From the Jam Fans Forum’s 5 Fantastic Funk Albums Everyone Should Own episode of the Where’d You Get Your Funk From? show, here are all 20 picks. They were chosen by host Scott “DR GX” Goldfine; music & culture journalist and liner notes master A. Scott Galloway (https://ascottgalloway.net); music scholar, author and radio show host Rickey Vincent (https://kpfa.org/program/the-history-of-funk); and funk crusader, educator and radio show host Phil Colley (https://www.pfunkradio.com).

Each album image is linked to listen and purchase (shown in alpha order). 

Ahh . . . the Name Is Bootsy, Baby (1977) – Bootsy’s Rubber Band

Brick (1977) – Brick

Look Out for #1 (1976) – Brothers Johnson

Gratitude (1975) – Earth, Wind and Fire

Let’s Take It to the Stage (1975) – Funkadelic

Go for Your Guns (1977) – The Isley Brothers

Get It Together (1973) – The Jackson 5

Bustin’ Out of L Seven (1979) – Rick James

Wild and Peaceful (1973) – Kool and the Gang

Super Fly (1972) – Curtis Mayfield

Birth Day (1972) – New Birth

Honey (1975) – Ohio Players

Mothership Connection (1975) – Parliament

Motor Booty Affair (1978) – Parliament

The Concept (1978) – Slave

Stone Jam (1980) – Slave

Stand! (1969) – Sly and the Family Stone

Fresh (1973) – Sly and the Family Stone

Psychedelic Shack (1970) – The Temptations

Innervisions (1973) – Stevie Wonder

See This Complete Where’d You Get Your Funk From? Jam Fans Forum Edition Here!