Janet Jackson

Funny How Time Flies (When You're Having Fun)

1986 · Funk / Soul · Breakout

UK · USAT 613

Credits

One record at a time, and the reason for each step.

Minneapolis Sound

Linn drums, Oberheim stabs, no horn section: funk rebuilt by one city's worth of overlapping bands.

D.C. Go-Go

Percussion that never stops: congas, cowbell and crowd chants holding one groove across a whole night.