Will mid to late 70s James Brown ever be good?
Fatback
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I dug up these for the Nth time at the thrifts and finally bought them. I try to be open minded. I dig the moder soul sound and I like disco. And Lordhavemercy I loves me some JB mustache. But I just can't get with these.Anybody? 1975 Reality 1975 Sex Machine Today 1975 Everybody's Doin' the Hustle & Dead on the Double Bump 1976 Get up Offa That Thing 1976 Bodyheat 1976 Hot 1977 Mutha's Nature 1977 Strangers 1978 Jam/1980's 1978 Take a Look at Those Cakes 1979 The Original Disco Man
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Some incredible music is contained on this list
MUTHA'S NATURE might be one of his best LPs
1975 Reality
1975 Sex Machine Today
It's the Bay Ridge Band you've got to watch out for
Cosign. Was just listening to Muthas Nature last night. Not his best but a pretty good lp imo.
digdug will you tell me if I have to pay my taxes already?
1975 Reality - Funky President
1975 Sex Machine Today - Sex Machine Part I & II, I Feel Good, Dead On It, Deep In It
1975 Everybody's Doin' the Hustle & Dead on the Double Bump - Your Love
1976 Get up Offa That Thing - Get Up Offa That Thing
1976 Bodyheat - Don't Tell It
1976 Hot - Hot, Future Shock
1977 Mutha's Nature - Give Me Some Skin, If You Don't Give A Dogone About It
1978 Jam/1980's - Nature
send me that reality. mine got warped by my heater (along with such raers: Dennis Oliveri & Galt Macdermont natural hair band)
Whoa! OK. Well, I can say Mutha's is the one I've liked the most so far. But the others...
I try to view them on their own. You know, simply as records from that time, but its hard not to view them against what JB was doing up to here.
King P- you getting soft in the cold cali weather?? wanna trade raers for an extra comforter?
Well, my favorite James Brown LP is LIVE AT THE APOLLO 1963
I'm a pretty massive fan, but the records I own off that list all have at least a couple tracks of the calibre of his early 70s releases... that said, some of those records I've never even heard
I've even got a '83 LP on Augusta Sound that brings some heat
Funny. I was reading your reviews before I posted this. I came away with the impression that you thought everything after Hell was pretty
One nice track on each lp does not a classic make...
Not expecting classics. But to think someone could fall off like that without L Ron requires analyses.
You're totally right - I think that its all
These three are hot....plesase bring them with you the next time you visit...mine need some minting up! Thanks in advance!
These are the albums I have, and I dig all three.
But then again, I'm a JB freak anyway. To me, he could do no wrong through 1986 (and even then, some good stuff leaked out here and there). Half the fun of James Brown's Polydor albums were the surreal mistakes that turn up here and there (like when he tries to persuade Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder to "Take A LOOK At Those Cakes"), so I'm not as down on JB's elpees from this era like most are.
BTW, exactly WHEN did he put out an album called Strangers?
I was going to ask the EXACT same thing.
Bring It On Bring It On Bring It On
I can't picture Strangers, but the rest of those are nice. Original Disco Man kinda sucks, and Bodyheat has never been a favorite.
Reality, doesn't that have all the raps between songs? You don't like that record?
Sex Machine Today, You've looked at that cover and still passed it up?
Get up Offa That Thing can rock the house.
Goodness sakes! Take a look at those cakes. His raps on that lp are killing it.
It is time to admit, that you don't really like James Brown because he's not funky enough for you.
On the thrid plant from the sun, trying to get the funky job done,
Dan
But this is comming from someone who is into this too:
Reality is a great LP though!
Trying to properly rep the Richmond "diggin scene."
I have a nice tape off the master reels (no commercials or graininess, there's a little timer running at the bottom of the screen the whole time)... JB is NOT prepared to host a show, he doesn't know what he's doing! The dancing generally isn't as impressive as Soul Train's was at the time though
I've still never found a copy of BODYHEAT though
Dude hook me UP!
There are a lot of good tracks on most of those albums.. I like that version of Summertime on Mutha's Nature, where he raps with Martha High on the intro. That is Martha High, isn't it?
DigDug-there are lots of serious funk collectors out there who will pay you money to digitize that video and upload it somewhere...are you up to the task? plaese say yes!
i know somebody who actually found one of the James Brown Future Shock t-shirts in a thrift store!
Oh, hell yes. According to legend, he really expected to unseat Soul Train, but you knew he wasn't gonna make it...the show had weird pacing, and the guests were all artists he himself produced (at least on the episodes I have). And while it was noble of him to have a segment devoted to black history, it sorta drug down the rest of the show. One minute everybody is dancing to "Body Heat" and chanting "WHOOOOOO-OO-OO!," next thing you know there's JB having this out-of-place serious discussion with a local historian, trying his damndest to appear all earnest. Don Cornelius would have handled it better.
Apparently, there was one show where this white guy named Darryl Rhoades*** guested, wearing a pimp suit, calling himself Soul Brother #10 1/2 (or something like that), and having the nuts to sing "Suicide," a dance-craze song that was A JAMES BROWN PARODY. And here he was doing it ON JAMES BROWN'S SHOW. Now THAT'S the ep I wanna see!!!!
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***Atlanta musician who led the Hahavishnu Orchestra, a band devoted to Dr. Demento-styled novelties
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But I don't know where it is right now so its gonna be a minute before I can share with anybody (and I can't translate it to digi, either)