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100
Star Time paved the way for several other excellent compilations which highlighted different parts of Brown's vast legacy, but as the definitive retrospective of one of the most important musicians of the 20th century (black or otherwise), it has yet to be equaled.
11y
100
The music is undimmed from blues, jazz and R&B to soul and funk.
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2y
100
This isn't just the history of one artist; it is literally the history of the groove, the beat that can't be beat.
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2y
5 hours of James Browns best material, gorgeous shit all around. My personal favourite is probably Disc 3, it has banger after banger and this is overall some of the absolute funkiest stuff I've heard in quite a bit.
This remains the ultimate gold standard for compilation albums. Over 20 years of James Brown's greatest hits fully condensed into different eras: Disc 1 reflects the start of Brown's music, with "Please, Please, Please", to the Live At the Apollo era, to Disc 2 and 3, reflecting Brown's height of popularity and musical talent, to Disc 4, reflecting his later hits (that still stands out on their own). James Brown's albums are notoriously hard to review: Not even Sex Machine is as ... read more
In an interview with Pitchfork in May, Harry Weinger, the supervising producer of Star Time said, “The challenge for me was that James Brown never really had a good album, with the live album, with the live albums excepted.” Weinger continued, “I wanted his philosophy and his commercialism all wrapped into one.” Weinger also talks about how even the best of Brown’s studio albums are full of filler.
As I’ve listened to a few albums from Brown over the last ... read more
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Track List
- Please, Please, Please
- Why Do You Do Me
- Try Me
- Tell Me What I Did Wrong
- Bewildered
- Good Good Lovin'
- I'll Go Crazy
- I Know It's True
- (Do the) Mashed Potatoes, Pt. 1
- Think
- Baby, You're Right
- Lost Someone
- Night Train
- I've Got Money
- I Don't Mind
- Prisoner of Love
- Devil's Den
- Out of the Blue
- Out of Sight
- Grits
- Maybe the Last Time
- It's a Man's Man's Man's World
- I Got You
- Papa's Got a Brand New Bag, Pts. 1-3
- Papa's Got a Brand New Bag, Pt. 1
- I Got You (I Feel Good)
- Ain't That a Groove
- It's a Man's Man's Man's World
- Money Won't Change You
- Don't Be a Dropout
- Bring It Up (Hipster's Avenue)
- Let Yourself Go
- Cold Sweat
- Get It Together
- I Can't Stand Myself (When You Touch Me), Pt. 1
- I Got the Feelin'
- Licking Stick-Licking Stick
- Say It Loud (I'm Black and I'm Proud)
- There Was a Time
- Give It Up or Turnit a Loose
- I Don't Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door, I'll Get It Myself)
- Mother Popcorn
- Funky Drummer
- Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine
- Super Bad, Pts. 1-2
- Talking Loud and Saying Nothing
- Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved
- Soul Power, Pts. 1-2
- Brother Rapp/Ain't It Funky Now
- Hot Pants, Pt. 1
- I'm a Greedy Man, Pt. 1
- Make It Funky, Pt. 1
- It's a New Day
- I Got Ants in My Pants (And I Want to Dance), Pt. 1
- King Heroin
- There It Is, Pt. 1
- Public Enemy No. 1, Pt. 1
- Get on the Good Foot
- I Got a Bag of My Own
- Doing It to Death
- The Payback
- Papa Don't Take No Mess, Pt.11
- Stoned to the Bone, Pt. 1
- My Thang
- Funky President (People It's Bad)
- Hot (I Need to Be Loved, Loved, Loved)
- Get up Offa That Thing
- Body Heat, Pt. 1
- It's Too Funky in Here
- Rapp Payback (Where Iz Moses?)
- Unity, Pt. 1: The Third Coming
