Where is the love (/cultural or historical significance) for (/of) 'Freddie's Dead' by Curtis Mayfield?

He was the bastard son of a thousand maniacs.

i really like the master p version on southpark!

This song actually had a pretty profound effect on me. I've always cited it as one of the reasons I got into sociology (my major). It looks at the anatomy of a trend (death from drug abuse among urban blacks), trying to identify where it went wrong for one victim. The important thing, to me, is how it humanizes Freddie: he's got love in his heart, but he was misused/abused etc. The narrator sees this and reflects on Freddie's/his own role in society. So there's a very personal sense of disillusionment revolving around something that wouldn't have even made the papers in its day. I could go on -- what a fantastic song to write about! The bass line's hot, too

*scribbles all that down*

Cheers dude. You are a legend.

Keep 'em coming.

The whole SUPERFLY album is amazing, obsessed me for ages. The film is a kind of classic too. The story is that Curtis agreed to score it before seeing the finished movie, hated it, and produced something designed to undercut and deglamorise what is the tale of an unrepentant badass coke dealer. The resultant tension between this tough, amoral little indie movie and Curtis' incredible, overwrought soundtrack takes both to somewhere completely other.

Nick, see Greil Marcus' comments in 'Mystery Train.'

Ooops - I realise I may have given you less than 12 hours to source and view SUPERFLY. Which is a movie plot in itself.

Trust me, it'll be worth it!

Exam went pretty well. Thanks to y'all.