James Brown - "I Can't Stand Myself" / "There Was A Time"
a lot of James Brown really, although a lot of them are available on LPs.
I reject the idea that "essential" means "unavailable on LP."
On what basis?
To me, "essential 45" means either unavailable on LP or available only on an LP that is such a terd that you wouldn't want to be burdened with the other ~10 tracks.
Fair enough.
The long, personal answer is that 1) I'd need to hear something like "45-only" or "non-LP version" or "different studio mix" before I took it to mean "unavailable on LP." And 2) I don't think that the quality of the album from which it's drawn has any bearing at all on the essentialness of any 45; ten other shitty tracks just make the album
less essential, it doesn't make the 45 any more so (though it certainly might make it more
desirable).
The long, case-specific answer is that I read the intial post--containing as it did phrases like "needs schooling," "real burner," and "not looking for anything too rare"--and took the question to be more focused on the "essential" half of the equation than on the "45" half.
The short, relevant answer is
No, it's ok if it also appeared on the album.
