........Its James Brown, the Godfather of Soul! Now c'mon!

OK OK OK, Raymond Douglas Davies and the fellow below, obviously state Sex as Bad and Obscene. But this is music, and shouldnt be taken literally! How else has this world evolved and reproduce itself for the past how-ever-many-thousands of years! James had/has an audience to please and he didnt just reach that goal, he shattered it in this offering. And as I stated before, its James Brown! The Godfather of soul. Enjoy.

Live & Loud

This album has many examples of the excitement James Brown and his band were able to generate among live audiences. The track "There Was a Time" in itself is worth the price of this album. There is a lot of James Brown floating around out there, and not all of it is premium quality-however, Sex Machine is a must for both the converted and the neophyte.



Although I do not think O'Boyle's ethnocentric dogma warrants comment, it does seem fairly obvious that this is either a put-on, or someone who not only understands nothing about James Brown, but has also never really listened to his music. Sex Machine was recorded in 1969-a year that, in itself, cannot help but remind one of sex, all lowbrow humor aside. If you want to talk about religion and music, why not question whether The Beatles song "Hey Jude" was anti-Semitic, or if the Beach Boys had a Fundamentalist Mormon agenda in mind when singing the line "Two girls for every boy..."

Quintessential soul music

I hadn't intended a review here of this album that I DO have, but it popped up as a recommendation on my personal amazon page, and here I am. This album is a very good one for any fan of James's music, better than fairly priced for the great amount and quality of Mr. Brown's music that you get. Because I happened to be at the right place at the right time in April of 1989, I got this double-LP along with about 300 others of equally great soul music stature at an auction (about 10 other Brown LPs among them). Doing a little arithmetic later, the price-per-album worked out to a number that would surely make you envy me, and near-weep that you weren't there to competitively bid against me. The nicest surprise about the condition of this album and all the others, was that they looked like someone had only removed the shrink wrap and put them away and never played them - as in `near-mint,' flawless condition. If it's any consolation, I promise you, the albums landed in the home of a true soul music lover, just like you.

No, I'm afraid what prompts my review here, is my distress that, just like the increasing, unending and unsolicited junk e-mail that seems to be plaguing all of us nowadays, it appears that Amazon-com's generous gesture of letting music lovers speak their minds about MUSIC, is now to be hijacked by anyone with an entirely unrelated agenda - see `O'Boyle' review below. I too believe in the Almighty, sir, but I can't help picturing His reaction as one of a shaking-head smirk that one of His own can't surmise that a soul music review page is an inappropriate forum for one's religious proselytizing. Go take Pat Boone to task for his "Metal Mood" album, huh?