"Come genere poi mi sto appassionando al funk"
"Ah si che fighi i Ramones e i Clash! A Bologna due anni fa poi sono andato a vedere i Blink-182 che figata!!"
Il funk dovrebbe davvero essere un genere rivalutato dagli hipster pseudointellettualoidi che iniziano a frequentare le nostre città, i nostri bar, i nostri siti preferiti. Distinti ma spesso uniti alla già diffusa razza degli indie coi jeans superskinny e l'immancabile reflex, essi perseguono la loro accanita crociata contro il mainstream e l'overrated. Il punto è che, ricercando musica per forza sconosciuta e profonda finiscono di solito per ritrovare quella che non è famosa per motivi più che giustificabili. E non se ne accorgono.
Il funk invece è musica che rende felici tutti quanti, quando trovi quello giusto. Ci sono ottimi musicisti, vengono affrontate tematiche interessanti, può essere allegro, spensierato, intenso, danzereccio od allucinogeno ed è in gran parte da riscoprire. Sì perché una volta che esso ha cessato di essere mainstream, ha condotto nell'oblio tonnellate di grandi dischi. Col funk gli hipster alternativoidi potrebbero coniugare l'allegria di questa musica al loro elitarismo da quattro soldi. Oltretutto la loro saccenza verrebbe premiata dal saper riconoscere quella galassia di sample e campionamenti riciclati dalla musica pop, hip hop ed elettronica commerciale negli ultimi vent'anni. Spesso purtroppo non è così invece, ed è un vero peccato.
"The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein" (1976) è uno dei capitoli P-Funk più eminenti, e basterebbero il titolo e la copertina a renderlo tale. Nei fatti si tratta di un disco gustoso, intenso, di puro funk e ritmo, in una parola un album divertente ma non banale. Rispetto agli album immediatamente precedenti e a quelli successivi, "The Clones..." vede un accorciamento della durata media delle canzoni per puntare maggiormente sull’orecchiabilità e sul coinvolgimento melodico immediato, riuscendo però a crescere comunque ad ogni ascolto e a non stancare a breve distanza come spesso accade con la musica di facile presa.
Indimenticabili i cori di "Dr. Funkenstein", davvero stupende "Children of Production" e "Gettin' To Know You", indimenticabile "Do that Stuff", pluri-campionata (si pensi ai Röyksopp di "Happy up Here"), pienamente azzeccate "Everything is on the One" e "I've Been Watching You (Move your Sexy Body)".
Insomma uno di quei dischi energici e che ti mettono di buon umore. E che, soprattutto, lo fanno senza farti sentire ingenuo.
Se vi piacciono i Parliafunkadelicment, il funk o gli anni '70 ascoltatelo per forza. Se siete degli alternativi per definizione, convertitevi e penitenziagite.
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03 Dr. Funkenstein (05:46)
Woa. They say the bigger the headache, the bigger the pill. So call me The Big Pill.
Dr. Funkenstein, the disco king with the monster sound.
The cool ghoul with the bump transplant.
[Hip bone connected to my thigh bone.
My thigh bone connected to my leg bone.
My leg bone connected to my ankle bone.]
I get get so hung up on bones. Dr. Funkenstein here.
[Preoccupied and dedicated to the preservation of the motion of hips.]
Chorus:
We love to funk you, Funkenstein.
Your funk is the best!
Take my body and give it the mind to funk with the rest.
Hit me with The One and then,
If you like hit me again.
We love to Funk-enstein.
[Dr. Funkenstein. King of the Funk, yeah.]
Swift limping, ego trippin' and body snatchin'.
[I'll blow yo' mind.]
Comin' to you directly from the Mothership.
Pulling of the last leg of the P-Funk.
Well alright.
Dr. Funkenstein, yeah. Gon' funk with yo' mind.
Chorus:
We love to funk you, Funkenstien.
Your funk is the best!
Take my body and give it the mind to funk with the rest.
Hit me with The One and then,
If you like hit me again.
We love to Funk-enstein.
Now microbiologically speaking,
When I start churnin', burnin', and churnin'...
[It'll make yo' atoms move so fast,
Expanding yo' molecules. Causing a friction fire.
Burning you on you your neutrons.
Causing you to scream,
"Hit me in the proton. Baby"]
Hit me with The One and then,
If you like hit me again.
We love to Funk-enstein.
I hope y'all got yo' sunglasses on out there.
06 Do That Stuff (04:49)
It was a thrill upon a hill
Everybody was feelin' real
Everybody had the look
It was written all over their face
Giving up the funk
A-waitin' for the bomb
You wouldn't believe how they partied
You would believe they'd never stop
Dancing to some funky new sound
Da da, da daa da
Da da da da
I want to go back and get
More of that funky stuff
I got to get some more of that
More of that funky stuff
(x2)
Da da, da daa da
Da da da da
It was a thrill upon a hill (ooh)
Everybody was feelin' real (ooh)
Ooooh
(x2)
They were still gettin' down came daylight
Been funkin' most ever since midnight
Ooh, ooh ooh
When day came they wasn't slowing
Feeling it's awfully late would wait
Mmm, be about
You would not believe how they partied
Da da da da
Do that stuff, just do that stuff
Do that stuff, ahh do that stuff
(x2)
Da da, da daaa da
Da da da da
Do that stuff, just do that stuff
Do that stuff, ahh do that stuff
(x2)
Da da, da daaa da
Da da da da
(x2)
I want to go back and get
More of that funky stuff
I got to get some more of that
More of that funky stuff
(x2)
Do that stuff, just do that stuff
Do that stuff, ahh do that stuff
(x2)
It was a thrill upon a hill (ooh)
Everybody was feelin' real (ooh)
Ooooh
(x2)
Do that stuff, just do that stuff
Do that stuff, ahh do that stuff
(x2)
08 I've Been Watching You (Move Your Sexy Body) (06:01)
I've been watching you
Can't take my eyes off of you, girl
I've been watching you
I've been watching you (aiii)
The way you move your sexy body
I'm liking the things you do
The way you move your sexy body (aiii)
You would like you too
If you knew
How you move your body, yeah
Hey, hey, la la la, la la, la la la la
Heyyy, hey, aiiii
la la la, la la, la la la la, yeah hey
Hey, hey, hey-heyyy
(hey, baby...)
Yeah, I've been watching you
The way you move your sexy body (just move your body close to mine)
I'm liking the things you do (move yeah)
The way you move your sexy body (just move your body close to mine, aiii)
I'd like to help you do
What you'll do
When you move your body
Hey hey hey now
la la la, la la, la la la la, yeah hey
Hey, hey aiii
la la la, la la, la la la la, yeah hey
Yoooowww-hoooo!
Aiii!
I've been watching you
The way you move your sexy body (just move your body close to mine, body body)
I'm liking the things you do (when you move)
The way you move your sexy body (just move your body close to mine, yeah)
They could not help me to
Two of you
And y'all sexy body
Aii, aii
I've been watching you
The way you move your sexy body (just move your body close to mine)
I'm liking the things you do (when you move)
The way you move your sexy body (just move your body close to mine, yeah)
You would like you too
If you knew
The way you move your sexy body
Oh, girl
I've been watching you
The way you move your sexy body (just move your body close to mine, aiii!)
You would like you too
The way you move your sexy body (just move your body close to mine, yeah)
I like the things you do
The way you move
Your body
Girl
I've been watching you
The way you move your sexy body (just move your body close to mine)
I'm liking the things you do, oh
The way you move your sexy body (just move your body close to mine, yeah)
09 Funkin' for Fun (05:56)
Ooooh, hooo!
Hey, yeah
Haaa
I got to go
Got to leave
Something's missing
That I need
I need to find it
Whatever it is
That's burdening my mind
I know mother will understand, yeah
I know she knows that I'm still the same man
They say bring up a child in the way he shall go
And he shall not depart
And I know when they said it, it turns my heart
Hey, hey, hey, hoo
Guy, guy guy guy guyeeee (x4)
Don't worry
Don't!
Worry 'bout me (don't worry)
I'm just funkin' around
For fun
When you see my mother
Don't!
Worry 'bout me (Tell her don't worry)
I'm just funkin' around (ai, ai)
For fun
Ohhh, nothing could compare
To my mother, nah, nah, nah, because I know she cared, yeah
I got to find my own way around
Hey, hey, I got to get down, yeah
Guy, guy guy guy guyeeee (x4)
Don't worry
Don't!
Worry 'bout me (don't worry)
I'm just funkin' around
For fun
Don't worry
Don't!
Worry 'bout me
I'm just funkin' around
For fun
When you see my mother
Hey, if you have a chance to see my father, my brother
Just tell 'em, that everything's all right
Hey, anytime
You find people assemble in the same place
Funkin' around
Everything's all right
Hey, hey
I don't think you heard me (coo coo ca choo) (say what)
Heyy, whooo (coo coo ca choo)
Owww, whooooaaa, aiiiii, hoooo!
If you see my mother (when you see my mother)
Tell her I'm all right
Tell her I'm all right
Just funkin' around
For fun
When you see my mother
Tell her I'm all right
I'm just funkin' around
For fun
When you see my mother
Tell her I'm all right (tell her you saw me and everything's all right)
I'm just funkin' around
For fun
Let's funk around
Hey!
Funk me, baby
Let's funk around
Hey
If you see my mother
Tell her I'm all right
Tell her I'm all right
Just funkin' around
For fun
Yeah, ah, ah, ah oohh!
If you see my mother
Tell her I'm all right
Tell her I'm all right
Just funkin' around
For fun
(x2)
When you see my mother
Tell her I'm all right
Tell her I'm all right
Just funkin' around
For fun
Having a good time
I'm funking around for fun
I'm having a good, good good time, yeah
Playing my guitar
Funking around for fun
Giving up the P.Funk
Ahh, the Bomb
When you see my mother
Tell her I'm all right (tell her everything's all right)
Tell her I'm all right
Just funkin' around
For fun
If you see my mother
(tell her that I met a man called Dr. Funkenstein and everything's all right)
Tell her I'm all right
Tell her I'm all right
Just funkin' around
For fun
If you see my mother
Tell her I'm all right (the P.Funk)
Tell her I'm all right (the bomb)
Just funkin' around
For fun
Owwww!!!
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