Curtis Mayfield - Superfly (1972 Film)
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Free Music Review: A classic deserving of its status.
Hit: 5 Stars
Curtis Mayfield manages here to be funky, soulful, musically inventive, to sound beautiful and yet at times conveying great suffering, to do justice to the issues that he's singing about in a way that still seems relevant, and I reckon always will. He does all this and yet at the end of the record you want to turn around and listen to it again right away.It hangs together incredibly as a sprawling urban suite, in a similar way to much of Stevie Wonder's 70's work. An essential addition to any collection of soul music.
Free Music Review: SUPERFLY!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
This classic LP (which I recently aquired on vinyl in mint condition!) not only made the movie soundtrack a viable commercial enterprise, but it raised the bar for creativity in popular music. Using grandiose orchestral backings, horns and a FUNKY rhythm section, the late great Curtis Mayfield created a masterpiece of modern black music that teaches but never preaches, cautions but never panders, and scolds but leaves the choices up to the listener. Everything about this album works, from the music and arrangements (tell me you don't want to cry when you hear the moaning strings that close "Little Child Runnin' Wild") to the detailed and cutting lyrics ( the brilliant "Pusherman" comes to mind). You all know the hits "Freddie's Dead" (will this song ever sound less than cool?), "Superfly" (what guy can't resist 'gettin' his gangster lean on' when this comes on the radio!) and "Gimme Your Love(Love Song)", THE love ballad of the 70's. The sustained strings and jazzy feel of "Eddie You Should Know Better" is perfect background, chill-out music, and "Junkies Chase" is one of the best instrumental pieces Mayfield ever composed, it's so evocative, you can actually picture the chase scene from the movie while it's playing. This man was a genius. "Superly" is that rare 70's concept album that doesn't sound embarrassing or dated and taken on it's own, without the film it plays as a great cautionary tale to people living the drug/hustler lifestyle. Not a wasted note or word. Essential Listening. P.S. Curtis Mayfield, you are sorely missed. R.I.P.Free Music Review: **** FIVE STARS IS NOT ENOUGH **** pay attention kids......
Hit: 5 Stars
IF you even need someone to tell you who Curtis is, or what's special about this album, then you must have been living on MARSThere has yet to be produced, and most likely never will be, a more perfect soundtrack for any movie. Period. Unlike todays soundtracks, not only does it follow the theme of the movie throughout, but the music is OTHERWORLDLY in it's funkiness, songwriting, producing, and arranging.
Curtis hits the peak like Roy Ayers did with "Coffy". Even the instrumental tracks have exciting, breathtaking arrangements.
Many an artist have borrowed LIBERALLY from the genius of Curtis Mayfield, whose crossover appeal has seen him copied, and sampled by everyone from A to Z. This is a SEMINAL album that has, and will continue to go down in the ANNALS of Music History - Listen to the ORIGINAL, the real deal, the ONE AND ONLY CURTIS MAYFIELD
Free Music Review: A must-have CD
Hit: 5 Stars
I've never written a review but feel compelled to recommend Curtis Mayfield's "Superfly" as a must-have album. I purchased the album when it was first released in the 1970s, and it remains perhaps the best of the hundreds of records and CDs I have purchased since that time. The funk groove is potent, the instrumentation is tight, and the lyrics -- aaahhh, the lyrics -- are searing, insightful, and powerful. Mayfield's gentle tenor provides a wonderful, almost ironic, sheen to such powerhouse lyrics -- like a velvet glove encasing a steel fist. I can think of no flaws.Free Music Review: I've got my own
Hit: 5 Stars
The fact that this is my namesake should say it all. If you have any bone of your body that is not lame then this album should be yours. The greatest album of all time, it combines killer grooves and potent messages to rise above all competition. Opening with the apocalyptic "Little Child Runnin Wild" describing life on the streets, it goes into the cause of it, "Pusherman," a hypnotic groove that creates an antihero out of the dealer. Its only up from here. This album's so funky that it is impossible to sit still while its on, but you can't help listening to the words and wishing things were different, cause even though "Superfly" is 25 nothins changed. Curtis Mayfield is an excellent musician. Percussion-like wah guitar, haunting leads, groovin bass lines, driving drums and incredible punctuation by horns and strings almost make this a "how-to" for funk musicians. And Curtis answers the problem in "No thing on me" with his uplifting mantra "I've got my own." Taking this advice "Superfly" rises above it all in the final, title, track,cause he's just "tryin to get over"