1-Sep-07 0:00 AM CST

Low End Theory September Podcast

I just want to start by saying that the Low End Theory is by no means responsible for any public ridicule you may cause yourself while listening to this podcast. If you should start to tap your feet, play air guitar or flat out shake yo money maker while in the company of others please use caution. This months podcast is F U N K Y Ya'll! I've toyed with having a trivia contest this month, still awaiting some guesses for the reggae contest, but we figured it may be too easy. If you can figure out 10 tracks that have sampled any of the songs in this podcast we will send you a Low End Theory sticker. If I find out that you used Google Sir Nose D'Voidoffunk will come for you

Starting off the last month of summer is an intro pulled from DJ Shadow's School House Funk series, check it out if you haven't already. Next up it is arguably the best live band I have ever seen live, the Meters with Chicken Strut. Not sure if they eventually started playing this song live again but I found out the hard way one night that they didn't. Some how I managed to get on stage behind Art Neville at Tipitinas and personally requested Chicken Strut.

"We don't play that" grumbled Art. "Hey, get this Mutha F'er off the stage"
Good times

There is a pause in Think by Lynn Collins and the JBs(5:56 of the podcast) that might just be the funkiest pause in all of recorded music. That pause has so much thick air in it. Hot damn I miss James Brown. Pearly Queen's Quit Jive'in (is your head noddin yet?) is sandwiched nicely with another one of James Browns ladies of Funk. Marva Whitney drops in with Unwind Yourself, I know you know the hook. It would seem that I have something blocking my esophagus. So we had some ladies throw it down in a damn funky way. Why not follow that with the Singing Principal and Women's Liberation. We heard this cut sampled back in our March Podcast with Rakim and Let the Rhythm Hit Em', it's All the People with Cramp Your Style. I know what you're thinking - The Low End Theory, Goddamn that DJ saved my day. James Knight and the Butlers give Save Me a real nice treatment. Ok so we've been pretty damn funky up till now, right? I know it may be too much for the less experienced funkateers so we thought we'd slow it down a little bit. Willie Wright gives Curtis Mayfields Right On For the Darkness a Gil Scott Heron meets Santana type vibe, perfect for headphones. Man oh man that track is tight. Ok breaks over, lets have an Egg Roll, from The M&S Band. Pearl Dowdell lets us know about her man's Good Thing. Yay, more Meters! Live Wire slides out of Pearl making way for the Soul Lifters - Hot Funky and Sweaty, yes indeed. The New Mastersounds and Nervous keeps the metering running making way for the Soul Jets with Clap Your Hands. Herman Hitson has something to say to his baby and it Ain't No Other Way. Speaking of Santana the Brothers Seven give Evil Ways a funk make over. Sandi & Matues tells us to take a look at The World, same old same old. Latin Breed, man what can I say about this track? Just like the lyrics say 'it's a good good feeling'. This is just one of those tracks that puts a big smile on your face. Top notch, sweat drippin, ass shakin, brow wipin funk. HAH! Something Different from the Prepositions sounds like that type of song you want to hear in a low ceiling bar that is virtually light free. Perhaps a white russian sits close by as you sweat out the troubles of the day. No ones watching, and you are getting down. Now we all need to be right there. Thankfully Houston has Sammy. Eugene Blacknell & the New Breed drop in for the Trip before handing it off to Gow Dow Experience and Compared to What. This track from the '70s is as relevant today as it was back then. What's that saying? Those who forget the past are destined to repeat it.
Ain't no thing

School House Funk Intro
The Meters - Chicken Strut 1:04
Lyn Collins - Think About It 3:36
Pearly Queen - Quit Jive'in 6:49
Marva Whitney - Unwind Yourself 9:23
Women's Liberation 11:55
All the People - Cramp Your Style 14:40
James Knight & The Butlers - Save Me 17:31
Willie Wright - Right On For the Darkness 20:23
The M&S Band - Egg Roll 23:27
Pearl Dowdell - Good Things 25:26
The Meters - Live Wire 27:56
The Soul Lifters - Hot Funky and Sweaty 30:19
The New Mastersounds - Nervous 33:01
Soul Jets - 37:12
Herman Hitson - Ain't No Other Way 39:46
The Brothers Seven - Evil Ways 42:16
Sandi & Matues - The World 45:22
Latin Breed - I Turn You On 47:43
Prepositions - Something Different 50:00
Eugene Blacknell & the New Breed - The Trip 54:00
Gow Dow Experience - Compared to What 56:20