In the Jungle Groove

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In the Jungle Groove was the first James Brown reissue to provide full-length and unedited versions of his classic funk vamps of the late '60s and early '70s. While later sets have followed its pattern of restoring previously edited music and unearthing previously unissued takes, it remains invaluable for stripping the fake applause off the Sex Machine version of "Give It Up or Turnit a Loose" alone. The bonus-beats mix of Clyde Stubblefield's break in "Funky Drummer" helped make this a must-own for '80s hip- hoppers, while the "Swing on the vine/Check out your mind/In the jungle, brother" chant of "I Got to Move" is one of Brown's proudest, most audacious assertions of blackness. --Rickey Wright

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Amazinggggggggg
James Brown, In The Jungle Groove
gangstasoul
It's James Brown's world, we just live in it...
Roll over, Beethoven

In the Jungle Groove
James Brown
Manufacturer: Polydor / Umgd
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Foundations Of Funk: A Brand New Bag: 1964-1969

ASIN: B00009EJC5
Release Date: 2003-06-17

Tracks:

It's A New Day
Funky Drummer
Give It Up Or Turn It Loose (Remix)
I Got To Move
Funky Drummer (Bonus Beat Reprise)
Talkin' Loud & Sayin' Nothing (Remix)
Get Up. Get Into It And Get Involved
Soul Power (Re-Edit)
Hot Pants (She Got To Use What She Got To Get What She Wants)
Blind Man Can See It (Extended)

Customer Reviews:

Amazinggggggggg.......2007-06-27

Fast Delivery the item like descript in very good condition and this time i had no pay a Italian Dogana.... and at the end James Brown is The King ::::::::::::: Thank-U Amazon!!!!! Andrea.

James Brown, In The Jungle Groove.......2007-01-10

CD was received within days after ordering. CD was in good shape.

gangstasoul.......2006-12-25

When the establishment bemoans the advent of gangsta rap and takes the moral (b.s.) highground in trying to say that rebellious music of their time was not so bad, this is a CD you can shove up their noses just to remind them that the joy of music and the despair of oppression has been around since J.B., since gospel, since plantation songs...but J.B. never made it all sound sooo funky.

I am amazed at what James Brown can pull off. This disc has some long jams, with little more than a single riff while James screams intermittently over it, and yet...that's all a great J.B. song needs. And this is some heavy J.B., something with a little edge to it, soul comign up like steam from the sewer, a little angry, but James isn't going to let all that bring the funk down. Just like the spliff he's putting together on the back cover, he's going to roll his own version and make it funky.

Obviously, a classic track on this is "Funky Drummer," a track that has been sampled from PE to LL Cool J to (no lie) Sinead O'Connor, but you'll be grooving to "Give It Up Or Turn It Loose" and "Hot Pants."

But don't think you'll just be getting down mindlessly. Well, you may, but J.B. is too smart for that. He's just got too much soul, and it stretches way back and way forward, putting himself square in the river of music man, and this album is genius for that.

It's James Brown's world, we just live in it..........2006-09-26

I bought this on vinyl when it came out in '86 and wore the groove right off it. Good thing CDs last forever. "Funky Drummer" must be the single most sampled song on the planet. Everybody in the world has used it, even Sinead O'Connor! The version of "Give it up or turn it loose" that appears on this is so good, it will make you want to slap your momma down! (In Southern parlance, that's damn good) If you listen to this CD, the "Star Time" box set and one or two of the "Live at The Apollo" CDs, you'll know that God exists, because James Brown was no accident.

Roll over, Beethoven.......2005-08-16

I am warning you right now, because I am right, and what I am about to predict will be true. That is why I'm posting my prediction at this fine archival space, where it can be viewed by all ages of the future.
In about 300 years from now, the people of the future will not have any interest in Elvis, or the Beatles, or Classical music, or anything that ever achieved #1 status on the charts.
In the future, James Brown will be regarded as the greatest musical talent and biggest genious in the history of the world. And this cd will be near the top of his shrine to greatness, along with "Hell", "Sex Machine", and "Funky People".

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really good
Down-home urban grooves by the inventor of funk.
the Cutting Edge Man of Groove!!
'86 Vault Foray Still Relevant
Ultra Jazzy & Funked Up JB likey you probably never heard !

In the Jungle Groove
James Brown
Manufacturer: Polydor / Umgd
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Classic R&B | R&B | Styles | Music

General | R&B | Styles | Music

General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music

General | Funk | R&B | Styles | Music
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Foundations Of Funk: A Brand New Bag: 1964-1969

ASIN: B000001FJV
Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

It's A New Day
Funky Drummer
Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose (Remix)
I Got To Move (Previously Unreleased)
Funky Drummer (Bonus Beat Reprise)
Talkin' Loud & Sayin' Nothing (Remix)
Get Up, Get Into It And Get Involved
Soul Power (Re-Edit)
Hot Pants (She Got To Use What She Got To Get What She Needs)

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In the Jungle Groove was the first James Brown reissue to provide full-length and unedited versions of his classic funk vamps of the late '60s and early '70s. While later sets have followed its pattern of restoring previously edited music and unearthing previously unissued takes, it remains invaluable for stripping the fake applause off the Sex Machine version of "Give It Up or Turnit a Loose" alone. The bonus-beats mix of Clyde Stubblefield's break in "Funky Drummer" helped make this a must-own for '80s hip- hoppers, while the "Swing on the vine/Check out your mind/In the jungle, brother" chant of "I Got to Move" is one of Brown's proudest, most audacious assertions of blackness. --Rickey Wright

Customer Reviews:

really good.......2003-07-15

Not as good as LOVE POWER PEACE, but still very nice for quiet mornings. Makes a good wedding gift (particularly the track, "Brand New Day").

Down-home urban grooves by the inventor of funk........2002-12-16

I first got this LP when I wasn't even a teenager yet, and figured out where all them rapper types found their beats. This was the eighties, while James Brown samples were en vogue but before he began policing those who sampled him. Public Enemy, Sweet Tee and Jazzy Joyce, Jewel-T, Grandmaster Flash, Boogie Down Productions, De La Soul, Big Daddy Kane, Steady-B, the Jungle Brothers, Kwame, Kid'n'Play, Kool G. Rap, Masta Ace, Spoonie Gee, Ultramagnetic MC's, Eric B & Rakim, Sinead O'Connor, Mantronik, Run DMC, and a busload of other hip-hop and dance producers have picked this album cleaner than a post-Thanksgiving turkey. The music begs to be sampled; it became the aural semantics that shaped the train of thought that hip-hop spray-painted and rode to popularity.
And given a loud stereo and someone to share the moment with, it's great dancing. You'll burn calories, ache, and get winded, but you won't stop. As a deejay, I've seen dancefloors go insane to "Give it up or Turnit a Loose". And the immortal grandaddy of all beat breaks, "Funky Drummer", a multi-textured rhythm defined by snare accents that are tighter than a skeeter's [bottom].... For over nine minutes, Clyde Stubblefield carries us on the wings of one of the most difficult beats to play, the cherry on top being his jazzy drum solo as the song ends. Fried chicken and beer, my friend.
The only negative thing I can say of this album is that it is my personal opinion that the original version of "Hot Pants" is superior to the one found here, which is a bit more polished around the edges. But tunes like "Get up, Get into it, Get Involved" and "Soul Power" are as raw as skint knees. Truly, your life can't help but be improved by this record.

the Cutting Edge Man of Groove!!.......2002-06-30

this Album just Sizzles Period."FUnky Drummer"alone is the kind of Track that if you have any kind of Groove about you you have to have it ASAP.this is one of the Golden Era's in the Great Musical Evolution of James Brown.Grooves are tight on a Dime.THe Man&His Musical Vibe are truly One of a Kind.

'86 Vault Foray Still Relevant.......2001-10-15

In 2001, this album's contents will not cause a great stir with collectors or casual fans, as Polydor/Polygram has consistently released lost gems and reconstituted familiar sides since 1986, when this double album was issued. It was soon overshadowed by the single album "Motherlode", which was almost all previously unreleased stuff from '67 to '72(which should have been released). But this first in-depth effort is definitely worth hearing and having, if only for the much-sampled "Funky Drummer"; the studio recut sans overdubbed audience "Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose" - a mindblower in *any* generation; and for "I Got To Move", a kind of retooled "There Was A Time", recorded at the same session which included Mr. Bootsy Collins, and shelved for 17 years. Other tracks are readily available elsewhere.

Ultra Jazzy & Funked Up JB likey you probably never heard !.......2001-02-03

Sometime around 1985 I remember threatening to do bodily harm to myself if my father didn't let me get tickets to see my then (and pretty much still) idol James Brown way way way out in the suburbs of Philly at a place called The Valley Forge Music Fair. - - I was somewhat concerned though. At that time, there were two JB's - - JB, the funkiest man alive... and JB, the guy from Rocky IV who was trying to ride the wave of the unfunky '80s. - - I really wanted to hear all that rare JB funk from the early '70s, but back then, most of that stuff was THE PAST... JB was either the LIVING IN AMERICA guy, or MR. I FEEL GOOD. Maceo & Fred Wesley and the JBs were names of a distant past almost.

Well, I went to the concert... it was a very white audience and the coming attractions included a lot of country music stars like Johnny Cash and Dolly Parton... anyway, the show began... Wilson Pickett tour the roof off... then JB's band came out, and ..., they were kicking this type of Jazzed out JB funk that I'd never heard before, even on the albums... and when JB came out, the fun didn't stop there... he did a few of his greatest hits, but to the disdain of most the yuppie audience, he basically did an evening of extended grooves, even sitting in at the organ, playing drums, giving Maceo Parker (still with him and with Gherri Curls) lot's of long solos. - - THE ENTIRE AUDIENCE basically got up and left, but the show went on for 4 hours... and there were only a hand full of people at the end... yet I was in FUNK heaven.... but so miserably depressed that I'd probably never get to hear anything like that again.

Well to make a long story short, when this CD came out, it almost brough tears to my eyes, because the versions of those tunes that you hear on this CD is the type of stuff that JB was doing that night, against the popular tide ! ! ! - - Though there are plenty of great JB hit albums, when it comes to the overall groove and Jazzed out funk vibe of JB, this is the epitome of it... therefore, I can reccomend no CD more than this for the true funk efficianado.

Tracks:

In The Loop
Rise and Shine
Turn The Page
There Once Was An Angel
At Your Beck and Call
Detour on Green Street
Dreamin' About You
For Those Who Cry Inside
Samsara Blues
Until We Meet Again

REMIXES FROM THE ELEPHANT HOUSE {Cocaine In My Brain - Dillinger, Put It On (Again) - Bob Marley & The Wailers, Peace Time - Groove Corporation, Sunshine Of Your Love - Rockers Hi-Fi Meet Ella Fitzgerald, Hold Us Down - Rae & Christian, Legalise It - UB40, Police & Thieves - Luciano, Echo Beach - Original Cast, Conquering Lion - Yabby You, Dub Remedies - South, Concrete Jungle - Groove Corporation, Across 110Th. Street - Bobby Womack, Giocoso, Gioioso - Ennio Morricone}

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REMIXES FROM THE ELEPHANT HOUSE {Cocaine In My Brain - Dillinger, Put It On (Again) - Bob Marley & The Wailers, Peace Time - Groove Corporation, Sunshine Of Your Love - Rockers Hi-Fi Meet Ella Fitzgerald, Hold Us Down - Rae & Christian, Legalise It - UB40, Police & Thieves - Luciano, Echo Beach - Original Cast, Conquering Lion - Yabby You, Dub Remedies - South, Concrete Jungle - Groove Corporation, Across 110Th. Street - Bobby Womack, Giocoso, Gioioso - Ennio Morricone}

ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000H35MWQ

Product Description

Cocaine In My Brain - Dillinger, Put It On (Again) - Bob Marley & The Wailers,Peace Time - Groove Corporation, Sunshine Of Your Love - Rockers Hi-Fi Meet Ella Fitzgerald, Hold Us Down - Rae & Christian, Legalise It - UB40, Police & Thieves - Luciano, Echo Beach - Original Cast, Conquering Lion - Yabby You, Dub Remedies - South, Concrete Jungle - Groove Corporation, Across 110Th. Street - Bobby Womack, Giocoso, Gioioso - Ennio Morricone