{"id":3763,"date":"2013-04-16T11:39:42","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T16:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=3763"},"modified":"2013-08-03T14:12:40","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T19:12:40","slug":"the-meters-good-old-funky-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=3763","title":{"rendered":"The Meters – Good Old Funky Music"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download The Meters – Good Old Funky Music<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/del><\/p>\n

Greetings all<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

How about something heavy from the Meters?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now \u2013 and I agree completely \u2013 there are those among you that would say that there ain\u2019t nothing un-heavy in the Meters bag, but I would also say that there\u2019s heavy, and then there\u2019s HEAVY, and the tune I bring you today is HEAVY.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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<\/strong>, albeit with less chart success.<\/p>\n

To the collectorati, the Meters are a veritable mountain of cheap 45s (and much more expensive LPs) that are encountered on any decent dig.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

No matter how many times I\u2019m asked \u201cwhat is the funkiest record ever made\u201d I always find my way back to \u2018Cardova\u2019, four and a half minutes of bad-assitude that cuts many a multi-hundred-dollar disc to shreds with ease.<\/p>\n

The law firm of Nocentelli, Neville, Porter and Modeliste<\/strong> were the very definition of unfuckwithable<\/em>, and \u2018Good old Funky Music\u2019 is one of my personal favorites in their oeuvre.<\/p>\n

Released in 1971 as a non-LP 45, \u2018Good Old Funky Music\u2019 sees our friends from New Orleans throwing down on the wah-wah pedal, whilst turning up the funk dial considerably.<\/p>\n

\u2018Good Old Funky Music\u2019 was the last 45 Josie released by the Meters before they moved to Reprise in early 1972.<\/p>\n

I would end \u2013 as I often do \u2013 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.<\/p>\n

See you on Friday.<\/p>\n

Keep the faith<\/strong><\/p>\n

Larry<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Meters Listen\/Download The Meters – Good Old Funky Music Greetings all How about something heavy from the Meters? Now \u2013 and I agree completely \u2013 there are those among you that would say that there ain\u2019t nothing un-heavy in the Meters bag, but I would also say that there\u2019s heavy, and then there\u2019s HEAVY, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,17,14,40,12,18],"tags":[163,166,41,164],"class_list":["post-3763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funk","category-funk-45","category-funky16corners","category-new-orleans-funk","category-soul","category-soul-45","tag-funk","tag-funky16corners","tag-new-orleans","tag-soul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMKgo-YH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3763"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4079,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3763\/revisions\/4079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}