Sex Machine (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Sex Machine
Type = studio
Artist = James Brown


Released = 1970
Recorded =
Genre = R&B/Soul/Funk
Length = 64:29
Label = King
Producer =
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:1zdqoa8abijv link]
Last album = "It's a New Day -- So Let a Man Come In"
(1970)
This album = "Sex Machine"
(1970)
Next album = "Sho Is Funky Down Here"
(1971)

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"Sex Machine" is a 1970 double album by James Brown. It showcases the playing of the original J.B.'s lineup featuring Bootsy and Catfish Collins, [http://www.warr.org/jbrown.html Accessed January 30, 2007.] and includes an 11-minute live rendition of the album's title song. (The album does not include the original studio recording of the song "Sex Machine", which was released as a two-part single in 1970.)

The first LP consists of tracks recorded in the studio (with overdubbed audience applause), while the second LP was actually recorded live in concert in Brown's hometown of Augusta, Georgia.

"Sex Machine" was ranked 96th in a 2005 survey held by British television's Channel 4 to determine the 100 greatest albums of all time. [http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/G/greatest/albums/results.html Accessed January 30, 2007.]

Track listing

ide one

"All tracks are studio recordings with audience overdubs".

#"Get Up I Feel Like Being A Sex Machine" (Brown, Bobby Byrd, Ron Lenhoff) - 10:48
#"Brother Rapp, Pts. 1-2" - (Brown) 5:09

ide two

"All tracks are studio recordings with audience overdubs".

#Medley: - 13:42
##"Bewildered" (Teddy Powell, Leonard Whitcup) - 6:09
##"I Got The Feelin'" (Brown) - 1:07
##"Give It Up or Turnit a Loose" (Charles Bobbit) - 6:26

ide three

"All tracks recorded live at the Bell Auditorium in Augusta, GA unless otherwise noted".

#"I Don't Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up The Door I'll Get It Myself)" (Brown) - 4:31
#"Licking Stick - Licking Stick" (Brown, Byrd, Pee Wee Ellis) - 1:19
#"Lowdown Popcorn" (Brown) - 3:25 "(studio recording)"
#"Spinning Wheel" (Clayton-Thomas) - 4:02
#"If I Ruled the World" (Leslie Bricusse, Cyril Ornadel) - 4:03

ide four

"All tracks recorded live at the Bell Auditorium in Augusta, GA".

#"There Was a Time" (Brown, Hobgood) - 4:04
#"It's a Man's Man's Man's World" (Brown, Betty Jean Newsome) - 3:42
#"Please, Please, Please" (Brown, Johnny Terry) - 2:26
#"I Can't Stand Myself (When You Touch Me)" (Brown) - 1:28
#"Mother Popcorn" (Brown) - 5:50

References