TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Curtis Mayfield
Curtis Mayfield
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
1.9626
Curtis Mayfield Album Rankings
1
In light of his passing away last month, I thought that in addition to this web site's brief "In Memoriam" statement, it was only appropriate that we review one of Curtis Mayfield's albums.
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2
Curtis Mayfield's visionary album, a landmark creation every bit as compelling and as far-reaching in its musical and extra-musical goals asMarvin Gaye's contemporaryWhat's Goin' On.
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3
The choice of Curtis Mayfield to score the blaxploitation filmSuperflywas an inspired one.
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4
Back to the World, the first album Curtis Mayfield recorded and released after hitting number one with the intense inner-city vignetteSuperfly, returned him to a steady balance of optimism for the fut
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5
Curtis Mayfield is confusing his strengths with his weaknesses these days. As the composer and lead singer of the Impressions he proved to be first and foremost, a beautiful melodist.
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6
Mayfield's highly-anticipated comeback following his accident did not disappoint.
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9
A CD reissue of an old Mayfield platter that didn't garner as much interest as some of his other solo releases, and for good reason: Mayfield was experimenting with his sound.
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12
Reality TV, normally the home for the talent-free and permanently deluded, seemed to unearth a bit of a gem when Alex Parks won the second series of BBC'sFame Academy.
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15
Happy-in-love songs mostly from Curtis Mayfield's solo years.
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20
Do It All Nightis Curtis Mayfield's flimsiest solo album yet, an indifferent collection of flaccid disco music.
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26
These two albums date from Curtis Mayfield and Curtom Records' association with the RSO label at the end of the disco era, and demonstrate the relatively hard times onto which Mayfield had fallen wit
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31
Although Curtis Mayfield's album sales had decreased significantly by the late '70s, the smooth Chicago soul veteran remained a popular live attraction well into the '80s.
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34
This anthology spotlights Curtis Mayfield's biggest hits as a solo star since 1970.
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39
Living Legend is a double-disc collection of some of Curtis Mayfield's finest solo material from the '70s, but it contains too much mediocre material to function as an effective introduction to the s
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52
Recorded in 1988 at Ronnie Scott's jazz club in Soho, London, this wonderful Curtis Mayfield live set has a tremendous intimate feel, with Mayfield running through a handful of 1960s Impressions mate
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60
Curtis Mayfield continued his run of excellent albums in the '70s with this follow-up to the huge hit Superfly soundtrack.
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63
The revelation of Sire Records' recent anthology,The Impressions: The Vintage Years, is the artistic dominance of Curtis Mayfield beginning in the late Fifties.
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