I Can't Stand Myself When You Touch Me - JAMES BROWN **

I Can’t Stand Myself (When You Touch Me) Part 1/There Was A Time/Get It Together (Part 1)/Baby Baby Baby Baby/Time After Time/The Soul Of JB/I Can’t Stand Myself (When You Touch Me) Part 2/ Get It Together (Part 2)/Why Did You Take Your Love From Me/Need Your Love So Bad/You’ve Got To Change Your Mind/Funky Soul 1

Some mostly tuneless funk from James Brown, a debased genre that was largely kept at bay during the musical golden age of the late sixties. I Can't Stand Myself When You Touch Me reached No. 17 on the US album chart. (US:17)

"And so the funk begins. I Can’t Stand Myself When You Touch Me seems to be the first full funk album, and although there are still some ballads, covers and R & B tracks here, most of the disc is proper funk. This is the type of album he would be making for the next decade. Most of the songs here use the funk template: short, endlessly repeated guitar and drum lines with Brown spouting improvised-sounding lyrics over the top."

"The late '60s was a time of great change for the music of James Brown. From 1967 - 70, JB's brand of hard soul was rapidly mutating into all-out funk and this album, originally released in 1968, was an example of this transition. Raw in the extreme."