Star Time is a 1991 71-track, 4-CD box set by James Brown. Its contents span most of the length of his career up to the time of its release, starting in 1956 with his first hit record, "Please, Please, Please", and ending with "Unity", his 1984 collaboration with Afrika Bambaataa. Writing in 2007, Robert Christgau described it as "the finest box set ever released... as essential a package as the biz has ever hawked, not just because it's James Brown, but because compilers Cliff White and Harry Weinger invested so much care and knowledge in it." Its title comes from the question Brown's announcer would ask concert audiences, as heard on the album Live at the Apollo: "Are you ready for star time?"
CD 1 Mr. Dynamite
01 Please Please Please 2:45
02 Why do You do Me 3:01
03 Try Me 2:32
04 Tell me What I Did Wrong 2:22
05 Bewildered 2:23
06 Good Good Lovin' 2:20
07 I'll go Crazy 2:08
08 I Know It's True 2:41
09 (do The) Mashed Potatoes, Part 1 1:41
10 Think 2:58
11 Baby, You're Right 2:59
12 Lost Someone 3:29
13 Night Train 3:40
14 I've Got Money 2:30
15 I Don't Mind (Live) 2:31
16 Prisoner of Love 2:26
17 Devil's Den 4:50
18 Out of The Blue 2:17
19 Out of Sight 2:21
20 Grits 3:59
21 Maybe The Last Time 3:01
22 It's a Man's World 3:18
23 I Got You 2:28
24 Papa's Got a Brand New Bag, Parts 1, 2 & 3 6:59
CD 2 The Hardest Working Man in Show Biz
01 Papa's Got a Brand New Bag, Pt. 1 2:07
02 I Got You (I Feel Good) 2:45
03 Ain't That a Groove 3:32
04 It's a Man's Man's Man's World 2:48
05 Money Won't Change You 6:02
06 Don't be a Dropout 4:32
07 Bring it up (Hipster's Avenue) 3:51
08 Let Yourself Go 4:11
09 Cold Sweat 7:32
10 Get it Together 8:59
11 I Can't Stand Myself (When You Touch Me), Pt. 1 3:31
12 I Got The Feelin' 2:39
13 Licking Stick-Licking Stick 4:53
14 Say it Loud-I'm Black And I'm Proud, Pt. 1 3:01
15 There Was a Time (Live) 4:59
16 Give it up or Turnit a Loose 3:10
17 I Don't Want Nobody to Give me Nothing (Open up The Door I'll Get it ... 6:01
CD 3 Soul Brother N.1
01 Mother Popcorn 6:16
02 Funky Drummer 7:01
03 Get it up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine 5:16
04 Super Bad, Parts 1 & 2 4:27
05 Talkin' Loud & Sayin' Nothing 9:01
06 Get Up, Get Into it And Get Involved 7:32
07 Soul Power, Parts 1 & 2 4:25
08 Brother Rapp/Ain't it Funky Now (Live) 7:46
09 Hot Pants, Part 1 3:07
10 I'm a Greedy Man, Part 1 3:37
11 Make it Funky, Part 1 3:36
12 It's a New Day (Live) 3:50
13 I Got Ants in my Pants, Part 1 3:03
14 King Heroin 3:57
CD 4 The Godfather of Soul
01 There It Is, Pt 1 3:22
02 Public Enemy #1, Pt 1 5:10
03 Get on The Good Foot 4:08
04 I Got a Bag of my Own 3:48
05 Doing it to Death 5:15
06 The Payback 7:28
07 Papa Don't Take no Mess, Pt 1 4:24
08 Stoned to The Bone, Pt 1 3:28
09 My Thang 4:39
10 Funky President (People It's Bad) 3:58
11 Hot (I Need to be Loved, Loved, Loved) 5:05
12 Get up Offa That Thing (Release the Pressure) 6:16
13 Body Heat, Pt 1 4:31
14 It's Too Funky in Here 5:41
15 Rapp Payback (Where iz Moses) 4:39
16 Unity, Part 1 (w_Afrika Bambaataa) 3:42
