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Кертис – американдық соул музыканты Кертис Мейфилдтің 1970 жылдың қыркүйегінде шыққан тұңғыш студиялық альбомы. Мейфилд өзінің Curtom Records лейблі арқылы шығарды. Кертистің музыкалық стилі Мейфилдтің бұрынғы тобы The Impressions-тың поп-соул дыбысынан алшақтады, көбінесе фанк пен психоделикалық музыканың ықпалына түсті. Альбомның мазмұны сол кездегі саяси және әлеуметтік мәселелерді қамтиды. Кертис сол кезде жақсы сатылып, Billboard Black альбомдар тізімінде бірінші орынға (бес апта бойы емес) және Billboard Pop альбомдар тізімінде он тоғызыншы орынға ие болды. АҚШ-та тек "(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go" синглы танымал болды; алайда "Move On Up" әнінің өңделген нұсқасы Ұлыбритания синглдер тізімінде 10 апта бойы топ 50-ге кірді. 2020 жылы альбом Rolling Stone журналының «Барлық уақыттардағы 500 ең ұлы альбом» тізімінде 275-ші орынға ие болды.
Curtis is the debut studio album by American soul musician Curtis Mayfield, released in September 1970. Produced by Mayfield, it was released on his own label Curtom Records. The musical styles of Curtis moved further away from the pop soul sounds of Mayfield's previous group The Impressions and featured more of a funk and psychedelic influenced sound. The album's subject matter incorporates political and social concerns of the time. Curtis sold well at the time charting at number one on the Billboard Black albums (for five nonconsecutive weeks) and number nineteen on the Billboard Pop albums charts. Only the single "(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go" charted in the United States; however, an edited version of "Move On Up" would spend 10 weeks in the top 50 of the UK Singles Chart. In 2020, the album was ranked at number 275 on Rolling Stone'''s 500 greatest albums of all time list. Background
Mayfield began work on his own self titled album in 1970. Although he never intended to leave the Impressions permanently, he would officially leave them in 1971, under recommendation from his business manager Marv Stuart and given the trend for both R&B and rock artists to go solo. Recording and production
Like with some of his later Impressions work, Mayfield's lyrics reflected the social and political concern rising in black America at the time. Mayfield was one of the earliest artists to speak openly about African American pride and community struggle. Mayfield reflected upon this time as a "happening era when people stopped wearing tuxedos people were getting down a little more." Critical reception
In a contemporary review for Rolling Stone, John Wendell was disappointed by Curtis, finding much of Mayfield's music more rhythmic than melodic, "fragmentary, garbled and frustrating to listen to"; he called the lyrics haphazardly written and mealy mouthed. "He tries to deal with some pretty serious and complex subjects by stringing together phrases that end with the same sound—whether they make sense together or not", Wendell critiqued. "Sure, it's all subjective, but I can't myself see that what we need is 'Respect for the steeple/power to the people.'" The Village Voice critic Robert Christgau was also somewhat unmoved by the album's "essentially middle class guides to black pride" but qualified his judgment as reflecting a certain degree of cultural relativism on his part, making note of African American audiences having embraced the record. Bruce Eder from AllMusic said Mayfield had "embraced the most progressive soul sounds of the era" on an album that was "practically the Sgt. Pepper's album of '70s soul". In The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), Geoffrey Himes wrote that the songs remained irresistibly catchy, even though sometimes Mayfield's messages were oversimplified and the production sounded excessively "ornate". Treblezine names it among the 10 essential albums of psychedelic soul. Awards
In 1972, Mayfield won the Prix Otis Redding (best R&B album) from the Académie du Jazz for Curtis. Cover
The song "We People Who Are Darker Than Blue" has been covered by the British rock band Babe Ruth on their third album Babe Ruth''.
Mayfield began work on his own self titled album in 1970. Although he never intended to leave the Impressions permanently, he would officially leave them in 1971, under recommendation from his business manager Marv Stuart and given the trend for both R&B and rock artists to go solo. Recording and production
Like with some of his later Impressions work, Mayfield's lyrics reflected the social and political concern rising in black America at the time. Mayfield was one of the earliest artists to speak openly about African American pride and community struggle. Mayfield reflected upon this time as a "happening era when people stopped wearing tuxedos people were getting down a little more." Critical reception
In a contemporary review for Rolling Stone, John Wendell was disappointed by Curtis, finding much of Mayfield's music more rhythmic than melodic, "fragmentary, garbled and frustrating to listen to"; he called the lyrics haphazardly written and mealy mouthed. "He tries to deal with some pretty serious and complex subjects by stringing together phrases that end with the same sound—whether they make sense together or not", Wendell critiqued. "Sure, it's all subjective, but I can't myself see that what we need is 'Respect for the steeple/power to the people.'" The Village Voice critic Robert Christgau was also somewhat unmoved by the album's "essentially middle class guides to black pride" but qualified his judgment as reflecting a certain degree of cultural relativism on his part, making note of African American audiences having embraced the record. Bruce Eder from AllMusic said Mayfield had "embraced the most progressive soul sounds of the era" on an album that was "practically the Sgt. Pepper's album of '70s soul". In The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), Geoffrey Himes wrote that the songs remained irresistibly catchy, even though sometimes Mayfield's messages were oversimplified and the production sounded excessively "ornate". Treblezine names it among the 10 essential albums of psychedelic soul. Awards
In 1972, Mayfield won the Prix Otis Redding (best R&B album) from the Académie du Jazz for Curtis. Cover
The song "We People Who Are Darker Than Blue" has been covered by the British rock band Babe Ruth on their third album Babe Ruth''.
Мейфилд 1970 жылы өзі атты альбомды жасау жұмысын бастады. Ол Impressions тобын толығымен тастауды жоспарламаса да, 1971 жылы бизнес-менеджері Марв Стюарттың кеңесімен және R&B және рок әртістерінің жеке карьера жасау тенденциясын ескере отырып, ресми түрде тобынан кетті.
Curtis is the debut studio album by American soul musician Curtis Mayfield, released in September 1970. Produced by Mayfield, it was released on his own label Curtom Records. The musical styles of Curtis moved further away from the pop soul sounds of Mayfield's previous group The Impressions and featured more of a funk and psychedelic influenced sound. The album's subject matter incorporates political and social concerns of the time. Curtis sold well at the time charting at number one on the Billboard Black albums (for five nonconsecutive weeks) and number nineteen on the Billboard Pop albums charts. Only the single "(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go" charted in the United States; however, an edited version of "Move On Up" would spend 10 weeks in the top 50 of the UK Singles Chart. In 2020, the album was ranked at number 275 on Rolling Stone'''s 500 greatest albums of all time list. Background
Mayfield began work on his own self titled album in 1970. Although he never intended to leave the Impressions permanently, he would officially leave them in 1971, under recommendation from his business manager Marv Stuart and given the trend for both R&B and rock artists to go solo. Recording and production
Like with some of his later Impressions work, Mayfield's lyrics reflected the social and political concern rising in black America at the time. Mayfield was one of the earliest artists to speak openly about African American pride and community struggle. Mayfield reflected upon this time as a "happening era when people stopped wearing tuxedos people were getting down a little more." Critical reception
In a contemporary review for Rolling Stone, John Wendell was disappointed by Curtis, finding much of Mayfield's music more rhythmic than melodic, "fragmentary, garbled and frustrating to listen to"; he called the lyrics haphazardly written and mealy mouthed. "He tries to deal with some pretty serious and complex subjects by stringing together phrases that end with the same sound—whether they make sense together or not", Wendell critiqued. "Sure, it's all subjective, but I can't myself see that what we need is 'Respect for the steeple/power to the people.'" The Village Voice critic Robert Christgau was also somewhat unmoved by the album's "essentially middle class guides to black pride" but qualified his judgment as reflecting a certain degree of cultural relativism on his part, making note of African American audiences having embraced the record. Bruce Eder from AllMusic said Mayfield had "embraced the most progressive soul sounds of the era" on an album that was "practically the Sgt. Pepper's album of '70s soul". In The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), Geoffrey Himes wrote that the songs remained irresistibly catchy, even though sometimes Mayfield's messages were oversimplified and the production sounded excessively "ornate". Treblezine names it among the 10 essential albums of psychedelic soul. Awards
In 1972, Mayfield won the Prix Otis Redding (best R&B album) from the Académie du Jazz for Curtis. Cover
The song "We People Who Are Darker Than Blue" has been covered by the British rock band Babe Ruth on their third album Babe Ruth''.
Mayfield began work on his own self titled album in 1970. Although he never intended to leave the Impressions permanently, he would officially leave them in 1971, under recommendation from his business manager Marv Stuart and given the trend for both R&B and rock artists to go solo. Recording and production
Like with some of his later Impressions work, Mayfield's lyrics reflected the social and political concern rising in black America at the time. Mayfield was one of the earliest artists to speak openly about African American pride and community struggle. Mayfield reflected upon this time as a "happening era when people stopped wearing tuxedos people were getting down a little more." Critical reception
In a contemporary review for Rolling Stone, John Wendell was disappointed by Curtis, finding much of Mayfield's music more rhythmic than melodic, "fragmentary, garbled and frustrating to listen to"; he called the lyrics haphazardly written and mealy mouthed. "He tries to deal with some pretty serious and complex subjects by stringing together phrases that end with the same sound—whether they make sense together or not", Wendell critiqued. "Sure, it's all subjective, but I can't myself see that what we need is 'Respect for the steeple/power to the people.'" The Village Voice critic Robert Christgau was also somewhat unmoved by the album's "essentially middle class guides to black pride" but qualified his judgment as reflecting a certain degree of cultural relativism on his part, making note of African American audiences having embraced the record. Bruce Eder from AllMusic said Mayfield had "embraced the most progressive soul sounds of the era" on an album that was "practically the Sgt. Pepper's album of '70s soul". In The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), Geoffrey Himes wrote that the songs remained irresistibly catchy, even though sometimes Mayfield's messages were oversimplified and the production sounded excessively "ornate". Treblezine names it among the 10 essential albums of psychedelic soul. Awards
In 1972, Mayfield won the Prix Otis Redding (best R&B album) from the Académie du Jazz for Curtis. Cover
The song "We People Who Are Darker Than Blue" has been covered by the British rock band Babe Ruth on their third album Babe Ruth''.
Жазу және өндіріс
Curtis is the debut studio album by American soul musician Curtis Mayfield, released in September 1970. Produced by Mayfield, it was released on his own label Curtom Records. The musical styles of Curtis moved further away from the pop soul sounds of Mayfield's previous group The Impressions and featured more of a funk and psychedelic influenced sound. The album's subject matter incorporates political and social concerns of the time. Curtis sold well at the time charting at number one on the Billboard Black albums (for five nonconsecutive weeks) and number nineteen on the Billboard Pop albums charts. Only the single "(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go" charted in the United States; however, an edited version of "Move On Up" would spend 10 weeks in the top 50 of the UK Singles Chart. In 2020, the album was ranked at number 275 on Rolling Stone'''s 500 greatest albums of all time list. Background
Mayfield began work on his own self titled album in 1970. Although he never intended to leave the Impressions permanently, he would officially leave them in 1971, under recommendation from his business manager Marv Stuart and given the trend for both R&B and rock artists to go solo. Recording and production
Like with some of his later Impressions work, Mayfield's lyrics reflected the social and political concern rising in black America at the time. Mayfield was one of the earliest artists to speak openly about African American pride and community struggle. Mayfield reflected upon this time as a "happening era when people stopped wearing tuxedos people were getting down a little more." Critical reception
In a contemporary review for Rolling Stone, John Wendell was disappointed by Curtis, finding much of Mayfield's music more rhythmic than melodic, "fragmentary, garbled and frustrating to listen to"; he called the lyrics haphazardly written and mealy mouthed. "He tries to deal with some pretty serious and complex subjects by stringing together phrases that end with the same sound—whether they make sense together or not", Wendell critiqued. "Sure, it's all subjective, but I can't myself see that what we need is 'Respect for the steeple/power to the people.'" The Village Voice critic Robert Christgau was also somewhat unmoved by the album's "essentially middle class guides to black pride" but qualified his judgment as reflecting a certain degree of cultural relativism on his part, making note of African American audiences having embraced the record. Bruce Eder from AllMusic said Mayfield had "embraced the most progressive soul sounds of the era" on an album that was "practically the Sgt. Pepper's album of '70s soul". In The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), Geoffrey Himes wrote that the songs remained irresistibly catchy, even though sometimes Mayfield's messages were oversimplified and the production sounded excessively "ornate". Treblezine names it among the 10 essential albums of psychedelic soul. Awards
In 1972, Mayfield won the Prix Otis Redding (best R&B album) from the Académie du Jazz for Curtis. Cover
The song "We People Who Are Darker Than Blue" has been covered by the British rock band Babe Ruth on their third album Babe Ruth''.
Mayfield began work on his own self titled album in 1970. Although he never intended to leave the Impressions permanently, he would officially leave them in 1971, under recommendation from his business manager Marv Stuart and given the trend for both R&B and rock artists to go solo. Recording and production
Like with some of his later Impressions work, Mayfield's lyrics reflected the social and political concern rising in black America at the time. Mayfield was one of the earliest artists to speak openly about African American pride and community struggle. Mayfield reflected upon this time as a "happening era when people stopped wearing tuxedos people were getting down a little more." Critical reception
In a contemporary review for Rolling Stone, John Wendell was disappointed by Curtis, finding much of Mayfield's music more rhythmic than melodic, "fragmentary, garbled and frustrating to listen to"; he called the lyrics haphazardly written and mealy mouthed. "He tries to deal with some pretty serious and complex subjects by stringing together phrases that end with the same sound—whether they make sense together or not", Wendell critiqued. "Sure, it's all subjective, but I can't myself see that what we need is 'Respect for the steeple/power to the people.'" The Village Voice critic Robert Christgau was also somewhat unmoved by the album's "essentially middle class guides to black pride" but qualified his judgment as reflecting a certain degree of cultural relativism on his part, making note of African American audiences having embraced the record. Bruce Eder from AllMusic said Mayfield had "embraced the most progressive soul sounds of the era" on an album that was "practically the Sgt. Pepper's album of '70s soul". In The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), Geoffrey Himes wrote that the songs remained irresistibly catchy, even though sometimes Mayfield's messages were oversimplified and the production sounded excessively "ornate". Treblezine names it among the 10 essential albums of psychedelic soul. Awards
In 1972, Mayfield won the Prix Otis Redding (best R&B album) from the Académie du Jazz for Curtis. Cover
The song "We People Who Are Darker Than Blue" has been covered by the British rock band Babe Ruth on their third album Babe Ruth''.
Мейфилдтің кейінгі Impressions жұмыстарындағыдай, оның лирикасы сол кездегі қара американдықтардың әлеуметтік және саяси алаңдаушылықтарын көрсетті. Мейфилд африкалық американдықтардың мақтанышы мен қоғамдық күресі туралы ашық айтқан алғашқы артистердің бірі болды. Мейфилд бұл кезеңді «адамдар смокинг кимейтін, адамдар көңіл көтеріп, билейтін заман» деп еске алды.
Curtis is the debut studio album by American soul musician Curtis Mayfield, released in September 1970. Produced by Mayfield, it was released on his own label Curtom Records. The musical styles of Curtis moved further away from the pop soul sounds of Mayfield's previous group The Impressions and featured more of a funk and psychedelic influenced sound. The album's subject matter incorporates political and social concerns of the time. Curtis sold well at the time charting at number one on the Billboard Black albums (for five nonconsecutive weeks) and number nineteen on the Billboard Pop albums charts. Only the single "(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go" charted in the United States; however, an edited version of "Move On Up" would spend 10 weeks in the top 50 of the UK Singles Chart. In 2020, the album was ranked at number 275 on Rolling Stone'''s 500 greatest albums of all time list. Background
Mayfield began work on his own self titled album in 1970. Although he never intended to leave the Impressions permanently, he would officially leave them in 1971, under recommendation from his business manager Marv Stuart and given the trend for both R&B and rock artists to go solo. Recording and production
Like with some of his later Impressions work, Mayfield's lyrics reflected the social and political concern rising in black America at the time. Mayfield was one of the earliest artists to speak openly about African American pride and community struggle. Mayfield reflected upon this time as a "happening era when people stopped wearing tuxedos people were getting down a little more." Critical reception
In a contemporary review for Rolling Stone, John Wendell was disappointed by Curtis, finding much of Mayfield's music more rhythmic than melodic, "fragmentary, garbled and frustrating to listen to"; he called the lyrics haphazardly written and mealy mouthed. "He tries to deal with some pretty serious and complex subjects by stringing together phrases that end with the same sound—whether they make sense together or not", Wendell critiqued. "Sure, it's all subjective, but I can't myself see that what we need is 'Respect for the steeple/power to the people.'" The Village Voice critic Robert Christgau was also somewhat unmoved by the album's "essentially middle class guides to black pride" but qualified his judgment as reflecting a certain degree of cultural relativism on his part, making note of African American audiences having embraced the record. Bruce Eder from AllMusic said Mayfield had "embraced the most progressive soul sounds of the era" on an album that was "practically the Sgt. Pepper's album of '70s soul". In The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), Geoffrey Himes wrote that the songs remained irresistibly catchy, even though sometimes Mayfield's messages were oversimplified and the production sounded excessively "ornate". Treblezine names it among the 10 essential albums of psychedelic soul. Awards
In 1972, Mayfield won the Prix Otis Redding (best R&B album) from the Académie du Jazz for Curtis. Cover
The song "We People Who Are Darker Than Blue" has been covered by the British rock band Babe Ruth on their third album Babe Ruth''.
Mayfield began work on his own self titled album in 1970. Although he never intended to leave the Impressions permanently, he would officially leave them in 1971, under recommendation from his business manager Marv Stuart and given the trend for both R&B and rock artists to go solo. Recording and production
Like with some of his later Impressions work, Mayfield's lyrics reflected the social and political concern rising in black America at the time. Mayfield was one of the earliest artists to speak openly about African American pride and community struggle. Mayfield reflected upon this time as a "happening era when people stopped wearing tuxedos people were getting down a little more." Critical reception
In a contemporary review for Rolling Stone, John Wendell was disappointed by Curtis, finding much of Mayfield's music more rhythmic than melodic, "fragmentary, garbled and frustrating to listen to"; he called the lyrics haphazardly written and mealy mouthed. "He tries to deal with some pretty serious and complex subjects by stringing together phrases that end with the same sound—whether they make sense together or not", Wendell critiqued. "Sure, it's all subjective, but I can't myself see that what we need is 'Respect for the steeple/power to the people.'" The Village Voice critic Robert Christgau was also somewhat unmoved by the album's "essentially middle class guides to black pride" but qualified his judgment as reflecting a certain degree of cultural relativism on his part, making note of African American audiences having embraced the record. Bruce Eder from AllMusic said Mayfield had "embraced the most progressive soul sounds of the era" on an album that was "practically the Sgt. Pepper's album of '70s soul". In The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), Geoffrey Himes wrote that the songs remained irresistibly catchy, even though sometimes Mayfield's messages were oversimplified and the production sounded excessively "ornate". Treblezine names it among the 10 essential albums of psychedelic soul. Awards
In 1972, Mayfield won the Prix Otis Redding (best R&B album) from the Académie du Jazz for Curtis. Cover
The song "We People Who Are Darker Than Blue" has been covered by the British rock band Babe Ruth on their third album Babe Ruth''.
Rolling Stone журналындағы бір шолуда Джон Венделл Кертиске көңілі қалды, Мейфилдтің музыкасының көп бөлігі мелодиялық емес, ритмикалық екенін, «бөлшектелген, түсініксіз және тыңдауға қиын» екенін айтты; ол лириканы ойсыз жазылған және тілсіз деп сипаттады. «Ол өте маңызды және күрделі тақырыптарды бір-бірімен байланысты мағынасы бар-жоғына қарамастан, бірдей дыбыспен аяқталатын фразаларды біріктіру арқылы қарастыруға тырысады», - деп сынға алды Венделл. «Әрине, бәрі субъективті, бірақ мен өзімнің қажеттілігімді көре алмаймын: «Сыңқырға құрмет / халыққа билік». Village Voice сыншысы Роберт Кристагау да альбомның «қаралардың мақтанышына орта таптың нұсқаулықтары» туралы пікірін білдірмеді, бірақ оның бағасы белгілі бір мәдени салыстырмалылықты көрсететінін атап өтті, африкалық американдық аудиториясы осы жазбаны қабылдағанын айтты. AllMusic-тен Брюс Эдер Мейфилд «практикалық түрде 70-ші жылдардың соул нұсқасы болған» альбомда «замананың ең прогрессивті соул дыбыстарын қабылдады» деді. The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004) журналында Джеффри Хаймс әндердің әлі де тартымды екенін, бірақ кейде Мейфилдтің хабарлары тым қарапайым болғанын және өндіріс тым «әсем» болғанын жазды. Treblezine журналы оны психоделикалық соулдың 10 маңызды альбомының қатарына қосты.
Curtis is the debut studio album by American soul musician Curtis Mayfield, released in September 1970. Produced by Mayfield, it was released on his own label Curtom Records. The musical styles of Curtis moved further away from the pop soul sounds of Mayfield's previous group The Impressions and featured more of a funk and psychedelic influenced sound. The album's subject matter incorporates political and social concerns of the time. Curtis sold well at the time charting at number one on the Billboard Black albums (for five nonconsecutive weeks) and number nineteen on the Billboard Pop albums charts. Only the single "(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go" charted in the United States; however, an edited version of "Move On Up" would spend 10 weeks in the top 50 of the UK Singles Chart. In 2020, the album was ranked at number 275 on Rolling Stone'''s 500 greatest albums of all time list. Background
Mayfield began work on his own self titled album in 1970. Although he never intended to leave the Impressions permanently, he would officially leave them in 1971, under recommendation from his business manager Marv Stuart and given the trend for both R&B and rock artists to go solo. Recording and production
Like with some of his later Impressions work, Mayfield's lyrics reflected the social and political concern rising in black America at the time. Mayfield was one of the earliest artists to speak openly about African American pride and community struggle. Mayfield reflected upon this time as a "happening era when people stopped wearing tuxedos people were getting down a little more." Critical reception
In a contemporary review for Rolling Stone, John Wendell was disappointed by Curtis, finding much of Mayfield's music more rhythmic than melodic, "fragmentary, garbled and frustrating to listen to"; he called the lyrics haphazardly written and mealy mouthed. "He tries to deal with some pretty serious and complex subjects by stringing together phrases that end with the same sound—whether they make sense together or not", Wendell critiqued. "Sure, it's all subjective, but I can't myself see that what we need is 'Respect for the steeple/power to the people.'" The Village Voice critic Robert Christgau was also somewhat unmoved by the album's "essentially middle class guides to black pride" but qualified his judgment as reflecting a certain degree of cultural relativism on his part, making note of African American audiences having embraced the record. Bruce Eder from AllMusic said Mayfield had "embraced the most progressive soul sounds of the era" on an album that was "practically the Sgt. Pepper's album of '70s soul". In The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), Geoffrey Himes wrote that the songs remained irresistibly catchy, even though sometimes Mayfield's messages were oversimplified and the production sounded excessively "ornate". Treblezine names it among the 10 essential albums of psychedelic soul. Awards
In 1972, Mayfield won the Prix Otis Redding (best R&B album) from the Académie du Jazz for Curtis. Cover
The song "We People Who Are Darker Than Blue" has been covered by the British rock band Babe Ruth on their third album Babe Ruth''.
Mayfield began work on his own self titled album in 1970. Although he never intended to leave the Impressions permanently, he would officially leave them in 1971, under recommendation from his business manager Marv Stuart and given the trend for both R&B and rock artists to go solo. Recording and production
Like with some of his later Impressions work, Mayfield's lyrics reflected the social and political concern rising in black America at the time. Mayfield was one of the earliest artists to speak openly about African American pride and community struggle. Mayfield reflected upon this time as a "happening era when people stopped wearing tuxedos people were getting down a little more." Critical reception
In a contemporary review for Rolling Stone, John Wendell was disappointed by Curtis, finding much of Mayfield's music more rhythmic than melodic, "fragmentary, garbled and frustrating to listen to"; he called the lyrics haphazardly written and mealy mouthed. "He tries to deal with some pretty serious and complex subjects by stringing together phrases that end with the same sound—whether they make sense together or not", Wendell critiqued. "Sure, it's all subjective, but I can't myself see that what we need is 'Respect for the steeple/power to the people.'" The Village Voice critic Robert Christgau was also somewhat unmoved by the album's "essentially middle class guides to black pride" but qualified his judgment as reflecting a certain degree of cultural relativism on his part, making note of African American audiences having embraced the record. Bruce Eder from AllMusic said Mayfield had "embraced the most progressive soul sounds of the era" on an album that was "practically the Sgt. Pepper's album of '70s soul". In The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), Geoffrey Himes wrote that the songs remained irresistibly catchy, even though sometimes Mayfield's messages were oversimplified and the production sounded excessively "ornate". Treblezine names it among the 10 essential albums of psychedelic soul. Awards
In 1972, Mayfield won the Prix Otis Redding (best R&B album) from the Académie du Jazz for Curtis. Cover
The song "We People Who Are Darker Than Blue" has been covered by the British rock band Babe Ruth on their third album Babe Ruth''.
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Curtis is the debut studio album by American soul musician Curtis Mayfield, released in September 1970. Produced by Mayfield, it was released on his own label Curtom Records. The musical styles of Curtis moved further away from the pop soul sounds of Mayfield's previous group The Impressions and featured more of a funk and psychedelic influenced sound. The album's subject matter incorporates political and social concerns of the time. Curtis sold well at the time charting at number one on the Billboard Black albums (for five nonconsecutive weeks) and number nineteen on the Billboard Pop albums charts. Only the single "(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go" charted in the United States; however, an edited version of "Move On Up" would spend 10 weeks in the top 50 of the UK Singles Chart. In 2020, the album was ranked at number 275 on Rolling Stone'''s 500 greatest albums of all time list. Background
Mayfield began work on his own self titled album in 1970. Although he never intended to leave the Impressions permanently, he would officially leave them in 1971, under recommendation from his business manager Marv Stuart and given the trend for both R&B and rock artists to go solo. Recording and production
Like with some of his later Impressions work, Mayfield's lyrics reflected the social and political concern rising in black America at the time. Mayfield was one of the earliest artists to speak openly about African American pride and community struggle. Mayfield reflected upon this time as a "happening era when people stopped wearing tuxedos people were getting down a little more." Critical reception
In a contemporary review for Rolling Stone, John Wendell was disappointed by Curtis, finding much of Mayfield's music more rhythmic than melodic, "fragmentary, garbled and frustrating to listen to"; he called the lyrics haphazardly written and mealy mouthed. "He tries to deal with some pretty serious and complex subjects by stringing together phrases that end with the same sound—whether they make sense together or not", Wendell critiqued. "Sure, it's all subjective, but I can't myself see that what we need is 'Respect for the steeple/power to the people.'" The Village Voice critic Robert Christgau was also somewhat unmoved by the album's "essentially middle class guides to black pride" but qualified his judgment as reflecting a certain degree of cultural relativism on his part, making note of African American audiences having embraced the record. Bruce Eder from AllMusic said Mayfield had "embraced the most progressive soul sounds of the era" on an album that was "practically the Sgt. Pepper's album of '70s soul". In The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), Geoffrey Himes wrote that the songs remained irresistibly catchy, even though sometimes Mayfield's messages were oversimplified and the production sounded excessively "ornate". Treblezine names it among the 10 essential albums of psychedelic soul. Awards
In 1972, Mayfield won the Prix Otis Redding (best R&B album) from the Académie du Jazz for Curtis. Cover
The song "We People Who Are Darker Than Blue" has been covered by the British rock band Babe Ruth on their third album Babe Ruth''.
Mayfield began work on his own self titled album in 1970. Although he never intended to leave the Impressions permanently, he would officially leave them in 1971, under recommendation from his business manager Marv Stuart and given the trend for both R&B and rock artists to go solo. Recording and production
Like with some of his later Impressions work, Mayfield's lyrics reflected the social and political concern rising in black America at the time. Mayfield was one of the earliest artists to speak openly about African American pride and community struggle. Mayfield reflected upon this time as a "happening era when people stopped wearing tuxedos people were getting down a little more." Critical reception
In a contemporary review for Rolling Stone, John Wendell was disappointed by Curtis, finding much of Mayfield's music more rhythmic than melodic, "fragmentary, garbled and frustrating to listen to"; he called the lyrics haphazardly written and mealy mouthed. "He tries to deal with some pretty serious and complex subjects by stringing together phrases that end with the same sound—whether they make sense together or not", Wendell critiqued. "Sure, it's all subjective, but I can't myself see that what we need is 'Respect for the steeple/power to the people.'" The Village Voice critic Robert Christgau was also somewhat unmoved by the album's "essentially middle class guides to black pride" but qualified his judgment as reflecting a certain degree of cultural relativism on his part, making note of African American audiences having embraced the record. Bruce Eder from AllMusic said Mayfield had "embraced the most progressive soul sounds of the era" on an album that was "practically the Sgt. Pepper's album of '70s soul". In The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), Geoffrey Himes wrote that the songs remained irresistibly catchy, even though sometimes Mayfield's messages were oversimplified and the production sounded excessively "ornate". Treblezine names it among the 10 essential albums of psychedelic soul. Awards
In 1972, Mayfield won the Prix Otis Redding (best R&B album) from the Académie du Jazz for Curtis. Cover
The song "We People Who Are Darker Than Blue" has been covered by the British rock band Babe Ruth on their third album Babe Ruth''.
1972 жылы Мейфилд Куртис альбомы үшін Académie du Jazz ұйымынан Prix Otis Redding (ең жақсы R&B альбомы) сыйлығын жеңіп алды.
Curtis is the debut studio album by American soul musician Curtis Mayfield, released in September 1970. Produced by Mayfield, it was released on his own label Curtom Records. The musical styles of Curtis moved further away from the pop soul sounds of Mayfield's previous group The Impressions and featured more of a funk and psychedelic influenced sound. The album's subject matter incorporates political and social concerns of the time. Curtis sold well at the time charting at number one on the Billboard Black albums (for five nonconsecutive weeks) and number nineteen on the Billboard Pop albums charts. Only the single "(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go" charted in the United States; however, an edited version of "Move On Up" would spend 10 weeks in the top 50 of the UK Singles Chart. In 2020, the album was ranked at number 275 on Rolling Stone'''s 500 greatest albums of all time list. Background
Mayfield began work on his own self titled album in 1970. Although he never intended to leave the Impressions permanently, he would officially leave them in 1971, under recommendation from his business manager Marv Stuart and given the trend for both R&B and rock artists to go solo. Recording and production
Like with some of his later Impressions work, Mayfield's lyrics reflected the social and political concern rising in black America at the time. Mayfield was one of the earliest artists to speak openly about African American pride and community struggle. Mayfield reflected upon this time as a "happening era when people stopped wearing tuxedos people were getting down a little more." Critical reception
In a contemporary review for Rolling Stone, John Wendell was disappointed by Curtis, finding much of Mayfield's music more rhythmic than melodic, "fragmentary, garbled and frustrating to listen to"; he called the lyrics haphazardly written and mealy mouthed. "He tries to deal with some pretty serious and complex subjects by stringing together phrases that end with the same sound—whether they make sense together or not", Wendell critiqued. "Sure, it's all subjective, but I can't myself see that what we need is 'Respect for the steeple/power to the people.'" The Village Voice critic Robert Christgau was also somewhat unmoved by the album's "essentially middle class guides to black pride" but qualified his judgment as reflecting a certain degree of cultural relativism on his part, making note of African American audiences having embraced the record. Bruce Eder from AllMusic said Mayfield had "embraced the most progressive soul sounds of the era" on an album that was "practically the Sgt. Pepper's album of '70s soul". In The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), Geoffrey Himes wrote that the songs remained irresistibly catchy, even though sometimes Mayfield's messages were oversimplified and the production sounded excessively "ornate". Treblezine names it among the 10 essential albums of psychedelic soul. Awards
In 1972, Mayfield won the Prix Otis Redding (best R&B album) from the Académie du Jazz for Curtis. Cover
The song "We People Who Are Darker Than Blue" has been covered by the British rock band Babe Ruth on their third album Babe Ruth''.
Mayfield began work on his own self titled album in 1970. Although he never intended to leave the Impressions permanently, he would officially leave them in 1971, under recommendation from his business manager Marv Stuart and given the trend for both R&B and rock artists to go solo. Recording and production
Like with some of his later Impressions work, Mayfield's lyrics reflected the social and political concern rising in black America at the time. Mayfield was one of the earliest artists to speak openly about African American pride and community struggle. Mayfield reflected upon this time as a "happening era when people stopped wearing tuxedos people were getting down a little more." Critical reception
In a contemporary review for Rolling Stone, John Wendell was disappointed by Curtis, finding much of Mayfield's music more rhythmic than melodic, "fragmentary, garbled and frustrating to listen to"; he called the lyrics haphazardly written and mealy mouthed. "He tries to deal with some pretty serious and complex subjects by stringing together phrases that end with the same sound—whether they make sense together or not", Wendell critiqued. "Sure, it's all subjective, but I can't myself see that what we need is 'Respect for the steeple/power to the people.'" The Village Voice critic Robert Christgau was also somewhat unmoved by the album's "essentially middle class guides to black pride" but qualified his judgment as reflecting a certain degree of cultural relativism on his part, making note of African American audiences having embraced the record. Bruce Eder from AllMusic said Mayfield had "embraced the most progressive soul sounds of the era" on an album that was "practically the Sgt. Pepper's album of '70s soul". In The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), Geoffrey Himes wrote that the songs remained irresistibly catchy, even though sometimes Mayfield's messages were oversimplified and the production sounded excessively "ornate". Treblezine names it among the 10 essential albums of psychedelic soul. Awards
In 1972, Mayfield won the Prix Otis Redding (best R&B album) from the Académie du Jazz for Curtis. Cover
The song "We People Who Are Darker Than Blue" has been covered by the British rock band Babe Ruth on their third album Babe Ruth''.
Альбомның мұқабасы
Curtis is the debut studio album by American soul musician Curtis Mayfield, released in September 1970. Produced by Mayfield, it was released on his own label Curtom Records. The musical styles of Curtis moved further away from the pop soul sounds of Mayfield's previous group The Impressions and featured more of a funk and psychedelic influenced sound. The album's subject matter incorporates political and social concerns of the time. Curtis sold well at the time charting at number one on the Billboard Black albums (for five nonconsecutive weeks) and number nineteen on the Billboard Pop albums charts. Only the single "(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go" charted in the United States; however, an edited version of "Move On Up" would spend 10 weeks in the top 50 of the UK Singles Chart. In 2020, the album was ranked at number 275 on Rolling Stone'''s 500 greatest albums of all time list. Background
Mayfield began work on his own self titled album in 1970. Although he never intended to leave the Impressions permanently, he would officially leave them in 1971, under recommendation from his business manager Marv Stuart and given the trend for both R&B and rock artists to go solo. Recording and production
Like with some of his later Impressions work, Mayfield's lyrics reflected the social and political concern rising in black America at the time. Mayfield was one of the earliest artists to speak openly about African American pride and community struggle. Mayfield reflected upon this time as a "happening era when people stopped wearing tuxedos people were getting down a little more." Critical reception
In a contemporary review for Rolling Stone, John Wendell was disappointed by Curtis, finding much of Mayfield's music more rhythmic than melodic, "fragmentary, garbled and frustrating to listen to"; he called the lyrics haphazardly written and mealy mouthed. "He tries to deal with some pretty serious and complex subjects by stringing together phrases that end with the same sound—whether they make sense together or not", Wendell critiqued. "Sure, it's all subjective, but I can't myself see that what we need is 'Respect for the steeple/power to the people.'" The Village Voice critic Robert Christgau was also somewhat unmoved by the album's "essentially middle class guides to black pride" but qualified his judgment as reflecting a certain degree of cultural relativism on his part, making note of African American audiences having embraced the record. Bruce Eder from AllMusic said Mayfield had "embraced the most progressive soul sounds of the era" on an album that was "practically the Sgt. Pepper's album of '70s soul". In The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), Geoffrey Himes wrote that the songs remained irresistibly catchy, even though sometimes Mayfield's messages were oversimplified and the production sounded excessively "ornate". Treblezine names it among the 10 essential albums of psychedelic soul. Awards
In 1972, Mayfield won the Prix Otis Redding (best R&B album) from the Académie du Jazz for Curtis. Cover
The song "We People Who Are Darker Than Blue" has been covered by the British rock band Babe Ruth on their third album Babe Ruth''.
Mayfield began work on his own self titled album in 1970. Although he never intended to leave the Impressions permanently, he would officially leave them in 1971, under recommendation from his business manager Marv Stuart and given the trend for both R&B and rock artists to go solo. Recording and production
Like with some of his later Impressions work, Mayfield's lyrics reflected the social and political concern rising in black America at the time. Mayfield was one of the earliest artists to speak openly about African American pride and community struggle. Mayfield reflected upon this time as a "happening era when people stopped wearing tuxedos people were getting down a little more." Critical reception
In a contemporary review for Rolling Stone, John Wendell was disappointed by Curtis, finding much of Mayfield's music more rhythmic than melodic, "fragmentary, garbled and frustrating to listen to"; he called the lyrics haphazardly written and mealy mouthed. "He tries to deal with some pretty serious and complex subjects by stringing together phrases that end with the same sound—whether they make sense together or not", Wendell critiqued. "Sure, it's all subjective, but I can't myself see that what we need is 'Respect for the steeple/power to the people.'" The Village Voice critic Robert Christgau was also somewhat unmoved by the album's "essentially middle class guides to black pride" but qualified his judgment as reflecting a certain degree of cultural relativism on his part, making note of African American audiences having embraced the record. Bruce Eder from AllMusic said Mayfield had "embraced the most progressive soul sounds of the era" on an album that was "practically the Sgt. Pepper's album of '70s soul". In The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), Geoffrey Himes wrote that the songs remained irresistibly catchy, even though sometimes Mayfield's messages were oversimplified and the production sounded excessively "ornate". Treblezine names it among the 10 essential albums of psychedelic soul. Awards
In 1972, Mayfield won the Prix Otis Redding (best R&B album) from the Académie du Jazz for Curtis. Cover
The song "We People Who Are Darker Than Blue" has been covered by the British rock band Babe Ruth on their third album Babe Ruth''.
"We People Who Are Darker Than Blue" әнін британдық рок-тобы Babe Ruth өздерінің үшінші альбомы Babe Ruth-та қайта орындады.
Curtis is the debut studio album by American soul musician Curtis Mayfield, released in September 1970. Produced by Mayfield, it was released on his own label Curtom Records. The musical styles of Curtis moved further away from the pop soul sounds of Mayfield's previous group The Impressions and featured more of a funk and psychedelic influenced sound. The album's subject matter incorporates political and social concerns of the time. Curtis sold well at the time charting at number one on the Billboard Black albums (for five nonconsecutive weeks) and number nineteen on the Billboard Pop albums charts. Only the single "(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go" charted in the United States; however, an edited version of "Move On Up" would spend 10 weeks in the top 50 of the UK Singles Chart. In 2020, the album was ranked at number 275 on Rolling Stone'''s 500 greatest albums of all time list. Background
Mayfield began work on his own self titled album in 1970. Although he never intended to leave the Impressions permanently, he would officially leave them in 1971, under recommendation from his business manager Marv Stuart and given the trend for both R&B and rock artists to go solo. Recording and production
Like with some of his later Impressions work, Mayfield's lyrics reflected the social and political concern rising in black America at the time. Mayfield was one of the earliest artists to speak openly about African American pride and community struggle. Mayfield reflected upon this time as a "happening era when people stopped wearing tuxedos people were getting down a little more." Critical reception
In a contemporary review for Rolling Stone, John Wendell was disappointed by Curtis, finding much of Mayfield's music more rhythmic than melodic, "fragmentary, garbled and frustrating to listen to"; he called the lyrics haphazardly written and mealy mouthed. "He tries to deal with some pretty serious and complex subjects by stringing together phrases that end with the same sound—whether they make sense together or not", Wendell critiqued. "Sure, it's all subjective, but I can't myself see that what we need is 'Respect for the steeple/power to the people.'" The Village Voice critic Robert Christgau was also somewhat unmoved by the album's "essentially middle class guides to black pride" but qualified his judgment as reflecting a certain degree of cultural relativism on his part, making note of African American audiences having embraced the record. Bruce Eder from AllMusic said Mayfield had "embraced the most progressive soul sounds of the era" on an album that was "practically the Sgt. Pepper's album of '70s soul". In The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), Geoffrey Himes wrote that the songs remained irresistibly catchy, even though sometimes Mayfield's messages were oversimplified and the production sounded excessively "ornate". Treblezine names it among the 10 essential albums of psychedelic soul. Awards
In 1972, Mayfield won the Prix Otis Redding (best R&B album) from the Académie du Jazz for Curtis. Cover
The song "We People Who Are Darker Than Blue" has been covered by the British rock band Babe Ruth on their third album Babe Ruth''.
Mayfield began work on his own self titled album in 1970. Although he never intended to leave the Impressions permanently, he would officially leave them in 1971, under recommendation from his business manager Marv Stuart and given the trend for both R&B and rock artists to go solo. Recording and production
Like with some of his later Impressions work, Mayfield's lyrics reflected the social and political concern rising in black America at the time. Mayfield was one of the earliest artists to speak openly about African American pride and community struggle. Mayfield reflected upon this time as a "happening era when people stopped wearing tuxedos people were getting down a little more." Critical reception
In a contemporary review for Rolling Stone, John Wendell was disappointed by Curtis, finding much of Mayfield's music more rhythmic than melodic, "fragmentary, garbled and frustrating to listen to"; he called the lyrics haphazardly written and mealy mouthed. "He tries to deal with some pretty serious and complex subjects by stringing together phrases that end with the same sound—whether they make sense together or not", Wendell critiqued. "Sure, it's all subjective, but I can't myself see that what we need is 'Respect for the steeple/power to the people.'" The Village Voice critic Robert Christgau was also somewhat unmoved by the album's "essentially middle class guides to black pride" but qualified his judgment as reflecting a certain degree of cultural relativism on his part, making note of African American audiences having embraced the record. Bruce Eder from AllMusic said Mayfield had "embraced the most progressive soul sounds of the era" on an album that was "practically the Sgt. Pepper's album of '70s soul". In The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), Geoffrey Himes wrote that the songs remained irresistibly catchy, even though sometimes Mayfield's messages were oversimplified and the production sounded excessively "ornate". Treblezine names it among the 10 essential albums of psychedelic soul. Awards
In 1972, Mayfield won the Prix Otis Redding (best R&B album) from the Académie du Jazz for Curtis. Cover
The song "We People Who Are Darker Than Blue" has been covered by the British rock band Babe Ruth on their third album Babe Ruth''.
Трек тізімі
Барлық әндердің авторы және композиторы Кёртис Мейфилд, ескерілген жағдайларды қоспағанда.
All songs written and composed by Curtis Mayfield except where noted.
Альбом
Жыл Ең жоғары жарнамалық орындары АҚШ Поп альбомдары АҚШ R&B альбомдары АҚШ R&B синглдері 1970 "(Қайырланба) Төменде тозақ болса, бәріміз бара жатырмыз" 29 3 — 1971 "Алға жылжу" — — 12
Year Peak chart positions U. S. Pop albums U. S. R&B albums U. S. R&B Singles 1970"(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go" 29 3 — 1971"Move On Up" — — 12