― Patrick, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
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.
― Chris H., Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Destroy - Isn't he self destructive enough? He probably did a xmas album somewhere along the line, I'd destroy that.
― K-reg, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Destroy: I Feel Good (not when this shite is on the radio), all the ballads.
― Omar, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
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?
― Robin, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
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.
― ethan, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Destroy: 'For Goodness Sakes Take a Look at Those Cakes' - no record could live up to a title like that!
― Andrew L, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
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.
― scott, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
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.
― Mark, Tuesday, 8 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
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".
― The Reverend, Friday, 15 August 2008 03:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Well, he kinda stacks the deck in his favour in that one. How could anyone else possibly "...do the James Brown"?
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Friday, 15 August 2008 04:32 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― The Reverend, Friday, 15 August 2008 05:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Search and Destroy: James Brown
Sounds like a good idea, but it's too late. He's gone already.
― Geir Hongro, Friday, 15 August 2008 08:50 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― 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 (twelve 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 (twelve 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