This is definitely the funkiest looking Kindle that Amazon has designed in quite some time.
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Let's move on to the Thursday puzzle with the closest, funkiest version I could find: Your thoughts?
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Check out our Beauty Innovator Awards for the smartest, funkiest, most fresh to death products of the year.
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Check out our Beauty Innovator Awards for the smartest, funkiest, most fresh-to-death products of the year.
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He's a 19-year-old righty from Nicaragua who has the funkiest delivery this side of Hideo Nomo.
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"The Funky Funkiest Drummer Of All Time," The Roots drummer Questlove wrote in an Instagram post this afternoon.
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Beadnose defeated Bear 747 to be crowned the chunkiest and funkiest in an online poll administered by the park.
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In its six-year run, the television show brought us look after look of the funkiest styles the '90s had to offer.
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Last up is the funkiest-looking set of the bunch — and that's saying something since the truly wireless buds are very... unique.
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Davis' A Tribute to Jack Johnson stands as one of the funkiest works of his electric period, and this track is no exception.
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Eilish came up with the concept for "Bad Guy," the album's funkiest song and biggest hit, as a sarcastic exaggeration of her persona.
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Do you remember, for example, when Mark Zuckerberg built a clever computer that would play him Red Hot Chili Peppers' finest and funkiest tunes?
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We recently reported that '80s hair trends are back in a big and beautiful way, which leaves one more trend to resuscitate the funkiest era: makeup.
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A space-age storefront by the British firm Future Systems for Comme des Garçons has warped glass walls and some of the funkiest merchandise on the street.
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The song, exposing the hidden unsettling funk at the heart of the Star-Spangled Banner, was by far the funkiest song in history to interpolate Francis Scott Key.
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He is compared fondly to stinky tofu, a kind of fermented tofu with such an unbearable odor that it can't be consumed indoors (think of the funkiest French cheese).
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But while he resembled a wallflower at the free-love orgy, MacDermot spent the next 50 years cultivating a reputation as one of the funkiest composers Broadway had ever seen.
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You know what we're talking about: You start surfing in bed and the hours drift by, then by the next morning you end up with email receipts for the funkiest orders.
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All you need is gelatin, basic pantry ingredients, and the funkiest plastic mold you can get your hands on, and you will be well on your way to dinner party legend status.
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Behind us was Tucson and three days of living like old-time movie stars at the glamorous Arizona Inn, a hideaway in the heart of one of the nation's funkiest university towns.
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We find a nook at the top of the amphitheater and blissed-outedly take in the set by Thundercat's trio, which I realize is basically the funkiest technical death metal of all time.
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But this newest record leans on the twitchy guitar work of Brandon Seabrook and the sharp drumming of Kenny Wollesen; it includes some of Mr. Opsvik's funkiest and most physically assertive music yet.
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It can fix the Fitz where it sits, or carry it home aboard one of the funkiest vessels on the seven seas: a semi-submersible, heavy lift ship big enough to carry another ship.
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Yet the excerpts from "Get On The Good Foot," a tribute revue that Philadanco participated in at the Apollo Theater in 2013, largely squander the funkiest of grooves in favor of gratuitous remixes and false emotion.
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While other restaurants talk a good game about eating the animal from nose to tail, but rarely venture beyond a bit of crispy pig's ear, Bror goes to the funkiest nooks and crannies of the beast.
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Squint a little, however, and the finer print farther down the poster reveals another vital expression of contemporary African-American popular music: a showcase of some of today's finest and funkiest Detroit house producers and D.J.s.
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On tracks like "Cosmic Surfin'" and "Rap Phenomena," the band embrace the funkiest elements of dance-pop to create tight-knit, synth-funk euphoria over a decade before G-funk would ever become a recognized subgenre in the States.
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And at the core of that process was the title track, "a single that spoke of the funkiest Armageddon scene you've ever heard of," in the words of Touré, author of I Would Die 4 U: Why Prince Became an Icon.
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Just when we thought we'd seen it all when it came to famous people walking on the street, Victoria's Secret Angel and mother of two Alessandra Ambrosio just stepped out in what may be the funkiest sweater dress we've ever seen.
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The People's Choice, 'The Best Ever and Muhammad Ali' This 1975 single is probably the funkiest song ever to include the famous "Ali, boma ye" (or "Ali, kill him") chant from 1974's George Foreman match, the Rumble in the Jungle.
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A pair of transportation technology companies from two of the funkiest cities in the US are merging to form Moovel North America, a new company that will provide mobile ticketing technology to cities and software kits to developers to integrate transportation options.
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"Movement" and "Yeah" served as proof that LCD Soundsystem could've easily been a gut-punching, no-holds-barred punk band in a different era; "Dance Yrself Clean" and the "outer space" section of 45:33 (an unexpected highlight) indulged the band's freakiest, funkiest impulses.
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The Berlin-based pair of Max Graef and Glenn Astro are pals for a good reason—together, often collaborating on their label(s) Tartelet and Money $ex Records, the two have been releasing some of the dustiest, jazziest, funkiest, and most hip-hop soaked house music around.
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From the funkiest ceramic and wooden pots to trendy graphic-designed merch, high-tech grow kits, artful stands, and even the fabulous plants themselves, the 29 finds ahead cover an entire 360° of stylish apartment garden life...Plus even a few faux friends for the green thumbless, too.
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Meanwhile, the real black hole is in the National Football League's heart: a dark void where its funkiest franchise used to be, before the league's endless panting for infinite profit exiled the Raiders to a plastic-neon fantasyland, commissioner Roger Goodell's supreme and final admission that it's the corporate economy, stupid.
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Photograph by Cole Wilson for The New Yorker Those un-averse to the funkiest flavors of the sea will be delighted by dishes like the sour curry fish, a pungent mix of skin-on sea bass, braised daikon, and green papaya in a tamarind-chili broth, and the whole fried Thai mackerel, served with an intensely concentrated sesame-soy dipping sauce.
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Bantam King: Living in the bones of a failed Burger King (and with a logo and interior designed to elicit memories of the former tenant), Bantam King is the latest project from the Daikaya team, and it serves chicken ramen in one of the funkiest settings you can find in DC. While you're presented with a variety of broth options to choose from, the clear chintan (which is only available in limited quantities) is a remarkable standout, and you'd be nuts not to add on an additional marinated egg (nitamago).
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Bantam King: Living in the bones of a failed Burger King (and with a logo and interior designed to elicit memories of the former tenant), Bantam King is the latest project from the Daikaya team, and it serves up chicken ramen in one of the funkiest settings you can find in DC. While you're presented with a variety of broth options to choose from, the clear chintan (which is only available in limited quantities) is a remarkable standout, and you'd be nuts not to add on an additional marinated egg (nitamago).
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In 1995, Slyest Freshest Funkiest Rarist Cuts by Sly & The Family Stone was released on the Magical Mystery label. Produced by Leo De Gar Kulka and co-produced by Michael Briggs, it featured four songs plus outtakes recorded by Kulka in August 1967. Dorren handled the transferring of the material.Discogs - Sly & The Family Stone – Slyest Freshest Funkiest Rarist Cuts In 2006, Dorren co-produced actor / singer Ronny Cox's live album Ronny Cox At the Sebastiani Theatre.
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Allmusic's Jason Ankeny said: "The Sonny Lester-produced Soul Sugar looms large in Jimmy McGriff's vast catalog – while it's a fool's errand to pick the organist's absolute funkiest recording, this one demands serious consideration".
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Wagmeister, Elizabeth. "[Carly Rose Sonenclar Stuns In Her Funkiest Music Video Ever", Hollywood Life, November 5, 2014 She gave a concert at Provident Bank Park in Pomona, New York, in July 2014, where she performed three original songs, “Aliens”, “Weekend” and “Everybody’s Watching”.
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The album's appeal was widespread among critics. At the time, Rolling Stone noted "Green's voice is something to marvel at. He can croon, shout, scat, rise to the smoothest falsetto, and throw in the funkiest growls...Let's Stay Together is, like its predecessor, an indispensable treat."Rolling Stone March 30, 1972, p.
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Yeah, I had to make up > my Mind, so I did. 2019 Sheriff Ping Ping Ping will continue to Funk from > the Studio but Not Live playing Bass on Stage. I know u got question & I > don't have answers, maybe one day u to will understand. Just remember; That > This Year will be the Funkiest Year of them All.
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There was a search high and low; practically every session had a different drummer for a time. And finally Charlie Williams, who was the funkiest of them all, he just took it." Williams agreed, "Before I knew it, man, they weren't using anybody else. Sometimes, man, I was in the studio six and seven days a week.
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The least known of the three, this version by Kokomo, a British-soul group, includes delicately mixed congas with a tempo similar to New Birth's and is perhaps, musically, the funkiest of the three. Lead singer Tony O'Malley's vocal style is reminiscent of [Dr. John]'s. The background harmonies and ad-libs make this an outstanding track.
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Digital Spy writer Lewis Corner described the "throwback" song as a "glittering disco track" and that her "massive vocals" complement the composition. Joey Nolfi of Entertainment Weekly described "Telepathy" as the "funkiest" release by Aguilera for several years. Fuse.tv called it one of the best songs of 2016, and Digital Spy's Alim Kheraj shared the same sentiment.
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The Resurrection has received positive reviews, with some reviewers calling the album the best album the Geto Boys have ever made. In a positive review, AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote "The Resurrection outstrips every other Geto Boys record in every sense -- it is the leanest, meanest, and funkiest thing they've ever recorded."Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "The Resurrection - Geto Boys". AllMusic.
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Rimsky-Korsakoffee was a finalist in the "Best Dessert" category of The Village Voice "Best of Portland" list for 2011 but lost to Pix Patisserie. In 2013, the San Jose Mercury News named Rimsky- Korsakofee the "Coffee Shop That Should Get You Amped" in a piece about the more peculiar aspects of Portland ("Keep Portland Weird"); the publication called the house's bathroom the "funkiest" in town.
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Madonna and her dancers, performing a slow version of "Deeper and Deeper" during the Re-Invention World Tour, 2004. Upon its release, "Deeper and Deeper" received general acclaim from music critics. J. Randy Taraborrelli, author of Madonna: An Intimate Biography, commented that "['Deeper and Deeper'] was a change of pace from the title track. A straight-ahead house groove in the tradition of the funkiest New York clubs".
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The Sunday Times review. Craig Harris, also of Allmusic, later noted that with Mellowosity, the band "emerged as one of the funkiest tradition-rooted bands in Scotland." The album remains one of Greentrax Recordings' best-selling ever albums, and in May 1997, five months after the release of the album, an article entitled Peatbogacious written by Kenny Mathieson appeared in issue 167 of Folk Roots.Kenny Mathieson "Peatbogacious" Folk Roots no.
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Elysa Gardner of Rolling Stone compared the layering of dance beats into guitar-heavy mixes to songs by British bands Happy Mondays and Jesus Jones. "Mysterious Ways" combines a funky guitar riff with a danceable, conga-laden beat, for what Bono called "U2 at our funkiest... Sly and The Family Stone meets Madchester baggy." Amidst layers of distorted guitars, "The Fly" and "Zoo Station" feature industrial-influenced percussionGraham (2004), p. 47Stokes (2005), p.
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Some songs were punk, but many of them were also thrash-oriented, and this was by far Suicidal Tendencies's funkiest album yet. Fans and critics greeted the album warmly, and a new single, "Pop Song", was released. Infectious Grooves released their fourth and comeback album Mas Borracho in 2000, followed by Muir's second solo album as Cyco Miko, Schizophrenic Born Again Problem Child, in 2001. Suicidal Tendencies featured a new song on the Friends & Family, Vol.
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Fields later recorded several songs with his group "Mickey Fields and His Mice", entitled "The Cracker Jack", known as one of the top 100 funkiest songs ever and the popular "Little Green Apples". He later recorded an album with the great Richard "Groove" Holmes, recorded at the Left Bank. Fields also performed with his very talented sister, Shirley Fields, who was the lead singer for many years and also a big fixture in the jazz society in Baltimore.
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The group received little label support for major tours and so spent most of their playing time in the Philadelphia and New York areas. The group recorded and released a second album in 1973 on Muse Records, entitled Perception; by this time, bassist Johnson had left the group to join Weather Report, and was replaced by Tyrone Brown. Drinkwater and Wilen also produced this album. Garnering comparisons to John Coltrane, Weather Report, and Return to Forever,The Funkiest Band You Never Heard.
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Kortchmar, who played guitar on Taylor's JT album encouraged Taylor to record "Honey Don't Leave L.A." Kortchmar later told Musician that he regretted having encouraged Taylor to record "more rock 'n' roll songs like 'Honey Don't Leave L.A.'" because that was not Taylor's forte. However, Taylor enjoyed recording the song, and his recording received praise from critics. Taylor biographer Timothy White described it as "humorous" and as "one of JTs best uptempo tracks." Billboard described it as the "funkiest" of JTs three singles.
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Bono calls the song "U2 at our funkiest ... Sly and the Family Stone meets Madchester baggy". Lanois provided additional percussion by playing the congas. "Mysterious Ways" and the track it inspired, "One", were the only two songs that were primarily completed at Hansa Studios before the album sessions moved to Dublin in 1991. Much like they did for other songs from Achtung Baby, U2 continued to work on "Mysterious Ways" up to the recording deadline, adding a guitar overdub after the mix was already finished.
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Vocalist and guitarist Patrick Stump called "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race" the "funkiest thing we've ever done", and attributed the change in musical style to his love of soul music, which he acquired by listening to oldies stations as a child. Bassist Pete Wentz described the song "a bit of '70s funk mixed with [the band’s 2003 album] Take This to Your Grave with tight verses and big, fat choruses". The song closing sing-along was influenced by Justin Timberlake's "Señorita".
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He believed the shorter pieces sounded like "impressionistic experiments", while "Selim" and "Nem Um Talvez" appropriately "hark back to the late '50s". Edwin C. Faust from Stylus Magazine called Live-Evil "one of the funkiest albums ever recorded" while deeming the "somber" short pieces to be "haunting examples of musical purity—Miles enriching our ears with evocative melodies (his work on Sketches of Spain comes to mind) while the bass creeps cautiously, an organ hums tensly, and human whistles/vocals float about forebodingly like wistful phantoms".Faust, Edwin C. (September 1, 2003). Review: Live-Evil.
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14, released on Hed Kandi. About "Life Is the Music," the song "is a midtempo soul stomper with classic hip hop and R&B; flavor." Around 2008 he was collaborating with Andy Taylor of Duran Duran, who described him as "the best part of Michael Jackson, the funkiest part of Prince and the elaborate part of Sly Stone," comparing the sound of their collaborations to Power Station. He moved to Los Angeles in 2009, and was signed as an artist to Warner Bros by notable record producer Lenny Waronker.
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Ferguson later played with Pharoah Sanders, Bud Shank, and Kenny Burrell. In the 1990s, the Muse catalog was acquired by Joel Dorn's 32 Jazz label, which released some of Catalyst's work on a 1998 compilation album. Fan interest led to their entire four-album discography being released as a 2-CD set, entitled The Funkiest Band You Never Heard. "Ain't it the Truth" and "Ile Ife" were covered by Uri Caine (keyboards), Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson (Drums, from The Roots), and Christian McBride (bass), on their album The Philadelphia Experiment.
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Nob Hill is a neighborhood in Albuquerque, New Mexico, consisting of a commercial district along Central Avenue (former U.S. Route 66) and surrounding residential areas. Located just east of the University of New Mexico, the neighborhood was developed between about 1925 and 1950 and has since become a popular tourist and shopping destination. Known for its eclectic mix of mostly locally owned businesses, Nob Hill has been described as "the heart of Albuquerque's Route 66 culture and also its hippest, funkiest retail and entertainment district". The neighborhood is named after Nob Hill in San Francisco.
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Kindle Oasis being used with one hand Kindle Oasis Amazon announced the first-generation Kindle Oasis on April 13, 2016, and it was released on April 27 worldwide.Amazon's Kindle Oasis is the funkiest e-reader it's ever made The Verge Retrieved April 13, 2016 The Kindle Oasis is available in Wi-Fi and Wi- Fi + 3G models. The Oasis has a 6-inch, 300 ppi E Ink Carta HD display with ten LEDs. Its asymmetrical design features physical page turn buttons on one side and it has an accelerometer so the display can be rotated for one-hand operation with either hand.
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Reviewer Colin Larkin commented on his single "I'm Gonna Leave You", "which with its stinging blues guitar and a shouting gospel chorus ranked as one of the funkiest, most down-home soul records in history." Colin Larkin, "Bobby Powell", The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Retrieved 4 November 2016 Powell continued to record for Whit, releasing a string of singles through the late 1960s in a style similar to Clarence Carter, Bobby Powell, "I'm Not Going To Cry Over Spilled Milk", On The Record, May 30, 2014. Retrieved 4 November 2016 and had his final chart entry in 1971 with his version of Baby Washington's hit, "The Bells" (number 45 R&B;).
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Encouraged by Lanois, the Edge combined two of the chord progressions, inspiring the rest of the group to join him and improvise the new song "One". The band made progress on "Mysterious Ways" after the Edge began experimenting with the "Funk Wah" setting on a Korg A3 guitar effects unit and Bono told him to use it for the song. Bono said it made an "envelope of sound which would turn a guitar chord into the funkiest of jackhammers". Drummer Larry Mullen, Jr. recorded a drum track near the end of the sessions, introducing a "much groovier beat" that "demonstrated the difference between a drum machine and a real drummer".
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Thomas' 1988 album for Alligator Records, That Woman Is Poison! Thomas continued to record and toured internationally, billing himself as "The World's Oldest Teenager" and describing himself as "the funkiest man alive". He "drew upon his vaudeville background to put [his songs] over on stage with fancy footwork that displayed remarkable agility for a man well into his fifties", and usually performed "while clothed in a wardrobe of hot pants, boots and capes, all in wild colors." He continued as a DJ at WDIA until 1974, and worked for a period at WLOK before returning to WDIA in the mid 1980s to co-host a blues show.
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The band immediately carved out a niche in the Bay Area's World Music scene, spearheading a polyrhythmic renaissance and establishing a reputation for dynamic live performances. In 2004, Sila co-founded the AfroFunk Festival, a showcase for Afro-inspired bands (the proceeds of which benefited humanitarian causes) that evolved into an annual event and tour. In 2006, Sila and the A.F.E. released their first album, The Funkiest Man in Africa – a reference to Fela Kuti. Afropop.org called the album “a terrific work of contemporary funk” and noted, “Sila’s message… is as strong as the musicianship.” In 2009, Sila and the A.F.E. performed well-received appearances at the Sierra Nevada World Music Festival and the Stern Grove Festival.
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Allmusic's Al Campbell said: "McGriff's House Party took two days to complete and found the participants in a hard funk mood. ... another enjoyable and recommended soul groove session". Douglas Payne noted "McGriff seems ready to leave the lounge and get back to the soul and funk of the chittlin circuit. ... A nice comeback for one of the funkiest organists, when he wants to be".Payne, D. Jimmy McGriff Reviews, accessed October 22, 2018 In JazzTimes, Owen Cordle wrote "The Philadelphia organist knows how to initiate an infectious rhythmic feeling and keep it happening via hip footwork and judicious keyboard jabs ... All told, this house party, one of the organist’s best, is worth revisiting often".
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Big Boys are credited as well with the introduction of funk rhythms to hardcore punk, producing funk metal, an innovation influential on later bands such as Red Hot Chili Peppers, who actually opened up for the Big Boys in Hollywood, leading to Red Hot Chili Peppers being referred to as "The Little Big Boys". This credit is due in no small part to the addition of a horn section, The Impromptu Horns, spearheaded by Chris Gates' brother, Nathan. The Impromptu Horns played mainly local shows, and played on some of the funkiest tracks recorded by Big Boys. Horn players included Nathan Gates, David Kitto and Tim Kopra on trombones; Brent Fawns and David Griffy on trumpets.
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"Funky Cold Medina", written by Young MC, Michael L. Ross and Matt Dike, first appeared on Tone Lōc's debut album Lōc-ed After Dark. "Bust a Move" appeared on Young MC's debut album Stone Cold Rhymin. Allmusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine described the song as "unabashed catchy" due to its "skittish, rhythmic guitar riff, looped beats", backing vocals, and "funny" rhymes. The award was presented to Young MC. In 2010, Joshua Ostroff of Spinner included Young MC's win on his list of "The Grammy Awards' Biggest Mistakes", asserting that "Bust a Move" was merely a "fun little hip-pop song" while "Fight the Power" was a "revelatory single that still stands tall as one of music's greatest (and funkiest) political statements and perhaps hip-hop's finest moment".
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"Music of the Trees" was described by Elly Roberts of Allgigs as "a gorgeous acoustic lead beauty with splashes of synth-guitar and bluesy guitar solos," whilst she described "Palm Trees" as "possibly his most beautiful song ever; again synth effects drench this wonderful piece. It sharp contrast, "Unidentified" turns out be a funk laden thump, heavy basslines with swirling synths." The latter song was described by Hillage as "one of our funkiest and danciest tracks." "Leylines to Glassdom" was worked on by Hillage before beginning his first band, Khan, and was revisited and re- recorded during the recording of Motivation Radio, although this version was only released as a promotional single and was re-recorded altogether for Green in a longer format.
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Kočani orkestar (in Macedonian: Кочани оркестар) also credited under the names: Kocani orkestar, Kocani Orchestra, Kochani orkestar and Kochani Orchestra is a Macedonian Romani brass band from Kočani, North Macedonia led till 2000 by Naat Veliov. Kočani orkestar are among the funkiest exponents of the Balkan brass band style which is found across ex-Yugoslavia and is a direct descendant of the music once played by Turkish army bands. Their music is based on Gypsy tunes from various parts of the Balkans and on Turkish rhythms, with a sprinkle of Latin flavour. Their song "Siki, siki baba" is featured on the soundtrack for the movie Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan although it has no connection to the Music of Kazakhstan.
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Jose F. Promis from the same website complimented the single mix of the track, calling it one of Madonna's "best and funkiest tunes, and a prime example of late-'80s/early-'90s dance/house/R&B; music". Louis Virtel of The Backlot gave the song a positive review, calling it a "rollicking family reunion" that is the "sunny side of “Oh Father’s” grim familial reckoning." Kenneth Partridge from Billboard described the song as a mid-tempo synth-funk tune with a "tense" groove, on which Madonna offers an olive branch to her estranged father and siblings. Medium's Richard LaBeau gave a negative review; "this fifth single from Like a Prayer pales in comparison to the four that preceded it and has not aged well".
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" Despite describing the sing-along around the campfire as "clumsy," he did believe that Timberlake won the crowd back towards the end of the show. The Oakland Press Gary Graff said "You'd be hard- pressed to find a production that makes full use of an arena in as complete a way as Timberlake is doing" and opined "the whole affair was tightly choreographed to appear precision at times, loose and improvisational at others. Timberlake and company were best when they were at their funkiest." Peter Larsen in Daily Breeze said in his review that Timberlake delivered "with swagger and style in a terrific night at the Forum," and noted the opening act The Shadowboxers "surely won over many with their energetic performance.
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One of the all- time great headphones tracks, featuring the avant-garde at its funkiest." Robert Christgau of The Village Voice described it as "an album of keyboard doodles posing as improvisations." Following its reissue in 2014, the Irish Times noted that the album was initially regarded as an "unsatisfying concoction between two motivating forces in the avant-garde," but suggested that "for those who like their minimalism spiked with broken glass (notably "Ides of March"), perhaps it’s time to open the door and walk down the aisle." Record Collector stated that the album "walked the thin line between boundary- pushing experimentation and indulgent jamming, only reaching a cathartic breakthrough on "The Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles"' shimmering collision between Cale’s piano and Riley’s tape-delayed soprano sax.
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In addition to her jazzy favorites, "Dry Spell" and "Hit the Road Jack", she pointed to "Blame It On Me" and "Great Bright Morning" as the album's best tracks. Worrying that some might overlook "Great Bright Morning" because of its subtlety, she praised it as "heartfelt" and noted that its "warm acoustic work make[s] it worth going back to." "Blame It On Me" was called the "funkiest thing here" by Erlewine, and Lipp wrote that the song's "steady-rocking, propulsive pop" is a good fit for Abrams' style of singing. While opining that none of the songs are genuinely bad, she nonetheless pointed to "Midnight Girl", "A Boy Can Dream", and "Get Out" as the three weakest, calling the former two unmemorable and likening the latter to a Justin Bieber pop song.
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Mark Anthony Neal of PopMatters felt that the song is the "funkiest and most hip-hop inflected track" on the album, adding that it "forc[es] Keys to push towards her highest vocal register". BBC Music reviewer Denise Boyd called it a "[song] to look out for" on the album. Dimitri Ehrlich of Vibe praised Keys' vocal in the song, writing "Her voice is low and full, brimming with emotion. Singing as if her life depended on every note, she makes sure you feel the urgency". Steve LaBate of Paste described the song as "a well-written soul-pop tune with a killer sitar hook and Keys’ chiming harp- like piano accents that eventually morph into sparse, pretty jazz chords during the verse" and concluded that it's one of the "stronger tracks" on the album.
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The latter two songs, among Aftermaths more standard pop-rock titles, are often-cited examples of Jones interweaving unconventional instruments and quirky sounds into the album's sonic character, his use of the marimba featured on both.; . In the opinion of Philip Norman, Jones' varied contributions give Aftermath both the "chameleon colours" associated with Swinging London fashion and a "visual quality" unlike any other Stones album. Robert Christgau says the texture of the Stones' blues-derived hard rock is "permanently enriched" as Jones "daub[s] on occult instrumental [colours]", Watts "mold[s] jazz chops to rock forms", Richards "rock[s] roughly on" and the band "as a whole learn[s] to respect and exploit (never revere) studio nuance"; Wyman's playing here is described by Moon as the "funkiest" on a Stones LP.; .
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In 1998, after a series of campaign finance violations, including a number of unreported campaign contributions, the Florida Elections Commission charged Proctor with 178 penalty counts totaling over $200,000 in damages, a figure that was reduced by a judge in 2004 to $82,000. Proctor responded by calling members of the Elections Commission the "funkiest and foulest low-life demons in existence against black political empowerment since the Ku Klux Klan," according to the Tallahassee Democrat. The State of Florida Commission on Ethics ordered Leon County Commissioner Bill Proctor to pay civil penalties on August 24, 2000 for violating the Full and Public Disclosure of Financial Interests sections of the Florida Constitution. In October 2001, an attorney for the Florida Elections Commission said Leon County Commissioner Bill Proctor has shown "a gross defiance" of campaign finance laws.
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She was known at that time around Hanna-Barbera as "the funkiest chipmunk ever!" Other songs by Rainey in the movies included "Old Enough To Rock and Roll," which she wrote and performed for the film Iron Eagle and "I Can Fly" and “Technique,” two songs that she performed for the Sarah Jessica Parker film Girls Just Want To Have Fun. Without any support or promotion by the record company responsible for the soundtrack of "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" and solely as the result of New York area DJs playing the song because of requests, "I Can Fly" reached the Billboard Top Ten Dance Chart and stayed in the top ten for six months following the film's release. The European label Disconet released a 7:35 extended dance mix version of Rainey singing "I Can Fly" in their "Disconet Remix Greatest Hits" series.
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The Allmusic review by Jason Ankeny awarded the album 4 stars stating: Recorded with an exemplary supporting cast featuring pianist Don Blackman, guitarist Eric Gale, and saxophonist Michael Brecker, Sinbad explores the extremes of Weldon Irvine's music, juxtaposing several of the keyboardist's funkiest, most energetic grooves to date alongside mellow, contemplative performances of uncommon intricacy and beauty. Inspired in both sound and spirit by the soul-searching Motown efforts of Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder, complete with covers of their respective "What's Going On" and "Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing," Sinbad contrasts the elegant soul-jazz contours and luminous, horn-driven arrangements of the title cut and "Do Something for Yourself" alongside the nuances and soft pastels of "I Love You" and "Music Is the Key." The resiliency of Irvine's vision and the vibrant performances of his collaborators nevertheless create a kind of yin-yang dynamic that enables the album's divided soul to operate in harmony.Ankeny, Jason Allmusic Review, accessed April 18, 2013.
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Reviewing for Playboy in April 1992, Robert Christgau hailed Murray as "the most generous saxophone virtuoso since Sonny Rollins" and Shakill's Warrior "the funkiest record he's ever made", as well as "one of the most evocative". He highlighted the playing of Pullen, saying he and Murray "dig deep into the most declasse kind of organ jazz", and went on to write: Christgau later ranked Shakill's Warrior as the second best album of 1992 in his year-end "Dean's List" for The Village Voices Pazz & Jop critics poll. In Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s (2000), he assigned the album an A-plus grade, although he later said in 2020, after relistening "in what may have been the first time in 25 years, one thing became clear quick: not an A plus." In another retrospective appraisal, Allmusic's Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars, stating "The music, with the exception of some typical Murray outbursts into the extreme upper register, is generally respectful and soulful, one of Murray's mellower efforts.".
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