The Payback
by James Brown
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James Brown bestography
The Payback is ranked 3rd best out of 95 albums by James Brown on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by James Brown is James Brown Live At The Apollo which is ranked number 876 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,178.
(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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The Payback track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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The Payback rankings
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The Payback ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| 02/01/2026 16:21 | sweetness | 1,127 | 79/100 | |
| 12/06/2025 09:48 | Exist-en-ciel | 9,585 | 70/100 | |
| 11/01/2025 12:57 | Imaybeparanoid | 7,391 | 71/100 | |
| 10/08/2025 22:57 | BorderFreeAndrew | 15,229 | 74/100 | |
| 09/08/2025 12:01 | cicadelic | 12,645 | 73/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.8/100, a mean average of 77.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.2.
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Jboy56 05/18/2023 17:13 | #297064
Very stylish, unaggressive, subtle funkyfunk, cool..D
Hell yeah, and hallelujah for the funk.
That is all.
100/100
Sadly how this genre is "hated" by most of the BEA community
FunkyStudent21 06/15/2019 22:40 | #237575
How this got rejected as a soundtrack for not being funky enough is beyond me
Funky as hell...I challenge anyone not to fucking like this
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