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Thread: Album Club: 01.11.2011: Curtis Mayfield - Superfly 1972 (Vinyl, CD)

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Grand Wazoo View Post
    Yet another interesting choice for Album Club.
    2. For some reason I keep expecting to hear a soaring guitar solo from Ernie Isley, but never get one! Why the hell would I? He never went near the recording of this album!
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    Just checked and I only have the album 'Roots' so as soon as I get a chance, probably over the weekend, I will give it a go.
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    If you've not heard the track that Bran Van 3000 did (with the blessing of Mayfield's widow) - give this a spin: http://open.spotify.com/track/5WdV3cj4TzwBIsKC6TdXyv
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    Really not my cup of tea, I'm afraid. For me, black music starts with blues and ends with jazz - I'm really not a fan of soul, funk or disco and found this very difficult to get through, especially given the nature of the lyrics.

    I gave it "2" as I suspect it's good within its genre, but not something I'll be listening to again.
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    I'm on the fence with this. I'm sure it sounds great on vinyl, the arrangements are well done and Mayfield had a great voice. I actualy quite like this orchestrated funk/soul from this period especialy The Temptations. This suffers from being a soundtrack to a film which never quite works as a stand alone album. I haven't seen the film but I understand its not good. Will give it benefit of the doubt so just makes a 3. Not for repeated listening though.

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    I really like this! Cool as fuck choons for cruising to in the car..... Some of it reminds me a bit of the kind of sounds that accompanied Starsky and Hutch! Yo' Huggy Bear...

    Track 11, the mix of 'Pusherman' is just boogietastic (as is the original 'Ghetto Child')...

    Defo 4 out of 5 for moi. Some of you guys ain't go no soul, man!

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    An interesting choice...

    Pusherman, Ghetto Child, and Superfly are the real standout tracks for me, the others are a little less engaging, I suppose I'm more enthused my the up tempo funky tracks.

    I'm dithering between 3 & 4, I'll plump for 3...
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    For me, it's the up-tempo, funky, tracks that make the album. I'd buy if for those three tracks alone

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    For me, it's the up-tempo, funky, tracks that make the album. I'd buy if for those three tracks alone

    Marco.
    When Mr Mayfield does funky, he does it very well, the full 8 minute version of 'move on up' is still one of my favourites...

    One of my mates does a rare groove funky DJ set, his first track on Saturday night was 'pusherman', I got some cool points for identifying and describing the whole superfly concept album...quite handy album club sometimes

    The CD came home with me too...just for archival purposes of course
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    A 3 from me, you cant really knock Curtis... its not the type of thing I'd listen to on my own but could see this getting a spin at one of our Poker nights sometime soon. We tend to go for funk rather than the predicable blues!
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