Many thanks to everyone who recently voted for their favorite James Brown albums as part of Albumism’s readers’ poll series! Check out the consensus results & rankings below and stay tuned for our next readers’ poll coming soon.
Albumism Readers’ Poll Results (1,947 Total Votes):
#1 | Live at the Apollo (Live) | 1963 | 287 votes (15% of total)
#2 | The Payback | 1973 | 241 votes (12% of total)
#3 | Say It Loud – I’m Black and I’m Proud | 1969 | 205 votes (11% of total)
#4 | Cold Sweat | 1967 | 177 votes (9% of total)
#5 | Sex Machine | 1970 | 138 votes (7% of total)
#6 | Hell | 1974 | 124 votes (6% of total)
#7 | The Popcorn | 1969 | 107 votes (5% of total)
#8 | Get on the Good Foot | 1972 | 90 votes (5% of total)
#9 | Black Caesar (Soundtrack) | 1973 | 83 votes (4% of total) | Read More
#10 | Get Up Offa That Thing | 1976 | 71 votes (4% of total)
Other Albums Receiving Votes:
#11 | Super Bad (1971) (55 votes)
#12 | Ain’t It Funky (1970) (49)
#13 | Please Please Please (1958) (32)
#14 | I Got the Feelin’ (1968) (31)
#15 | There It Is (1972) (28)
#16(T) | Hot Pants (1971) (26)
#16(T) | Revolution of the Mind, Live at the Apollo, Volume III (Live) (1971) (26) | Read More
#18 | Try Me! (1959) (23)
#19 | Soul on Top (1970) (19)
#20 | Sho Is Funky Down Here (1971) (18)
#21 | Pure Dynamite!, Live at the Royal (Live) (1964) (15)
#22 | Out of Sight (1964) (10)
#23 | Handful of Soul (1966) (9)
#24(T) | James Brown Plays Nothing But Soul (1968) (8)
#24(T) | Reality (1974) (8)
#26 | Showtime (1964) (7)
#27(T) | James Brown Plays the Real Thing (1967) (6)
#27(T) | Live at the Apollo, Volume II (Live) (1968) (6)
#29(T) | The Amazing James Brown (1961) (5)
#29(T) | Gravity (1986) (5)
#31 | James Brown Sings Raw Soul (1967) (4)
#32(T) | Think! (1960) (3)
#32(T) | Getting’ Down to It (1969) (3)
#32(T) | Hey America (1970) (3)
#32(T) | Slaughter’s Big Rip-Off (Soundtrack) (1973) (3)
#36(T) | Prisoner of Love (1963) (2)
#36(T) | Grits & Soul (1964) (2)
#36(T) | Live at The Garden (1967) (2)
#36(T) | It’s a Mother (1969) (2)
#36(T) | Hot (1976) (2)
#36(T) | Live in New York (Live) (1981) (2)
#42(T) | James Brown and His Famous Flames Tour the U.S.A. (1962) (1)
#42(T) | James Brown Plays James Brown Today & Yesterday (1965) (1)
#42(T) | The James Brown Show (Live) (1967) (1)
#42(T) | Live at Home with His Bad Self (Live) (1969) (1)
#42(T) | It’s a New Day – Let a Man Come In (1970) (1)
#42(T) | Sex Machine Today (1975) (1)
#42(T) | Bodyheat (1976) (1)
#42(T) | I’m Real (1988) (1)
#42(T) | Love, Power, Peace, Live at the Olympia, Paris 1971 (Live) (1992) (1)
#42(T) | Live at the Apollo, Volume IV: September 13–14, 1972 (Live) (2016) (1)
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