That's followed by a halfway-there J.B.'s instrumental that Brown decided to grace with the title (and chant) "Thank You For Lettin' Me Be Myself, and You Be Yours"- was he claiming that Sly Stone had ripped him off, or just ripping off Sly Stone? First, there's a sloppy remake of his 1970 breakthrough "Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine". For the first time in years, R&B was dominated by rhythms way outside Brown's own idiom, and the last four singles here are the sound of Brown hitting the wall. Brown was an aging, eccentric king, but he was still the king: "Funky President (People It's Bad)" was easily the hottest pop response to the American politics of the 1970s.Īnd then, all of a sudden, disco was king. Lyn Collins' smoking "Rock Me Again & Again & Again & Again & Again & Again" is not so much a duet with Brown as the boss staring over her shoulder and butting in on almost every line, then dumping in some extra sound effects and grafting the first minute of the track on again at the end. Adding a disc jockey announcing "This is for Atlanta!" and "This record is too much!" all over "The Payback" was not- the familiar mix, without Hank Spann's interjections, was actually a promotional version demanded by radio. Adding bits of Jesse Jackson's "I am somebody" speech to the Fred Wesley & the J.B.'s single "Same Beat Pt.
This period also saw Brown developing a bizarre weakness for scattering his records with overdubbed sound effects and drop-ins. The canceled single was replaced by a new recording less than two weeks later: "Stoned to the Bone", more casual but distinctly superior, and a solid hit.
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"I Got a Good Thing (And I Ain't Gonna Let It Go)" is a pro forma jam with Brown double-tracked- playing his own Bobby Byrd, effectively, since Byrd had left his revue. Volume Nine begins with three scheduled-and-canceled singles, including several awkward duets with Lyn Collins (one of them a bizarre Latin version of "Let It Be Me"). But when Brown missed, he flailed just as hard.
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When he hit, he hit hard enough to shatter bone: this volume in Hip-O's mail-order series includes three consecutive #1 R&B hits (the murderously heavy, slow funk grooves of "The Payback", "My Thang", and "Papa Don't Take No Mess"), and a few other spectacular jams.
In the Watergate era and its aftermath, James Brown was like a heavyweight champion fighting blindfolded.
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