― whenuweremine (whenuweremine), Saturday, 18 June 2005 00:01 (twenty years ago)
― jaxxxon, Saturday, 18 June 2005 03:11 (twenty years ago)
― Seuss, Saturday, 18 June 2005 03:41 (twenty years ago)
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 18 June 2005 03:47 (twenty years ago)
Some favorites of mine :
Willie Hutch-the mack.
Isaac Hayes-tough guys.
Isaac Hayes-truck turner.
Roy Ayers-coffy.
Don Julian-shorty the pimp.
Don Julian-savage! super soul.
The Staple Singers-let's do it again. (Curtis Mayfield produced).
Johnny Pate-bucktown.
Johnny Pate-shaft in africa.
― Ellis From Die Hard, Saturday, 18 June 2005 07:42 (twenty years ago)
Trouble Man and Black Caesar aren't far behind
(all three of those movies are worth searching too)
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Saturday, 18 June 2005 10:09 (twenty years ago)
It also should go without saying that Earth, Wind & Fire's soundtrack to Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song is essential.
― ian p is playing at my house, Saturday, 18 June 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)
and probably I've mentioned this before elsewhere, but anyone who is into blaxploit and so forth needs to get hold of a copy of "Train Ride to Hollywood," the Bloodstone-dream-sequence-train-ride-with-old-time-Hollywood-star-imitator-murder-mystery film from 1975. Bloodstone does some singing, too--this movie and its music is sort of like the first Dr. Buzzard's Orig Savannah Band album for complete idiots!
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Saturday, 18 June 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)
this is a great list.
― poortheatre, Monday, 19 May 2008 02:56 (eighteen years ago)
Wow, it is. I'm glad to see Blacula and Black Belt Jones (a couple of my favorites) earned perfect scores. And tons of perfect scores for strks I don't know, too. Thanks, man!
― Oilyrags, Monday, 19 May 2008 13:13 (eighteen years ago)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VJ932EXDL._SS500_.jpg
― billstevejim, Monday, 19 May 2008 13:17 (eighteen years ago)
Hardly the only concern on this blog, but loads o' good music: http://blaxploitationpride.blogspot.com/
― forksclovetofu, Monday, 19 May 2008 14:01 (eighteen years ago)
enjoyed the music in The Mack, the film less so (cept for Richard Pryor and Juanita Moore).
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 16:11 (ten years ago)
I like that soundtrack too, but have not seen the movie.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 6 August 2015 17:22 (ten years ago)
No ILE thread for Blaxploitation films, so I'll put this here...The Elvis Mitchell documentary on Netflix (Is That Black Enough for You?!?--which does have a lot on soundtracks) is all over the place, but good clips from films I didn't know, and the interview clips include many key living people, plus lots of Sam Jackson and Laurence Fishburne. No Pam Grier struck me as odd (there's a segment on her, of course)--maybe she's saving herself for her own documentary?
― clemenza, Tuesday, 14 February 2023 12:33 (three years ago)
It’s not quite blaxploitation, but Bill Gunn’s long-suppressed 1970 feature STOP features a score from Fred Myrow that Ry Cooder plays guitar all over, making it his first appearance on a film score. Torrent it. WB’s idiocy has put it in legal limbo indefinitely
― beamish13, Tuesday, 14 February 2023 15:18 (three years ago)
Might have slipped by me, but I don't think that one turned up in the documentary--there was a little bit on Ganja & Hess.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 14 February 2023 17:40 (three years ago)