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Super Fly (soundtrack)

Super Fly
Soundtrack album / studio album by
Curtis Mayfield
ReleasedJuly 11, 1972
RecordedDecember 1971 – May 1972
Studio
Genre
Length36:58
LabelCurtom
ProducerCurtis Mayfield
Curtis Mayfield chronology
Roots
(1971) 		Super Fly
(1972) 		Back to the World
(1973)
Alternative cover
Deluxe 25th anniversary edition cover
Singles from Super Fly
  1. "Freddie's Dead"
    Released: July 1972
  2. "Superfly"
    Released: October 1972
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[5]
Billboard(favorable)[6]
Christgau's Record GuideA−[7]
Los Angeles Times[8]
Pitchfork9.1/10[9]
Q[10]
Rolling Stone(favorable) 1972[11]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide 2004[12]
Sputnikmusic[13]
Vibe(favorable)[14]

Super Fly is the third studio album by American soul musician Curtis Mayfield, released on July 11, 1972 on Curtom Records. It was released as the soundtrack for the Blaxploitation film of the same name. Widely considered a classic of 1970s soul and funk music, Super Fly was a nearly immediate hit. Its sales were bolstered by two million-selling singles, "Freddie's Dead" (number 2 R&B charts, number 4 Pop charts) and the title track (number 5 R&B, number 8 Pop). Super Fly is one of the few soundtracks to out-gross the film it accompanied.[15]

Super Fly, along with Marvin Gaye's What's Going On (1971), was one of the pioneering soul concept albums, with its then-unique socially aware lyrics about poverty and drug abuse making the album stand out.[16][17] The film and the soundtrack may be perceived as dissonant, since the film holds rather ambiguous views on drug dealers, whereas Curtis Mayfield's position is far more critical. Like What's Going On, the album was a surprise hit that record executives felt had little chance at significant sales. Due to its success, Mayfield was tapped for several film soundtracks over the course of the decade.

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  2. ^ "Super Fly | Pitchfork". Pitchfork.
  3. ^ Himes, Geoffrey (May 16, 1990). "Records". The Washington Post. Retrieved January 26, 2021.
  4. ^ "Musical Space: Cinematic Soul". 23 December 2014.
  5. ^ Bush, John. Review: Super Fly. AllMusic. Retrieved 2009-08-05.
  6. ^ Columnist. "Review: Super Fly". Billboard: July 1972.
  7. ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: M". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved March 7, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  8. ^ Hilburn, Robert. Review: Super Fly. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2009-08-05. The 1997 reissue of Super Fly was rated three out of four stars by critic Robert Hilburn. However, Hilburn concludes the review by explaining that the original would have been rated four stars, barring the additions of the reissue, stating "Yet there isn't enough additional material to justify, for most listeners, a second disc, causing what would be a four-star single-disc package to be docked a star".
  9. ^ Smith, Mychal. Review: Super Fly. Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 2018-11-28.
  10. ^ Columnist. "Review: Super Fly Archived 2009-12-01 at the Wayback Machine". Q: 128. September 1994.
  11. ^ Donat, Bob. Review: Super Fly[dead link]. Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2009-08-05.
  12. ^ Hoard, Christian. "Review: Super Fly". Rolling Stone: 523–524. November 2, 2004.
  13. ^ Butler, Nick. Staff Rating: Super Fly. Sputnikmusic. Retrieved 2009-08-05.
  14. ^ Staff. "100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century: Super Fly[permanent dead link]". Vibe: 164. December 1999.
  15. ^ "'Men In Black' To 'Footloose': The Most Memorable Soundtrack Songs That Name-Check Their Movies". MTV. 27 June 2008. Archived from the original on 26 December 2014. Retrieved 10 December 2023.
  16. ^ Boraman, Greg. Review: Super Fly. BBC Music. Retrieved 2014-05-08.
  17. ^ Heller, Jason. Review: Super Fly Archived 2008-07-06 at the Wayback Machine. The Yale Herald. Retrieved 2014-05-08.
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