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!!

And by the way, I wonder what it's like to be in Jerry Barnes' shoes...he's the *new* Chic bass player, and of course people will always compare him to Bernard Edwards...and when you come after such an iconic player, it must be challenging, to say the least, no matter how good you are :

 

ask jerry barnes who his hero is and he will tell you it was bernard!

no one is more excited to have that job than jerry!  and he's a super

nice dude and a great player!

i'm not sure how the group works, but if anyone needs a BASS beta tester on PC i'd be happy to help.

i have good ears and decent chops.  i've made a couple of CDLCs but don't have as much time to make

them as i want.  i do get to play, usually once a day for an hour, so i still might be able to contribute to the

group/community despite not directly creating new content.

 

if anyone wants their new works tested out on a second PC machine before they go live, shoot me a PM.

Good to know in case I ever need a second opinion or someone with good skills to test my transcriptions.

I usually don't need it but I plan on doing some more complex stuff eventually where I'm not sure if I can handle it myself when it comes to testing.

It would be a good idea though to just post the test file here, so that more people have a chance to give feedback. Or we could just pm all members of the SFAS to keep it closed off from the eye of the public.

I've just released a new pack in my R&B/Soul/Funk project:

 

Release #9: "Slap That Funky Soul!"

 

Song #1: Sly & The Family Stone - Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)

Song #2: The Bar-Kays - Soul Finger

Song #3: Rufus Thomas - Do The Funky Chicken

 

You can add these to the list. I also realized that my Dr. John customs are missing from the list, so if you'd be so kind to add them as well, justgimmethefunk. Much obliged. :D

 

You can add these to the list. I also realized that my Dr. John customs are missing from the list, so if you'd be so kind to add them as well, justgimmethefunk. Much obliged. :D

 

All good  :)

Oh wow, stumbled into this today.

Thanks for setting this up! :D

Woah! What a performance. That's what I call showmanship.

I don't think many current bands could pull that off. :D

In honor of our first really hot day of the year, here's some Heatwave:

Stay cool!

 

Having some Liquid Sunshine today?

 

Woah! What a performance. That's what I call showmanship.

I don't think many current bands could pull that off. :D

 

In Platform shoes as well...

 

Watch this if you have the time to get a preview of my next artist pack. Two of the songs in the pack are included in this short set and the interview parts are really interesting too.

Sharon Jones is also mentioned, who will get a 6-pack. :D

RIP Ben E King...

 

I just uploaded a new 3-pack by Lee Fields & The Expressions:

 

Release #10: "Faithful Man"

Song #1: Lee Fields & The Expressions - Ladies
Song #2: Lee Fields & The Expressions - Faithful Man
Song #3: Lee Fields & The Expressions - Talk To Somebody

 

Enjoy, guys. There's some great grooving to be had with these tracks. :D

Thanks @@Aludog

These are quite recent tracks so I'm not sure if they should be included in the list...there's some Tower of Power stuff that I didn't include either because it's from the late 80s.

 

Let me know, good people, how you want it done

I personally see no reason why we have to make temporary restrictions in the song list as well. We already put a genre restriction on it and I think that should be good enough. Good soul music should be appreciated even if it's contemporary. With the soul revival at the end of the 90's there's a slow comeback of the genre and really good stuff has been produced in the last few years. Even artists like Amy Winehouse should have a place here (whose "Back In Black" album featured The Dap-Kings, backing band of Sharon Jones). :D

Sharon Jones is also mentioned, who will get a 6-pack. :D

For just a second I read 'Sharon Stone' instead of 'Sharon Jones' and I thought "what? she did songs? six??"  :lol:

 

Sharon Jones is also mentioned, who will get a 6-pack. :D

For just a second I read 'Sharon Stone' instead of 'Sharon Jones' and I thought "what? she did songs? six??"  :lol:

 

Yeah, my bad. I kind of got confused there myself and made a quick correction. :lol:

Mwahaha so it wasn't just my pervert self fantasizing on some legendary movie scene  ;)

Thanks for setting this up.  These songs are the reason I bought a bass.

 

Annoyed I don't have my bass with me right now.  Lots of great songs lately.

I personally see no reason why we have to make temporary restrictions in the song list as well. We already put a genre restriction on it and I think that should be good enough. Good soul music should be appreciated even if it's contemporary. With the soul revival at the end of the 90's there's a slow comeback of the genre and really good stuff has been produced in the last few years. Even artists like Amy Winehouse should have a place here (whose "Back In Black" album featured The Dap-Kings, backing band of Sharon Jones). :D

List has been updated  :)

J-Funk: Perhaps you should have named it the Classic Soul/Funk Appreciation Society. I have assumed that is what you meant, which is why I didn't list all the 80s and beyond soul, funk, R&B, and... uh, hip-hop CDLCs I have downloaded. I suppose Jamiroquai and Bruno Mars qualify now. Oh, and at least one of the songs (or is it the other?) by the dude on the left playing a Strat.

Well that's the thing...if the year of release is no longer considered then anything goes : some of the Red Hot Chili Peppers could fit in, some Jamiroquai or Prince like you wrote....this would bring up the debate of 'how do we classify music by genre', i.e what makes a song a funk song or a soul song etc...

Debate is good I guess  :)

I personally decide genre questions mainly on an artist level and sometimes on an album level. There may always be that one soul/funk song by an artist that usually plays a different genre but I don't really recognize it as such and rather group it together with the rest. Sometimes an artist produces an album that differs from previous releases and may fit the genre as a whole now and that I would categorize appropriately. It's more difficult with bands like RHCP that definitely have a clear tendency to play funk infused rock but they are still mainly rock musicians to me, so I wouldn't necessarily bunch them together with classic Motown artists or even current soul musicians like Lee Fields, Sharon Jones, Amy Winehouse, etc.

Jamiroquai might fit in better but they take influences from a great many genres which is always problematic when it comes to labeling music.

We should probably be democratic about it and discuss it artist by artist with a final vote.

Sounds good. Personnally I wouldn't vote for the RHCP for the same reason as you. Jamiroquai is an interesting case; the two first albums were clearly acid-jazz, then they took a turn towards funk-fueled pop, yet the 'pop' aspect stands out more than the funk one does, to my ears anyway. I don't consider them a true funk band (but I would more easily consider the Brand New Heavies as such).

 

Michael Jackson is another example : I included the tracks from 'Off The Wall' in the list but I intentionnally left out his later albums, including Thriller. I wasn't sure what to do with this one, but eventually I didn't include because it simply doesn't sound like a soul/funk album to me.

Makes sense to me, so I agree with your decisions regarding Jamiroquai and MJ.

If any other artists need discussion just bring them up. :)

Here are my votes (of course, this is highly subjective) :

 

Alicia Keys - If I Aint Got You > Yay
Aloe Blacc - I Need A Dollar > Yay
Black Eyed Peas (all of them) > Nay 
Bruno Mars (all of them) > I'd say yay, especially 'Treasure'
Justin Timberlake (all of them) > probably preconceived thinking but...nay
Kool and the Gang - Take My Heart > Yay
Lou Bega - Mambo Number 5 > Hell Nay!
Luther Vandross - Never Too Much > Yay
Rihanna (all of them) > Nay

Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - The Message > Yay

 

Sade > Yay

Katy Perry > Nay

Britney > Who?

Hall & Oates > Why not? 

Madonna > Yay for Like A Virgin, Material Girl would be a Nay though

China Girl and Let's Dance by David Bowie > Nay

 

All the other songs, I need to listen to them first cause I've never heard of them (the songs, not the artists).