Description
The Payback is a 1973 album by James Brown that was originally scheduled to become the soundtrack for the blaxploitation film Hell Up in Harlem. The Payback is considered a high point in Brown's recording career, and is now regarded by critics as a landmark funk album. It's revenge-themed title track, a #1 R&B hit, is one of his most famous songs and an especially prolific source of samples for record producers. Musically, the album is largely based around cyclic grooves and jamming, but it also features departures into a softer soul-based sound on tracks like "Doing the Best I Can".
Tracklist:
A1 The Payback
A2 Doing The Best I Can
B1 Take Some, Leave Some
B2 Shoot Your Shot
C1 Forever Suffering
C2 Time Is Running Out Fast
D1 Stone To The Bone
D2 Mind Power
