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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsAn old man music rant here. Show me a current song that can match this.
Skittles
(153,141 posts)ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)Tobin S.
(10,418 posts)I'm not much of a hip hop fan (or is that trip hop?), but I liked that. I'll have to check them out.
benld74
(9,904 posts)WiffenPoof
(2,404 posts)I wore this record out back in the day. Wonder is a musical genius and SITKOL is his best work.
kentauros
(29,414 posts)chknltl
(10,558 posts)Not a tune to create earworms with but definitely the best use of marbles I've ever seen.
kentauros
(29,414 posts)and they do have other members. The young man in this video is one of four. Plus, he loves music-boxes, which is what inspired him to make this machine. He has videos of him making it, and I believe he said initially he thought it would only take him a month to make it. It took fourteen months
kwassa
(23,340 posts)and here is a fun contemporary version of the song by Vulfpeck:
Orrex
(63,199 posts)The man's a genius. Just ask him.
progressoid
(49,969 posts)Although this is a little more Prince-esque
kwassa
(23,340 posts)You need to go back to the originators.
The father of all funk, James Brown.
The greatest practitioners of funk, Parliament-Funkadelic. The leader of that band, George Clinton, was honored by Mark Ronson and friends band when they won awards this year.
This also reminds me of Kool and the Gang and Morris Day and the Time. Jungle Boogie and Jungle Love.
all this before 1975.
Archae
(46,314 posts)"Bring us da funk!"
Archae
(46,314 posts)Seriously, "I Wish" didn't get as much airplay as "Sir Duke" from Stevie Wonder's album, and that bugged me since I thought "Sir Duke" wasn't too good. Especially Wonder repeating himself endlessly on "Sir Duke."