Motherlode

Artist: James Brown
Label: Polydor / Umgd
Category: Music

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Format: Extra tracks
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 044007621127
EAN: 0044007621127
ASIN: B00009EJC7

Release Date: 2003-06-17

Motherlode

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Tracks:

There It Is (Live)
She's The One
Since You Been Gone
Untitled Instrumental
Say It Loud (Say It Live)
Can I Get Some Help (Unedited)
You Got To Have A Mother For Me
Funk Bomb (Instrumental)
Baby Here I Come
People Get Up And Drive Your Funky Soul (Remix)
I Got Ants In My Pants (And I Want To Dance) (Remix)
You've Changed
Bodyheat (Alternate Mix)

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Customer Reviews:

The Source of a Great Sample...........2007-04-18

Same heavy funk with the JBs but with a new variety of beats, guitar parts and horn lines - the best tracks are the ones you don't hear much elsewhere. The standout is SINCE YOU BEEN GONE - churning groove, with a shuffling snare, crunchin guitar and and a simple, brillaint vocal hook. The other gem is UNTITLED INSTRUMENTAL I remembered as a sample from a SCARFACE record - the baddest horn line you'll ever hear. CAN I GET SOME HELP(tasty repeating guitar line), ANTS IN MY PANTS, and BODYHEAT are also great. If you like this stuff I'd say BLACK CAESAR SOUNDTRACK is a close cousin - great stuff not overplayed.

for the true James Brown connoisseur.......2006-08-20

I've been collecting James on vinyl since I was a tiny kid and my neighbor gave me the soundtrack for "Ski Party" which I played everyday for at least a year! Drove my mother nuts. Later on when I could ride a bicycle, I would get up at 7AM on Saturday mornings [and I was always up late, still am!] to go to record "swap meets" to buy more JAMES BROWN vinyls. I was obssessed! They are my most treasured possession to this day.

So, in my humble obsessive opinion, "Motherlode" is simply fantastic. It sounds kinda like jams where the fellas were writing the songs and working out some ideas grooving away in the studio. Very loose, very beautiful, very swinging. Maceo does one solo that gives me goosebumps every time I hear it. Oooo eeeee!

It's true, this set does not have the standard JB chart classics, so if you are new to this genius, you'd do better with "Startime" or one of the more standard compilations. Another James B fanatic sent me a copy of Motherlode from Italy, and I did not take it out of my car CD player for 2 weeks. Highly recommended for the dreaded drive to work on Monday morning. Makes the time whiz right by.

I Love James.......2006-08-13

I love James Brown but I mut give this a lower rating only because there are only 3 songs that are excellent on this CD.
His other CD's have more of his classic songs all one one Cd.
This particular cd music copied most of his more famous songs,
I am a musician and I know artist tend to "sound alike" on their records. I am not sure if these songs came first but
"there it is", "Ants in the pants"", and "Bodyheat" are the best songs on this CD(great to dance to)
Regina

RARE JB !!!.......2006-05-08

At the time this CD originally came out, most of JBs classic funk albums were long out of print, and it was impossible to forsee that they'd ever see the light of day again... Fortunately, Polydor hadn't totally forgotten the funk side of JB... THE FUNKY PEOPLE anthology was out (the tapes were always on my walkman) followed by IN THE JUNGLE GROOVE... fortunately, JUNGLE GROOVE along with MOTHERLODE were and are among the funkiest JB collections ever released and I'll explain why... In his bio, JB complained that he was frequently upset because the labels were always watering his stuff down. LISTEN to JB's albums, and you'd have to ask: WHERE??? But listen to JUNGLE GROOVE and MOTHERLODE and you'll see how much badder JB could actually get. (It seems also that the label weren't as vigilant with his PEOPLE label releases, so they tended to be harder edged than his own releases as well... even though you can tell that they could just the same have been released under his name!)

Truth is, JB throughout the 70s especially was famous for some pretty ambitious (sometimes double LP) releases but between the hard funk tracks, he did have some corny tracks too... (Like his heart rendering version of WHEN THE SAINTS GO MARCHING ON on HELL... what the ??? and how about his SALSA version of PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE ?) This album though not only cuts past the schmaltz, but goes right to the source... the VAULTS in search of the funkiest of JB... and it definitely succeeds ! Not only that, the tracks were purported approved by JB himself as well ! ! !

*P.S. If you like this one, be sure to get the two SOUNDTRACKS that JB did in the 70s... BLACK CEASAR and SLAUGHER'S BIG RIP OFF - - some of his best work of that era. Also... let us not forget the last of his CLASSIC FUNK ERA recordings SOUL SYNDROME ! ! !

Now what I'm hoping and praying for is that one day his instrumental albums (featuring him on the Hammond Organ) from the SMASH label find themselves back in issue... now THAT would be a dream !

classic jb fonk from the vaults.......2003-11-30

these jams has been sampled to death I like the instrumental jam with the horns and featuring bootsy collins on the bass chunking out some heavy bass licks this cd is great blind man can see it sampled by das efx is classic about 8 minutes since jb originated the extended jam makint 12 inches before 12 inches idf you know what I mean the whole band is tight got to have a mother for me is smoking also get this cd if you love funky music.

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