Curtis Mayfield

Superfly is undoubtedly the high point of a career stuffed with high points. Curtis Mayfield's soundtrack is much deeper than its inspiration, a film that survives mainly for its kitsch value. The songs ("Pusherman," "Freddie's Dead") are all masterpieces; poignant meditations spiced with menacing funk, Mayfield's biting falsetto and lyrical prowess. Essential.

This soundtrack to the flash and clever Super Fly is as pleasing and pretty in your living
room as it is mingled with the images that it aurally represents. In fact the antidrug message
on the record is far stronger and more definite than in the film, which was diluted by
schizoid cross purposes. Super Fly, the film, glamorizes machismo-cocaine consciousness
while making a political moralization about the process that keeps drugs illegal y... More >