Friday, December 21, 2007

James Brown "Hot Pants", James Brown "Motherlode", James Brown "Get on the Good Foot", Kool and the Gang "Kool and the Gang"

JAMES BROWN - HOT PANTS

James Brown - Hot Pants
Year: 1971


1.Blues and Pants [9:40]13.8 Mb
2.Can't Stand it [4:39]6.7 Mb
3.Ism (part 1) [3:21]4.8 Mb
4.Ism (part 2) [4:12]6.1 Mb
5.Hot Pants (She Got to Use What She Got to Get What She Wants) [8:47]12.6 Mb
6.Ism (Complete Take) [19:09]27.6 Mb

James Brown "Hot Pants" Album Review

Way too funky for U
Question,...
Who on the face of God's green earth can deliver a 6 track album and move the crowd like nobodys business?
The one, the only, Mr. Dynamite, the 'hardest' workin' man in show business,...The Godfather.
James, thats who!
Mr. Brown cold 'got down'!!!
Tupac once rapped,..."I wonder if Heaven got a ghetto"?
If it does, then James is conducting the funkiest block party band up there.
:-)

I personally challenge any artist old or new to drop a 6 cut CD today.
Even though 'Escape-ism' is broken up into 3 parts,...its still technically a 6 track project.
Nowadays U R lucky to buy a CD with 15 to 22 songs and have 3 to 5 'good' tracks on them.
James Browns 'Hot Pants' is funks finest hour. Classic James Brown funky voice-over backed by funky bass lines and guitars riffs.
If U R or were a James Brown fan,...this one better be in ya collection!!!
Feel me?

Nuff said.

Video James Brown Hot Pants / Sex Machine

We hope you enjoy these clips. We had them up before but they were removed. These performances are inspiring and need to be seen. This is our music and our culture and it must be celebrated. We hope all artists today will be inspired to follow his artistic ideals of uncompromising pride and greatness.






JAMES BROWN - MOTHERLODE

James Brown - Motherlode
Year: 1988


1.There it is (live) [3:07]4.5 Mb
2.Shes the One [2:54]4.1 Mb
3.Since You Been Gone (featuring Bobby Byrd) [5:35]8 Mb
4.Untitled instrumental [3:23]4.8 Mb
5.Say it Loud Say it live [4:51]6.9 Mb
6.Can I Get Some Help [5:00]7.1 Mb
7.You Got to Have A Mother for Me [5:12]7.4 Mb
8.Funk Bomb [4:15]6.1 Mb
9.Baby Here I Come [4:29]6.4 Mb
10.People Get Up and Drive Your Funky Soul (remix) [9:06]13.1 Mb
11.I Got Ants in My Pants (and I Want to Dance) (remix) [7:25]10.7 Mb

James Brown "Motherlode" Album Review

Soul Brother #1@ his best !
Motherlode is a great compilation of James Brown hits. I really enjoy listening to this funky cd. The disc sounds good and I intend to purchase from Amazon again.






JAMES BROWN - GET ON THE GOOD FOOT

James Brown - Get on the Good Foot
Year: 1972


1.Get on the Good Foot (Parts 1 and 2) [5:43]8.2 Mb
2.The Whole World Needs Liberation [3:40]5.2 Mb
3.Your Love was Good for Me [3:20]4.7 Mb
4.Cold Sweat [2:56]4.2 Mb
5.Recitation by Hank Ballard [5:54]8.5 Mb
6.I Got A Bag of My Own [3:30]5 Mb
7.Nothing Beats A Try but A Fail [3:06]4.4 Mb
8.Lost Someone [3:58]5.7 Mb
9.Funky Side of Town [7:49]11.2 Mb
10.Please Please [12:21]17.7 Mb
11.Ain't it A Groove [2:09]3 Mb
12.My part Make it Funky (Parts 3 and 4) [5:14]7.4 Mb
13.Dirty Harri [6:17]9 Mb
14.I Know It's True [4:07]5.9 Mb

James Brown "Get on the Good Foot" Album Review

JB meets Purdie and the Brecker Brothers !
O.K. I have to be honest... when it comes to JB, I often find myself more enamored by the BETTER anthologies than his actual albums... take for example DEAD ON THE HEAVY FUNK (back in the day), FUNK POWER, IN THE JUNGLE GROOVE, MOTHER LOAD, etc. - - and while definitely PAYBACK, HELL, HOT PANTS, REALITY and THERE IT IS are all time favorites, I always liked the anthologies because they cut straight to the chase - - That said, even if you come from this school, if there is one JB MUST HAVE album that stands up to ALL the anthologies, and that's GOOD FOOT. - - To further explain,hindsight may be foresight (and James Brown certainly re-invented American music, dance and culture) but the truth is, JB was a very ambitious man (meaning experimental, impulsive, righteously up on himself) On many of his albums he took strange risks which lesser artists would have kept on the cutting floor in fear of public reaction... Take HELL with its heartwarming disco/funk rendition of WHEN THE SAINTS GO MARCHING IN... you might laugh and say, "Why not have just kept it a single instead of double album?" but considering the other material on the album - - its almost as if JB is saying, "Yeah, I'm going to give you what you expect of me, but that doesn't mean I'm not going to try other stuff!" - - In the end, GOOD FOOT was new and revolutionary for its time, yet at the same time so classic JB you can't call yourself a JB fan unless you own a copy... and I'm sure I'm not the only person who wore the grooves off the LP so much, I practically praised God with the advent of the relatively "indestructible" CD... and aside from being a funk classic, JB also demonstrates his ability to sing ballads, soulful powerhouse pop and dominate both inside and outside the ring. - - No doubt, there will never be another JB... and GOOD FOOT is part of the proof...

As a foot note, many JB buffs note that this album lacks the original JBs line-up as the Collins Brothers had already left... (To such die hards, the album probably sounds a bit too slick) however, the presence of JB + some of the era's top NY studio session players like The Brecker Brother, John Faddis, Bernard Purdie and a billion others too long to list, definitely makes it one heck of an album...

If this album is your thing, aside from PAYBACK, be sure to get a copy of BLACK CEASAR !

Video James Brown - Good Foot

Something I've had kicking around on VHS for years. Enjoy.






KOOL AND THE GANG - KOOL AND THE GANG

Kool and the Gang - Kool and the Gang
Year: 1969


1.Kool and the Gang [2:57]4.2 Mb
2.Breeze and Soul [5:27]7.9 Mb
3.Chocolate Buttermilk [2:15]3.2 Mb
4.Sea of Tranquility [3:34]5.1 Mb
5.Give it Up [3:40]5.2 Mb
6.Since I Lost My Baby [2:06]3 Mb
7.Kool Back Again [5:41]8.2 Mb
8.The Gangs Back Again [3:34]5.1 Mb
9.Raw Hamburger [3:00]4.3 Mb

Kool and the Gang "Kool and the Gang" Album Review

The Best !!!
CD arrived as described.
It is the best!!!
I've been dancing ever since.

Video Kool & The Gang - Celebration

Music video by Kool & The Gang performing Celebration with Claydes Smith, Earl Eugene Toon Jr., J.T. Taylor, Dennis Ronald Thomas, Eumir Deodato, Robert Spike Mickens, George Brown, Robert Earl "Kool" Bell, Ronald Nathan Bell (C) 1980 The Island Def Jam Music Group






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