This CD does what a 1-CD "Best Of" compilation must, it squeezes as many "can't-live-without-it" tracks onto one disk as possible. Ending with Please, Please, Please was a master-stroke. If you love the funk, it's great to have so many winners by The Godfather in one place. If you don't, you will after you work through this compilation a few times and let it flow up from your feet into your hips. James Brown wrote the book, he is a true original. (Please don't blame the audio plague known as "rap" on him.) Brown has recorded a lot, and there are many mediocre compilations floating around. This is easily the best, with the most select play list. Use it as your starting position. After that you might want to check out Live At The Apollo, or drop in on The J.B.'s. It does get addictive. When it comes to James Brown, "If it's all night it's all right".

JAMES BROWN-20 ALL TIME GREATEST HITS!: No self respecting lover of modern music would be caught DEAD without a copy of the Black Elvis' funkiest stuff in his or her collection, and here are the goods! Like the album's immensely entertaining liner notes state, only the King himself had more chart hits, but we're talkin' 'bout the REAL king here, natch, the KING OF SOUL! The Mother Like No Other! The Godfather! The Hardest Workin' Man in Sho' Biz! Soul Bro' Numero Uno! The cat with the coolest moves, the tightest band, and the most paint peelin' SCREAM in all of the entertainment world! Among his many other accomplishments, JB was both a funk AND a rap pioneer, and not surprisingly, the latter genre's most sampled artist. Brown's biggies, from the early slow groover PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE to dance floor-fillers I GOT YOU (I FEEL GOOD) and PAPA'S GOT A BRAND NEW BAG to funk overloaders SEX MACHINE and GET UP OFFA THAT THING, are here in all their cold sweat-soaked splendor. If you make ONE soul purchase, this is THE one---Brown is to RNB what the Fab Four are to rock, Bob Marley is to reggae, and Hank Sr. is to country. Don't mind me if I "SAY IT LOUD"!!! RATING: FIVE YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAHS!!!!!

I like JB because he was so good back then. Right now, he is okay, and dosen't have the funk anymore, but I bought this because there are some of his hits that I like. But This was a very mediocre compilation. I like "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag", "I feel Good", And "Get Up (I feel like being a sex machine)", But "Get Up Offa That Thing"? Gimme a break! That song sounds like Brown has a cold and is trying to cough it up by singing. Plus, the album is not remastered.

To be honest with ya, I never was a huge fan of him, but there is some stuff by him I like. So overall, this is the WORST Brown compilation EVER!

If you want a good one, buy the 50th anneversary box set.