Nonstop!

{{Other uses|Nonstop (disambiguation){{!}}Nonstop}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}}

{{Infobox album

| name = Nonstop!

| type = Studio album

| artist = James Brown

| cover = James Brown Nonstop!.jpg

| alt =

| released = April 1981

| recorded = 1981

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Funk

| length = 38:46

| label = Polydor

| producer = James Brown

| prev_title = Soul Syndrome

| prev_year = 1980

| next_title = Bring It On!

| next_year = 1983

}}

Nonstop! is a studio album by American musician James Brown.{{cite book |last1=Brown |first1=Geoff |title=The Life of James Brown |date=2009 |publisher=Omnibus Press |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G6jRsChXQ90C&pg=PT243}}{{cite book |last1=Thompson |first1=Dave |title=Funk |date=2001 |publisher=Backbeat Books |page=20}} The album was released in April 1981 and was compiled of outtakes from his previous album, T.K. Records' Soul Syndrome; the album thereby fulfilled his contract.{{cite web|author=William Ruhlmann |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/nonstop!-mw0000860266 |title=Nonstop! - James Brown |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=2015-06-30}}

Critical reception

{{Music ratings

|rev1 = AllMusic

|rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}

|rev2 = Robert Christgau

|rev2score = B+{{cite web |title=James Brown |url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=James+Brown |website=Robert Christgau |access-date=18 August 2023}}

|rev3 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

|rev3score = {{rating|3|5}}{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2011 |publisher=Omnibus Press |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_NNmFiUnSmUC&pg=PA2893}}

| rev4 = (The New) Rolling Stone Album Guide

| rev4score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite book|last=Cross|first=Charles R.|author-link=Charles R. Cross|editor1-last=Brackett|editor1-first=Nathan|editor2-last=Hoard|editor2-first=Christian|title=(The New) Rolling Stone Album Guide|publisher=Simon & Schuster|edition=4th|year=2004|isbn=0-7432-0169-8|chapter=James Brown|pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/109 109]}}

}}

Robert Christgau noted that "the horn charts and rhythm arrangements are as tricky and on the one as in any newfangled funk you want to name."

Track listing

All tracks composed by James Brown; except where indicated

{{Track listing

| title1 = Popcorn 80's

| length1 = 3:43

| title2 = Give That Bass Player Some

| writer2 = Susaye Brown

| length2 = 6:29

| title3 = You're My Only Love

| writer3 = James Brown, St. Clair Pinckney

| length3 = 4:58

| title4 = World Cycle Inc.

| writer4 = L. Rhodes

| length4 = 3:03

| title5 = Super Bull / Super Bad

| length5 = 6:58

| title6 = Love 80's

| writer6 = James Brown, Susaye Brown

| length6 = 9:58

| title7 = I Go Crazy

| length7 = 3:35

}}

References