BEST MUSIC: 2000-2010, With Music Players!

Janelle Monae

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It's always best to count the good things in this life:
here's some excellent music of all kinds from the first decade of the century,
with Music Players!

Shortcut to Music Players:
BEST ALBUMS: 2000-2004
BEST ALBUMS: 2005-2010

BEST REISSUES: 2000-2010
BEST BOX SETS: 2000-2010

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A L B U M S:


BEST ALBUMS: 2000-2004:
This player contains songs from the following albums,
in the same order.

2 0 0 0 :

• ELASTICA, "The Menace"
• NIKKA COSTA, "Everybody Got Their Something"
• THE HIVES, "Veni Vidi Vicious"
• HOOVERPHONIC, "The Magnificent Tree"

• FINLEY QUAYE, "Vanguard"
• FASTBALL, "Harsh Light Of Day"
• BUTTHOLE SURFERS, "Weird Revolution"
• JURASSIC 5, "Quality Control"

• PEACHES, "The Teaches of Peaches"
• ELLIOTT SMITH, "Figure 8"
• GALACTIC, "Late For the Future""
• THE SPRAGUE BROTHERS, "Forever And A Day"

• GOLDFRAPP, "Felt Mountain"
• Various Artists/Soundtrack, "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"
• CHICKS ON SPEED, "Chicks On Speed Will Save Us All!"
• ORANGER, "The Quiet Vibration Land"

• JOHNNY CASH, "Solitary Man"
• SPACEWAYS INCORPORATED, "Thirteen Cosmic Standards By Sun Ra & Funkadelic"
• MISS LUDELLA BLACK, "She's Out There"
• R.L. BURNSIDE, "Wish I Was In Heaven Sitting Down"

2 0 0 1 :

• GILLIAN WELCH, "Time (The Revelator)"
• BOB DYLAN, "Love And Theft"
• BECK, "Sea Change"
• LADYTRON, "604"

• SAM PHILLIPS, "Fan Dance"
• SAHARA HOTNIGHTS, "Jennie Bomb"
• LOS SUPER SEVEN, "Canto"
• SUPER FURRY ANIMALS, "Rings Around The World"

• MYSTIC, "Cuts For Luck And Scars For Freedom"
• GORILLAZ, "Gorillaz"
• SLOAN, "Pretty Together"
• AIR, "10,000 Hz Legend"

• BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA, "Spirit Of The Century"
• THE DETROIT COBRAS, "Life, Love, And Leaving"
• SUPER FURRY ANIMALS, "Rings Around The World"
• LE TIGRE, "Feminist Sweepstakes"

• SWAG, "Catchall"
• THE GOSSIP, "That's Not What I Heard"
• MOFRO, "Blackwater"
• TINA AND THE TOTAL BABES, "She's So Tuff"

2 0 0 2 :

• LOS LOBOS, "Good Morning Aztlan"
• QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, "Songs For The Deaf"
• JOI GILLIAM, "Star Kitty's Revenge"
• ELVIS COSTELLO, "When I Was Cruel"

• BLACKALICIOUS, "Broken Arrow"
• WONDERMINTS, "Mind If We Make Love to You?"
• RY COODER & MANUEL GALBAN, "Mambo Sinuendo"
• CATO SALSA EXPERIENCE, "A Good Tip For A Good Time"

• COMMON, "Electric Circus"
• THE FLAMING SIDEBURNS, "Save Rock'n'Roll"
• YOHIMBE BROTHERS, "Front End Lifter"
• ECHOBRAIN, "Echobrain"

• JURASSIC 5, "Power In Numbers"
• GEORGE HARRISON, "Brainwashed"
• DRESSY BESSY, "Sound Go Round"
• THE LUCKY BISHOPS, "Grimstone"

• OF MONTREAL, "Aldhils Arboretum"
• THE RAVEONETTES, "Whip It On"
• CODY CHESTNUTT, "The Headphone Masterpiece"
• THE BLACK KEYS, "The Big Come Up"

• SHARON JONES AND THE DAP KINGS, "Dap Dippin"
• ED HARCOURT, "From Every Sphere"
• TONY ALLEN, "Homecoming"
• SUPERGRASS, "Life On Other Planets"

2 0 0 3 :

• THE GO, "The Go"
• KOMEDA, "Kokomemedada"
• WIRE, "Send"
• THE BANGLES, "Doll Revolution"

• AL GREEN, "I Can't Stop"
• SINEAD O'CONNOR, "She Who Dwells..."
• THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS, "Electric Version"
• JANE'S ADDICTION, "Strays"

• KILLING JOKE, "Killing Joke"
• YEAH YEAH YEAHS, "Fever To Tell"
• THE JAYHAWKS, "Rainy Day Music"
• BETH GIBBONS + RUSTIC MAN, "Out of Season"

• LYRICS BORN, "Later That Day"
• DANDY WARHOLS, "Welcome to the Monkey House"
• LUCINDA WILLIAMS, "World Without Tears"
• IGGY POP, "Skull Ring"

• SHONEN KNIFE, "Heavy Songs"
• BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB, "Take Them On, On Your Own"
• KELIS, "Tasty"
• THE CAESARS, "39 Minutes of Bliss (In an Otherwise Meaningless World)"

• ANTIPOP CONSORTIUM, "Antipop vs. Matthew Shipp"
• THE KILLS, "Keep On Your Mean Side"
• "KILL BILL", Vol. 1 soundtrack
• MARTINA TOPLEY-BIRD, "Quixotic"
• WEEN, "Quebec"

• GOLDFRAPP, "Black Cherry"
• THE QUANTIC SOUL ORCHESTRA, "Stampede"
• ROBERT RANDOLPH AND THE FAMILY BAND, "Unclassified"

2 0 0 4 :

• BRIAN WILSON, "Smile"
• PEACHES, "Impeach My Bush"
• ANTIBALAS, "Who Is This America?"
• SAM PHILLIPS, "A Boot And A Shoe"

• THE EAGLES OF DEATH METAL, "Peace Love Death Metal"
• LE TIGRE, "This Island"
• LUCKY JIM, "Our Troubles End Tonight"
• MELISSA AUF der MAUR, "Auf der Maur"

• FRANK BLACK FRANCIS, "Frank Black Francis"
• AIR, "Talkie Walkie"
• ECHOBRAIN, "Glean"
• BEASTIE BOYS, "To The 5 Boroughs"

• GIBBY HAYNES, "And His Problem"
• GUITAR WOLF, "Love Rock"
• PATTI SMITH, "Trampin"
• EARLIMART, "Treble And Tremble"

• BOYSKOUT, "School Of Etiquette"
• DANIELE LUPPI, "An Italian Story"
• "KILL BILL", Vol. 2 soundtrack
• FABIENNE DELSOUL, "No Time For Sorrows"

• NICOLE WILLIS, "Be It"
• IMANI COPPOLA, "Afrodite"
• EX-GIRL, "Endangered Species"
• REIGNING SOUND, "Too Much Guitar"

• ALIF, "Dakamerap"
• THE VON BONDIES, "Pawn Shoppe Heart"
• VON IVA, "Von Iva"
• THE GO! TEAM, "Thunder, Lightning, Strike"

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2 0 0 5 :


BEST ALBUMS: 2005-2010:
This player contains songs from the following albums,
in the same order.

• ROBERT PLANT, "Mighty ReArranger"
• PETRA HADEN, "Sings: The Who Sell Out"
• M.I.A., "Arular"
• STEVIE WONDER, "A Time To Love"

• TRACY BONHAM, "Blink the Brightest"
• THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS, "Twin Cinema"
• METRIC, "Live It Out"
• BECK, "Guero"

• NMS (NEPHLIM MODULATION SYSTEMS), "Imperial Letters of Protection"
• ELECTROCUTE, "Troublesome Bubblegum"
• PAUL McCARTNEY, "Chaos And Creation In The Backyard"
• GENERAL ELEKTIRKS, "Cliquety Kliqk"

• GRAHAM COXON, "Happiness In Magazines"
• HAIKU d'ETAT, "Coup de Theatre"
• NIKKA COSTA, "Can'tneverdidnothing"
• NIC ARMSTRONG AND THE THIEVES, "The Greatest White Liar"

• KEREN ANN, "Nolita"
• PUBLIC ENEMY, "New Whirl Odor"
• SPOON, "Gimme Fiction"
• ROBBERS ON HIGH STREET, "Tree City"

• VASHTI, "Lookaftering"
• DENGUE FEVER, "Escape From Dragon House"
• LAS PERRAS DEL INFIERNO, "Intuicion Canina"
• THE WHITE STRIPES, "Get Behind Me, Satan"

2 0 0 6 :

• "GIRL MONSTER", various artists
• MUSE, "Black Holes And Revelations"
• ERASE ERRATA, "Nightlife"
• JAMES HUNTER, "People Gonna Talk"

• ISOBEL CAMPBELL AND MARK LANEGAN, "Ballad Of The Broken Seas"
• JENNY LEWIS & THE WATSON TWINS, "Rabbit Fur Coat"
• SEAN LENNON, "Friendly Fire"
• SLOAN, "Never Hear The End Of It"

• AUTONERVOUS, "Autonervous"
• THE HUSBANDS, "There's Nothing I'd Like More Than To See You Dead"
• GNARLS BARKLEY, "St. Elsewhere"
• CURLEE WURLEE, "Oui Oui..."

• LUCKY JIM, "All The King's Horses"
• THE ESSEX SEA, "Cannibal Sea"
• KASABIAN, "Empire"
• SPEKTRUM, "Fun At The Gymkhana Club"

2 0 0 7 :

• PUBLIC ENEMY, "How You Sell Soul To A Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul???"
• ALICE SMITH, "For Lovers, Dreamers, And Me"
• GRINDERMAN, "Grinderman"
• FUGU, "As Found"

• TWIN PEAKS Season 2 soundtrack
• Soundtrack, "ACROSS THE UNIVERSE"
• BIKERIDE, "The Kiss"
• KAY KAY AND HIS WEATHERED UNDERGROUND, "Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground"
• PLASTICINES, "LP1"
• MAVIS STAPLES, "We'll Never Turn Back"
• TINARIWEN, "Aman Iman"
• DANDELION GUM, "Black Moth Super Rainbow"
• JOHN FOGERTY, "Revival"

• SHARON JONES AND THE DAP KINGS, "100 Days, 100 Nights"
• BUDOS BAND, "Budos Band II"
• DEERHOOF, "Friend Opportunity"

2 0 0 8 :

• PORTISHEAD, "Third"
• THE FIREMAN, "Electric Arguments"
• GNARLS BARKLEY, "The Odd Couple"
• SUPERGRASS, "Diamond Hoo Ha"

• THE B-52s, "Funplex"
• THE EXPLORERS CLUB, "Freedom Wind"
• JESSY BULBO, "Taras Bulba"
• PANIC! AT THE DISCO, "Pretty. Odd."

• RAPHAEL SAADIQ, "The Way I See It"
• STEREOSCOPE JERK EXPLOSION, "La Panthere Pop"
• FLEET FOXES, "Fleet Foxes"
• MENAHAN STREET BAND, "Make the Road By Walking"

• TY SEGALL, "Ty Segall"
• THE DUKE SPIRIT, "Neptune"
• CHEAP TIME, "Cheap Time"
• THE KILLS, "Midnight Boom"

• BECK, "Modern Guilt"

2 0 0 9 :

• THE LOVE ME NOTS, "Upsidedown, Insideout"
• WENDY AND LISA, "White Flags Of Winter Chimneys"
• MICHAEL DAUGHERTY, "Metropolis Symphony"
• LEONARD BERNSTEIN, "Mass"

• HANNIBAL LOKUMBE, "Dear Mrs. Parks"
• TARA BUSCH, "Pilfershire Lane"
• THE NEW NO 2, "You Are Here"
• YOKO ONO, "Between My Head And The Sky"

• BABE RUTH, "Que Pasa?"
• CALIBRO 35, "Calibro 35"
• CIRCULATORY SYSTEM, "Signal Morning"
• ANTI-POP CONSORTIUM, "Fluorescent Black"

• BLACK JOE LEWIS AND THE HONEYBEARS, "Tell 'Em What Your Name Is"
• WHITE DENIM, "Fits"
• KIM LENZ AND HER JAGUARS, "It's All True!"
• LEE FIELDS, "My World"

2 0 1 0 :

• THE BLACK KEYS, "Brothers"
• FISTFUL OF MERCY, "As I Call You Down"
• THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS, "Together"
• ROBERT PLANT, "Band Of Joy"

• THE LIKE, "Release Me"
• LAWRENCE ARABIA, "Chant Darling"
• JANELLE MONAE, "The ArchAndroid"
• STARSTRUCK: The AudioPlay" cast recording

• MAIBELL AND THE MISFIRES, "Ride Along!"
• LOS PEYOTES, "Garaje o Muerte"
• GEMMA RAY, "It's A Shame About Gemma Ray"
• THE YOUNG VEINS, "Take A Vacation!"

• ADRIAN YOUNGE, "Something About April"
• THE DIRTBOMBS, "Party Store""
• FABIENNE DELSOUL, "On My Mind"
• CHERRY TESS AND HER RHYTHM SPARKS, "Roc-a-Chicka"

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B E S T
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R E I S S U E S :

Betty Davis

This section includes remasters of classic albums, reissues of rare albums, and recordings from the vault previously unreleased.




BEST REISSUES: 2000-2010:
This player contains songs from the following albums,
in the same order.


1920s-1960s

• "MARTIN SCORSESE Present THE BLUES"
, seven CDs covering the documentary series

1950s

• THE JOHNNY BURNETTE TRIO, "The Train Kept A Rollin"

'50s VARIOUS ARTISTS:
• "THE ROOTS OF ROCK'N'ROLL: 1946-1954"
• "THE GOLDEN ERA OF ROCK'N'ROLL: 1954-1963"
• "WHISTLE BAIT! 25 Rockabilly Rave-Ups"
• "AIN'T I'M A DOG! 25 More Rockabilly Rave-Ups"

• "GOOD GIRLS GONE BAD: Wild, Weird, And Wanted", Rockabilly women

1960s

• THE LUV'D ONES, "Truth Gotta Stand"
• BOB DYLAN, the catalog remasters and all Bootleg Series
• THE MERRY GO ROUND, "Listen, Listen"
• THE SHANGRI-LAS, "Myrmidons Of Melodrama"

• BILLY NICHOLLS, "Forever Is No Time At All"
• VASHTI BUNYAN, "Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind: Singles and Demos 1964-1967"
• BOOKER T & THE MGs, "The Definitive..."
• SAM & DAVE, "The Definitive..."

• WILSON PICKETT, "The Definitive..."
• THE CHOCOLATE WATCHBAND, "Melts In Your Brain...Not On Your Wrist - The Complete Recordings"
• THE TEMPTATIONS, "Psychedelic Soul"
• SHARON TANDY, "You Just Gotta Believe It's..."

• DEAN CARTER, "Call Of the Wild"
• THE DAISY CHAIN, "Straight Or Lame"
• THE AEROVONS, "Resurrection"
• SHE, "Wants A Piece Of You"

• JOHN BARRY, "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" soundtrack
• ENNIO MORRICONE, "The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (Expanded)" soundtrack
• PIERO PICCIONI, "Colpo Rovente" soundtrack
• NORA ORLANDI, "Il Dolce Corpo Di Deborah (The Sweet Body Of Deborah)" soundtrack


'60s VARIOUS ARTISTS:
• "Beatlemaniacs: The World Of Beatles Novelties"
• "The British Invasion: 1963-1967" • "Le Beat Bespoké: 25 Tailor Made Cuts", (French Funk/ soul)
• "We Love The Pirates: Charting The 'Big L' Fab 40"; British pirate radio

• "Eccentric Soul", ongoing series of rare Soul/Funk
• "Girls With Guitars"
• "Destroy That Boy!: Girls With Guitars 2"
• Dream Babes 5: Folk Rock And Beautiful"
• SLY STONE, "Listen To The Voices: In The Studio 1965-1970"

1970s

• GEORGE HARRISON, "All Things Must Pass"
• NITRO FUNCTION, "Billy Cox's Nitro Function" (guitarist Char Vinnedge, leader of The Luv'd Ones)
• MILES DAVIS, "On The Corner"
• HERBIE HANCOCK, "Sextant"

• SHUGGIE OTIS, "Inspiration Information"
• BETTY DAVIS, "Betty Davis", "They Say I'm Different", "Nasty Gal", "Is It Love Or Desire?"
• EMITT RHODES, "The Emitt Rhodes Recordings, 1969-1973"
• BADFINGER, "Magic Christian Music", "No Dice", "Straight Up", "Ass" (Apple); "Wish You Were Here", "Head First" (WB)

• JOHN LENNON, "Acoustic"
• AL GREEN, catalog remasters
• FELA, catalog remasters
• LED ZEPPELIN, "How the West Was Won"

• FUNKADELIC, catalog remasters
• THE HEADHUNTERS, "Survival Of The Fittest"
• EDDIE HAZEL, "Games, Dames, And Guitar Thangs"
• ISIS, "Ain't No Backin' Up Now"
(unsung all-female Funk band)

• LEON WARE, "Musical Massage" (basis for Marvin Gaye's 'I Want You' album)
• THE RUNAWAYS, "Live In Japan"
• NIKKI AND THE CORVETTES, "Nikki And The Corvettes"
• RADIO BIRDMAN, "The Essential Radio Birdman (1974-1978)"

• THE SLITS, "Cut"
• PIERO UMILIANI, "Il Corpo (The Body)" soundtrack
• EDDA DELL'ORSO, "Voice", "Dream Within a Dream: Incredible Voice of...", soundtrack work


'70s VARIOUS ARTISTS:
• "Do The Pop: Australian Garage-Rock Sound 1976-87"; (Garage/Punk)
• "Black Power: Music of a Revolution"; (Funk/Soul)
• "Country Got Soul", Vol. 1 and 2, Country Soul artists
• "Funk Rock: Rock Breaks And Guitars For Funky People"

• "The Brazilian Funk Experience"
• "Essential Afrobeat"
• "DJ Spooky Presents: In Fine Style"; (Dub Reggae)
• "Funky Kingston: Reggae Grooves 1968-74"; (proto-Rap Reggae)

• "VAMPYROS LESBOS: Sexadelic Dance party", soundtrack
• "EASY TEMPO", ten CD series of groovy Italian film music

1980s

• BRIAN ENO/ DAVID BYRNE, "My Life In the Bush Of Ghosts"
• TALKING HEADS, the catalog remasters
• JOHN LENNON & YOKO ONO, "Double Fantasy -Stripped Down"
• KLEENEX/LiliPUT, "LiliPUT/ Kleenex"

• GANG OF FOUR, "Entertainment"
• IGGY POP, "New Values"
• THE KNACK, catalog re-issues
• DEFUNKT, "Defunkt/ Thermonuclear Sweat"

• AFRIKA BAMBAATAA, "Looking for the Perfect Beat 1980-1985"
• GENE CLARK & CARLA OLSON, "So Rebellious A Lover"
• PLASTICLAND, "Make Yourself a Happening Machine: A Collection of"
• MARK STEWART, "Kiss The Future"

• '80s VARIOUS ARTISTS:
• "New York Noise", vol. 1,2, 3; (Post Punk)
• "In The Beginning There Was Rhythm", (Post Punk)
• "Tommy Boy Essentials: Hip Hop 1"

• "Electro Sessions", (Electro Rap)
• "Rip It Up and Start Again", (PostPunk and New Pop)
• "Nao Wave: Brazil PostPunk 1982-1988"

1990s

• ELASTICA, "Radio One Sessions"
• TOM WAITS, "Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers, & Bastards"
• SUPRA ARGO, "Supra Argo"

'90s VARIOUS ARTISTS:

• "Attack Of The Terrible Boots"
(modern Japanese Garage Rock)
• "O SISTER: The Women's Bluegrass Collection", various

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BEST BOX SETS: 2000-2010:
This player contains songs from the following albums in the same order.
1950s

'50s VARIOUS ARTISTS:

• "From Boppin' Hillbilly To Red Hot Rockabilly"
• "1954: The Year That Rocked The World"
• "We're Gonna Rock, We're Gonna Roll"
• "ROCKIN' BONES: 1950s Punk & Rockabilly"

1960s

• THE BEATLES, "Remastered"
albums collection • NINA SIMONE, "Four Women: The Nina Simone Philips Recordings"
• JOHNNY CASH, "Love God Murder"
• THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE

'60s VARIOUS ARTISTS:

• "NUGGETS II: Original Artyfacts From The British Empire And Beyond"
• MOJO Magazine, "Acid Drops, Spacedust, And Flying Saucers"
• "Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970"
• "Where The Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968"

• "ONE KISS CAN LEAD TO ANOTHER: Girl Group Sounds, Lost And Found"
• "TROJAN RECORDS, "Sixties Box Set"
, Reggae

1970s

• FANNY, "First Time in a Long Time: The Reprise Recording"
• SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE, "Collection"
(first seven albums) • BLACK SABBATH, "Symptom Of The Universe"
• SEX PISTOLS, "Sexbox"

'70s VARIOUS ARTISTS:

• "WHAT IT IS? Funky Soul And Rare Grooves (1967-1977)"
• "NO THANKS!: 70s Punk Rebellion"

1990s
• NIRVANA, "With The Lights Out"

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© Tym Stevens

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See Also:


• BEST MOVIES + TV: 2024
• BEST MUSIC: 2024
• BEST COMICS: 2024

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• BEST MUSIC: 2023
• BEST COMICS: 2023

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• BEST MUSIC: 2022
• BEST COMICS: 2022

• BEST MOVIES + TV: 2021
• BEST MUSIC: 2021
• BEST COMICS: 2021

• BEST MOVIES + TV: 2020
• BEST MUSIC: 2020
• BEST COMICS: 2020

• BEST MOVIES + TV: 2019
• BEST MUSIC: 2019
• BEST COMICS: 2019

• BEST MOVIES + TV: 2018
• BEST MUSIC: 2018
• BEST COMICS: 2018

• BEST MOVIES + TV: 2017
• BEST MUSIC: 2017
• BEST COMICS: 2017

• BEST MOVIES + TV: 2016
• BEST MUSIC: 2016
• BEST COMICS: 2016

• BEST MOVIES + TV: 2015
• BEST MUSIC: 2015
• BEST COMICS: 2015

• BEST MOVIES + TV: 2014
• BEST MUSIC: 2014
• BEST COMICS: 2014

• BEST MOVIES + TV: 2013
• BEST MUSIC: 2013
• BEST COMICS: 2013

• BEST MOVIES + TV: 2012
• BEST MUSIC: 2012
• BEST COMICS: 2012

• BEST MOVIES + TV: 2011
• BEST MUSIC: 2011
• BEST COMICS: 2011

• BEST MOVIES + TV: 2000-2010
• BEST COMICS: 2000-2010


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ROCK Orgy: "F.U.N.K." by Betty Davis

Betty Davis, NASTY GAL (1975)

ROCK Orgies are songs that call out a lot of other artists and songs.

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Here's the queen of Funk Rock, badder than bad BETTY DAVIS, giving us a crash course in "F.U.N.K."!

BETTY DAVIS -"F.U.N.K." 2.0* (1975)

*This is the second, better version of a video for the same song

Party guests (in order):

The Funk Brothers (Motown house band), Booker T & the MGs (Stax house band), James Brown; Fred Wesley, Maceo Parker (The JBs, P-Funk) The Meters (New Orleans), Sly And The Family Stone, Stevie Wonder, Tina Turner, Al Green, Ann Peebles, Miles Davis, Billy Preston, Carlos Santana, Curtis Mayfield, Barry White, Larry Graham, Isaac Hayes; The O'Jays, Betty Davis, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Rare Earth, Herbie Hancock and Headhunters, Aretha Franklin (seen with Ahmet Ertegun), Rufus with Chaka Khan, Parliament/Funkadelic, The Ohio Players, Marvin Gaye, WAR, Earth Wind & Fire, Bootsy Collins, and -the Man- Sly Stone now.

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BONUS: Here's the sequel video, which expands out with more stellar stalwarts of 1970s Funk.

YVONNE FAIR -"Funky Music Sho' Nuff Turns Me On" (1975)




-videos by Funk'n'Roll
© Tym Stevens

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See Also:

• FUNK, The True History: The 1960s, with 3 Music Players!

• FUNK, The True History: 1970-1974, with 3 Music Players!

• BEYOND COOL: Pedro Bell, Funkadelic's visionary!


• ROCK Orgy: "American Pie"

• ROCK Orgy: "Sweet Soul Music"

• ROCK Orgy: "Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)!"


• The Real History of Rock and Soul!: The Music Player Checklist

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ROCK Sex: "Walk On the Wild Side" - Genderblenders/ Enders/ Transcenders!

ROCK Sex wants everybody to come.

Previously we explored the themes of "I'm A Man" and "I'm A Woman". That's a couple of colors, and now let's get into the rest of the spectrum.

Rock'n'Roll is all about dancing your way out of your constrictions. From the beginning it laughed at 'Either/Or' deadends like race, status, and age. It also cocked a snook at gender and sexuality barriers, too.

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What better avatar of androgony than the ever fabulous Little Richard, from whom Jimi Hendrix, Prince, and Rupaul all descend?

LITTLE RICHARD -"Lucille" (1957)



While the sensual abandon and preening glamour of Elvis Presley unnerved the squares, imagine how they must have felt about the legions of young Rockabilly women who belted it out just as strong. Alis Lesley went beyond mimicking his name to wearing his clothes, doing his moves, and styling her hair in a pompadour with spitcurls for sideburns!:

ALIS LESLEY -"Heartbreak Harry" (1957)



It's always been common for singers to keep the lyrics of a song the same without changing the gender context, such as Ella Fitgerald covering "Lady, Be Good". The Beatles' version of The Shirelles' "Boys" is one of those. But for an act who had already rattled the androgony limits with their haircuts, this song must have had a special import to certain fans:

THE BEATLES -"Boys" (live, 1964)



As proven out by the subtext of this song by Ray Davies, working out his kinks:

THE KINKS -"David Watts" (1967)



Singapore's Rita Chao was probably just reproducing the Tommy James hit song "Hanky Panky" phonetically, but it takes on a deeper dimension nonetheless when she sings it.

I made this video to illustrate the history of women in love throughout the centuries:

RITA CHAO & The Quests/ NANCY SIT -"Hanky Panky" (1967)



Maybe the only label that's interesting is in the collar. Syd Barrett says grin and bear it.

PINK FLOYD -"Arnold Layne" (1967)



You are who you say you are.

THE TAGES -"She Is A Man" (1967)



By the late '60s, with long hair, free love, liberation movements, and tribal bonding, a more open attitude about gender, sensuality, and orientation came out. Previously Paul McCartney had made an unintended crossdressing implication by mis-singing the lyrics to "Ob-La-Di-Ob-La-Da". This time he does it on purpose:

THE BEATLES -"Get Back" (1969)


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Enter Ray Davies again with one of the most loaded moments in Rock lyric history;

"Then I looked at her, and she at me...":

THE KINKS -"Lola" (1970)



Lou Reed hung out in Andy Warhol's Factory scene with those who put the free in freak. Here's his transversive travelogue:

LOU REED -"Walk On the Wild Side" (1972)



Why choose between being The Rolling Stones and The Shangri-La's when you can have it all?

THE NEW YORK DOLLS -"Personality Crisis" (1973)



For those gandering at the spruce gooses, here's a gander goosing it up herself. (Who writes this stuff? Oh, heh heh, it's me.) From Suzi Quatro we get Joan Jett and The Runaways, Gaye Advert of The Adverts, and myriad more riot grrls:

SUZI QUATRO -"Glycerine Queen" (rec. 1973)



John Lennon opined that Glam Rock was "Rock'n'Roll in lipstick". Here's the almighty Alien Androgyne to declare the rouged rebellion:

DAVID BOWIE -"Rebel Rebel" (1974)



"He could lick 'em by smiling/
He could leave 'em to hang..."

BRETT SMILEY -"VaVaVa Voom" (1974)



Time for education by reading the physical graffiti...

MEG CHRISTIAN -"Ode To A Gym Teacher" (1974)



From Motown to GoGoTown...

THE MIRACLES -"Ain't Nobody Straight In L.A." (1975)



Parliament/ Funkadelic was as Glam as anyone, with their platforms, make-up, and flash costumes:

FUNKADELIC -"Jimmy's Got a Little Bit Of Bitch In Him" (1975)



The all-female Funk collective known as Isis was led by Carol McDonald, who wrote openly about her lady loves in her songs. Evidently Glam guys could get away with the genderbender thing while women couldn't, which is why few people have ever heard of this great and neglected band:

ISIS -"Bobbie And Maria" (1975)



This movie was a disastrous flop when it came out, but forged a hardcore fandom that would have astounding influence on the next decade:

THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW: "Sweet Transvestite" (1975)



Let's tryst again with Chuck Berry, The Beach Boys, and David Bowie in a blender.

ELTON MOTELLO -"Jet Boy Jet Girl" (1975)



Funk-Rock shocker Betty Davis was so fierce that sometimes her voice became a gutteral lion's roar that might possess even Linda Blair to twist to attention:

BETTY DAVIS -"Shut Off The Light" (1975)



If Keith Richards had a sister who didn't give the slightest damn about your gender ideas?...

PATTI SMITH -"Pumping (In My Heart)" (1978)



The Rolling Stones had dressed in drag on the cover of their 1966 single, "Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby (Standing In the Shadows)". A lot of artists would make a career from that revelatory moment. Here's the future Jayne County of Georgia being man enough to be a woman:

WAYNE COUNTY And The ELectric Chairs -"Man Enough To Be A Woman" (1978)


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They say this video killed Queen's career in America. Maybe just with people who have no sense of humor:

QUEEN -"I Want To Break Free" (1981)



'What's the buzz, cock?' We're all human, pass it on...

PETE SHELLEY -"Homo Sapian" (1981)



Here's Boy George with this soulful Lover's Rock classic:

CULTURE CLUB -"Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?" (1982)



Bowie's daughter tears the roof off the sucker:

GRACE JONES -"Demolition Man" (1981)



Bowie's other daughter opens up heaven wider:

EURYTHMICS -"Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This" (1983)



If Rita Chao had sung Tommy James' "Hanky Panky" in innocence, then JOAN JETT knew exactly what she was saying with his "Crimson and Clover":

JOAN JETT -"Crimson and Clover" (1983)



This retooling of Prince's song makes an already enticing ménage à trois even more evocative:

CRISTINA -"When You Were Mine" (1984)



Let's look for the purple banana.

PRINCE -"If I Were Your Girlfriend" (1987)



"Jackie couldn't decide if he was a girl/
Or if she was a boy"

DUKES OF STRATOSPHEAR -"Have You Seen Jackie?" (1987)


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There's a pleasing symmetry to having a threesome for three days...

JANE'S ADDICTION -"Three Days" (1990)



"Everybody loves you when you're Bi!" Maybe Bi means Hello!

LIVING COLOUR -"Bi" (1993)



Who's your Mama now?

TRIBE 8 -"Femme Bitch Top" (1995)



Out and upward, the march toward Queercore begins:

PANSY DIVISION -"I Really Wanted You" (1994)



Go, team!

TEAM DRESCH -"Fagetarian and Dyke" (1995)



Bowie strobes through this like alternating current:

BLUR -"Girls And Boys" (1994)



If Bill Wither's original was charged with paranoia, Meshell ramps up the sexual intrigue:

MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO -"Who Is He and What Is He To You?" (1996)



This quill comes from birds of a feather.

QUEEN PEN, w/ Meshell Ndegeocello -"Girlfriend" (1997)


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It's not the length, it's how you use it.

HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH: "Angry Inch" (2001)



Glam, bam, thank you, man.

GARBAGE -"Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go)" (2004)



Prince's daughter says, "Come on, baby, let's go!"

PEACHES -"I U She" (2004)



"I don't need your boys school of etiquette/ I don't need to be something I'm not/ This is who I am so take me as I come".

Go scout out their records:

BOYSKOUT -"School of Etiquette" (2007)



Turn on, tune in, come out!

LESBIANS ON ECSTASY -"Sedition" (2007)


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It's true. We ahould all have a lotta love.

LEZ ZEPPELIN -"Whole Lotta Love" (2015)





'Where the wild things are'? Everybody you know.



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See Also:

• "I'm A Man" - Bo Diddley > Muddy Waters > Spencer Davis > Chicago > Devo

• "I'm A Woman" - Peggy Lee > Helen Reddy > Yoko Ono > Chaka Khan > Neneh Cherry

• Love and Let Love! -Bessie Smith, Rita Chao, Nancy Sit, Tina Turner

• "Exile On GRRL Street", Or How THE STONES Can Tribute Riot Grrrls Tributing Them!

• REVOLUTION! - A 'Fight The Power' Music Player


• LGBT-themed Songs


• The Real History of ROCK AND SOUL!: A Music Player Checklist

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Cool Betty Davis Tribute: THE SOUL OF JOHN BLACK

Here's THE SOUL OF JOHN BLACK, the working name of musician John Bigham. This catchy funker swaggers like Al Green in the mood to sing Parliament's "All Your Goodies Are Gone" or Funkadelic's "I Got a Thing".

This is reportedly a tribute to the ultimate Funk hellion, BETTY DAVIS, who deserves all the love she can get.

THE SOUL OF JOHN BLACK -"Betty Jean" (2009)


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Here's Betty herself. Put your seatbelts on and hold on!

BETTY DAVIS -"Nasty Gal" (1975)



© Tym Stevens

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See Also:

• FUNK, The True History: 1970-1974, with 3 Music Players!

• ROCK Orgy: "F.U.N.K." by Betty Davis


• The Real History of Rock and Soul!: The Music Player Checklist

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MY SOUL HAS BEEN PSYCHEDELICIZED: The Afro-delic Dimension of Psychedelia

...with 2 Music Players!

Sly And The Family Stone


PSYCHEDELIC SOUL: 1966-'72
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"Now the time has come. There are things to realize."
-The Chambers Brothers


It ain't psychedelic unless it's all the colors. Here's some more of the Psychedelia story, told from some new sides.

Rock'n'Roll is only black and white on the page. In real life, it's a prism. Everybody was part of it, and in all ways. It's simple enough to define Garage rock as R'n'B or Blues riffs with much added fuzz and attitude. Or Psychedelia as the same gone more trippier and expansive. So it should be simple enough to include everyone who was doing that music. In real life, Jimi Hendrix, Sly & The Family Stone, The Isley Brothers, Black Merda, Funkadelic, and Miles Davis have as much to do with the Psychedelic era as their comrades Vanilla Fudge, Jefferson Airplane, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, and Janis Joplin. The books and the box sets won't tell you that, so I am.

The mainstream culture at large in the 60's was for the Included. TV ads/ shows, churches, schools, and industry were very good about reminding everyone what those parameters were, and how you did or didn't fit into them. But in the biggest generation ever, that left a lot of ostracized people to meet each other and bond together. Ban The Bomb activists, Folk protesters, Rock hedonists, Jazz hipsters, ecologists, vegetarians, Civil Rights rebels, student uprisers, international dissidents, disillusioned soldiers, young college women, banned writers, progressive teachers, pacifist clergy, migrant workers, repressed voters, gays, starving artists, fashion forwards, philosophers, poor people...the list was limitless. By sharing common grievance they began to see an end to limitations when they pooled their strengths. That's the real 60's...the Empowerment Era. En masse, their alienation created a sub-nation, a counterculture. It's mantra was freedom, in the sense of stripping away artifice and making art out of personal truth.

Revolt into style; that had been Rock'n'Roll in 1955. But by the mid-60's there were now so many styles it was united mainly by a philosophy: do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. For every person who ever felt alienated, put down, pushed out, invisible, freakish, or misunderstood, this was revolutionary. The outlook of inclusion made the world a theatre of the possible.

Jimi Hendrix was infinite. He was cubism, looking from all angles for a fuller view. Your one thing was only that. He was past anyone's petty limits like the river, like rainwater, like the wind. His first cover song was Dean Martin, his first concert Elvis, he was there in the Seattle club when The Kingsmen inverted Louie Louie into garage rock, he supported soul acts while soaking up Dylan and the Beatles, Lenny Bruce and Miles, comic books and Bradbury. He watched even bad guitarists to learn from their mistakes. He was a mosaic man, African and Irish and Cherokee, was modernity itself. He was an intersection for the past and the future, for the organic and the electronic, the gypsy and the astronaut, for abrasion and elegance. He was the fulcrum for all things to come.

Jimi always got fired. Three gigs in, the Soul headliner would get shown up by his guitar show-outs and out he went. Greenwich Village and then London gave him wider range to play in. The Chambers Brothers were doing alright singing blues and gospel on the folk circuits, but they had this one crazy electric song that lit up crowds while shorting out record execs. Dylan went electric heretic too and the time had come. Tune up, plug in, rock out.

It's all about interchange and inner change. Culture is an intersection of ideas, constantly meeting and mutating. All input is welcome so don't be put out. Exchange and change with it. "Got To Get You Into My Life" was a response to Stax Records. Jimi donned his first Edwardian coat and afro after Dylan's "Blonde On Blonde". Keith Richards envisioned "Satisfaction" as an Otis Redding song with his guitar subbing for the horns (which Otis returned in kind with his cover version). Sly Stone was a San Fran DJ who actually drove ratings up for his soul broadcast throwing in Lord Buckley skits, The Beatles, and Classical pieces; he produced the hits "Just a Little" and "Laugh Laugh" for The Beau Brummels, and The Great Society's original version of "Somebody To Love". The first band Neil Young was in had Rick James as the singer. Char Vinnedge loved The Beatles, but the more she heard Jimi the more fuzzed out her band The Luv'd Ones got. "Sgt. Pepper" was the moment George Clinton knew his charade of trying to be the Temptations was through forever. Motown itself schismed the day producer Norman Whitfield started churning out psychedelic masterpieces in response to Sly. That's Duane Allman roaring out the mighty licks behind Aretha on "When This Battle Is Over". Billy Preston would become the Fifth Beatle, fueling "Get Back" and "Don't Let Me Down" with his keys; and the Sixth Stone, with "Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)" and "Melody". HAIR, "The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical", destroyed the color line on Broadway, and every taboo about sexuality, nudity, language, dissidence, and musicality with it. Visiting America, Fela was as radicalized by the politics of the counterculture as he was by the beats of James Brown. After the technicolor smorgasbord of the Monterey Pop Festival, reality had become a sampler buffet for everyone to enjoy together.

The Jimi Hendrix Experience

From Monterey '67 through Woodstock '69 that cross-fertilization was like a global hothouse of creativity. It rolled over into the early 70's, but something changed. Popular acts in the mid-60's had all been played side-by-side on AM stations. Then FM allowed college stations a new bandwidth for extended and experimental music. All very expansive and inclusive. But in the wake of Woodstock, the counterculture nation were now seen as a marketing pool. FM radio then re-segregated the audience by specifically dividing Hard Rock away from Heavy Soul through the 70's. Even though Santana, Miles Davis, Sly & The Family Stone, The James Gang, Mandrill, Blood Sweat & Tears, Funkadelic, Chicago, and Billy Cobham were playing variants of funky jazz rock, they were divided on radiowaves by Commercially-enforced, racialized programming. It interrupted the culture by blockading the intersection of ideas. This polarized the audience, helped seperate the movement, and left us with the segregated, Marketing police state of radio today.

Here's my middle finger upside their face. I say that this no longer gets to dictate the narrative of Rock'n'Soul. I say, "Oh bondage, up yours! I'm putting The Rotary Connection back in. And here's Edwin Starr telling warmongers to kiss his ass, and here's peach and maple girls from HAIR singing 'White Boys are so damn yummy and Black Boys are delicious'. Oh I got something for ya, here's Funkadelic rocking 'Funky Dollar Bill' harder than Sabbath. Or when they backed co-writer and singer Ruth Copeland. How about The Bar-Kays' 'Black Rock' LP on Stax? Social commentary? I got Marvin Gaye's 'What's Going On' album and The Last Poets and Curtis Mayfield. Here's Marsha Hunt jamming with Deep Purple with a fro bigger than my loud mouth. Here's Merry Clayton doing her own blast on the 'Gimme Shelter' she dueted with Mick on...oh wait, where are you running to, Radio? Trying to hide behind the CD Archivest? Well, here's crazy-ass stuff from Chubby Checker, Nina Simone, and Betty Harris. Whatcha gonna do now? Now the time has come. There's no place left to run."

Okay, I didn't really say that. But I'm telling you, and between all of us en masse we can get this party started back right. My outlook is inclusion and to me this world is still a theatre of the possible. I'm not alone. We are surrounded by children of the revolution everyday. The Afrodelic pioneers I'm championing are the fathers and mothers of P-Funk, Earth Wind & Fire, Betty Davis, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Bad Brains, Afrika Bambaataa, Was (Not Was), Tom Tom Club, Prince & The Revolution, Terence Trent D'arby, Living Colour, Fishbone, 24/7 Spyz, Public Enemy, De La Soul, The Jungle Brothers, A Tribe Called Quest, Lenny Kravitz, Neneh Cherry, Soul II Soul, Pop's Cool Love, Arrested Development & Dionne Farris, Digable Planets, The Family Stand, Cree Summer, Meshell Ndegeocello, Erykah Badu, Kelis, Joi, Most Def's Black Jack Johnson, Robert Randolph & The Family Band, Galactic, India.Arie, and Nikka Costa. Shoot, I'll run my mouth off on it all day, you think I won't? (Just wait till I scare the hell out of you with my tsunami about Funk music.) Rock'n'Roll is only black and white on the radio. In real life, it's a prism. We might get burned up by the sun, but we had our fun.

It's not Psychedelic unless it's all the colors. Let's kick out the jams, Brothers and Sisters!



PSYCHEDELIC SOUL: 1973-Today
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See Also:

• DON'T TREAD ON ME: The Original Punk of 1960s Garage Rock, with Music Player!

• HERE IN PURPLE VELVET NOW: The Psychedelic Revolution, with 2 Music Players!

• BEATLESQUE Songs: 1967-esque, with Music Player!

• Sly Stone's "I Want To Take You Higher" And Its Unending Influence!, with Music Player!

• BEYOND COOL: Pedro Bell, Funkadelic's visionary!


-The Real History of Rock and Soul!: A Music Player Checklist

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