Search and Destroy: James Brown

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