LoginDead on the Heavy Funk
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After disco broke, Brown's albums mostly ranged from inconsistent to awful, but this set distills his declining years into two totally solid discs. He struggles fascinatingly with new slang and the new rhythms people were dancing to, even while almost accidentally inventing some of his own; he cops a riff from Bowie's "Fame," remakes his old tunes, takes a few stabs at ultraslick disco, and finally throws his hands up and settles in for extended funk vamps, driven by playfulness rather than urgency (the 11-minute "For Goodness' Sakes, Look at Those Cakes" is about what you think it's about). Guitarist Jimmy N
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Manufacturer: Polygram Records
Release date: 12 May 1998
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0731453790124 UPC: 731453790124
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Release date: 12 May 1998
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0731453790124 UPC: 731453790124
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