What are your must-have albums?

Dord

Ok, so as the title says... what are your must-have soul, r'n'b & funk albums?

In terms of funk, my must-have album would be Graham Central Station - My Radio Sure Sounds Good To Me.
It's a damn good album with perhaps some of the funkiest songs I've heard.













btw, if you haven't noticed... I'm the new mod of the forum. *waves*

Sea Devils

What's Going On? - Marvin Gaye
Off The Wall - Michael Jackson
The Stylistics - The Stylistics
Never Too Much - Luther Vandross
Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder
Isaac Hayes- Hot Buttered Soul
Erykah Badu- Baduizm

Just a few of my favourites anyway:)

Parsley

Funkadelic - Maggot Brain. Oh yes

loveissucide

Sex Machine-James Brown
Innervisions-Stevie Wonder
Off The Wall and Thriller-Michael jackson
Parade-Prince

fuse

Usually best of's/anthologys are the way to go for funk...

Cymande - Cymande
Breakestra - The Live Mix II
Curtis Mayfield - Curtis: The Best Of
Parliament - First Thangs
Funkadelic - One Nation Under A Groove
The J.B.'s - Funky Good Time (Anthology)
Parliament - The Best of Parliament (Give Up The Funk)
Sly & The Family Stone - Anthology
Tower of Power - TOP

Good funk compilations:
Blaxploitation
Keb Darge's Legendary Deep Funk
What It Is! Funky Soul And Rare Grooves (1967-1977)

HalloweenJack

Must have albums for me:

Ohio Players - Honey
Prince - Controversy
Parliament - The Clones Of Dr. Funkenstein
Zapp - Zapp
Bootsy Collins - Ahh...The Name Is Bootsy, Baby! & Stretchin' Out In Bootsy's Rubber Band
Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
Funkadelic - Uncle Jam Wants You
Jamiroquai - A Funk Odyssey
Marvin Gaye - I Want You
Erykah Badu - Baduizm

Compilations are also a good way to go, these are some really good ones:

Kool & The Gang - The Funk Collection
George Clinton - Greatest Funkin' Hits
Cameo - The Hits Collection
Barry White - All Time Greatest Hits
Zapp & Roger - The Anthology: We Can Make You Dance
Salsoul Records - Mello Vibes & Funk Flavas
Salsoul Records - Disco Funk Flavas 2
Atlantic Records - Atlantic Soul Classics

Sammy Jennings

Anyone else a fan of Cody ChesnuTT's Headphone Masterpiece? Very lo-fi and in places misogynistic, but a lot of the melodies are hazily beautiful - like a contemporary version of Sly.

peachy pie

erykah badu-baduizm and mama's gun

stevie wonder - innervisions

aretha franklin - young gifted and black

aretha franklin - this girl's in love with you


also how do ppl thnk badu's latest album new amerykah rates?? matter of interest!

fillmore jive

SeabhacDubh

One absolutely essential album has to be Bobby Womacks The Poet.

Leon Wares Inside is love is chock full of gems for everyone.

of course theres always Marvin's seventies stuff and some of the S Wonder Lp's are approaching genius.

Jackie Wilson Beautiful day is also worth checking out for some old school soul

Generally i steer clear of compilations

Lovesexy

Prince- Lotusflower
Prince-Controversy
Stevie Wonder-Innervisions

Brian Capture

Prince - Dirty Mind

Marvin Gaye - Hear My Dear

Dord

Lovesexy wrote: »

Stevie Wonder-Innervisions

Excellent album from start to finish. I think everyone should have this in their collection. :cool:

Lovesexy

I completely agree!!!!!

Sea Devils

Dord wrote: »

Excellent album from start to finish. I think everyone should have this in their collection. :cool:

I was listening to it today funnily enough and remembered how good it is:)

--amadeus--

Does anyone else have the 2 CD "Sweetest Peaches" collection by Etta James?

Utterly brilliant, if you like Aretha you'll love it.

Maria3

My best sound tracks are
What's Going On? - Marvin Gaye
Earth song- Michael Jackson
The Stylistics - The Stylistics

K-Ren

Issac Haye's Shaft Soundtrack
D'Angelo - Brown Sugar
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions, Songs in The Key of Life
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
(not sure if this really counts) Prince - Purple Rain
Kool and The Gang - Greatest Hits
I really want to add some Badu, Zapp & Roger, O'Jays, Parliament, Cameo and Bootsy to my collection.

Really good thread by the way!

Sea Devils

K-Ren wrote: »

D'Angelo - Brown Sugar
!

Thanks for that. Decided to look it up and give it a listen and really digging it. Excellent choice:cool:

Real_Sircharles

SeabhacDubh wrote: »

One absolutely essential album has to be Bobby Womacks The Poet.

Leon Wares Inside is love is chock full of gems for everyone.

of course theres always Marvin's seventies stuff and some of the S Wonder Lp's are approaching genius.

Jackie Wilson Beautiful day is also worth checking out for some old school soul

Generally i steer clear of compilations

good calls, must try pick em up.
G

Dr. Loon

More electrofunk than funk but Chromeo - She's In Control, and also Fancy Footwork are excellent.

kidcharlemagne

Here are ten that I just keep coming back to:

Stevie Wonder: Songs In The Key Of Life
Marvin Gaye: What's Going On
The Average White Band: White Album
The Meters: Rejuvenation
The Neville Brothers: Fiyo On The Bayo
The Bar-Kays: Money Talks
D'Angelo: Voodoo
Prince: Emancipation
Lewis Taylor: Lewis Taylor
Aaron Neville: Warm Your Heart

K.

88show

well,
lets see,

stomp- brothers johnson angie stone
commodores anthony hamilton
Bill withers chaka khan
dee lite chic
maxwell pleasure

geez, you could be here for ever doin this
I give up

Brocko

Awesome thread... there are a lot of gems here. I hope people keep adding more.

Here are mine...

Curtis Mayfield - Curtis: The Best Of
Curtis Mayfield - Superfly Soundtrack
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On?
Chic - Greatest Hits
Jamiroquai - Emergency on Planet Earth, The Return of the Space Cowboy, Travelling Without Moving, Synkronized
The Brand New Heavies - The Brand New Heavies, Heavy Rhyme Experience, Vol. 1
Corduroy - High Havoc, Out Of Here
THE PROPOSITIONS - FUNKY DISPOSITION

I'm sure I'll think of more later so when I return to see what other people list, I'll add them.

Sea Devils

Sea Devils wrote: »

What's Going On? - Marvin Gaye
Off The Wall - Michael Jackson
The Stylistics - The Stylistics
Never Too Much - Luther Vandross
Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder
Isaac Hayes- Hot Buttered Soul
Erykah Badu- Baduizm

Just a few of my favourites anyway:)

Just to update my list and what I've been digging the last few weeks

Machine Gun- Commodores
Everything Is Everything -Donny Hathaway
AWB- Average White Band
Rejuventation- The Meters
1st Born Second- Bilal
Sons of Soul- Tony Toni Tone

88show

is there anybody out here giggin these gems or would join the quest to find others
I got dibs on bass player, but there's plenty o' other seats on this bus...:cool:

sofunky

prince " back to the lotus" james brown in the jungle groove on vinyl, satin soul by barry white is a killer on a sony walkman. come to think of it, all james brown on vinyl, and most prince albums (when he is not dishing up cheese).

PaulByrne'sBald

Donald Byrd- Places and Spaces

stovelid

all the stars

Well, i have a few albums that are just burning out my CD player...
(in no particular order :cool:)
1) Floetry - Floetic
2) Musiq - Luslisen

The two main suspects are those, Massively influenced by them lately...
You just have to love them...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP4V3TTC3fw

Sea Devils

iamstop

Jimmy Castor - It's Just Begun

music crazy

At the moment Aloe Blacc 'Good Thing' WOW!:)

Sea Devils

:cool:

Jus.Me

might have missed it but did no one mention Curtis Mayfield yet??

his whole catalogue is incredible. his live album is doing it for me at the moment

other recent finds that impressed..

The Dells - S/T
Donny Hathaway - Extensions of a Man
Otis Redding - The Immortal Otis Redding
Bobby Bland - Dreamer
Cymande - Second Time Round

also big respect to whoever mentioned D'angelo's Voodoo
that album is perfection.