“Hell” by James Brown - album review
features in: (B-list) Album Chart of 1974 ● (B-list) Album Chart of the 1970s |
Generally regarded as a new album, but it’s a “b” status for me since 5 of the 14 are reworkings from previous LPs. It’s hard to know what to make of this one, could almost be regarded as a “Womad” experiement, with latin flavours coming strongly to the fore in many places, including a bona-fide bossa-nova working of “Please Please Please”. Any good will I might have had is washed away with the bizarre funk working of “When The Saints Go Marchin’ In” and the MOR take of “These Foolish Things Remind Me Of You”. The LP is a mere shadow of “The Payback”. Rarely have I been so disappointed in a follow-up album…
The Jukebox Rebel
23–Apr–2012
Tracklist |
A1 | [04:45] James Brown - Coldblooded (James Brown, Alfred Ellis) Disco / Funk |
A2 | [05:03] James Brown - Hell (James Brown) Disco / Funk |
A3 | [04:20] James Brown - My Thang (James Brown) Disco / Funk |
A4 | [03:05] James Brown - Sayin’ It And Doin’ It (James Brown) Disco / Funk |
A5 | [04:12] James Brown - Please, Please, Please [1974 version] (James Brown, Johnny Terry) Latin |
B1 | [02:43] James Brown - When The Saints Go Marchin’ In (Traditional) Disco / Funk |
B2 | [03:14] James Brown - These Foolish Things Remind Me Of You [1974 version] (Harry Link, Holt Marvell, Jack Strachey) Pop |
B3 | [03:15] James Brown - Stormy Monday (Aaron Thibeaux Walker) Disco / Funk |
B4 | [02:52] James Brown - A Man Has To Go Back To The Cross Road Before He Finds Himself [1974 version] (James Brown) Pop Ballad |
B5 | [04:15] James Brown - Sometime [1974 version] (James Brown, Bud Hobgood) Soul Ballad |
C1 | [08:10] James Brown - I Can’t Stand It [1974 version] (James Brown) Disco / Funk |
C2 | [03:35] James Brown - Lost Someone [1974 version] (James Brown, Bobby Byrd, Lloyd Stallworth) Disco / Funk |
C3 | [05:05] James Brown - Don’t Tell A Lie About Me And I Won’t Tell The Truth On You (James Brown, J. Maloy Roach) Disco / Funk |
D | [13:51] James Brown - Papa Don’t Take No Mess (Charles Bobbit, James Brown, John Starks, Fred Wesley) Disco / Funk |