Future Song (Love a Woman) slays
https://open.spotify.com/track/3hi078NgfqTvFj98hbECFR?si=tzu63FwrQ6-jDkJX5p824A
― calstars, Sunday, 31 December 2017 01:51 (six years ago) link
Shit is tight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpJtb3rL2SU
― calstars, Sunday, 31 December 2017 01:59 (six years ago) link
HAWTT uncut '72 set from Beat Club:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk4n52qwwlI
Soundcheck from same:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF1uF-28MZE
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 28 February 2019 23:33 (five years ago) link
absolute perfection.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 1 March 2019 17:10 (five years ago) link
damn, curtis is so good
― tylerw, Friday, 1 March 2019 17:14 (five years ago) link
inner city blues, holy shit!
― voodoo chili, Friday, 1 March 2019 17:16 (five years ago) link
yeah this set is radical. whole band smokes.
― tylerw, Friday, 1 March 2019 17:28 (five years ago) link
XP IKR Silly me never realized until now how much of a Curtis song it is.
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 1 March 2019 18:02 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSoULq1pOsEThe Notations - Superpeople
Heard this and thought wow that's the most Curtis Mayfield-y thing I've ever heard. Turns out they were on the Curtom label. Dope song.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 20:08 (three years ago) link
So classic. I'm no expert or completist, but did Curtis ever sing in anything other than his falsetto?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 20:12 (three years ago) link
Tuomas being so dense itt.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 20:30 (three years ago) link
hmm. I mean I'd say technically he goes out of a true falsetto a lot but I can't think of anything that wasn't in a high register.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 20:32 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOzlCJDPjV0This song has the lowest register vocals from him that I've heard, and he still does a semi-falsetto in the chorus.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 20:50 (three years ago) link
Anyone know anything about the Rhino reissue of his first 4 solo albums that happened last year?
― Heez, Saturday, 6 June 2020 02:55 (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.
― earlnash, Saturday, 6 June 2020 10:24 (three years ago) link
Yeah that one. Reading some good things
― Heez, Saturday, 6 June 2020 14:01 (three years ago) link
hard to beat that price tbh
― budo jeru, Saturday, 6 June 2020 14:18 (three 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