Funkify Your Life: The Meters Anthology
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Funkify Your Life: The Meters Anthology is an album from funk
group The Meters
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Disc 2
Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...
group The Meters
The Meters
The Meters are an American funk band based in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Meters performed and recorded their own music from the late 1960s until 1977...
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Track listing
Disc 1- "Cissy Strut"
- "Here Comes the Meter Man"
- "Live Wire"
- "Sophisticated Cissy"
- "Ease Back"
- "Stormy"
- "Look-Ka Py Py"
- "Pungee"
- "Thinking"
- "This Is My Last Affair"
- "Funky Miracle"
- "Yeah, You're Right"
- "Little Old Money Maker"
- "Dry Spell"
- "Chicken Strut"
- "Same Old Thing"
- "Darling Darling Darling"
- "Tippi-Toes"
- "Ride Your Pony"
- "Message from the Meters"
- "Zony Mash"
- "Stretch Your Rubber Band"
- "Groovy Lady"
- "(The World Is a Bit Under the Weather) Doodle-Oop"
- "I Need More Time"
- "Good Old Funky Music"
Disc 2
- "Stay Away"
- "Soul Island"
- "Do the Dirt"
- "Cabbage Alley"
- "People Say"
- "Hey Pocky A-Way"
- "Africa"
- "Fire on the Bayou"
- "Talkin' 'Bout New Orleans"
- "They All Ask'd for You"
- "Running Fast" (Single Version)
- "(Doodle Loop) the World Is a Little Bit Under the Weather"
- "Trick Bag"
- "Hang 'Em High"
- "Be My Lady"
- "Funkify Your Life"
- "Give It What You Can"
Personnel
- Art NevilleArt NevilleArt Neville is an American singer and keyboardist from New Orleans.-History:Neville is a part of one of the most famous musical families of New Orleans, the Neville Brothers...
- vocals, keyboards - Ziggy ModelisteZiggy ModelisteJoseph Modeliste is an American drummer best known as a founding member of the funk group The Meters. Considered to be one of the most innovative, and highly acclaimed drummers ever to hail from New Orleans, Louisiana, Modeliste is a pioneer of second-line funk...
- drums, vocals - George Porter, Jr.George Porter, Jr.George Porter, Jr. is a musician best known as the bassist and singer of The Meters. Along with Art Neville, Porter formed the group in the mid 60's and came to be recognized as one of the progenitors of funk. The Meters disbanded in 1977, but reformed in 1989...
- bass, background vocals - Leo NocentelliLeo NocentelliLeo Nocentelli in New Orleans, Louisiana is one of the founding members of the New Orleans funk band, The Meters. He has been credited for popular funk songs such as "Cissy Strut", "People Say" and "Hey Pocky Way"...
- bass, guitar, background vocals - Cyril NevilleCyril NevilleCyril Neville , is a percussionist and vocalist who first came to prominence as a member of his brother Art Neville's funky New Orleans-based band, The Meters...
- percussion, conga, vocals