In the late 1970s, after Governor Jerry Brown canceled the Beverly Hills Freeway, which would have razed the entire length of Melrose Avenue, that avenue became known as a street of funky shops, restaurants and galleries.

The rejuvenated label has regained some of its former glory with a funky mix of 1970s vintage looks and contemporary street styling a huge commercial and critical success.

She was signed by Capitol records in the late 1970s and in an attempt to broaden her appeal she cut the album Life, Love and Harmony, an album of soulful, funky dance cuts that included the track " Sunshine ", which was to become one of her most sought-after recordings ( albeit among supporters of the rare soul scene with whom she would not usually register ).

In 2000, CMJ New Music Monthly described him as " an expert in funky, sped-up hip-hop ", and by 2001, Billboard was listing him along with Crystal Method, DJ Micro and Überzone as " perennial figure in the burgeoning funky breaks underground scene.

He was once told that " a lot of those stations still think you're a black group because the sound feels funky and black.

Elements of Level 42's roots could still be found in the funky " Coup d ' État " and " Dream Crazy " on the UK version of the album, as well as a long instrumental track named " Hell ," which was also recorded during the World Machine sessions ( This last track did not see the light of day until the early 2000s as an MP3 download on the original Napster ).

Olvera explained shortly after the release of the album, " Basically, we're still the same Mana, but we're going through a funky, soulish stage.

Written and produced by Sly Stone, Fresh is more upbeat than its predecessor, the landmark There's a Riot Goin ' On, but still retains much of Riots dark, funky feel.

Yet for all repetitiveness, it's still kind of funky and pervasive ".

The album was a departure from the Subliminal Plastic Motives in that most of the songs showcase a more electronic, funky character and do not feature guitars, yet it was still firmly rooted in Mahaffey's unique pop-rock style.

It is available in still, sparkling and ' funky ' flavoured varieties.

J. Randy Taraborrelli, in his book, Madonna: An Intimate Biography, wrote that the song was a " funky, uptown anthem celebrating the art of ' voguing '", as well as that the rap section " is still one of Madonna's greatest camp musical moments ".

During their period of greatest celebrity, the band's influence on aspiring R & B-flavored white acts was without equal, especially in the northeastern U. S. Notable bands that incorporated ( sometimes to the point of parody ) the Rascals ' full-on stage demeanor and energy as well as the intense, hyper-dramatic vocalizing, drumstick-spinning gyrations and heavy bottom-end rhythm also achieved some prominence: the Vagrants ( featuring Leslie West, later of Mountain ), the Rich Kids, and the epitome of over-the-top funky psychedelia, the Vanilla Fudge, all owed their styles to the Rascals ' synthesis of show-biz and soul.

Vices included the band's first No. 1 single: Simmons ' signature tune " Black Water ", which featured the memorable refrain, " I'd like to hear some funky Dixieland, pretty mama come and take me by the hand ".

The rave music genres speed garage and UK funky are also fusions of British hip hop with some form or aspect of house music.

Note that some listeners make no distinction between ' soul-jazz ' and ' funky hard bop ,' and many musicians don't consider ' soul-jazz ' to be continuous with ' hard bop.

However, the typical progressive-house mix — which might integrate some funky house, trance, and even some hard techno at times — has more energy than tech-house, which tends to have a more “ laid-back ” feel.

Note that some listeners make no distinction between ' soul-jazz " and ' funky hard bop ,' and many musicians don't consider ' soul-jazz ' to be continuous with ' hard bop.

' Think ' had some great funky licks.

: Shoot some funky anesthetic.

Let's turn on some funky music.

PSM praised the character as well, stating " might wear some funky shoes, but that doesn't stop him from kicking some robot butt ".

At the 2001 Club in Pittsburgh, a table full of black fans kept coming to the stage and teasing: " Are you white boys gonna play some funky music?

In 2009, Jade was featured in an in-depth video clip for Observer Women's Magazine, sharing one of her creations, something she refers to as her " artwork ", a " ribbon bracelet " which features some " easily available household things " such as ; a " skull and wings ", a tiny " palm tree, sort of reminds me of my home in Ibiza ", a bunch of safety pins, " funky little bits and bobs ", e. g. a little key trinket, of which Jade reveals, " I kinda like the way a key symbols things ", and confesses that she loves encorporating " all sorts of symbols and thoughts into my jewellery and little things they mean to you ".

On some recordings, he would include playing very intricate horn section lines or phrases on the bass, in unison with the horn section, which until then, was virtually unheard of within the genre, as was his funky bass slapping, and string snapping technique which has today become a norm for bassist within Latin salsa music thanks to Sal.

Mackey wrote that " outside of a funky walk cycle from Bart, the game actually looks pretty nice — for some reason the Game Boy Simpsons games were always graphically superior to the NES ones — but that's about all the praise it deserves.

* CMJ-Up The Downstair retains the band's willowy roots in Albion psychedelia but expands the brief, dropping its cheesy self-consciousness while infusing some contemporary dance auras ( from acidic mesmerism to almost funky syncopation ) with more ' group-like ' interaction.

In an interview taken in 1984, Dylan admitted that " of Mine " was done a bunch of different ways ... but I chose for some reason a particularly funky version of that — and it's really scattered.

" Silver Sessions were taken from an evening when SY had to do vocal overdubs for ' A Thousand Leaves ' – the band upstairs was hammering out some funky metal overdrive and we couldn't " sing " properly (?!

According to The Toyes, " one fine fall day on a small island " of Oahu in Hawaii, two of the band members, Jim and Sandy, were sitting under a large banyan tree on Kuhio Beach, " tokin ' on some sweet bud & jammin ' on a rootsy reggae funky town " when they conceived the song " Smoke Two Joints.

Infectious hooks, Jay Dee's trademark keys, and some seriously funky beats all work to create a captivating soundscape upon which Q-Tip drops his traditionally abstract rhymes ".

Osmosis " Ozzy " Jones ( Phil LaMarr )-An urban and funky white blood cell with little respect for authority and the main protagonist of the show.

He has recently released the album " Sassified " which has a very funky modern urban sound.

" In 1977 the Commodores scored a ballad hit with " Easy ", which became the group's biggest hit yet, reaching No. 4 in the U. S., followed by the funky favorite " Brick House ", also Top 5, both from their landmark album " The Commodores ", as was the utopian album favorite " Zoom ".

Euro disco was not as funky, more pop oriented, and less soul influenced than American styled disco.

Brown's style of funk in the late 1960s was based on interlocking syncopated parts: funky bass lines, drum patterns, and iconic guitar riffs.

He stated that he grew up listening to many Motown bass players and he was a funky kind of bassist.

The music for this segment was a repetitive, funky instrumental groove featuring a call-and-response between horns and a scratchy wah-wah guitar.

LaLonde was a founding member of death metal pioneers Possessed, who toured with Metallica before joining Claypool in Primus, and Claypool auditioned to join Metallica ; however Claypool was turned down because his style was too funky for Metallica.

The former song was one of the first recordings to employ the heavy, funky beats that would be featured in the funk music of the following decade.

From 1965-1973 he switched from Blue Note to Prestige Records but stayed very much on the hard-bop track ; while the rest of the jazz world was getting funky, Gordon was making classic bop albums like 1972's Tangerine with Thad Jones, Freddie Hubbard, and Hank Jones.

Thanks to his Heyeah come da judge routine, which originally was accompanied by music with a funky beat, Pigmeat Markham is regarded as a forerunner of rappers.

Boogaloo was the first contemporary Latin music form that captured my attention because of its funky sounds, engaging choral chants by the audience, English lyrics, references to symbols of African American culture (" cornbread, hog maws and chitlins "), and background sounds of raucous party goers.

Makossa is a type of funky dance music, best-known outside Africa for Manu Dibango, whose 1972 single " Soul Makossa " was an international hit.

Associating with the dregs of the supernatural subculture that exist in the Buffyverse, he was in a phase later described by Xander Harris as an " electric Kool-Aid funky Satan groove.

Pauling's sound was funky, gutsy.

The band played soulful, jazzy, and funky pop music and was initially signed to Phonogram Records ' Mercury imprint.

The band's second album, Getahead, was led by an upbeat funky track called " Name and Number ".

Goldie covered it on his 1998 EP Ring of Saturn ( the lyrics were sung by Diane Charlemagne ), In 2007 it was given a funky house makeover by Central Avenue featuring Simon Green.