''Funk All Y'all'' is the debut album by American electro band

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, released in August 2001 by record label Intuit-Solar and featuring the successful single "

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Release

"Sandwiches" was released as a single on June 1, 2000, prior to the album's release. The song became a Top 40 hit in the United Kingdom, peaking at number 29 on the

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. The song became a moderate dance hit, peaking at number 29 on the US ''

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. ''Funk All Y'all'' was released on August 7, 2001, by record label Intuit-Solar.

Reception

John Bush of

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wrote: "Andy Toth and Paris the Black Fu proved themselves masters of the production game long ago, and though the music is often relegated to second-division status amidst all the role-playing, ''Funk All Y'all'' is great fun for all those bored by the scads of 'intelligent'

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out there." Kori Golding of ''

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'' wrote: "

Funk Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African Americans in the m ...

and techno come together in a lubricated orgy that will make you want to get nekkid and slap some fat ass thighs and floss with a thong". ''

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s Hobey Echlin was less favourable, writing: "in the words of Spinal Tap, there's a fine line between clever and stupid, and before long, the Pubahs' imagination starts to outpace their minimal techno palette. ..By the time the Pubahs' pun-happy song titles get better than the actual songs ..and the vocals gum up otherwise slamming electro throwdowns ..the Pubahs commit the greatest sin of all: forgetting this is, if not dance music, then at least party music, not a comedy album with a Groovebox."

Track listing

References

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