JB – The Funky Drummer
Let?s not forget James Brown?s unique contribution to the proliferation of crummy dance music. How many bands, eighties and nineties, pilfered one of The “Please Please Please” Man?s frugging riffs to beef up[…]

JB – You’ve overstayed your welcome
Nowadays, it is impossible to think of “young” James Brown (a poised, suave young buck, supposedly) without being reminded of “old” James Brown (a wizened, fogeyish old criminal,[…]

JB – Nicknames
In addition to “The Godfather of Soul”, James Brown has a number of other, less well-known nicknames. These names, picked up during his childhood and remaining with him throughout his overlong career, include: Music […]

JB – Godfathers
And what?s this business about The Godfather of Soul? Let?s see, godfathers in the traditional sense of the word are male friends or relatives of the parents, who are generally pretty up for being a godfather at the start &#821[…]

James Brown – Sexual Gymnast
“Ooooooowwww!”
This would seem to me to be a perfectly understandable reaction to James Brown?s music. Only instead of wetting my pants at what is meant to be orgasm-inducing “ooowwww!”s, &#[…]

Get on the scene, like a sewing machine
I was ill.
I am ill no more.
From my sickbed, I have just heard three James Brown songs back-to-back on the radio.
Mr Brown – your day of reckoning has come.[…]

I Love Music: first of all, a combined tip of the hat and apology to Nanette, whose Chatterbox forum works so well that I thought I’d nick it. (Well, actually, use the same forum service, but you know what I mean).
I Love Music is, inevitably, […]

Byterock’s Greatest Hits: 2000 has so far seen a) a clutch of the greatest pop singles in listening memory and b) the mainstreaming of new ways of consuming and experiencing music. Byterock, roughly speaking, is where these trends intersect, wi[…]

Martin Popoff Interview “nerdy pasty pencil-armed white males that turn into critics are still worried about getting the girl well into their late twenties, something which new wave, alternative, and watery pop has always gone on about. These p[…]

Rare Personal Content On NYLPM: my resignation became official today, and it’s time for the NYLPM Quit Your Job With The Pop Stars round-up.
Perhaps most obviously we have “Frankly Mr Shankly” by The Smiths. I would fantasise about […]