Search and Destroy: James Brown

Search: most of the big hits, excluding Living in America and Unity (if that was a hit). Nearly everything I've heard in the late 60's- very early 70s is at the very least tolerable.

Destroy: anything after the early 70's.

Destroy - Isn't he self destructive enough? He probably did a xmas album somewhere along the line, I'd destroy that.

Destroy: I Feel Good (not when this shite is on the radio), all the ballads.

Destroy - not much, but maybe some of the more famous choons (sex machine, etc)have been a bit overplayed.

This also poses a bit of a question - forget the Beatles, the Velvets, whatever - does anyone else agree than James Browm is the most influential person in nodern music?

his stuff is so nebulous and i have such a spotty collection of it that i can't do a very good search and destroy, but needless to say you should destroy the horrible 1990 single 'i'm real' on which he attacks all rap acts who dare sample him.

Destroy: 'For Goodness Sakes Take a Look at Those Cakes' - no record could live up to a title like that!

1. Star Time box set

2. Live at the Apollo, Vol.1 (aka The Apollo Show or Live At the Apollo (1963))

3. Roots of a Revolution (for the first 33 tracks - it gets a little scrappy after that. This double cd perfectly fills in the gaps of his early years, only partially covered by Star Time CD1. And it's R&B rather than ballad orientated).

4. Solid Gold: 30 Golden Hits

5. Live at the Apollo, Vol. 2

6. The James Brown Story: Doin' It To Death 1970-1973

7. The James Brown Story: Ain't That A Groove 1967-1970

8. Say It Live and Loud: Live in Dallas 08.26.68

9. There It Is

10. Soul Classics, Vol. 1

11. Soul Classics, Vol. 2

12. Sex Machine (original double album - but only if you can get past the irritatingly overdubbed 'live' audience on half of it)

Destroy:

His post-1973 studio albums.

Search: The two James Brown's Funky People collections. More interesting than most of his own records, in my opinion. It's the same funky band playing good tunes, but with a variety of vocalists. It has the Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock "Yeah, Whoo!" sample on it, too.

Destroy: King Heroin. That song sucks.

All the James Brown songs that people hold up as paragons of nasty funk are great and all, but none of them are half as good as "There Was a Time".

Well, he kinda stacks the deck in his favour in that one. How could anyone else possibly "...do the James Brown"?

true, but I think what really makes it is how itchy and nervous the funk is up until that last moment WHERE FINALLY THERE IS SOME FUCKING RELEASE

Search and Destroy: James Brown

Sounds like a good idea, but it's too late. He's gone already.

Despite all the funky numbers, my personal favorite James jam is "Please, Please, Please"

the 19 minute it's a man's...world on live at the apollo 66 is one of the greatest things ever recorded, imo. i've never heard any hold a crowd in his hand like jb does on that track. genius.

any1

but none of them are half as good as "There Was a Time".

rong

james brown in the studio (saw this for the first time yesterday): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZqFZbo5nOQ

q - why is it worth getting the james brown story if you have star time?

Destroy: King Heroin. That song sucks.

― Mark, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (9 years ago)

what

King Heroin rules your pitiful soul

http://www.amazon.com/The-Singles-Vol-9-1973-1975/dp/B0043CJCJQ/ref=sr_shvl_album_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1304350651&sr=301-1
two-disc singles collection 1973-75 for 3.99 at amazon mp3
wish all those singles collections were this price!

worth it just for the lol-tastic version of "let it be me" that opens the set.

There was a series of compilations done by Polydor (I think) sometime around the mid 90s. These seemed to cover an era each and included Roots of a Revolution, The Foundation of Funk, Funk Power 1970,Make It Funky - The Big Payback: 1971-1975, and Dead On the Heavy Funk which covered '75-83 and may not have been as good as the preceding sequence.

THere were also the singles sets that Hip-o Select did the sequence from 6-8 seem to be pretty essential, not sure about others, 5 might be too. & maybe the 1st 2

these three -- The Foundation of Funk, Funk Power 1970, Make It Funky - The Big Payback: 1971-1975 -- are tip top james brown for me. awesome comps.

i've liked listening to some of those singles sets on hip-o, but there really is some garbage on them. fascinating garbage in a lot of cases, but not something i want to hear over and over.

The Funk Power 1970 comp is one of my all-time favorite records, the Hip-O Select comps are cool but you do kind of have to sort through multiple vers of tunes, tho it is pretty much all great/interesting

Also, the Hip-O comps have the songs split up into multiple parts (which makes sense, since that's how they were issued as singles). So "Make It Funky" fades in and out about seven times.

Search: Soul Syndrome, from 1980. I haven't heard enough of his post-197whatever catalogue to determine whether the bulk of it is indeed crap or not, but this one's a blast. "Funky Men" is an absolute jam. "Smokin' and Drinkin'" (he's anti-them) is hilarious.

Christgau likes the album too, if that's worth anything.

another James Brown thread (there are many)

James Brown

destroy: his monstrous abusive behavior, as detailed by his daughter

http://www.vulture.com/2014/09/james-brown-beat-wife-yamma-brown-memoir-cold-sweat.html