Con-Funk-Shun is totally underrated

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Anyone remember the 1970's and 1980's funk band called Con-funk-shun. They have a collection of Ballads and funk hits. I read all music guide and i discovered they bearly cracked the charts despite having some great songs other than "FFun". Anyone agree?

― startrekman, Sunday, 16 October 2005 05:25 (twenty years ago)

Yes I do.

― Voodoo Child, Sunday, 16 October 2005 05:32 (twenty years ago)

fucking hell I was going to start a Con-Funk-Shun thread. Candy is a great album and "Let Me Put Love On Your Mind" is the shit.

― gear (gear), Sunday, 16 October 2005 05:41 (twenty years ago)

i thought startrekman started a Con Funk Shun thread already.

It's all about "Too Tight".. although all their albums until 1981 were great.

― donut hallivallerieburtonelli omg lol (donut), Sunday, 16 October 2005 06:15 (twenty years ago)

I was right

― donut hallivallerieburtonelli omg lol (donut), Sunday, 16 October 2005 06:16 (twenty years ago)

the michael cooper solo disc is really nice. at least two killas.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Sunday, 16 October 2005 07:07 (twenty years ago)

the new ashlee thread's gonna get 200+ replies by sundown tomorrow and this might crack double digits thanks to this bump. fuckin ILM

― gear (gear), Friday, 21 October 2005 07:39 (twenty years ago)

the revived ashlee thread, rather

― gear (gear), Friday, 21 October 2005 07:40 (twenty years ago)

I have a CD of their ballads (got it for a dollar), but it has no uptempo stuff on it. GRRr

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Friday, 21 October 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

ha-ha. Con-Funk-Shun. Someone's digging into other people's trash...

― mickey raft (mickeygraft), Friday, 21 October 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

Scored Touch on vinyl yesterday at Bull City Records, this right here is some AWESOME Sunday morning music

thread title is OTM

― J0hn D., Sunday, 27 January 2008 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

My pops has at least one of their albums. Should I, err, "borrow" it from him.

― The Reverend, Sunday, 27 January 2008 14:53 (eighteen years ago)

Christgau actually (halfway pejoratively, I think) compared Alexander O'Neal to them once, which didn't intrigue me at the time, but maybe it should have.

― xhuxk, Sunday, 27 January 2008 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

Okay, not really pejoratively; just descriptively. From his 1987 Pazz & Jop essay:

O'Neal has a good voice and a good head on his shoulders, undercutting emotionalism with a constricted timbre I associate with the marketable funk of Slave and Con Funk Shun

― xhuxk, Sunday, 27 January 2008 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

well, "marketable" is a classically X-gau unpackable word there

― J0hn D., Sunday, 27 January 2008 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

the star the trek the m the a the n!

― am0n, Sunday, 27 January 2008 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

Loves Train forever

― Bobbi Peru, Monday, 28 January 2008 04:21 (eighteen years ago)

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