Sex Machine Today

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{{Infobox album

| name = Sex Machine Today

| type = Studio album

| artist = James Brown

| cover = James Brown Sex Machine Today.jpg

| alt =

| released = May 1975

| recorded = 1975

| venue =

| studio = Sound Ideas Studios, New York City

| genre = Funk

| length = 39:45

| label = Polydor

| producer = Charles Bobbit

| prev_title = Reality

| prev_year = 1974

| next_title = Everybody's Doin' the Hustle & Dead on the Double Bump

| next_year = 1975

| misc = {{Singles

| name = Sex Machine Today

| type = studio

| single1 = Sex Machine

| single1date = March 24, 1975

}}

}}

{{Music ratings

|rev1 = AllMusic

|rev1score = {{Rating|1|5}}{{cite web|author=William Ruhlmann |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/sex-machine-today-mw0000770758 |title=Sex Machine Today - James Brown |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=2015-06-28}}

|rev2 = Robert Christgau

|rev2Score = C+{{cite news|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|date=June 9, 1980|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/rock/brown-80.php|title=A Consumer Guide to James Brown|newspaper=The Village Voice|location=New York|access-date=December 7, 2016}}

| rev3 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide

| rev3score = {{Rating|2|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]}}

}}

Sex Machine Today is the 40th studio album by American musician James Brown. The album was released in May 1975, by Polydor Records.{{cite web|url=https://music.apple.com/us/album/sex-machine-today/215121354 |title=iTunes - Music - Sex Machine Today by James Brown |date=January 1975 |publisher=iTunes |access-date=2015-06-28}}

Track listing

{{Track listing

| title1 = Sex Machine, Pts. 1 & 2

| writer1 = James Brown, Bobby Byrd, Ron Lenhoff

| length1 = 12:05

| title2 = I Feel Good

| length2 = 3:05

| title3 = Problems

| writer3 = Brown, Lee Austin

| length3 = 2:45

| title4 = Dead on It

| writer4 = Brown, Fred Wesley

| length4 = 13:10

| title5 = Get Up Off of Me

| writer5 = Brown, Wesley

| length5 = 3:56

| title6 = Deep in It

| length6 = 4:44

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Personnel

  • James Brown - lead vocals, arrangements
  • Fred Wesley - production supervision, arrangements
  • Bob Both - production supervision, engineer
  • David Stone, Major Little - assistant engineer
  • Roger Huyssen - artwork

References

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{{James Brown}}

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Category:1975 albums

Category:James Brown albums

Category:Polydor Records albums