Greatest of All Time!Get Lucky
Throwback Thursday, 2013: the cheapest way to sound like 1979 was to sample it. Daft Punk spent an enormous budget hiring the people who made 1979 instead.
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Stomp
Kirk Franklin & God's Property built a No. 1 R&B radio hit out of a Funkadelic sample and a gospel choir, and split the church over it in the process — the sound of a genre's ceiling getting tested in real time.
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Greatest of All Time!Super Freak
Three Temptations sang backup on Rick James' signature hit -- and its bassline would go on to make more money for James a second time, nine years later, as someone else's No. 1.
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Greatest of All Time!Virtual Insanity
Jamiroquai's 1996 single is still touring 30 years later -- the group's current Latin America dates are explicitly tied to this anniversary -- and the song itself holds up as well as the video does.
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Greatest of All Time!You Should Be Dancing
The Bee Gees' first true disco single, 50 years old this year, is also the record John Travolta dances to alone in Saturday Night Fever -- a genre pivot that outlasted the group that made it.
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