I know this sounds like heresy, but I much prefer "Live at the Apollo Vol 2" and "Revolution of the Mind : Live at the Apollo Vol 3" and the 1968 Live in Atlanta show
James Brown Gold CD is $16 on Amazon and it's 40 of his greatest hits. Pick up that and Live At The Apollo and you've got a good JB collection for less than $30.
I know the feeling. This is what I settled on. Live At the Apollo Live At the Apollo Volume II (Original CD release and 2001 two disc Deluxe) Revolution of the Mind: Apollo Volume III Say It Live & Loud: Live In Dallas 8/26/68 Love, Power, Peace: Live At The Olympia, Paris 1971 Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud Gettin' Down To It Soul On Top Sex Machine Hot Pants There It Is Get On The Good Foot Black Caesar Slaughter's Big Rip-Off The Payback Hell Reality Sex Machine Today The Original Disco Man In The Jungle Groove (original and remastered CD) The Motherlode (original and remastered CD) Roots of a Revolution Foundations of Funk - A Brand New Bag: 64-69 Funk Power 1970: A Brand New Thang Make It Funky - The Big Payback: 71-75 Dead On The Heavy Funk 1975-1983 Soul Pride: The Instrumentals 1960-1969 Messing with the Blues Star Time 4 Disc box Greatest Hits of the Fourth Decade Hip-O Select Singles Volumes 1-11 Funky Good Time: The Anthology James Brown's Funky People Vol. 1 James Brown's Funky People Vol. 2 James Brown's Funky People Vol. 3 James Brown's Original Funky Divas
James Brown: Live at the Apollo (1962) James Brown: Pure Dynamite! James Brown: Out of Sight James Brown: Sings Raw Soul James Brown: Live At The Garden | Expanded Edition James Brown: I Can’t Stand Myself When You Touch Me James Brown: I Got the Feelin’ James Brown: Live at the Apollo Volume II James Brown: Say It Live and Loud: Dallas 8.26.68 James Brown: Say It Loud: I’m Black and I’m Proud James Brown: Gettin' Down To It James Brown: The Popcorn LP James Brown: It’s a Mother LP James Brown: Ain’t It Funky James Brown: Soul on Top James Brown: It’s a New Day So Let a Man Come In James Brown: Sex Machine James Brown: Super Bad LP James Brown: Sho Is Funky Down Here LP James Brown: LovePowerPeace Live at the Olympia, Paris 1971 James Brown: Hot Pants James Brown: Revolution of the Mind James Brown: There It Is James Brown: Get On The Good Foot James Brown: Black Caesar James Brown: Slaughter's Big Rip-Off James Brown: The Payback James Brown: Hell James Brown: Reality James Brown: Soul Syndrome James Brown: In the Jungle Groove James Brown: Motherlode James Brown: Roots of a Revolution James Brown: Messing With the Blues James Brown: Startime James Brown: Soul Pride: Instrumentals 1960-1969 James Brown: Foundations of Funk 1964-1969 James Brown: Funk Power 1970 James Brown: Make It Funky 1971-1975 James Brown: Dead on the Heavy Funk 1975-1983 James Brown: Ballads James Brown: The Greatest Hits of the Fourth Decade James Brown: I’m Back James Brown’s Original Funky Divas James Brown: James Brown’s Funky People (Part 3) James Brown: Jazz James Brown: The Complete James Brown Christmas James Brown: The Singles Volume 1: The Federal Years 1956-1960 James Brown: The Singles Volume 2: 1960-1963 James Brown: The Singles Volume 3: 1964-1965 James Brown: The Singles Volume 4: 1966-1967 James Brown: The Singles Volume 5: 1967-1969 James Brown: The Singles Volume 6: 1969-1970 James Brown: The Singles Volume 7: 1970-1972 James Brown: The Singles Volume 8: 1972-1973 James Brown: The Singles Volume 9: 1973-1975 James Brown: The Singles Volume 10: 1975-1979 James Brown: The Singles Volume 11: 1979-1981
Does anybody have a copy of the 2CD Dead On The Heavy Funk - 1975 - 1983 set *without* the glitches on the second disc? Please send me a private message if you do. Thanks.
May I add some video--The Night James Brown Saved Boston, which includes the Boston Garden concert from April 5, 1968. I think it's still true that this DVD comes with a bonus disc of "Man to Man", a James Brown tv special which aired on Metromedia owned and operated stations in May 1968, which includes a significant portion of James Brown's performance at the Apollo Theater in New York a few days before the Boston show. Boston concert is in black and white, New York concert is in color. To me, these are as essential as almost any of the albums.
I would say if not the Star Time box, then Jungle Groove and Motherlode and possibly Hot Pants with the extended version of Escapism should be the ideal starting point.
Agreed, even with James noodling on the organ as the band was waiting for Bobby to show up, it was one of the most incredible things they ever recorded.