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 Numbered-Edition 180G 33RPM 2LP Set
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.
Originally marketed as a live album, Sex Machine contains six songs recorded in the studio and later overdubbed with canned crowd noise and reverberation. Save for “Low Down Popcorn,” the tracks on the latter half stem from a phenomenal performance captured in October 1969 at Bell Auditorium in Brown’s adopted hometown of Augusta, GA. The special relationship between the singer, the audience, and the location is palpable.
Tracks
Side One:
Get Up I Feel Like Being Like a Sex Machine
Brother Rapp (Part I and Part II)
Side Two:
Bewildered
I Got the Feeling
Give It Up or Turnit a Loose
Side Three:
I Don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing
Licking Stick
Low Down Popcorn
Spinning Wheel
If I Ruled the World
Side Four:
There Was a Time
It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World
Please, Please, Please
I Can’t Stand Myself (When You Touch Me)
Mother Popcorn
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