/mu/ - James Brown: There It Is [Polydor, 1972] A generou - Music

Anonymous

06/15/26(Mon)08:30:33 No.130644361

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James Brown: There It Is [Polydor, 1972]
A generous four r&b hits here, three of them--"There It Is," "I'm a Greedy Man," and "Talkin' Loud and Sayin' Nothing"--ace JB grooves. (Who's on congas, James?) The fourth is the "King Heroin" sermon, which together with its ten-minute offshoot "Public Enemy #1" is stuck cunningly--Brown has been reading his Alexander Pope--in the middle of the dance stuff on both sides. Plus an actual song, the first new one he's recorded in years, and a JB composition called "Never Can Say Goodbye" that asks the musical question, "What's going on?" For junkies, this is an A plus; for the rest of us, it's somewhat more marginal. A-

Anonymous
06/15/26(Mon)08:59:22 No.130644540

Anonymous 06/15/26(Mon)08:59:22 No.130644540

>walks into the studio
>yells some gibberish over a static beat while high on coke
>produced by James Brown, written by James Brown, performed by James Brown, mixed and mastered by James Brown
>fines the band members $2,000 each for wearing unapproved clothing
you're welcome

Anonymous
06/15/26(Mon)09:23:32 No.130644720

Anonymous 06/15/26(Mon)09:23:32 No.130644720

>>130644361
>"Talkin' Loud and Sayin' Nothing"
it's James dissing black power activists for riding his bumper because he endorsed Nixon lol

Anonymous
06/15/26(Mon)09:36:43 No.130644814

Anonymous 06/15/26(Mon)09:36:43 No.130644814

>>130644361
Didn't he die because a dentist fucked something up during a dental procedure?

Anonymous
06/15/26(Mon)10:43:10 No.130645311

Anonymous 06/15/26(Mon)10:43:10 No.130645311

>>130644540
based James.
they call them underlings for a reason.

Anonymous
06/15/26(Mon)10:51:43 No.130645379

Anonymous 06/15/26(Mon)10:51:43 No.130645379

>>130644540
ditto the part where he forced his band members to do slave labor on his Georgia mansion

Anonymous
06/15/26(Mon)10:53:56 No.130645405

Anonymous 06/15/26(Mon)10:53:56 No.130645405

>>130644814
Yes that also killed that guy from Columbo.

Anonymous
06/15/26(Mon)11:18:51 No.130645610

Anonymous 06/15/26(Mon)11:18:51 No.130645610

>>130645405
>Columbo
love that shit

Anonymous
06/15/26(Mon)11:27:46 No.130645689

Anonymous 06/15/26(Mon)11:27:46 No.130645689

>>130644540
He invented the idea of using a static looped beat instead of music based around classically-inspired melodic lines, but like any innovation retards eventually took it too far.

Anonymous
06/15/26(Mon)13:37:18 No.130646624

Anonymous 06/15/26(Mon)13:37:18 No.130646624

>>130645689
>retards eventually took it too far
do you mean hip hop?

Anonymous
06/15/26(Mon)14:42:59 No.130647123

Anonymous 06/15/26(Mon)14:42:59 No.130647123

>>130644361
>King Heroin
Ripped off this song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCzuN47EwiI
Wikipedia says that this a cover of the James Brown song but that's impossible as it's from 1971 and doesn't even credit the supposed songwriters of James Brown's version

Anonymous
06/15/26(Mon)14:44:51 No.130647135

Anonymous 06/15/26(Mon)14:44:51 No.130647135

>>130644540
Based as fuck.

Anonymous
06/15/26(Mon)15:00:28 No.130647222

Anonymous 06/15/26(Mon)15:00:28 No.130647222

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"All the cats from the '50s fell off once [Motown] happened. The only one who survived was James Brown 'cos white folks hadn't figured him out yet."