VOTE: Is ‘Uptown Funk’ the best song you’ve heard in a while?

Last year about this time, singer Pharrell released his chart topping hit “Happy!”
And there was a reason why it was chart-topping.

It was just that good – and unlike a lot of the dreck being served up by pop artists.
So too it is with Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars’ hit “Uptown Funk!” (with the exclamation point for emphasis.)

In fact, while driving home one night, I heard it on one of the top 40 stations and thought, “holy sh__! What the f___ is this!”

It was so different. So – like something I loved back when Huck-a-Poo was the style to wear.
(For those of you who don’t know, Huck-a-Poo was a brand of shirt.)

So why is “Uptown Funk!” so good?

Perhaps not so much by default, but much like “Happy” a year ago, it exposes a new generation needing a soundtrack to their lives - to a sound that an older generation embraced some 30 years ago. Organic, more or less.

Old school, yes. But then again, most millennials haven’t been exposed to the late 70s, and early to mid 80s funk that their parents listened to - albeit not on general market top 40 stations, but on urban contemporary black stations.

So you can say that for a good many, the music was hidden, except for those of us who knew where to seek it out and consumed every second of it.

And according to one blogger on Slate who writes that it is:

A lovingly constructed amalgam of styles that, in the early ’80s, could only be heard on black radio, can now, in 2015, only be heard on Top 40 radio. But in the depths of a mournful, malaise-filled winter, I honestly wouldn’t mind “Uptown Funk!” blanketing every corner of the radio.

And for the moment, neither would I.

Is “Uptown Funk!” the best song you’ve heard in a long time?