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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