(Dave Q's comment will forever change the way I hear, etc.)
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 12 June 2004 18:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Sunday, 13 June 2004 03:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― mullygrubber (gaz), Sunday, 13 June 2004 05:45 (nineteen years ago) link
as someone else said, if you can find the demo versions of a lot of his songs on superfly and the curtis album (i got mine on a 3 cd cheapo box set love peace understanding), theyre a lot more understated than the finished versions. he didnt pretty them up with strings and extra ornamenation.
― thesplooge (thesplooge), Sunday, 13 June 2004 15:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sonny A. (Keiko), Sunday, 13 June 2004 16:45 (nineteen years ago) link
And also because the break down is great.
― Keith Watson (kmw), Sunday, 13 June 2004 16:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― thesplooge (thesplooge), Sunday, 13 June 2004 18:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sonny A. (Keiko), Sunday, 13 June 2004 18:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― thesplooge (thesplooge), Sunday, 13 June 2004 19:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Patrick South (Patrick South), Friday, 18 June 2004 06:04 (nineteen years ago) link
I completely agree with all the praise too. I'm fairly new to Curtis; started listening to him because of the high praise Robbie Robertson (among many others) gave him as both a guitar player and songwriter.
I don't have near enough of his material - Impressions or solo.
― shorty (shorty), Friday, 13 October 2006 22:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 13 October 2006 22:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― A Radio Picture (Rrrickey), Friday, 13 October 2006 22:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 13 October 2006 23:33 (seventeen years ago) link
(CM is totally classic obv)
― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 16 October 2006 23:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ruud Comes to Haarvest (Ken L), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 00:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― i am not a nugget (stevie), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 09:04 (seventeen years ago) link
Curtis > Roots > Superfly > Short Eyes > Back To The World > Curtis Live > Got To Find A Way
― Dimehitter Dwayne Hosey (dwaynehosey), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 11:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― i am not a nugget (stevie), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 11:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― def zep (calstars), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 13:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― hank (hank s), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 14:44 (seventeen years ago) link
-- Phil A. (spleetl...), May 8th, 2001.
and they cryout how ilm used to be better than now...
― PappaWheelie: Giving out breaks to the needy since September 25th, 2006 (PappaWh, Tuesday, 17 October 2006 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 15:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:59d9kentgq7m
― a.b. (alanbanana), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 16:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― ZR (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 16:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link
Are you honestly saying There's No Place Like America Today isn't among his top SEVEN records?
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link
There's No Place Like America Today is probably my favorite album of his, actually. And I think Back to the World is quite underrated.
― Patrick South (Patrick South), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link
Back to the World has a much better A side than B side.
I've never heard There's No Place Like America Today.
― Dimehitter Dwayne Hosey (dwaynehosey), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 18:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― M. Agony Von Bontee (M. Agony Von Bontee), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 18:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 05:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 08:54 (seventeen years ago) link
As a songwriter, guitar player, producer, and beautiful cat who brought his own funk and timeless positive message from a real place, a stone classic.
― The Redd 47 Ronin (Ken L), Saturday, 21 October 2006 22:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Uncle Tom (Uncle Tom), Sunday, 22 October 2006 04:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― deej.. (deej..), Sunday, 22 October 2006 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link
In order of preference:
There's No Place Like America Today 75Back To the World 73Sweet Exorcist 74Got To Find A Way 74Let's Do It Again 74Give Get Take Have 76
― Fastnbulbous (Fastnbulbous), Monday, 23 October 2006 05:15 (seventeen years ago) link
However, I do have an early-80's album he did for the long-gone Boardwalk label, titled something like LOVE IS THE PLACE. Can't lie -it's from '81 or '82 and it sounds it, this ain't no retro project, but for what it is, it's not bad at all. The only real standout is "Just Ease My Mind," which should have been comped on that box set of black country singers that Warners released years ago. Seriously, this is Curtis gone country & western, and he OWNS it.
Track down a copy and hear it for yourself - because it was recorded well after his prime years, this album is always cheap as dirt in the used stores. "Just Ease My Mind," by itself, is worth the $1.
― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Monday, 23 October 2006 06:37 (seventeen years ago) link
i cant get used to his singing but the music is v nice.
― ☪, Sunday, 18 November 2007 18:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Shameless Pharrell biter, amirite?
― The Reverend, Sunday, 18 November 2007 18:49 (sixteen years ago) link
not the best singer, sounding like he had the smallest pair of lungs ever, but he made some of the best records of the 70s.
― titchyschneiderMk2, Sunday, 18 November 2007 18:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Personal favourite song: People Get Ready - Mayfield said it straight: there's a train a-comin'...you don't need no baggage, you just get on board.
-- Tim Roxborogh, Tuesday, July 24, 2001 12:00 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark Link Dunno, I'd be suspicious if a train conductor insisted I didn't need any baggage. Like, where are we going, Belsen?
-- dave q, Tuesday, July 24, 2001 12:00 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark Link
omg hahahahah
― s1ocki, Sunday, 18 November 2007 19:00 (sixteen years ago) link
way classic. I've been listening to the Impressions non-stop recently.
― will, Sunday, 18 November 2007 19:13 (sixteen years ago) link
his voice is amazing you herbs
― deej, Sunday, 18 November 2007 19:15 (sixteen years ago) link
for srs
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 18 November 2007 19:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Looks good, be prepared, tho, that Sweet Exorcist isn't quite as good as the first three. That and his other 1974 album Got to Find a Way are okay, then There's No Place Like America Today from 1975 raises the bar again, but that one is pretty much his last truly good album. The ones after that are still worth listening because they usually have one or two great songs, but his peak creative period as a solo artist was those five years from 1970 to 1975.
― Tuomas, Saturday, 6 June 2020 14:43 (three years ago) link
wrong, "sweet exorcist" is amazing
― budo jeru, Saturday, 6 June 2020 14:55 (three years ago) link
Oh lord that long LP version of "Move On Up" is one serious bongo jam.
― earlnash, Saturday, 25 July 2020 04:21 (three years ago) link
https://www.amazon.com/Keep-Keeping-Curtis-Mayfield-1970-1974/dp/B07KLS2XDZ/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=curtis+mayfield&qid=1591438979&sr=8-1🕸This one? It is a nice set.
― Heez, Saturday, 25 July 2020 13:10 (three years ago) link
boooo!
Oh lord that long LP version of "Move On Up" is one serious bongo jam.― earlnash, Friday, July 24, 2020 9:21 PM
― earlnash, Friday, July 24, 2020 9:21 PM
alltime jam.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Thursday, 30 July 2020 04:06 (three years ago) link
Two greatest 'wow's ever: Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront, when Rod Steiger pulls the gun on him in the backseat; "If you wanna be a junkie, wow."
― clemenza, Tuesday, 22 September 2020 03:20 (three years ago) link
Wow
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 22 September 2020 17:52 (three years ago) link
To be invisibleWill be my claim to fameA man with no nameThat way, I won't have to feel the painIndispensableJust a plain old human beingToday, don't mean a thingIn a world that's so meanA world that seems not for meSo privately, I'll be invisibleThat way, I won't have to explain a thing, if you know what I meanI won't even have to be here, on the sceneIt's so ridiculousBut the strife and the blissWill go right on through, right on through meTo have missedAll the things that hurt your soulNo one would ever knowThey'd never knowLife so preciouslyJust don't seem to beAs free as they claim freedom to beThings are going fastTo have found that all is in the pastTo have to take what you can getSure can make a heart upsetInconspicuousI must behave myselfFor somebody elseWho may have a little fame, fortune and wealthIt's so ridiculousBut the strife and the blissWill go right on through, right on through meTo have missedA world that seems not for meSo privately, I'll be invisibleThat way, I won't have to explain a thing, if you know what I meanI won't even have to be here, on the sceneIt's so ridiculousBut the strife and the blissWill go right on through, right on through meTo have missedAll the things that hurt your soulNo one would ever knowThey'd never knowLife so preciouslyJust don't seem to meAs free as they claim freedom to beThings are going fastTo have found that all is in the pastTo have to take what you can getSure can make a heart upsetSo I'll be invisibleInvisibleInvisible
Wow what an amazing lyric-So heartbreaking and profound
― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Friday, 30 June 2023 19:38 (nine months ago) link
The man had a highly rare sense of grace that was definitely captured in his music.
― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Friday, 30 June 2023 19:49 (nine months ago) link