Various Artists - The Funk Box (2000) [4CDs Box Set]

So ya got your doo-wop box, your soul box, your disco box but what about the most influential R&B style of the last 30 years? That’s right, brother, it’s funk-and here are 55 of the baddest grooves from the style’s 1970-1983 heyday, featuring all full-length versions from the best tape sources possible. Includes The Message Cymande; Express Yourself Charles Watts & the 103rd Street Rhythm Band; Jungle Fever Chakachas; Do It, Fluid Blackbyrds; I Get Lifted George McCrae; The Bottle Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson; Skin Tight Ohio Players; Think (About It) Lyn Collins (The Female PrXLDher); What Is Hip? Tower of Power; The Jam Graham Central Station; Get the Funk Out of My Face Brothers Johnson (CD debut!); Slide Slave; Glide Pleasure; The Hump Patrice Rushen (U.S. CD debut!); Brick House (12″ mix) Commodores; I Like Girls Fatback; It’s Just Begun Jimmy Castor Bunch; The Payback James Brown; Running Away (12″ mix) Roy Ayers; Outa-Space Billy Preston; I Know You Got Soul (Extended Version) Bobby Byrd; Let’s Have Some Fun Bar-Kays, and more. 40-page booklet, too! ― Amazon

CD 1
01. James Brown – Get Up I Feel Like Being A Sex Machine – 05:18
02. Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band – Express Yourself – 03:54
03. James Brown – Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose – 06:24
04. Aretha Franklin – Rock Steady – 03:13
05. War – Slippin’ Into Darkness – 07:01
06. Bobby Byrd – I Know You Got Soul – 04:43
07. The Chakachas – Jungle Fever – 04:24
08. The Jimmy Castor Bunch – It’s Just Begun – 03:44
09. Billy Preston – Outa-Space – 04:10
10. Lyn Collins (The Female Preacher) – Think (About It) – 03:22
11. Fatback Band – Goin’ To See My Baby – 03:18
12. The J.B.’s – Pass The Peas – 03:29
13. Marvin Gaye – ‘T’ Plays It Cool – 04:29
14. Cymande – The Message – 04:18
15. The New Birth – I Can Understand It – 06:24
16. Barry White – I’m Gonna Love You Just A Little More, Baby – 07:11

CD 2
01. Curtis Mayfield – Future Shock – 03:38
02. Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson – The Bottle – 05:08
03. Tower Of Power – What Is Hip – 05:06
04. James Brown – The Payback – 07:40
05. The O’Jays – For The Love Of Money – 07:20
06. Kool & The Gang – Hollywood Swinging – 04:37
07. Rufus featuring Chaka Khan – Tell Me Something Good – 04:40
08. The Blackbyrds – Do It, Fluid – 05:27
09. B.T. Express – Do It (Till Your Satisfied) – 05:54
10. The Meters – Just Kissed My Baby – 04:42
11. Ohio Players – Skin Tight – 07:56
12. George McCrae – I Get Lifted – 02:48
13. The Temptations – Shakey Ground – 04:04
14. The Average White Band – School Boy Crush – 04:58
15. Jermaine Jackson – Erucu – 03:30

CD 3
01. The Isley Brothers – Fight The Power – Pts. 1 & 2 – 05:22
02. Graham Central Station – The Jam – 03:38
03. Parliament – Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker) – 05:48
04. Brothers Johnson – Get The Funk Out Ma Face – 06:00
05. Brass Construction – Changin’ – 08:14
06. Brick – Dazz – 05:38
07. Johnny Guitar Watson – Superman Lover – 05:44
08. Bootsy’s Rubber Band – The Pinocchio Theory – 06:10
09. Slave – Slide – 06:51
10. Patrice Rushen – The Hump – 06:09
11. Roy Ayers – Running Away (12 inch Mix) – 06:56
12. The Commodores – Brick House (12 inch Mix) – 06:13
13. Bar-Kays – Let’s Have Some Fun – 06:03

CD 4
01. Rick James – You And I – 08:08
02. Fatback – I Like Girls – 07:40
03. Bohannon – Let’s Start The Dance – 05:56
04. Funkadelic – One Nation Under A Groove – 07:29
05. Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers – Bustin’ Loose – 07:43
06. Cameo – I Just Want To Be (12 inch Extended Mix) – 06:24
07. Pleasure – Glide – 06:30
08. Teena Marie – Behind The Groove – 06:05
09. Zapp – More Bounce To The Ounce – 09:29
10. Gap Band – Burn Rubber (Why You Wanna Hurt Me) – 05:32
11. George Clinton – Atomic Dog – 04:45

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