Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1991)

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"Few rock groups of the '80s broke down as many musical barriers and were as original as the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Creating an intoxicating new musical style by combining funk and punk rock together (with an explosive stage show, to boot), the Chili Peppers spawned a slew of imitators in their wake, but still managed to be the leaders of the pack by the dawn of the 21st century. The roots of the band lay in a friendship forged by three school chums, Anthony Kiedis, Michael Balzary, and Hillel Slovak, while they attended Fairfax High School in California back in the late '70s/early '80s. "

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Tracklisting

1. Red Hot Chili Peppers - 01 The Power Of Equality (4:04)
2. Red Hot Chili Peppers - 02 If You Have To Ask (3:36)
3. Red Hot Chili Peppers - 03 Breaking The Girl (4:55)
4. Red Hot Chili Peppers - 04 Funky Monks (5:23)
5. Red Hot Chili Peppers - 05 Suck My Kiss (3:37)
6. Red Hot Chili Peppers - 06 I Could Have Lied (4:04)
7. Red Hot Chili Peppers - 07 Mellowship Slinky In B Major (3:59)
8. Red Hot Chili Peppers - 08 The Righteous & The Wicked (4:08)
9. Red Hot Chili Peppers - 09 Give It Away (4:42)
10. Red Hot Chili Peppers - 10 Blood Sugar Sex Magik (4:31)
11. Red Hot Chili Peppers - 11 Under The Bridge (4:24)
12. Red Hot Chili Peppers - 12 Naked In The Rain (4:25)
13. Red Hot Chili Peppers - 13 Apache Rose Peacock (4:42)
14. Red Hot Chili Peppers - 14 The Greeting Song (3:13)
15. Red Hot Chili Peppers - 15 My Lovely Man (4:39)
16. Red Hot Chili Peppers - 16 Sir Psycho Sexy (8:16)
17. Red Hot Chili Peppers - 17 They're Red Hot (1:11)

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Sir Psycho Sexy

Defunkt - Thermonuclear Sweat (1982)

"Led by trumpet player Joseph Bowie -- the son of a St. Louis-based music teacher, the brother of big band arranger Byron Bowie, and late trumpet player of the Art Ensemble of Chicago's Lester Bowie -- Defunkt created some of the most adventurous sounds of the last quarter of the 20th century. Formed in 1978, Defunkt initially took a danceable approach to jazz. Although their first three albums -- Defunkt, Razor's Edge, and Thermonuclear Sweat -- made them leaders of New York's radical underground music scene, their inability to achieve commercial expectations led them to disband in 1983, with Bowie retreating to the island of St. Croix. Reorganized after Bowie's return to New York in 1986, Defunkt recorded an additional six albums, including A Blues Tribute: Jimi Hendrix & Muddy Waters and In America, between 1988-1993. Beginning in 1996, Bowie sought a way to combine the big band jazz of the 1930s and '40s and the dance rhythms and grooves of the '70s, '80s, and '90s. Expanding Defunkt with the addition of more horn players and background vocalists, Bowie introduced the Defunkt Big Band with a six-week stint at the Knitting Factory in New York. "

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Tracklisting

1. Defunkt - Illusion (5:37)
2. Defunkt - I Tried To Live Alone (5:10)
3. Defunkt - Cocktail Hour (Blue Bossa) (3:29)
4. Defunkt - Ooh Baby (6:07)
5. Defunkt - Avoid The Funk (4:28)
6. Defunkt - Big Bird (Au Private) (2:09)
7. Defunkt - For The Love Of Money (5:57)
8. Defunkt - Believing In Love (7:25)
9. Defunkt - Big Bird (Au Private) (live 1983) (2:10)

Defunkt - Illusion

Eddie Bo - Hook And Sling

             "A sorely underappreciated veteran of the New Orleans R&B scene, singer/songwriter/producer/pianist Eddie Bo evolved into one of the city's foremost funk players during the late '60s and early '70s, although he never had a national hit commensurate with his musical standing. Born Edwin Joseph Bocage on September 20, 1930, Bo was raised in the Algiers and Ninth Ward sections of New Orleans by a musical family; uncles Peter and Charles and cousin Henry all played in post-WWI jazz orchestras (including A.J. Piron's), and his mother was a pianist in the Professor Longhair style. Bo served in the Army after high school, and returned to New Orleans to study at the Grunewald School of Music, where he discovered bebop pianists like Art Tatum and Oscar Peterson. He started playing around the jam-heavy New Orleans jazz scene, but soon discovered that R&B was more popular and accessible, not to mention better-paying. He joined the house band at Club Tijuana under the name Spider Bocage, and later formed the Spider Bocage Orchestra, a professional backing band that supported many prominent blues and R&B artists of the day, including Ruth Brown, Earl King, Lloyd Price, Big Joe Turner, Smiley Lewis, and Guitar Slim."

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Tracklisting

1. Eddie Bo - Hook & Sling (3:40)
2. Eddie Bo - Sissy Walk (5:07)
3. Eddie Bo - If It's Good To You It's Good For You (5:07)
4. Eddie Bo - Check Your Bucket (4:53)
5. Eddie Bo - How Sweet It Is (3:09)
6. Eddie Bo - The Thang (Part 1) (2:50)
7. Eddie Bo - Funky Jam (2:54)
8. Eddie Bo - Hey Mama Here Comes The Preacher (2:40)
9. Eddie Bo - Funky Yeah (2:29)
10. Eddie Bo - Eddie's Rubber Band (2:54)
11. Eddie Bo - Love Has Been Good (2:35)
12. Eddie Bo - Just Wonder (3:43)
13. Eddie Bo - The Thang (Part 2) (3:04)
14. Eddie Bo - That Certain Someone (2:53)
15. Eddie Bo - Come To Me (2:36)

Eddie Bo - Funky Jam