The Meters – Good Old Funky Music
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Greetings all
How about something heavy from the Meters?
Now – and I agree completely – there are those among you that would say that there ain’t nothing un-heavy in the Meters bag, but I would also say that there’s heavy, and then there’s HEAVY, and the tune I bring you today is HEAVY.
Though amongst the world of funk 45 (and other formats, natch) collectors, the Meters are held up as one of the cornerstones of the sound, I think it would be safe to say that a lot of folks take these titans for granted.
On the outside, i.e. among the straights, the chart-riders and such, the Meters were just another instro band, akin to Booker T and the MGs, albeit with less chart success.
To the collectorati, the Meters are a veritable mountain of cheap 45s (and much more expensive LPs) that are encountered on any decent dig.
To those of us who revel in the sound of some of the most rhythmically innovative funk ever made, the Meters stand astride the landscape like giants.
No matter how many times I’m asked “what is the funkiest record ever made” I always find my way back to ‘Cardova’, four and a half minutes of bad-assitude that cuts many a multi-hundred-dollar disc to shreds with ease.
The law firm of Nocentelli, Neville, Porter and Modeliste were the very definition of unfuckwithable, and ‘Good old Funky Music’ is one of my personal favorites in their oeuvre.
Released in 1971 as a non-LP 45, ‘Good Old Funky Music’ sees our friends from New Orleans throwing down on the wah-wah pedal, whilst turning up the funk dial considerably.
‘Good Old Funky Music’ was the last 45 Josie released by the Meters before they moved to Reprise in early 1972.
I would end – as I often do – by hoping that you all dig the record as much as I do, but in this case at least, that ought to be a foregone conclusion.
See you on Friday.
Keep the faith
Larry
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“Unfuckwithable” …..yaaah, fershure
As HEAVY as advertised. Thanks!
Excellent track, Larry. I’ve never really acquired many of the Meters’ Josie recordings on vinyl so the first version of this recording I ever heard was the unedited master found on Rounder’s “Good Old Funky Music” CD (where it runs 4:46) from the early 1990s. At the time, I wasn’t even aware that there WAS a single edit of the track. To date, I still prefer the longer version, probably because (1) it’s the first version I heard AND (2) because I’m a Meters fanatic who just can’t ever get enough of a good thing!