Sex Machine
by James Brown
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James Brown bestography
Sex Machine is ranked 5th best out of 97 albums by James Brown on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by James Brown is James Brown Live At The Apollo which is ranked number 649 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,635.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Sex Machine track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Top-rated track as rated by BestEverAlbums.com members.
Sex Machine rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  AAL2014 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1970 | 47/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | Jakor | Top 100 Music Albums of 1970 | 45/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Top 87 Music Albums of 1970 | 18/87 | 4 |
| 2026 | daCritic | Top 40 Music Albums of 1970 | 20/40 | 3 |
| 2026 | AAL2014 | James Brown: So Far.. | 1/6 | - |
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Top 100 Music Albums of 1970 | 29/100 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Patman360 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1970 | 37/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | byuzak | Top 39 Music Albums of 1970 | 23/39 | 2 |
| 2026 |  Norman Bates | Top 100 Music Albums of 1970 | 30/100 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Helios | Top 50 Music Albums of 1970 | 8/50 | 4 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 127 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 397 | |||
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Sex Machine ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 05/23/2026 17:44 | matterhornrider | 5,216 | 81/100 |
| ! | 01/05/2026 07:15 | Exist-en-ciel | 16,586 | 70/100 |
| ! | 12/04/2025 18:24 | Carad30 | 12 | 87/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 16% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.0/100, a mean average of 73.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.1.
Sex Machine favourites
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Sex Machine forum mentions
pedro1976 07/14/2026 10:29 in What album are you listening to? (cont.) pedro1976 04/30/2023 21:39 in What album are you listening to right now?
planetneutral 02/10/2021 04:38 in planetneutral's Master Rating Log 2021-View all forum mentions
Sex Machine comments
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Boltzmann TOP 100 COMMENTER 05/16/2024 21:48 | #303565 | TOP COMMENT
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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. (Edited)
planetneutral 02/10/2021 03:35 | #266103 | TOP COMMENT
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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.
A very funky release from the master.
Jbalbinolr 11/22/2017 19:38 | #201855 | TOP COMMENT
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Great energy!
VictorVale 08/24/2022 12:57 | #288892
Quer animação? Toma animação!!
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