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James Brown - The Payback (1973) [1992, Remastered Reissue]
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James Brown - The Payback (1973) [1992, Remastered Reissue]
R&B, Soul/Funk | EAC Rip | FLAC, Tracks+CUE+LOG+Scans (JPEG) | 01:13:04 | 531,15 Mb
Label: Polydor (USA) | Cat.# 314 517 137-2 | Released: 1992-09-22 (1973)
R&B, Soul/Funk | EAC Rip | FLAC, Tracks+CUE+LOG+Scans (JPEG) | 01:13:04 | 531,15 Mb
Label: Polydor (USA) | Cat.# 314 517 137-2 | Released: 1992-09-22 (1973)
"The Payback" is the 37th studio album by American musician James Brown. The album was released in December 1973, by Polydor Records. It was originally scheduled to become the soundtrack for the blaxploitation film Hell Up in Harlem, but was rejected by the film's producers, who dismissed it as "the same old James Brown stuff." (A widely repeated story - including by Brown himself - that director Larry Cohen rejected the music as "not funky enough" is denied by Cohen). It went to #1 on the Soul Albums chart for two weeks and cracked the Pop Albums chart in the Top 40. It was Brown's only studio album to be certified Gold. "The Payback" is considered a high point in Brown's recording career, and is now regarded by critics as a landmark funk album. Its revenge-themed title track, a #1 R&B hit, is one of his most famous songs and an especially prolific source of samples for record producers. Musically the album is largely cyclic grooves and jamming, but it also features departures into a softer soul-based sound on tracks like "Doing the Best I Can" and "Forever Suffering". The album was reissued on CD in 1992 with liner notes by Alan Leeds.
~Wikipedia
Originally released in 1973 as a sprawling two-LP set, The Payback was one of James Brown's most ambitious albums of the 1970s, and also one of his best, with Brown and his band (which in 1974 still included Fred Wesley, Maceo Parker, St. Clair Pinckney, Jimmy Nolen, and Jabo Starks) relentlessly exploring the outer possibilities of the James Brown groove. Stretching eight cuts out over the space of nearly 73 minutes, The Payback is long on extended rhythmic jamming, and by this time Brown and his band had become such a potent and nearly telepathic combination that the musicians were able pull out lengthy solos while still maintaining some of the most hypnotic funk to be found anywhere, and on the album's best songs the jazzy "Time Is Running Out Fast," the relentless "Shoot Your Shot," the tight-wound "Mind Power," and the bitter revenge fantasy of the title cut the tough, sinuous rhythms and the precise interplay between the players is nothing short of a wonder to behold. And even the album's lower-key cuts (such as the lovelorn "Doing the Best That I Can" and "Forever Suffering") sink their hooks into the listener and pull you in; quite simply, this is remarkable stuff, and even Brown's attempts at lyrical relevance (which were frankly getting a bit shaky at this point in his career) are firmly rooted enough to sound convincing. The Payback turned out to be one of James Brown's last inarguably great albums before he hit a long fallow streak in the mid- to late '70s, but no one listening to this set would ever imagine that this was the work of an artist (or a band) about to run out of gas.
~Review by Jason Elias
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James Brown - The Payback (1973) [1992, Remastered Reissue]
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James Brown - The Payback (1973) [1992, Remastered Reissue]
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Release of the album: 1973, December [2xLPs Polydor, Cat.# PD 2-3007, USA]
Release of the CD: 1992, September, 22 [CD Polydor (USA), Cat.# 314 517 137-2 / UPC: 731451713729]
℗© 1973 PolyGram Records, Inc.
Manufactured and Marketed by PolyGram Records, Inc.
Printed/Made in U.S.A.
Notes: Digitally remastered from the original master tapes by Joseph M. Palmaccio, PolyGram Studios.
"Stone To The Bone" - the LP version inexplicably lost a "d" - is in mono.
"Mind Power" is 90 seconds longer than on the original album.
Both are the original LP mix.
Credits:
Alto Saxophone – Maceo Parker (tracks: 4 to 7)
Arranged By – James Brown
Art Direction – Davis Fried Krieger Inc.
Artwork [Cover Art] – Don Brautigan
Bass – Fred Thomas
Cover – Charles Bobbit, James Brown
Design [Redesign] – Jeff Faville
Drums – John Jabo Starks
Engineer – Lowell Dorn
Executive-Producer [For Reissue] – Harry Weinger
Flute – Maceo Parker (tracks: 4, 6, 8)
Guitar – Hearlon Cheese Martin, Jimmy Nolen
Liner Notes [1974 & 1992] – Alan Leeds
Percussion – John Morgan, Johnny Griggs
Producer – James Brown
Remastered By – Joseph M. Palmaccio
Supervised By [Production Supervision], Engineer – Bob Both
Tenor Saxophone – St-Clair Pinckney (tracks: 4 to 7)
Trombone – Fred Wesley
Trumpet – Isiah Ike Oakley (tracks: 4, 6 to 8)
Vocals – James Brown
Written-By – Charles Bobbit (tracks: 2, 3, 5, 6, 8), Fred Wesley (tracks: 1 to 3, 5, 6, 8), James Brown
Tracklist:
01. The Payback (07:40)
02. Doing The Best I Can (07:42)
03. Take Some… Leave Some (08:34)
04. Shoot Your Shot (08:09)
05. Forever Suffering (05:52)
06. Time Is Running Out Fast (12:48)
07. Stone To The Bone (10:14)
08. Mind Power (12:05)
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Thanks to alekow
See also:
James Brown - Hell (1974) [1995, Remastered Reissue]
James Brown - Take A Look At Those Cakes (1978) [2017] {Mini-LP HDCD}
James Brown - Soul Syndrome + (1980) [1991, Expanded Reissue]