James Brown is Dead! Long Live James Brown!

[dopplertx]

Back in the early '90's, one of my best friends was this British guy named Adam. Adam was in to this "techno" music that I found atrocious at the time. One particularly-egregious song was titled "James Brown Is Dead." I couldn't have known it at the time, but the song's message was that James Brown, in the author's opinion, had been sampled to

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Yay old-school techno

[ivo]

Ah, I remember LA Style's "James Brown is Dead", I even bought the single!

But don't forget "James Brown Is Still Alive" by Holy Noise and of course Traumatic Stress's epic "Who The Fuck Is James Brown"

My best impression of James Brown was

[cowbert]

James Brown selling his soul to the devil in that BMW made-for-dvd commercial was pretty awesome. He even did a backflip near the end or something (and the cameo of Marilyn Manson bugging the devil at the end was hilarious).