Rock the Boat (The Hues Corporation song) The Boat" played a partial role in inspiring the hit "Rock Your Baby". The song was also featured in the 1990 film "The Spirit of '76", the 1993 film "Carlito's Way", the 1996 film "The Cable Guy", the 1999 film "Man on the Moon", the HBO series "The Sopranos" (Season 2, episode 5, Big Girls Don't Cry) and (sung in character by Seth MacFarlane as Glenn Quagmire, Patrick Warburton as Joe Swanson, and Mike Henry as Cleveland Brown) the "Family Guy" episode "A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas". The song appeared in the 1997 movie "The Devil's Own" with
Funk rock their own sound mix of funk rock. One famous disco & rock song of the period was "Another One Bites the Dust" (the beat is Chic's big hit "Good Times") by British rock icons Queen. Also in the 1980s, some synth-funk and synthpop bands such as Thomas Dolby, Scritti Politti, Howard Jones(hit with Things Can Only Get Better) made the basic funk beats along with elements of new wave which makes this a basic synth-funk song. The funk rock genre's representatives from the 1980s to present day include INXS, the Fine Young Cannibals, Jane's Addiction, Fishbone, Faith No More, Living