Artist: James Brown
Album: The CD Of JB: Sex Machine & Other Soul Classics
Genre: Soul, R&B
Label: Polydor/PolyGram Records, Inc.
Released: 1985
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- Doing It To Death (5:26)
- Super Bad (Mono) (3:02)
- Soul Power (Mono) (3:05)
- Think (3:16)
- It's A Man's World (Mono) (3:20)
- Try Me (I Need You) (Mono) (2:35)
- Bewildered (Mono) (2:28)
- Out Of Sight (2:28)
- I Got You (2:31)
- Prisoner Of Love (2:30)
- I Got The Feelin' (Mono) (2:45)
- Maybe The Last Time (3:05)
- Licking Stick - Licking Stick (2:52)
- Mother Popcorn (3:15)
- Papa's Got A Brand New Bag (Mono) (2:11)
- Sex Machine (5:08)
- The Payback (3:25)
- Please, Please, Please (Mono) (2:44)
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Polydor Records put a tentative toe into the emerging CD stream in 1985 and enjoyed surprising commercial success with this 56-minute, 18-song James Brown sampler. Rather than taking the standard greatest-hits approach, compiler Cliff White mixed familiar hits with rarities and even unreleased material, a shortened version of the later boxed-set formula. So, along with number one R&B hits like "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag," "Super Bad," and "Mother Popcorn," one heard a previously unreleased version of "It's a Man's World," two years older than the better-known one, and "I Got You," an early version of "I Got You (I Feel Good)," culled from the withdrawn Out of Sight LP. The effect, especially for a first-time listener, was to whet the appetite for more, though The CD of JB was more a highlights disc than a thorough anthology.
Review by William Ruhlmann