Curtis Mayfield - Superfly (1972 Film)
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Free Music Review: One Of The Greatest Soul Albums Ever Made!
Hit: 5 Stars
Curtis Mayfield's Superfly easily ranks along with Marvin Gaye's What's Goin On as one of the greatest soul albums of all time. It is also one of the greatest albums of all time. Curtis Mayfield is very underrated. He is a musical genius and is one of the best songwriters of all time. I think anyone who listens to Superfly will realize this. Superfly is Mayfield's masterpiece. All nine songs on the album are truly incredible. The three most well-known songs, Pusherman, Freddie's Dead and Superfly are all incredible, but suprisingly do not even stand out. The whole album is so good and flows so well that all the songs are equally great. Mayfield's voice is at it's prime and is truly beautiful. Even the two instrumentals, Junkie Cause and Think are really beautiful. This is an album for all time. Anyone interested in Mayfield, the 70s, Soul, Rock, or any kind of music should own Superfly.Free Music Review: As fine a seventies album as you could want.
Hit: 5 Stars
I guess the only thing to argue is whether Superfly or Shaft was the better album soundtrack from the era of blaxploitation films. Either way, this is a great piece of music. Curtis Mayfield had a musical career which spanned decades, and moved from the gospel roots of the Impressions to the soundtrack of a movie which glorified drug dealing. Social sensibilities aside, it is hard to say anything bad about this music. Curtis' voice was sweet and plaintive in songs like "Eddie, you Should've Known Better", and "Little Child, Running Wild". Of course, he is like a one man Greek Chorus, as his songs tell of the strife which the movie characters face with their life's choices. Songs like "Superfly" and of course Freddie's Dead let us know via the radio what was happening on the screen. This album is still as fresh today as it was 25 years ago.Free Music Review: Memories are made of this...
Hit: 5 Stars
Yesterday while I was waiting for my burrito at a hip latino restaurant, I noticed that the young patrons and the people behind the counter were groovin' to Superfly. It was the first time I had heard it in 25 years. I was reminded of going to see the movie with my boyfriend in inner city Newark back in 1972. We were the only whites in the theater. The crowd went wild for the film! It was something more akin to the crowd at a Final Four basketball game! I don't think I've ever seen a more emotional audience before or since. Superfly, together with Shaft, were really the first films that I remember featuring African American main characters. To young people today that may seem outlandish and unbelievable. After we saw the movie, I bought the record and it became a favorite. I can't wait to hear it again in its entirety. If you like Curtis Mayfield you might want to check out New World Order to see how his music evolved.Free Music Review: emotionally speaking...
Hit: 5 Stars
yeah, baby, this is the music we're listening to when we're alone with our lovers and the hearts start pounding. what else can you say? It's black music, it's got soul. since jackie brown, even white suburb kids start to see the beauty in these 70's creations.Free Music Review: The All-Time soundtrack of the ghetto
Hit: 5 Stars
Considered as a counterpart to Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" (released a year earlier), "Superfly" remains an ugly depiction of the urban American ghetto funneled into a funk/soul musical masterpiece. It was also the first time a musician made such a blatant social commentary on the state of black America. Filled with pimps, pushers, illness, hookers, orphans, abuse, cops and drugs, Mayfield - free of a poetic license - presented his lyrics plainly & honestly. Whether taking on the role of a boasting drug dealer or lamenting dead junkies, Mayfield covered all corners of street life (like Gaye's "What's Going On") in only 9 songs with an easy flow and assured musicianship. It remains unmatched in its honesty and performance by most artists of that era (as it sparked a trend for musicians to be "aware" at that time). Musically speaking for an album of this sort, its denseness is rivaled only by Stevie Wonder's "Songs In The Key Of Life". Moving between lively funk & painful soul, Mayfield surrounded his gravel-filled falsetto with punching horns, dramatic string arrangements, a never-ending barrage of percussion (cowbells, chimes, congas) and layers of burning guitar. Mayfield set a high standard quite early in the 70's for his colleagues to match, and the evidence in the works of Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, and Earth, Wind & Fire is obviously apparent. One of the most honest social criticisms ever committed to vinyl has naturally become an essential funk/soul record for the world.