The Top 20 Greatest Funk Rock Songs

From Led Zeppelin and Mother’s Finest to Lenny Kravitz and Red Hot Chili Peppers, these are the songs that built funk rock It’s more than 25 years since the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Faith No More brought funk rock crashing into the mainstream consciousness. But the late 80s and early 90s actually was the genre’s second great era. In the early 70s, rock and funk co-existed happily. Inspired by Stevie Wonder and Funkadelic, the likes of Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones and even Deep Purple began to display their funkier influences on their sleeves. It’s not just been one-way traffic. For every white rock band getting ‘deep in the pocket’, there was a Mother’s Finest or Living Colour – black artists who broke down the artificial barriers that had been gradually erected. All of those bands and more are in this definitive list of the 20 greatest funk rock songs ever.