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    • Ain't Your Brother
    • Give it Up
    • Do You Love Me?
    • Light it Up
    • Party Time
    • Be the Bigger Man
    • I Judge the Funk
    • Save Us from Ourselves
    • Don't Hate the Player (2023 Remix)
    • Renew My Mind
    • Special Thing
    • Season of Discontent
    • Tales from the Vault
    • Back in the Day
    • Save Us from Ourselves (2023 Remaster)
    • All We Wanna Do
    • Mr. Williamson
    • Don't Go Away
    • Forever People
    • In Love (You Got Me)
    • Live Love
    • Something Strange
    • Everything's a Waiting Game
    • Thankful for My Brother
    • There Will Come a Day
    • Mother Africa
    • Dance a Little
    • We All Hang On
    • Egomaniac (Part 1) & (Parts 1 & 2)
    • Nothing at All
    • Gettin' Away
    • People Come Together
    • weed
    • Skin Tight
    • Gaslightin'
    • Feelin' You
    • Is it Real?
    • Psychosis America
    • Novocaine
    • Ambiguity (Live in '25)
    • Don't Want to Lose Your Love
    • Nice to Hate You
    • Dissolution
    • It's Just You, It's Just Me
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Retro Energy

Retro Energy

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This was our first album, recorded in 2002 and only given a very limited local release. We put it out on streaming in 2019.
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    Time to Make It 4:10
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    Go Wiggle 4:13
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    Funk with the "C" 4:24
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    Retro Energy 4:05
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    I Made It 3:51
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    Do What You Do 2:58
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    Sippin' on C Funk 5:06
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    Ambiguity 3:33
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1) Time to Make It  

 

Written by Eric Mobley, Christopher Starks, and Joel Phillips  

 

Eric Mobley:  Lead vocal/keyboards  

Jason Mitchell:  Guitar/vocals  

Christopher Starks:  Bass/vocals  

Joel Phillips:  Drums/vocals  

 

Recorded by John Herrera at Clamsville Studios, Chandler, Arizona, 2002.  Produced by Eric Mobley and John Herrera.  Engineered and mixed by John Herrera.

TIME TO MAKE IT (Mobley/Starks/Phillips)

 

Girl every time you come around I seem to lose myself 

Want to stay with you a while and get to know you well 

Now we can sit and talk for hours on the telephone 

Or I can take you to the place where only lovers roam 

 

Right now is the right time to make it, make it 

Make it sing it sing it sing it 

Right now is the right time to make it, make it 

To make it 

 

Now I can definitely say that you’re a package deal 

Cuz you’re an intellectual with nasty sex appeal 

It’s no surprise when I see fellas hang’in around you 

If only you could see what I see you’d be hang’in to 

 

Right now is the right time to make it, make it 

Make it sing it sing it sing it 

Right now is the right time to make it, make it 

To make it 

 

Right now is the right time to make it, make it 

To make it sing it sing it sing it 

Right now is the right time to make it, make it 

To make it 

Right now is the right time to make it, make it 

To make it sing it sing it sing it 

Right now is the right time to make it, make it 

To make it

2) Go Wiggle  

 

Written by Eric Mobley and Christopher Starks  

 

Eric Mobley:  Lead vocal/keyboards  

Marlon Burno:  Guitar  

Christopher Starks:  Bass  

Joel Phillips:  Drums/vocals  

 

Recorded by David Byrnes, Matt Bridges, and Israel Flores, 2002.  Produced by Eric Mobley. 

 

GO WIGGLE (Eric Mobley/Chris Starks)

 

Time to get up out your seat now 

We gone do it to your ear 

Whether you like it or not 

We gone give you something to feel 

Now why don’t you see what I see 

Ain’t noth’in wrong with a little fun 

Hope you don’t misunderstand me 

We want to see you wiggle your buns 

 

Hold on to your groove, everyday everyday 

Hold on to your groove, everyday everyday 

Hold on to your groove, everyday everyday 

Hold on to your groove 

 

It’s impossible to sit down, once you listen to this groove 

You should get your edumacation (A, B, C to the Funk) 

And put your energy to use 

Now we just wanna see you get down 

Ain’t nobody play’in around 

Come on all you Funky people 

This is your one and only chance 

 

Hold on to your groove, everyday everyday 

Hold on to your groove, everyday everyday 

Hold on to your groove, everyday everyday 

Hold on to your groove 

 

You wanna Funk with the “C” 

Don’t sit down get up and wiggle with me 

You wanna Funk with the “C” 

Don’t sit down get up and wiggle with me 

You wanna Funk with the “C” 

Don’t sit down get up and wiggle with me 

You wanna Funk with the “C” 

Don’t sit down get up and wiggle with me

3) Funk with the “C”  

 

Written by Eric Mobley  

 

Eric Mobley:  Lead vocal/keyboards  

Ian White:  Vocals  

Jason Mitchell:  Guitar/vocals  

Christopher Starks:  Bass/vocals  

Joel Phillips:  Drums  

 

Recorded by John Herrera at Clamsville Studios, Chandler, Arizona, 2002.  Produced by Eric Mobley and John Herrera.  Engineered and mixed by John Herrera.

FUNK WITH THE C (Eric Mobley)

 

How many people told me, that I had to be Funky 

How many people told me, that I had to be Funky 

 

Mama said boy don’t be scared 

Sing and play your heart out 

People will be calling out your name 

Daddy said boy do your thing 

Let it out boy don’t be scared 

Finally had to stop and think 

 

How many people told me, that I had to be Funky 

How many people told me, that I had to be Funky 

 

Everybody’s watchin' you 

Time to show what you can do 

Auntie said ya got to pay some dues 

If you really want it bad 

Sacrifices make a man 

Could be the only chance you had 

 

How many people told me, that I had to be funky 

How many people told me, that I had to be funky 

 

Do you wanna Funk with the C?

4) Retro Energy  

 

Written by Eric Mobley, Lambrose Rogers, and Christopher Starks  

 

Eric Mobley:  Lead vocal/keyboards  

Marlon Burno:  Guitar  

Christopher Starks:  Bass  

Joel Phillips:  Drums/vocals  

Intro lyrics by Lambrose Rogers.  

 

Recorded by David Byrnes, Matt Bridges, and Israel Flores, 2002.  Produced by Eric Mobley.

RETRO ENERGY (Mobley/Starks/Rogers)

 

Now the girl was bad should’ve been her slogan 

Her body was bangin' had my nose wide open 

She was no dime no ordinary token 

The way she moved and grooved, made her very outspoken 

Retro Energy 

 

Girl you demand attention, ahhh, with your ole skool groove 

Your bell bottoms and hooplets, make a man say ooooh 

Not to mention your hip huggers, and your platform shoes 

Retro soul sista, come to my rescue 

 

Retro energy, retro energy, retro energy 

Girl you really blow me away, it’s with you I want to stay 

 

It’s unbelievable how different, and unique you are 

Livin' life without ya baby, makes it twice as hard 

They say you’re a real rebel, without a cause 

Pooka shells and black lapels, I like most of all 

 

Retro energy, retro energy, it’s like visual candy 

Girl you’re a sight to see, girl look what you do to me 

 

Kid nod ya cranium was sitt’in in the cut (you got Funk you got style) diggin' on this young girl’s energy 

She seemed to be glowing with retro activity 

And her vibe was something familiar to me 

Now I could be wrong but I think it was the Funk to let me know she was from another galaxy 

She began to dance, she put me in a trance and my fantasy became a reality 

Retro energy baby 

Analog girl in a digital world 

 

Retro energy, retro energy, retro energy 

Girl you really blow me away, it’s with you I want to stay 

Retro energy, retro, retro, retro, retro, retro energy 

It’s like visual candy 

Girl you’re a sight to see, girl look what you do to me

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