Sex Machine (studio album)
by James Brown

Sex Machine by James Brown
Year: 1970
Overall rank: 3,531st   
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 149 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1970 (66th)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (616th)
Award Best albums of all time (3,531st)

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James Brown bestography

Sex Machine is ranked 5th best out of 93 albums by James Brown on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by James Brown is James Brown Live At The Apollo which is ranked number 623 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,750.

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Sex Machine
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Sex Machine track list

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Sex Machine rankings

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Overall rank: 3,531st | 1970s rank: 616th | 1970 rank: 66th

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74/100 (from 149 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 18% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.9/100, a mean average of 73.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.1.

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From 05/16/2024 21:48 | #303565
James Brown's absolute highpoint is hard to pinpoint, as he released such a gigantic amount of records in his golden age, and for that same reason the records themselves were often filled with uninteresting fillers plus unimaginative reruns. To finish off the TV analogy they invented the album equivalent of a laugh track. Good on ya, corporate PR guys, glad it didn't catch on.

But if we allow ourselves to ignore that for a second, we hear an album with the absolutely most essential funk standards. I truly believe that this album is what most funk and disco heroes were imagining when they started their band.
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From 08/24/2022 12:57 | #288892
Quer animação? Toma animação!!
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From 02/10/2021 03:35 | #266103
JB is basically live perfection, but the album leans on guys like Maceo Parker and Fred Wesley to overcome both its artificial and artificially enhanced liveness.
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Great energy!
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From 03/07/2016 22:08 | #161511
A very funky release from the master.
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Best Albums of 1970
1. Paranoid by Black Sabbath
2. After The Gold Rush by Neil Young
3. All Things Must Pass by George Harrison
4. Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon & Garfunkel
5. John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band by John Lennon
6. Bitches Brew by Miles Davis
7. Moondance by Van Morrison
8. Cosmo's Factory by Creedence Clearwater Revival
9. Led Zeppelin III by Led Zeppelin
10. Fun House by The Stooges
11. Let It Be by The Beatles
12. Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath
13. Loaded by The Velvet Underground
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19. Morrison Hotel by The Doors
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