The Payback

The Payback

Infobox Album |
Name = The Payback
Type = Album
Artist = James Brown


Released = December 1973
Recorded = February to October 1973
Genre = Funk/R&B
Length = 72:52
Label = Polydor
Producer = James Brown
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:umf2zfaheh8k link]
*Review-Christgau|B+|album=6472
Last album = "Slaughter's Big Rip-Off"
(1973)
This album = "The Payback"
(1973)
Next album = "Hell"
(1974)

"The Payback" is a 1973 double album by James Brown. It was originally scheduled to become the soundtrack for the blaxploitation film "Hell Up in Harlem", but was rejected by director Larry Cohen for "not being James Brown enough."

"The Payback" is considered a high point in Brown's recording career, and is now regarded by critics as a landmark funk album. Its revenge-themed title track, a #1 R&B hit, is one of his most famous songs and an especially prolific source of samples for record producers. Musically the album is largely based around cyclic grooves and jamming, but it also features departures into a softer blues-based sound on tracks like "Doing the Best I Can."

The album was reissued on CD in 1992 with liner notes by Alan Leeds.

Track listing

All tracks composed by James Brown, Fred Wesley and Charles Bobbit; except where indicated

# "The Payback" (Brown, Wesley, John "Jabo" Starks) – 7:39
# "Doing the Best I Can" – 7:39
# "Take Some...Leave Some" – 8:20
# "Shoot Your Shot" (Brown) – 8:19
# "Forever Suffering" – 5:39
# "Time Is Running Out Fast" – 12:58
# "Stone to the Bone" (Brown) – 10:14
# "Mind Power" – 12:04
* Note: The track time for "Mind Power" is from the 1992 re-release of the album. The original 1973 version is 90 seconds shorter.

Charts

Album — Billboard (North America)

External links

* [http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/albumofthemonth/538 Detailed Review of the album]


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