Album · 1991
Star Time
by James Brown
Star Time is a 1991 soul album by James Brown. It runs 71 tracks across 295 minutes. Riffiter listeners rate it 4.5/5 from 2 ratings.
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- 71
- Tracks
- 295 min
- Runtime
- 110 bpm
- Tempo
- G major
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2 ratings · avg 4.5
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71 tracks · 295 min
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Star Time is a 1991 71-track, 4-CD box set by James Brown. Its contents span most of the length of his career up to the time of its release, starting in 1956 with his first hit record, "Please, Please, Please", and ending with "Unity", his 1984 collaboration with Afrika Bambaataa. Writing in 2007, Robert Christgau described it as "the finest box set ever released... as essential a package as the biz has ever hawked, not just because it's James Brown, but because compilers Cliff White and Harry Weinger invested so much care and knowledge in it." Its title comes from the question Brown's announcer would ask concert audiences, as heard on the album Live at the Apollo: "Are you ready for star time?" Star Time's liner notes, written by Cliff White, Harry Weinger, Nelson George, Alan Leeds, and Brown himself, won a 1991 Grammy Award for Best Album Notes. The notes also include a discography and a one-page comic by Mary Fleener, a visual interpretation of the song "I Got You (I Feel Good)." In 2003, the album was ranked number 75 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. It was the second-highest ranking box set on the list.
In brief
- Is Star Time good?
- Riffiter listeners rate Star Time 4.5/5 from 2 ratings.
- When was Star Time released?
- Star Time was released in 1991.
- How many tracks are on Star Time?
- Star Time has 71 tracks, with a runtime of 295 minutes.
- What genre is Star Time?
- Star Time is catalogued under Soul, Funk.
- What BPM is Star Time?
- Star Time runs at a median tempo of 110 BPM across its tracks, most often in G major, measured from audio analysis.
- What albums are similar to Star Time?
- Listeners of Star Time also rate Songs in the Key of Life by Stevie Wonder, What's Going On by Marvin Gaye, The Very Best of Otis Redding by Otis Redding.
- Who produced Star Time?
- Star Time was produced by James Brown, Andy Gibson, Ralph Bass and Afrika Bambaataa, among 9 credited in total. James Brown produced 51 of them.
- Who wrote the songs on Star Time?
- Star Time was written by James Brown and Johnny Terry.
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- Bob Both
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- Lowell DornRon Lenhoff
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