The Meters
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The Meters are an American funk band based in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Meters performed and recorded their own music from the late 1960s until 1977. The band played an influential role as backing musicians for other artists, including Lee Dorsey, Robert Palmer, and Dr. John. The Meters acted as the house band for Allen Toussaint's New Orleans soul classics of the 1960s and are responsible for bringing New Orleans second line grooves into popular music.
While The Meters rarely enjoyed significant mainstream success, they are considered, along with artists like James Brown, one of the progenitors of funk music and their work is influential on many other bands, both their contemporaries and modern musicians working in the funk idiom.
The Meters' sound is defined by an earthy combination of tight melodic grooves and highly syncopated New Orleans "second-line" rhythms under highly charged guitar and keyboard riffing. Their songs "Cissy Strut" and "Look-Ka Py Py" are considered funk classics.
The Meters (album)
The Meters is the debut studio album by the American funk group The Meters. It was released in May 1969 and is the first of eight albums by the band. The band's early works were developed through improvisation. Band members had spent most of the 1960s performing together in nightclubs of New Orleans. They had a fluid musical style that included elements of R&B, rock and jazz.
Reception
A review by AllMusic noted the album's simplicity and nuance and called it "impressive". Tamara Davidson of Revive Music had a positive review and stated "the album is filled with infectious grooves, filthy bass lines, and revolutionary drum rhythms." According to Brian Knight of The Vermont Review, the album "set the pace for both the Meters and the entire New Orleans funk sound."
Track listing
All songs written and composed by Art Neville, Ziggy Modeliste, Leo Nocentelli and George Porter, Jr., except as noted.
Personnel
Credits adapted from AllMusic.
Podcasts:
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ALBUMS
- Here Comes the Meter Man: The Complete Josie Recordings 1968-1970 released: 2011
- Zony Mash released: 2003
- Funky Miracle: Live at the Moonwalker, Volume 1 released: 2002
- Funky Miracle: Live at the Moonwalker, Volume 2 released: 2002
- Good Old Funky Music: 20 Upbeat Cool Down New Orleans Classics released: 2001
- Kickback released: 2001
- Fire on the Bayou released: 2000
- Rejuvenation released: 2000
- The Very Best of the Meters released: 1999
- The Meters released: 1999
- Look-Ka Py Py released: 1999
- The Very Best of the Meters released: 1997
- Funkify Your Life: The Meters Anthology released: 1995
- Crescent City Groove Merchants released: 1994
- Fundamentally Funky released: 1994
- The Original Funkmasters released: 1992
- Uptown Rulers!: The Meters Live on the Queen Mary released: 1992
- The Meters Jam released: 1992
- Funky Miracle released: 1991
- Good Old Funky Music released: 1990
- New Directions released: 1977
- Trick Bag released: 1976
- The Best of the Meters released: 1975
- Cabbage Alley released: 1972
- Struttin' released: 1970
- Original Album Series released:
- Live At St. Bernard Civic Auditorium, Chalmette, LA 3-5-73 released:
- Anthology - The Josie Years released:
Kickback
Released 2001- Big Chief
- Come Together
- Hang 'em High
- What More Can I Do
- Keep on Marching (Funky Soldier)
- Jambalaya (On the Bayou)
- Down by the River
- Honky Tonk Women
- He Bite Me
- Easy (1hp)
- Rock and Roll Medley: Rockin' Pneumonia / Something You've Got / I Know / Everybody Loves A Lover
- All I Do Everyday
- Love the One You're With
- A Mother's Love
The Very Best of the Meters
Released 1999- Cissy Strut
- Look-Ka Py Py
- I Need More Time
- Funky Miracle
- Tell Me What's on Your Mind
- All I Do Every Day
- He Bite Me
- Keep On Marching
- Yeah You're Right
- Stormy
- Heartache
- Chicken Strut
- Ease Back
- Sophisticated Cissy
- Meters Jam
- Simple Song
- Gossip
- A Message From The Meters
- Handclapping Song
- Dry Spell
- Pungee
- Strech Your Rubber Band
- It's Too Late
Funkify Your Life: The Meters Anthology
Released 1995- Cissy Strut
- Here Comes the Meter Man
- Live Wire
- Sophisticated Cissy
- Ease Back
- Stormy
- Look-Ka Py Py
- Pungee
- Thinking
- This Is My Last Affair
- Funky Miracle
- Yeah, You're Right
- Little Old Money Maker
- Dry Spell
- Chicken Strut
- Same Old Thing
- Darling Darling Darling
- Tippi-Toes
- Ride Your Pony
- A Message from the Meters
- Zony Mash
- Stretch Your Rubber Band
- Groovy Lady
- (The World Is a Little Bit Under the Weather) Doodle-Oop
- I Need More Time
- Good Old Funky Music
Uptown Rulers!: The Meters Live on the Queen Mary
Released 1992- Gary Owens Introduces the Band
- Fire on the Bayou
- Africa
- It Ain't No Use
- Make It With You
- Medley: Cissy Strut / Cardova / It's Your Thing / Love the One You're With
- Art Neville Addresses the Audience
- Medley: Rocking Pneumonia / Something You Got / I Know / Everybody Loves a Lover
- Liar
- Mardi Gras Mambo
- Encore: Hey Pocky A-Way
Anthology - The Josie Years
- Cissy Strut
- Here Comes The Meter Man
- Cardova
- Live Wire
- Art
- Sophisticated Cissy
- Ease Back
- 6V6 LA
- Sehorns Farm
- Ann
- Stormy
- Simple Song
- Look-Ka Py Py
- Rigor Mortis
- Pungee
- Thinking
- This Is My Last Affair
- Funky Miracle
- Yeah, Your Right
- Little Old Monkey Maker
- Oh, Calcutta!
- The Mob
- 9 'Til 5
- Dry Spell
- Chicken Strut
- Liver Splash
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