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Al Campbell, All Music Guide
This is the Japanese Polydor CD replica of the original 1968 James Brown King album I Can't Stand Myself. The majority of these tracks have been reissued elsewhere, which makes this a luxury purchase mainly for the most avid Brown collector. Containing the album's 12-track original playing order (sorry, no bonus cuts) and cover art including the Vox advertisement urging, "Kids stay in school and play better." The music is unquestionably some of the funkiest recorded by Brown. "I Can't Stand Myself When You Touch Me," "There Was a Time," "Get It Together," and the instrumentals "Funky Soul #1," "The Soul of J. B.," and, from the pen of Brown's mentor Little Willie John, "Need Your Love So Bad."
