James Brown, 1933 - 2006

December 29, 2006 8:20 AM

James Brown is dead.
posted by analogue (36 comments total)

Hit me now.
posted by mzurer at 8:22 AM on December 29, 2006

Rolling Stone: on the ball as ever
posted by dydecker at 8:24 AM on December 29, 2006

Welcome to four days ago.
posted by Falconetti at 8:24 AM on December 29, 2006

You didn't even try did you?
posted by synaesthetichaze at 8:24 AM on December 29, 2006

Again?
posted by matthewr at 8:25 AM on December 29, 2006

Well, that makes at least four.
posted by brain_drain at 8:25 AM on December 29, 2006

Someone killed zombie James Brown? Poor guy was oonly a few days old!
posted by blue_beetle at 8:25 AM on December 29, 2006 [1 favorite]

Maybe he rose from the dead and died again?
posted by amyms at 8:25 AM on December 29, 2006

You're fucking kidding me, right?
posted by bardic at 8:25 AM on December 29, 2006

This thread will soon be dead as well.
posted by matty at 8:26 AM on December 29, 2006

SNARK!

/before the close...
posted by delmoi at 8:26 AM on December 29, 2006

....and this time, it's personal.
posted by roll truck roll at 8:27 AM on December 29, 2006

James Brown is starting to smell funny.
posted by anthill at 8:27 AM on December 29, 2006

As a music lover, a dj, musician, and producer I'm not sure there will ever come along another source of inspiration quite as intrinsically significant as JB within my lifetime. The world has lost a living legend.
posted by analogue at 8:28 AM on December 29, 2006

sorry, didn't realize it was a double. flag away.
posted by analogue at 8:29 AM on December 29, 2006

Gerald Ford's not doing too hot neither.
posted by cortex at 8:29 AM on December 29, 2006

nice contrition, there, analogue.
that russian defector in London died as well.
so did President Ford.

gnu?
posted by Busithoth at 8:30 AM on December 29, 2006

No worries analogue, it's not a double.
posted by matty at 8:30 AM on December 29, 2006

This thread is amazing.
posted by CRM114 at 8:30 AM on December 29, 2006

Zombie James Brown is watching analogue masturbate
posted by Kwine at 8:30 AM on December 29, 2006

Yeah, it's not a double. It's a quadruple.
posted by CRM114 at 8:31 AM on December 29, 2006

James Brown is still dead? Damn!
posted by The Deej at 8:33 AM on December 29, 2006

Ceiling Generalissimo Francisco Franco is watching you decompose.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 8:33 AM on December 29, 2006

Well, they called him the "hardest working man in showbusiness", and the way he keeps dying here at MetaFilter, looks like he's still deserving of the accolade.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 8:33 AM on December 29, 2006

Hey, I heard James Brown died. Anyone going to do a FPP on that?
posted by dw at 8:33 AM on December 29, 2006

Gerald Ford's not doing too hot neither.
posted by cortex

Wait... what????

O crap, you should have broken it more gently! Like, "Gerald Ford is on the roof..."
posted by The Deej at 8:35 AM on December 29, 2006

I just hope Jerry Ford is well enough to attend his funeral.
posted by sdrawkcab at 8:35 AM on December 29, 2006

Snarkfilter: Urgent! Help me come up with a witticism for a soon-to-close thread! Of course, there is [more inside]
posted by Terminal Verbosity at 8:35 AM on December 29, 2006 [1 favorite]

Who died?
posted by ericb at 8:36 AM on December 29, 2006

What. The. Fuck.

At first I thought this was a joke. I'm sad to see I've been mistaken.
posted by SirOmega at 8:36 AM on December 29, 2006

Mistakes were made.
posted by cortex at 8:37 AM on December 29, 2006 [1 favorite]

Y'know how JB was a real showman, and sometimes would pretend to collapse on stage? And then get a shot of energy and come back to sing more? These posts are kind of like that, an homage, if you will.
posted by OmieWise at 8:38 AM on December 29, 2006

Oh! Ohp! Hoowh! James Brown is rising again! He just needed his back up dancers to drape a jacket over his coffin and coax him back into the living. Oh no! He threw off the jacket and died again! O Oh Owh! They got him back out of the grave and he looks like he is doing better and...fuck! He fell over again back into the grave. He really is dead.
posted by Falconetti at 8:38 AM on December 29, 2006

One more fpp on this and I bet it'll make the sidebar.
posted by klarck at 8:39 AM on December 29, 2006

Lady Di RIP.
posted by Mocata at 8:39 AM on December 29, 2006

It's a corpse's woooooorld
It's a corpse's woooorld
g'hep me
posted by cortex at 8:40 AM on December 29, 2006