The Payback (album)

The Payback is a double album by James Brown in december 1973. It should originally be the soundtrack of the Blaxploitation film Hell Up in Harlem, but was rejected by Director Larry Cohen because the album "not enough if James Brown sounded".

The album is seen as a high point in Brown his recording career and is now by the critics as one of the most important funk albums seen. The title track The Payback, a number-one hit on the u.s. R & B chart, is one of his best known songs as well as one of the most sampled songs by other artists. Musically the album consists mainly of long grooves and jams, but it also hosts trips to quieter soul songs, such as the number Doing the Best I Can.

The album was uitbebracht again in 1992 on cd with liner notes by Alan Leeds and a one and a half minutes longer version of Mind Power. ==Numbers[ Edit] == All songs written by James Brown, Fred Wesley and Charles Bobbit, except where noted. * Length of Mind Power is the cd version of the album.
 * 1) The Payback (Brown, Wesley, John "Jabo" Starks) (7: 39)
 * 2) Doing the Best I Can (7: 39)
 * 3) Take Some...Leave Some (8: 20)
 * 4) Shoot Your Shot (Brown) (8: 19)
 * 5) Forever Suffering (5: 39)
 * 6) Time Is Running Out Fast (12: 58)
 * 7) Stone to the Bone (Brown) (10: 14)
 * 8) Mind Power (12: 04) *