"Jungle Boogie" (Kool & The Gang)

So, there are essentially two Kool & The Gangs: the gritty, socially-conscious one from the late 60s/early 70s that played a unique brand of funk-jazz, and the slick one from the late 70s that played ready-for-radio R&B.  As much as "Get Down On It" or "Celebration" can get any dance floor of squares gyrating arrhythmically like Tipper Gore at the 1992 inaugural ball, I prefer the earlier incarnation of the band.  Particularly the 1973 album Wild and Peaceful, which contains the track "Jungle Boogie."
Anyone old enough to remember will recall that Quentin Tarantino used the song to great effect in Pulp Fiction (1994).  Although "Jungle Boogie" was one of those songs that always lingered in my consciousness, it wasn't until "Jules" and "Vincent" tuned their Chevy Nova's radio to the song and started discussing the subtle differences between European and American McDonald's food that I realized: this is a badass song.  
The song is built from the bottom up.  The kick drum on the track hits with such thunderous ferocity that it still makes me wonder how they hell they mic'd up the thing to get that pure, live feel.  Then the bass and clavinet (played through a wah-wah pedal) share the duties of jamming on that indelible, syncopated riff against the straight 4, with the chicken-scratch guitar and horn section joining the party to put the funk on ya.
Not counting their roadie Don Boyce's growling ad-libs, the lyrics are sparse: Jungle boogie! and Get down, get down!  
But I believe there's a lot of meaning behind that call to "get down." 
Yes, it's a call to boogie.  But it's also a commentary about living in 1970s America's urban "concrete jungles."  In other words, America's inner cities were like war zones where you had to "get down" and take cover if you wanted to survive.
I sort of see Parliament's "Aqua Boogie" from 1978 as a companion piece, where George Clinton uses the motif of "dancing under water without getting wet" as a commentary on the double standards and challenges being faced by urban black communities at that time.  It's not easy to pick up on the commentary in "Jungle Boogie," unless you take it in context with the rest of Wild and Peaceful, which features themes of unity, peace, truth, and equality, flowing throughout.
In fact, a lot of funk music only appears to be simple dance music on the surface.  There's usually real, insightful political or social commentary bubbling under the booty-shakin' beats and party vibe lyrics.  Which is why I love it.