Comments not quite accurate

These reviews I can not leave quite as partially unfortunately. It is in this CD only by the soundtrack to the film. Therefore, it is not a best-of album nor a particularly innovative compilation of typical JB songs.

Nor is it true that some unpublished material is included here. Every song on this CD has been published several times.

If you a little more intense deals with JB, then you can three main stages of its development see: The initial phase with the Famous Flames, then the best (for me) phase in 1967 with the saxophonist Maceo Parker and Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis, the drummers John "Jabo" Starks, Clyde Stubblefield and Melvin Parker, saxophonist St. Clair Pinckney, trombonist Fred Wesley, guitarist Alphonso "Country" Kellum and bassist Bernard Odum. Here today pioneering foundations of funk emerged with Funky Drummer, Give It Up or Turn It Loose, and of course the highlight Cold Sweat.

After he had fallen out with the musicians began in the 1970s the next stage with, among others Bootsy Collins on bass. Here emerged songs like Sex Machine, but in my view was slowly innovation factor after. Somehow he came a bit in the 70 rut, the unmistakable Moog in many a song makes this clear. That was my view then, but the tension in his development.

The missing here later hits from the 80s can in my view forgettable. Living in America, etc. no longer has much in common with the original JB. Also from this period the countless, completely superfluous and schrottigen best-of albums, reflect the ever any extraneous live performances from the 80s or 90s, there was his time over a long time unfortunately.

Anyone interested in the true JB, which are particularly three publications to heart:
- (Lousy sound good image) A DVD with one of his most spectacular performances The Night James Brown Saved Boston
- The album In the Jungle Groove In the Jungle Groove
- And the CD box Foundation of Funk Foundations of Funk