Your 3 fave James Brown tracks.
Mr_Lee_PHD
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Everyone owns at least 30 records by the man, so what are YOUR fave 3 tracks?Shhh (For a little while)James Browns BoogalooSpinning Wheel I've just noticed they are all instr's. Thats not much props to the man himself, but anyway......... I suppose Shhh counts as a vocal track with its 843 worlds best 'Ughhh's'...
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Soul Power
There it is
Mind Power
the boss
more peas
(or course these change every other minute, cause the man made so many good productions.)
Mo'Peas
Blues and Pants
The Chicken
Talking Loud and Sayin Nothing (Rock Version)
now I'll play:
Blind Man Can See < funkiest song ever. i always play air drums to it when in my car
The Drunk < i always hum this bassline in my troubled little brain
and
Funky Drummer < Heard this?
the payback
there was a time
There It Is (live in Georgia)
Since You Been Gone ( w/ Bootsy)
Thats gooooood. I saw that 7 in a crate upstairs in my local trading post and they wanted about 30 quid for it, it was even pressed slightly off centre, so I thought feck it and switched the price tags with a moudly kim wilde 45.
You'd think the dude at the till would have picked up on it, but nope!
Hell
Theme from King Heroin
and Can Mind the most right now. Changes all the time though.
This is a HAAAAAAAAARD question, indeed. I guess I'll go with these:
-"World (Part 1 and 2)" (from the LP "It's a New Day So Let a Man Come in"; it's so dramatic, yet funky).
-"Cold Sweat" (from the LP "Cold Sweat"; I love the energy of this jernt).
-"Licking Stick" (from the LP "Sex Machine"; this such a tight groove, I play it all the time).
Peace,
Big Stacks from Kakalak
1. popcorn - love the bassline
2. king heroin - love the melancholy
3. the label on my 45 for this next song is just shredded, so i don't even know the song's name..but it does say "sometimes! i think i love you a little too much" it's a scorcher - what's it called?
Popcorn
and whatever dudes... I'll say it... SEX MACHINE
What's this available on?
I reckon Cold Sweat has to contain the most expressive 'Ughhh' of James Browns entire career, between the 3rd and 4th beat of the first instrumental break.
Knocks me on my keister every daign time. Always hits you out of nowhere......... UGHHH!!!!
Nawh dude... Los Angeles transplant from Philly
1) Sportin Life
2) Down and Out In New York City
3) Mama's Dead
Can't fade JB
1
T.N.
here...
fav JB live tracks[/b]:
Lost Someone (apollo '62)
Escapism/Make It Funky (Revolution of the Mind...this album BURNS)
Give It Up or Turn It Loose (Love Power Peace)
fav instros[/b] (extended fam):
bringing up the guitar - Dapps (although There was a Time is one of the illest blasts ever put to wax)
Same Beat - JB's
Honky Tonk Popcorn - Bill Doggett
fav instros (on a JB LP)[/b]:
popcorn with a feelin' - It's a Mother
Soul Pride 1&2 - Popcorn
I'll Lose My Mind - Thinking about Little Willie John & a Few Nice Things
fav JB Hits pre-66[/b]:
Chonnie On Chon
Lost Someone
Oh Baby/Mary Don't You Weep
fav JB Hits post-66[/b]:
superbad
There Was a Time
Give it up or turnit loose
fav JB Collabos:[/b]
If You Don't Work You Can't Eat - w/Marva Whitney
I'll Lose My Mind - w/Bobby Byrd
Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved - w/Bobby Byrd
could keep going, but I hijacked too hard already...
I got the 7" on king the other day.
Its a mutha. Think I prefer the other side with Honky Tonk.
Honky Tonk.ram
Almost wanna snap it in half so I can play both sides at the same time, its that good.
that bass/drum lick on Honky Tonk is unbeatable, but I gotta take the guitar lead on Popcorn over the organ on HT...
Funk:
I Don't Want Nobody To Give Me Nothing (Open Up The Door I'll Get It Myself)
Super Bad
Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose
Ballads:
Lost Someone (strings version)
A Man Has To Go Back To The Crossroads
Sometime
Very true, its a decision and a half.
Also, gotta give mention to 'Corner Pocket' on the LP. Another noteworthy mutha!
yo, you should of copped that son.
this post is eeevil.
everybody got soul
let a man come in
I got it for the Kim Wilde price of 3 quid cause of the switch.
I wonder if anyone bought the Kim Wilde 7 for 30.00?
It makes me sea sick when I play it - but in a funky way.
'I Can't Stand Myself When You Touch Me'
'People Wake Up And Live'
'In the Middle'
down and out in new york city
fever
I Can't Stand Myself (When You Touch Me)
It's A Man's World
Cold Sweat
I saw him live a few times in the early 80's. This one show was in the club lounge of a Chinese resturant called Lung Fungs (or Funk). Here are 3 live favorites:
At Lung Fungs he did It's A Man's World. The song seemed to go for ever, most of the time was spent on his knees begging for someone to help him.
Night Train from the TAMI Show
The Live At The Apollo LP, which is esentially one song.
Dan