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Re: 03-10-2025 (C 1975)
Get Up, Give It Up, and Turn It Loose: James Brown and His Bands Deliver Electrifying Performances on the Funky Sex Machine, Ranked Among the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time by Rolling Stone
Monster 1970 Double Album Presented in Audiophile Sound for the First Time: Mobile Fidelity’s Numbered-Edition 180g 33RPM 2LP Set Plays with Explosive Dynamics and Vibrant Immediacy
1/4″ / 15 IPS analog master to DSD 256 to analog console to lathe
James Brown wants to know one thing before he and his band begin Sex Machine. “Can I get into the thing, really?,” he asks. His cohorts enthusiastically respond in the affirmative. And for the next hour and change, Mr. Dynamite gets into it and more, turning in a sweat-soaked, feet-moving, hip-swiveling, emotion-purging, in-the-red, drop-everything-you’re-doing-and-dance performance for the ages. Ranked by Rolling Stone among the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, the sweeping 1970 effort towers as a testament to Brown’s inimitable legacy as well as the peak powers of his voice, vibrancy, and bands.
Sourced from the original master tapes, pressed at Fidelity Record Pressing, and housed in a Stoughton gatefold jacket, Mobile Fidelity’s numbered-edition 180g 33RPM 2LP set presents Sex Machine in audiophile sound for the first time. It explodes with the energy the lightning-strike music demands. Dynamic, immediate, present, airy: Everything from the brassiness and fluidity of the horns to the snap and decay of the snare to the swell and carry of the organ comes across in full-range perspective.
Tracklist:
A1. Get Up I Feel Like Being Like a Sex Machine
A2. Brother Rapp (Part I and Part II)
B1. Bewildered
B2. I Got the Feeling
B3. Give It Up or Turnit a Loose
C1. I Don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing
C2. Licking Stick
C3. Low Down Popcorn
C4. Spinning Wheel
C5. If I Ruled the World
D1, There Was a Time
D2. It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World
D3. Please, Please, Please
D4. I Can’t Stand Myself (When You Touch Me)
D5. Mother Popcorn
