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Media Type: CD
Artist: BROWN,JAMES
Title: VOL. 1-FUNKY PEOPLE
Street Release Date: 06/20/1988
Domestic
Genre: SOUL/R & B

Track Listing

1. Gimme Some More - The J.B.'s
2. Pass the Peas - The J.B.'s
3. Think (About It) - Lyn Collins
4. Givin' up Food for Funk, Pt. 1 - The J.B.'s
5. Mama Feelgood - Lyn Collins
6. Hot Pants Road - The J.B.'s
7. Rock Me Again & Again & Again & Again & Again & Again - Lyn Collins
8. Damn Right I Am Somebody, Pts. 1 & 2 - The J.B.'s, Fred Wesley
9. Take Me Just As I Am - Lyn Collins
10. If You Don't Get It the First Time, Back up and Try It Again, Party - The J.B.'s, Fred Wesley
11. Parrty, Pt. 1 - Maceo & the Macks
12. (It's Not the Express) It's the J.B.'s Monaurail, Pt. 1
13. Same Beat, Pt. 1 [*] - Fred Wesley & the J.B.'s

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #64871 in Music
• Brand: BROWN,JAMES
• Released on: 1990-10-25
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Customer Reviews

Essential
This disc is one of the many odds and ends that floats around Brown's mammoth CD catalog. For most core listeners the "StarTime" box set is probably enough, but for true fans (and old school rap and hip hop freaks) this CD is the mutherload of beats and funky grooves. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, can compare to the instrumental jam "JB's Monorail," a psychedelic funk jam that's out of this world. Lyn Collins is superb throughout. James pops in and out with yelps of encouragement, but for the most part it's Fred Wesley, Maceo and Collins laying down some serious groove.

6 stars of funk ....... at LEAST
This album is beyond describable, if you're a TRUE old school, funk fan that can appreciate the down home soul of James Brown's genius (and the talent of the JBs). My favorites slower funk grooves are "Same Beat" (smooth and awesome) and "Damn Right, I Am Somebody" (the bassline is unbeatable, it sounds great playing through speakers with an acoustic suspension cabinet) - favorite fast track is "If You Don't Get it the First Time..." (a hip, head-bobbing track that just makes you want to get up and jam). This CD deserves 6 stars but you can only give it 5. Only thing I would change is to omit the Lyn Collins tracks - I'm just not a fan of her voice - and add in Bobby Byrds' two biggest hits "Hot Pants - I'm Coming" and "I Know You Got Soul", and maybe "Doin' it To Death" (Funky Good Time). Then it would be a ten star album for sure!

ULTIMATE funk
Together with 'THE BEST OF KOOL&THE GANG'..... T H I S is the ULTIMATE bit of funk that i've found so far. The tracks may not always have a "song structure" (and for me the women singers may be omitted..) - the funkiest bits in history are found here!!!!!!! Back in the day i waited with buying the album (and pt. 2) - but you shouldn't!