The top 8 billion James Brown imitations/plagiarizations/influences/samples/ripoffs/etc.

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8,000,000,000. Eddie Murphy - "Hot Tub!"

7,999,999,999. David Bowie and John Lennon - "Fame"

7,999,999,998. Son Of Bazerk featuring No Self Control and The Band- "The Band Gets Swivey on the Wheels"

― a bulldog fed a cookie shaped like a kitten (austin), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 20:24 (seventeen years ago) link

7,999,999,997. Prince - "Housequake"

― a bulldog fed a cookie shaped like a kitten (austin), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 20:24 (seventeen years ago) link

7,999,999,996. PWEI - "Not Now James, We're Busy"

― John Justen, surrounded by frail, wispy people. (John Justen), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Was John Lennon on "Fame"? Also, I never really thought of it as a James Brownish thing - only inasmuch as all funk is.

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 23:09 (seventeen years ago) link

it directly rips a james track - or maybe vice versa. i can't remember exactly - he talks about it in his autobiog, which makes me thinks the rip was probably from james, rather than by him. i think the track is on Star Time.

― stevie (stevie2), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 23:15 (seventeen years ago) link

a - Yes, he was.

b - Try listening to "Hot (I Need to be Loved Loved Loved Loved Loved)" sometime.

crosspost - and I believe this is one of those rare occassions where the imitator (Bowie/Lennon) did it first and the originator (JB) jacked the song that jacked his style.

― a bulldog fed a cookie shaped like a kitten (austin), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 23:18 (seventeen years ago) link

7,999,999,995 Public Enemy "Rebel Without A Pause"

― Rodney is wise enough to know when a gift needs givin' (Rodney J. Greene), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 23:48 (seventeen years ago) link

7,999,999,994. Tom Tom Club, "Genius of Love"

― a bulldog fed a cookie shaped like a kitten (austin), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 01:04 (seventeen years ago) link

7,999,999,993 Wu Tang Clan "C.R.E.A.M."

― Johnny Cash Rules Everything Around Me (Modal Fugue), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 01:06 (seventeen years ago) link

7,999,999,992 Joe McPhee "Nation Time"

― a bulldog fed a cookie shaped like a kitten (austin), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 05:34 (seventeen years ago) link

7,999,999,991 the only interesting and listenable part of Fergie - "Fergalicious"

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 05:38 (seventeen years ago) link

7 999 999 990 - Eric B & Rakim: "I Know You Got Soul"
7 999 999 989 - Nas: "Get Down"

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 13:43 (seventeen years ago) link

7 999 999 988 Hank Ballard "Sexy Ways" (INFLUENCE)

― m coleman (lovebug ), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 13:53 (seventeen years ago) link

7,999,999,987. Led Zeppelin, "The Crunge"

― Dominique (dleone), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link

7,999,999,986. Dead Milkmen - "RC's Mom"

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 16:00 (seventeen years ago) link

7,999,999,985

Coldcut's "The Payback Mix". (A label-approved "megamix".)

Best memory of this track: I was dancing at a filthy warehouse party back in 1995 (raves, they called them), and the DJ switched from a jungle set into downtempo with this track. You'd have thought Jesus himself had taken over the turntables.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link

"Hot (I Need to Be Loved, Loved, Loved)" ripped off "Fame," not the other way around.

― Make a Beck Song #1 (wkwkwk), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 22:48 (seventeen years ago) link

haha xpost, should've read more clearly.

7,999,999,984 "Jimmy's Rap" from Dreamgirls. This was already a JB homage in 1981, when the musical was on Broadway, but having Eddie Murphy play the James Early role in the movie does not hurt the comparison on little bit.

― Make a Beck Song #1 (wkwkwk), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 22:50 (seventeen years ago) link

7,999,999,993 Wu Tang Clan "C.R.E.A.M."

This is actually a Stax and/or Isaac Hayes imitation/plagiarization/influence/sample/ripoff/etc. Which I guess would make it a secondhand cousin.

― f. scott baio (natepatrin), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 23:58 (seventeen years ago) link

7,999,999,983 mystikal, "shake ya ass"
7,999,999,982 joe tex, "i got ya"

― Eisbär (Eisbär), Thursday, 28 December 2006 03:53 (seventeen years ago) link

7,999,999,981 herman hitson "ain't no other way"

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver (hoosteen), Thursday, 28 December 2006 04:37 (seventeen years ago) link

7,999,999,980 the call-and-response on the Time's "Wild and Loose": "Fellas!" "Yeah!" "Where the party at?" "Right here under your shoes!" "Fellas!" "Yeah!" "What time is it?" "Time to get wild and loose!" "Look out!"

― Make a Beck Song #1 (wkwkwk), Thursday, 28 December 2006 19:09 (seventeen years ago) link

7,999,999,979 Phish's sound-check cover of James Brown doing Hanson's "MMMBop" (possibly the pinnacle of their career)

― has been plagued with problems since its erection in 1978 (nklshs), Thursday, 28 December 2006 19:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I should say "cover".

― has been plagued with problems since its erection in 1978 (nklshs), Thursday, 28 December 2006 19:16 (seventeen years ago) link

7,999,999,978 Lexington, KY native Henry Earl, who, until his recent notoriety, was known around town as "James Brown"

quoth the man to me personally, circa 2001: "I know I'm not actually James Brown, I just admire the man. I respect him."

― has been plagued with problems since its erection in 1978 (nklshs), Thursday, 28 December 2006 19:19 (seventeen years ago) link

7,999,999,977 - Shaftman
7,999,999,976 - Jon Spencer
7,999,999,975 - Mrs. Doubtfire

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 29 December 2006 13:23 (seventeen years ago) link

7,999,999,974 - beyoncé, 'work it out'

― lexpretend (lexpretend), Friday, 29 December 2006 13:41 (seventeen years ago) link

eric b and rakim - paid in full
audio two - make it funky

― thebingo (thebingo), Friday, 29 December 2006 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link

7,999,999,971. The Jungle Brothers - "JBeez Comin' Thru"

― a bulldog fed a cookie shaped like a kitten (austin), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link

7,999,999,991 the only interesting and listenable part of Fergie - "Fergalicious"

Uh, firstly, HUGE slap in the face to Kraftwerk, and secondly, the sample of both James Brown and Kraftwerk are secondhand. That whole Fergie song is simply Afro-Rican's Give it All You Got:

http://www.discogs.com/release/80132

Which is one of the all time greatest Miami Bass songs ever. That Fergie track even sample MD Rock's cuts...

Prince - Sexy MF

― PappaWheelie IV (PappaWheelie), Monday, 1 January 2007 03:41 (seventeen years ago) link

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