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Funky Friday

Posted over 4 years ago
Yes its Funky Friday folks & Freddie's Dead. Still dead after all these years.Curtis Mayfield's warning shot got lost in the blizzard as the seventies faded into the blood-soaked eighties,as Cocaine and then crack flooded the streets and emergency rooms across America.Maybe he shouldn't have sugar-coated the message.
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Comments (7)

  1. Marigold
    Marigold says very nice. it fit my mood oh so fine.
    Permalink posted 01/25/2008
  2. scotfree
    scotfree says Was there any other way? Watching friends and loved ones slip just a bit too deep into the bowels of addiction. The artist can only observe, absorb, comment, groove. sweet sounds
    Permalink posted 01/25/2008
  3. RGM
    RGM says Hey it's the original cool version...
    Permalink posted 01/25/2008
  4. ivylander
    ivylander says Time has made this song even more powerful - not so much the message as the music. The message was always the message....
    Permalink posted 01/26/2008
  5. deadmandeadman
    deadmandeadman says Yes it has Bill, and I think its partly due to my new eyes, those of a parent. And partly due to a few headstones in the local cemetary, battered bodies resting in peace at last. Maybe its due to the alleged wisdom that comes with growing older. Maybe its due to the low-grade rage I feel when the star/starlet of the moment can be so stupid, so incredibly naive,.....Maybe its the utter confused messages as we read of Winehouse rehab (We have come to bury poor Amy, not to celebrate her misery) Maybe its due to the pervasive nihilism today. I don't know, but the message is as true, urgent & desperate today as it ever was. And its drowned in the duststorm of screeching white noise of our corrosive culture. And the music conveys that in ways unknown in today's R&B. The growling rhythms and snarling textures underlying the silk-smooth delivery create a dynamic that's tense, nervous, alert, looking for release.
    Permalink posted 01/26/2008
  6. Bartleby
    Bartleby says The song is just a killer. As for the message, Bill and you said it so well.
    Permalink posted 01/26/2008
  7. dermahrk
    dermahrk says The dead are nothing if not consistent.
    Permalink posted 01/26/2008

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