The song's instrumental backing featured a pronounced rhythmic attack that anticipated Brown's later funk music.

Sung rapid-fire with the kind of sharp prompting from the Famous Flames that was the aural equivalent of their precision steps, 'Think' embodied an approach different from any in the past, with not only the song but the structure of the song turned inside out and a classic shuffle blues rhythmically and melodically transformed.

)[4] It was Brown and the Famous Flames' first recording to enter the Pop top 40, and their next-to-last single for the Federal label before they switched to King.

Brown also performs the song on Live at the Apollo, Volume II in a duet with Marva Whitney.

Brown returned to "Think" again in 1973, when he released two different solo performances of the song as singles on the Polydor label, both of them backed with his cover of the Beatles' "Something".