I'm Looking At The Front Door...

Get Out My Life Woman - Lee Dorsey
Get Out My Life Woman - Solomon Burke
Get Out My Life Woman - Iron Butterfly

It's Tuesday here at Chez' Funk, and today we'd like to give a special tribute to all of those women who have maxed out the credit cards, lost the house keys, wrecked the Jetta, and fooled around on their man. (We here at the funk respect women with the utmost sincerity and passion, however, a few of yawl need some help or a AA type program and shit...)

If there is a more "to the point" title for a song of this kind, I'm not quite sure what it is. If it exists, please leave us a note in the comments or something. "Get Out My Life, Woman", the simplicity and at the same time the directness, tell the listeners exactly how our boy Lee Dorsey feels about his woman. And he doesn't play around either. Lee was an interesting fellow from the Crescent City (aka New Orleans) with an interesting career. His bio is listed here.

Some of you may recognize the drum pattern in the beginning of this song, and with good reason. Check out a partial list of "who sampled it" list provided by The-Breaks.com:

* "Get out of My Life, Woman" (Drums)
Beck's "Where it's At"
Big Daddy Kane's "Brother, Brother"
Biz Markie's "Just a Friend"
Black Moon's "U Da Man"
Compton's Most Wanted's "This is Compton"
Common's "Breaker 1/9"
Cypress Hill's "Hits from the Bong"
De la Soul's "Fanatic of the B Word"
Diamond D's "Feel the Vibe"
Fat Joe's "Flow Joe"
House of Pain's "Over There Shit"
Lench Mob's "Capital Punishment in America"
Lord Finesse's "Fat for the 90's"
Leaders of the New School's "Zearocks"
Public Enemy's "Here I Go"
Red Hot Lover Tone's "Give it Up"
Wu-Tang Clan's "Maria"

X-Clan's "Verbal Milk"

Now that, that's some serious love right there.

Next up is one of my personal favo(u)rite aritists, Solomon Burke. On his version of "Get Out", Solomon almost gets into a rapping exercise up front (Beat Box!), letting his woman know where he stands on her recent traversities (new slag alert!) and gum flapping. I mean this song inspires people to do them snaps and shit that were all the rage in the early 90's. Two snaps up and a swift kick out the door. I can even envision Solomon doing this track and getting all AMG "B*$Ch Betta Have My Money" and shit. Classic.

As an added piece of historical rimmermerang (old skool slang alert!) his song was sampled for that True Skool classic "Blue Cheese" by Kieth Boog's flavo(u)rite UMCs. King Solomon is still doing his soul review tour so if he comes to a town or province near you, I'd suggest going to check it out. He can still put on a show.

Finally today, we run into that late 60's rock band with the really diametrically opposed group name, Iron Butterfly.

Side note: If a butterfly was made of iron, would it fly? Is that a dumb question?

Anyhow, Iron Butterfly are most famously know as the cats who did that 17 odd minute epic, "Inna Gadda Da Vida". When you think of spaced out acid rock, you have to think of that song. If you don't own it, you must get it soon. But they also did some covers of more mainstream stuff like their version of "Get Out". It starts off with those same keyboard synth sounds as you find in Da Vida over a nice little drum pattern. Then it goes into full Southern Funk Rock mode and the rest is pure dopeness.

So there you have it ladies. Yawl had better shape up or ship out. Cause us men have an anthem to counter all that Beyonce/Ciara/Jenifer Lopez mess. On the real, we got three different versions for that ass. BAAM! And don't be mad, UPS is hiring.

Just kidding yawl...seriously, where you going? Honey? (sound of door slamming). Damn.

For tomorrow we're gong to have a double post for Hump day so after groovin' out to today's choice cuts, get your funktometer (new slang alert!) ready.

Do you and your meager "good music" knowledge a favor and peep the truth:

Unkut.com
Ear Fuzz
Soul Sides
Straight Bangin'
Low End Theory
Xanax Taxi
FunkDigital.com

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*And on some other shit, if you watch 24 like I do (being you plan your whole Monday night around it), Michelle is back! How friggin crazy is this season? Hot Daam this show is good.