Sex Machine (album)

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Sex Machine
live album by
James Brown
ReleasedSeptember 1970
Recorded
  • October 14, 1969,
    Cincinnati, OH
    ("Brother Rapp")
  • July 23, 1970, Cincinnati, OH ("Get Up I Feel Like Being a Sex Machine", medley)
  • June 12, 1969,
    Miami, FL
    ("Lowdown Popcorn")
  • October 1, 1969,
    Bell Auditorium, Augusta, Georgia
    (remainder of titles)
GenreFunk, soul[1]
Length64:29
LabelKing
ProducerJames Brown
James Brown chronology
It's a New Day – Let a Man Come In
(1970) 		Sex Machine
(1970) 		Hey America
(1970)
James Brown live albums chronology
Live at the Apollo, Volume II
(1968) 		Sex Machine
(1970)
Revolution of the Mind: Recorded Live at the Apollo, Vol. III

(1971)
Singles from Sex Machine
  1. "Lowdown Popcorn"
    Released: August 9, 1969
  2. "Brother Rapp"
    Released: April 1970
  3. "
    Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine
    "
    Released: July 1970
  4. "Spinning Wheel"
    Released: 1971
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Zagat Survey
[8]
Sputnikmusic[9]

Sex Machine is a

title song, different from the original recording of the title song which was released as a two-part single
in 1970.

Sex Machine purports to be a live recording. However, the first LP's worth of material consists of tracks recorded in studio settings with added reverberation and overdubbed applause (some of which subsequently were released in unadulterated mixes, most notably on the 1996 Funk Power compilation CD.). All but one track of the second LP apparently were recorded live in concert in Brown's hometown of Augusta, Georgia, although this material, too, features added reverb and overdubbed applause.[citation needed] It charted #4 R&B and #29 Pop.

Sex Machine is often considered to be one of the greatest and most important funk records of all time, and arguably the high point of Brown's creative heyday from 1967 to 1971. It was ranked 1st in SPIN magazine's 25 greatest albums of all time in 1989, and 96th in a 2005 survey held by British television's Channel 4 to determine the 100 greatest albums of all time.[11] Sex Machine was also voted the 34th greatest album of all time in a VH1 poll of over 700 musicians, songwriters, disc jockeys, radio programmers, and critics in 2003.[12] In Rolling Stone's 2020 edition of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, it was ranked number 439.[13]

Contents

All tracks on sides one and two and "Lowdown Popcorn" on side three are studio recordings with added reverberation and audience noise. All other tracks on sides three and four were recorded live at the Bell Auditorium in Augusta, GA.

"

Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud
" purportedly from the same Augusta concert. The full 1969 Augusta concert was released in 2019 as Live At Home With His Bad Self.

Track listing

Side one (studio tracks produced to sound live)
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Get Up I Feel Like Being a Sex Machine"James Brown, Bobby Byrd, Ron Lenhoff10:48
2."Brother Rapp (Part I & Part II)"Brown5:06
Total length:15:54
Side two (studio tracks produced to sound live)
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Bewildered"Teddy Powell, Leonard Whitcup6:09
2."I Got the Feelin'"Brown1:07
3."Give It Up or Turnit a Loose"Charles Bobbit6:26
Total length:13:42
Side three
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."
Pee Wee Ellis
1:19
3."Lowdown Popcorn" (studio recording)Brown3:25
4."Spinning Wheel"David Clayton-Thomas4:02
5."If I Ruled the World"Leslie Bricusse, Cyril Ornadel4:03
Total length:17:20
Side four
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."
It's a Man's Man's Man's World"
Brown, Betty Jean Newsome3:42
3."Please, Please, Please"Brown, Johnny Terry2:26
4."I Can't Stand Myself (When You Touch Me)"Brown1:28
5."Mother Popcorn"Brown, Ellis5:50
Total length:17:30

Personnel

Brown on the TV show The Music Scene in September 1969

Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine, Medley

  • James Brown – vocals, piano (Sex Machine)
  • Clayton "Chicken" Gunnels – trumpet
  • Darryl "Hassan" Jamison – trumpet
  • Robert "Chopper" McCollough – tenor sax
  • Bobby Byrd – organ, vocals (Sex Machine)
  • Phelps "Catfish" Collins
    – guitar
  • William "Bootsy" Collins
    – bass
  • John "Jabo" Starks
    – drums (Sex Machine)
  • Clyde Stubblefield – drums (Medley)
  • Johnny Griggs – congas (Medley)

Bell Auditorium, Augusta, GA

References

  1. ^
    AllMusic
    . Retrieved September 22, 2011.
  2. ^ "Billboard Album Reviews". Billboard. September 19, 1970. p. 59. Retrieved September 22, 2011.
  3. ISBN 089919026X
    . Retrieved February 22, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  4. Rhapsody
    . Retrieved September 22, 2011.
  5. ISBN 978-0-7432-0169-8. Alt URL
  6. ISSN 0886-3032
    . Retrieved September 22, 2011.
  7. ^ "Sex Machine by James Brown". Yahoo! Music. Retrieved September 22, 2011.
  8. ISBN 978-1-57006-543-9
    . Retrieved September 22, 2011.
  9. ^ g, manos (August 1, 2013). "Review: CD James Brown – Sex Machine Album". Sputnikmusic. Retrieved 2013-11-08.
  10. ^ "James Brown". warr.org. Sex Machine. Retrieved January 30, 2007.
  11. ^ "The 100 Greatest Albums". BBC Four. Archived from the original on April 19, 2005. Retrieved January 30, 2007.
  12. ^ "James Brown – Sex Machine".
  13. ^ "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". Rolling Stone. 2020-09-22. Retrieved 2020-10-27.

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