcriptions are solid. I got the notation for my Wilson Pickett customs from that site and apart from a few corrections they were spot on.

@majikman: Maybe a special Bassolympics besides the regular one with just one song per week? Let's discuss it with the others.

 

yea yea sounds good! 

So I noticed that there aren't any 'Sly & The Family Stone' CDLCs in the database (yet ;)) and while looking for good tabs I stumbled upon this on Amazon and other book stores :

 

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61IZ08ICXHL.jpg

 

I think I'll indulge myself :)

I've been planning to do "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)" to get some slap practice. Easy transcription, so I should be able to do it soon. :D

I've been planning to do "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)" to get some slap practice. Easy transcription, so I should be able to do it soon. :D

I know someone will be more than happy when you do it, and by someone I mean @ ;)

cool thing, I love funky music, so you can count on me  :)

@ thanks for pointing out the missing songs, although I can't find 'Superstition' anywhere

I have a book with James Brown tabs and notation if anyone of you charters are interested.... 

I have a book with James Brown tabs and notation if anyone of you charters are interested.... 

Is your book called 'The Great James Brown Rhythm Sections Funk Masters' ? Cause I have that one

If it's another one, then please shoot me a PM !

Thanks for setting this up.  I love this community.

Hey y'all funkateers  B)

 

I wanted to share some really good stuff with you, it's a 3-disc compilation of old school soul music, most of which was heavily sampled by hip-hop artists in the 90s and 00s so it's a kind of 'go-back-to-the-roots' thing. It's called 'Shaolin Soul' episodes 1, 2 and 3. You will find incredible things from the likes of Al Green, Syl Johnson, Ann Peebles, Teddy Pendergrass, The Jackson 5 etc... nothing but quality here. Here are just a few exemples from episode 2 :

 

(This one is on my to-do list ;))

 

 

 

 

 

Enjoy your week-end :)

If you're interested in finding ever more funk/r&b/soul music, you can take a look here: http://www.funkmysoul.gr/

Not sure about the legal side of things, especially because many of those albums are out of print and not available otherwise but even without downloading anything from the site, it's still great to find all kinds of obscure stuff.

 

How about this one?

 

 

On my to-do-list. ;)

Do we allow some 50-60-70's jazz since I see Weather Report in the list? :)

I would say Jazz Fusion like Weather Report, Return To Forever, Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller, Jaco Pastorius etc. is fine but more traditional jazz does not quite fit in, I think. Afrobeat on the other hand should be included because it's related to Funk/R&B.

If you're interested in finding ever more funk/r&b/soul music, you can take a look here: http://www.funkmysoul.gr/

WOW! This one is gonna be my new default homepage !!

And yes, I'm gonna add the Afrobeat CDLCs in the list.

Yeah, maybe a general Jazz Appreciation Society would be a good idea. I have some customs that would fit right in. Where to put musical and soundtrack stuff though? :)

Appreciate Nile Rodgers, my fellow Soul/Funksters!

This guy had such an incredible life...I love that style he has