Valentine's Weekend "Funk Drops" Compilation

I'm not the biggest fan of this holiday, but everyone needs a good funk and soul mix on hand for the ladies. Of course, love is the theme here. It's just not exactly your average radio disc jockey ballad garbage that's on your local station right now.

We start this love-a-thon off on the deep funk soul tip with cuts from The Counts, Eugene McDaniels, and 100% Pure Poison. After a funk instrumental by the Propositions, we ease right on into the sweet soul cut from The Sylvers, "Only One Can Win"[famously sampled by the late great J Dilla]. 

It's just one infectious groove after another that will stay playing in your brain for some time to come. There's samples all over the place. From MF Doom to Jemini the Gifted One. From Da King & I to Common. This compilation ends appropriately with Melvin Van Peebles' very real and pretty damn funny track called "I Remember". 

01. The Counts - Why Not Start All Over Again

02. Free Soul - Give Me Back My Freedom

03. Eugene McDaniels - Lovin' Man

04. O'Donel Levy - Hey,Love!

05. Bobby Byrd - Never Get Enough

06. 100% Pure Poison - Puppet On A String

07. Propositions - You've Been Chose

08. The Sylvers - Only One Can Win

09. Edwin Birdsong - I Love You Michelle

10. Amnesty - We Have Love

11. O.V. Wright - Let's Straighten It Out

12. Syreeta - I Love Every Little Thing About You

13. Roy Ayers - The Memory

14. Rotary Connection - Love Has Fallen On Me

15. Curtis Mayfield - Now You're Gone

16. Dynamic Tints - Be My Lady

17. Kool Blues - Can We Try Love Again

18. George Duke - For Love(I Come Your Friend)

19. Peter Brown - For Your Love

20. Melvin Van Peebles - I Remember

Peep The Samples:

Download Here complete with cover art

Backup Link Here

Also, check out the 5 part Sample compilation series if you missed it.

Thanks to Roy Johnson for the Melvin Van Peebles hook up.

And thanks to Kalel for the ill cover art.

--Verge