Despite all the funky numbers, my personal favorite James jam is "Please, Please, Please"
― myndbloom, Friday, 15 August 2008 14:20 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― rent, Friday, 15 August 2008 14:23 (fifteen years ago) link
any1
but none of them are half as good as "There Was a Time".
rong
― Jordan, Friday, 15 August 2008 14:49 (fifteen years ago) link
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?
― Yellow Carded (titchyschneiderMk2), Sunday, 15 March 2009 00:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Destroy: King Heroin. That song sucks.
― Mark, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (9 years ago)
what
― schlump, Friday, 28 January 2011 00:08 (thirteen years ago) link
King Heroin rules your pitiful soul
― gospodin simmel, Friday, 28 January 2011 14:39 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.amazon.com/The-Singles-Vol-9-1973-1975/dp/B0043CJCJQ/ref=sr_shvl_album_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1304350651&sr=301-1two-disc singles collection 1973-75 for 3.99 at amazon mp3 wish all those singles collections were this price!
― tylerw, Monday, 2 May 2011 15:38 (thirteen years ago) link
worth it just for the lol-tastic version of "let it be me" that opens the set.
― tylerw, Monday, 2 May 2011 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 17:19 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 17:23 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 17:24 (eleven years ago) link
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
― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 17:25 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― And Romney doesn't know what day it is... (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 17:38 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― You know something? He *did* say "well, yeah" a lot. (cryptosicko), Saturday, 2 August 2014 16:23 (nine years ago) link
another James Brown thread (there are many)
James Brown
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 2 August 2014 16:49 (nine years ago) link
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
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 September 2014 21:45 (nine years ago) link