Best Songs Ever

What’s your favorite song?
Random Song
Please enter a search term (min. 2 chars)
Activities
iTunes Charts
ø 0 at 0 votes
What’s your rating?

The Meters

Cissy Strut

Funk
  • Funk
  • Soul
  • Other
  • Space
  • Disco
song from
1969
  • 1969
  • 1972
  • 2011
  • 1970
  • 1974

Alternative video Spotify
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 and Dr John. While The Meters rarely enjoyed significant mainstream success, they are considered along artist like James Brown one of the progenitors of funk music and their work is highly 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... Read on...

Current Rank: ...

Popularity on the Web

Web
YouTube
last.fm
Spotify
0%

Discover

More songs by The Meters (See Charts): People Say, I'M Gone, Sophisticated Cissy, Disco Is The Thing Today, They All Ask'D For You, Look-Ka Py Py, and Jungle Man.

Popular in Funk (See Charts): Unbreakable, When Doves Cry, I Wish, Sir Duke, Summertime Clothes, You Haven'T Done Nothin', Sometimes It'S Snows In April, Ain'T Nobody, I Feel For You, and Sex Machine.

Comments


Use at most three hashtags in your comment to connect the song with a topic (i.e. #live or #workout). It must contain at least one letter. You can view a toplist for every tag.