There are countless live James Brown records to choose from, but this 1971 set in Paris remains the only legitimate in-concert document of the Godfather performing with the original J.B.’s as his backing band. This is the incarnation that included ultrafunky brothers Bootsy and Catfish Collins on bass and guitar respectively, just before they jumped ship to P-Funk. Plus you’ve got the legendary Jabo Starks on drums, trombonist Fred Wesley leading a superpowered horn section, and Bobby Byrd as Brown’s joined-at-the-hip MC/call-and-response partner, so you know it’s incendiary stuff. Despite a decent amount of material crossover with the half-studio Sex Machine, this is the album to get if you really want to hear the most dynamic, playing-to-the-cheap-seats rave-up versions of “Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine,” “Brother Rapp,” and “Give It Up or Turnit a Loose” — not to mention a late-set run of recently-minted classics like “Super Bad,” “Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved,” and “Soul Power” that are molten enough to make you sweat even if you’re just sitting still. (As if you’ll even want to sit still while you’re listening to this.)