Funky Good Time: Anthology

The JBs | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 28, 1995)
• Original Release Date: February 28, 1995
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Polydor / Umgd
• ASIN: B000001EE8
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (36 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #39,629 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Have your cake and eat it too ! ! !, December 11, 2003

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Eddie Landsberg "My 10th year as a reviewer !... (Tokyo, Japan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Funky Good Time: Anthology (Audio CD)

My gosh... there was a time when except for a couple of short compilations put out here and there by Polydor, it was really impossible to find most of this stuff, unless you intended to pay some heavy bread for the original 45s and albums... and even then without a good discography in hand and the right resources it was hard to track down. - - Then when the hip hop DJs discovered this stuff and started sampling it, the values of the records themselves went through the roof.... now, finally funkateers, here they are, the best stuff, all in one place on a double CD anthology. - - The JBs epitomize the heavy funk side of James Brown... If you're a die hard funk-a-haulic, there's no need to preach to the congregation... If you're hear because you just happened to type the keyword "James Brown" and you're looking for "I Feel Good" or "Living In America" - - its time to get hip to the real, deep heavy funk, my friend. - - Though JB productions, JB is definitely at the healm throughout most of these sessions... in fact, the impression you get, is many of these sessions were just out-takes from If you're down with Bootsy, Maceo, Fred and all the gang (circa their P-Funk days) and JB's sound circa The Payback, Hell, Good Foot and Body Heat... here's the instrumental side of it... and its even badda' and better !

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Move the Tower of Power Over, January 21, 2003

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Greekfreak (Pusan Korea (South)) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Funky Good Time: Anthology (Audio CD)

While I have the utmost respect for TOP's horn charts, nothing on earth beats or will ever beat this compilation of superb funk, courtesy of none other than the JB's.

I've been updating my James Brown catalogue, and finally got around to picking this up, and now I don't know what took me so long. Rappers have been sampling off James Brown since forever, and "Funky Good Time" will make the scam one-stop shopping.

...almost every single track on here deserves it's place in the funk hall of fame--and for additional excellence, do check out JB's "Soul Pride; the Instrumentals 1960-1969" which is equally brilliant (if lesser in funky chops).

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Deuteronomy of Funk (aka The Bible), December 11, 2003

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J. Frankel (CT , US) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Funky Good Time: Anthology (Audio CD)

Back in college, when I had just started my heavy funk scavenging ways, Polydor had the impeccable timing to release the JB's Anthology. At the time, I had the Godfather's The Payback and Hell in my collection, but nothing could prepare me for the dead-on funky acrobatics of Fred, Maceo and Please, Please, Please let us not forget Johnny "Jabo" Starks - THE original and ultimate Funky Drummer.

I probably played 75% of this nastiness on my college radio show, but of them all, I'll never forget the way "The JB's Monorail" turned my white friends upside down on their ear. A damn funky tune, rooted, like many of these selections in Late 60's/early 70's politics.

This, my friends, is IT. When on the look out for dusty, hidden funk gems, you must know that the absolute high water mark for this inspired musical artform was from 1969-1973. Any recording from those 5 years or so (1974&75 were solid too) is safe to lay your earnings down on.

Funky horn charts from Fred on Trombone and Maceo on Sax. Jabo laying down the Same Beat, Bootsy with the rubber basslines. And all of it punctuated by the hardest working man in show business' [funky] attitude.

Naw, Tricky Dick Nixon got nothing on Da JB's.

This is the first and last word in FUNK.