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Re: Your Top 3 tracks by James Brown

Postby Leg of lamb » 19 May 2010, 04:54

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Brand New Bag, pt. whatever the long one is at the end of disc 1 of Star Time
Bewildered
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Re: Your Top 3 tracks by James Brown

Postby Count Machuki » 19 May 2010, 05:04

Leg of lamb wrote:Brand New Bag, pt. whatever the long one is at the end of disc 1 of Star Time


Pts. 1, 2, & 3

Excellent choices, btw.
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Re: Your Top 3 tracks by James Brown

Postby Davey the Fat Boy » 19 May 2010, 05:30

Okay. Guess I'll take a stab at the impossible:

Doing it to Death
Papa Don't Take No Mess
Cold Sweat

...or pretty much any track named thus far.
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Re: Your Top 3 tracks by James Brown

Postby Muskrat » 19 May 2010, 05:37

Try Me
Prisoner of Love
It's a Man's Man's Man's World
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Re: Your Top 3 tracks by James Brown

Postby Count Machuki » 19 May 2010, 05:42

Muskrat wrote:Try Me
Prisoner of Love


Yeah, James pretty much fell off after he left Federal Records, huh, Muskrat?

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(great, great songs, tho. I love deep James as much as funky James)
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Re: Your Top 3 tracks by James Brown

Postby Muskrat » 19 May 2010, 05:50

I'm just not a big fan of the funk.
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Re: Your Top 3 tracks by James Brown

Postby Count Machuki » 19 May 2010, 05:52

Muskrat wrote:I'm just not a big fan of the funk.


What kind of universe puts you at Wattstax and not me?


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Re: Your Top 3 tracks by James Brown

Postby Muskrat » 19 May 2010, 06:04

Count Machuki wrote:
Muskrat wrote:I'm just not a big fan of the funk.


What kind of universe puts you at Wattstax and not me?


*sigh*


Depends on one's definition of "funk," I suppose. At Wattstax, I'd say that Rufus Thomas qualified (certainly his hot pants did), but most of the others -- Isaac Hayes, Carla Thomas, Eddie Floyd, Staple Singers, Little Milton, Albert King, Temptrees, Mel & Tim, etc. -- were more old-school. I had a good time.
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Re: Your Top 3 tracks by James Brown

Postby The Write Profile » 19 May 2010, 08:31

Davey the Fat Boy wrote:
...or pretty much any track named thus far.


Yep, pretty much, but the skeletal, confrontational funk of "Give It Up (or Turnit Loose), the magnificently pent-up "I Don't Mind" and the near avant-funk of "The Big Payback" are the three that move me today. It's fascinating listening to the Star Time! boxset, actually, although there are very set periods, there's also a clear sense of development throughout, often you can hear the moment he shifts towards a new stage in a single track, and he'll go down that path for the next half-dozen (erm, as represented by the set).
It's before my time but I've been told, he never came back from Karangahape Road.

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Re: Your Top 3 tracks by James Brown

Postby Balboa » 22 May 2010, 21:31

So many great tracks - and so many tracks on albums that are top notch as well. I've bought up a fair few over the years (including all the singles collection compilations which are just damn near undeniable) and the quality control is pretty damn great.

With that said,

1. Bewildered - Paris '71
2. The Payback
3. Out of Sight

I'm leaving out the '68 version of 'Cold Sweat' because it has been mentioned already. A giant. And I haven't even mentioned the fact that I have ignored his earlier 'soul' stuff - an incredible singer and damn near one of my favourites.
Of course, I was mostly stoned at the time.

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Re: Your Top 3 tracks by James Brown

Postby pcqgod » 22 May 2010, 23:12

The Payback
Papa's got a brand new bag
That dood it
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Re: Your Top 3 tracks by James Brown

Postby Bungo the Mungo » 23 May 2010, 00:02

Davey the Fat Boy wrote:Papa Don't Take No Mess


:D

Great, great track. I'd almost forgotten about it.




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