James Brown with Full Force - I'm Real

It's 1988 and James Brown is mightily pissed off about everyone sampling his work (and, more to the point, him not making any money from it). He's had a bit of a comeback with Living In America and decides to hitch his horse to the Full Force wagon, which is careering down the hill of hits at breakneck speed.

It's really a Full Force album, featuring JB (and Maceo Parker), with Brown pissing and moaning about not getting what he deserves, and going on about how great he is, like the man in the pub you've tried not to make eye contact with for the past 45 minutes. It rather clever-onically uses loads of JB samples.

I clearly recall how fucking MASSIVE Static, I'm Real and - to a lesser extent -Keep Keepin' sounded in clubs at the time, until the wheels were stolen from Full Force's wagon by...everyone (including Stock, Aitken & Waterman), leaving it on four little piles of bricks by the side of the funky highway.

This is the UK edition (on Scotti Bros.), which has a small photo of Full Force (with JB front and centre) on the back, which measures an inch by an inch-and-a-half.