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James Brown

Dead on the Heavy Funk, 1975-1983

Dead on the Heavy Funk, 1975-1983 Tracks
1. Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine, Pts. 1 & 2
2. Hustle!!! (Dead on It)
3. Your Love
4. Hot (I Need to Be Loved, Loved, Loved)
5. Woman
6. Medley: Get up Offa That Thing/Release the Pressure
7. I Refuse to Lose
8. Body Heat
9. Kiss in '77 [Live][#]
10. Give Me Some Skin
11. Bessie
12. If You Don't Give a Doggone About It
13. Jam 1980's
14. Spank
15. Nature, Pt. 1
16. Eyesight
17. I Never, Never Will Forget
18. For Goodness Sakes, Look at Those Cakes
19. Man Understands
20. It's Too Funky in Here
21. Regrets
22. Rapp Payback (Where Iz Moses?)
23. Bring It On, Bring It On
James Brown - Dead on the Heavy Funk, 1975-1983
Dead on the Heavy Funk, 1975-1983 Review
After disco broke, Brown's albums mostly ranged from inconsistent to awful, but this set distills his declining years into two totally solid discs. He struggles fascinatingly with new slang and the new rhythms people were dancing to, even while almost accidentally inventing some of his own; he cops a riff from Bowie's "Fame," remakes his old tunes, takes a few stabs at ultraslick disco, and finally throws his hands up and settles in for extended funk vamps, driven by playfulness rather than urgency (the 11-minute "For Goodness' Sakes, Look at Those Cakes" is about what you think it's about). Guitarist Jimmy Nolen is the secret force behind these small delights, underscoring everything with pungent, slightly atonal funk riffs. --Douglas Wolk


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FUNKY IN THE NAME OF J.B
5
JAmes Brown has A WInner with this Set.It Highlights The FunK.The Godfather Never Lets Up here.He Changed Music Forever.The Grooves Here Showcase His Importance&DEPTH.His Music is Genius&He is a Living LEGEND.
Posted by Anonymous, on 2000-04-22
Good Collection, Bizarre Selection
3
By including tunes like "Your Love" and "Hustle (Dead on It)" from the Everybody's Doing The Hustle and Dead on the Double Bump album, while leaving out the 1976 version of "Papa's Got a New Brand New Bag from the same album, this CD does not immediately gain a whole lot of credibility for intelligence in song selection. "Kansas City" from that same album is another great one that just shouldn't have been ignored.

James Brown made great music in this period but he was extremely uneven. A collection like this is supposed to allow one to get the best of this period without having to pay $25.00 apiece for the original vinyl of the many, many albums he produced in this era. Though some of what is included in this collection is first rate, a lot is missing. This is inexcusable and amounts to a hostage like situation, as the record company once again forces us to wait for another repetitive re-issue just to get at 3 or 4 new songs that we haven't seen for twenty or thirty years.

The swindle is complete, as I paid almost thirty dollars for this collection rather than take a risk and get yet another used record album with a scratch on the one tune I wanted to hear.

Posted by Anonymous, on 2001-02-14
Is it worth it?
4
a interestign collection of james browns music. some uptempo really funky stuff mixed with james rapping!! worth buying if your building up a collection of his work but if you want to hear the best and most popular stuff, this is not the one to buy. a couple of reworked tracks on offer though which gives a different flavor to some songs
Posted by Anonymous, on 2002-10-27

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