Best Curtis Mayfield Album

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Which is the best solo Curtis LP? Pretty easy to predict which will end up in the top three. My number one's gonna end up at 7, I just know it.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Curtis (1970)	15
Super Fly OST (1972)	8
There's No Place Like America Today (1975)	6
Curtis/Live! (1971)	3
New World Order (1997)	2
Roots (1971)	2
Short Eyes OST (1977)	1
Got to Find a Way (1974)	1
Back to the World (1973)	1
Do It All Night (1978)	1
Honesty (1983)	0
We Come in Peace with a Message of Love (1985)	0
Live in Europe (1988)	0
Live at Ronnie Scott's (1988)	0
Take it to the Streets (1990)	0
Love is the Place (1982)	0
The Right Combination (1980)	0
Something to Believe In (1980)	0
Heartbeat (1979)	0
Never Say You Can't Survive (1977)	0
Give, Get, Take and Have (1976)	0
Sweet Exorcist (1974)	0
Curtis in Chicago (1973)	0

― chromecassettes, Sunday, 8 September 2013 17:48 (eleven years ago)

Curtis

― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Sunday, 8 September 2013 17:52 (eleven years ago)

It has to be Curtis which is one of my 15 favourite albums of all time. Also really love There's No Place Like America Today, Super Fly, Roots and Back to the World. Short Eyes is a really underrated album too.

I'd say his run of albums in the 70's is as good as or possibly even better than Stevie Wonders.

― Kitchen Person, Sunday, 8 September 2013 17:56 (eleven years ago)

there's no place like america today

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Sunday, 8 September 2013 18:08 (eleven years ago)

I know it's not Sweet Exorcist but man the first thing I think when I see this is "I really love Sweet Exorcist"

― combination hair (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 8 September 2013 19:14 (eleven years ago)

the horns on No Place Like America & esp on So In Love are just so incredible though

― combination hair (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 8 September 2013 19:28 (eleven years ago)

Curtis/Live! is pretty great, something about that record is perfect, just a great overall vibe between the players & audience. one of my fave live albums.

― tylerw, Sunday, 8 September 2013 20:24 (eleven years ago)

I'd say his run of albums in the 70's is as good as or possibly even better than Stevie Wonders.
i definitely think curtis' are better. [stevie is great too obviously]

― tylerw, Sunday, 8 September 2013 20:25 (eleven years ago)

I might be wrong about my fave ending up at no. 7. That's cool.

― chromecassettes, Monday, 9 September 2013 03:24 (eleven years ago)

I find it nigh on impossible to pick between the first three - all astoundingly great.

― Hinklepicker, Monday, 9 September 2013 06:02 (eleven years ago)

how we doin'?

― chromecassettes, Friday, 13 September 2013 11:22 (eleven years ago)

There's No Place Like America Today

― whos next with plex (prettylikealaindelon), Friday, 13 September 2013 12:34 (eleven years ago)

curtis obvs but i'm going to be challopsy and choose back to the world

everything from 1978 on is terminally bland IMO

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 13 September 2013 23:23 (eleven years ago)

if superfly was an EP that'd win

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 13 September 2013 23:23 (eleven years ago)

I actually have a lot of time for the last one. I like roots a lot. knowing his ~greatest hits~ & then hearing things like beautiful brother of mine was really mind-expanding for me. even just hearing the long version of move on up. like why is there a short version of move on up when everything they cut out is the long version of move on up.

― @twitizensforlemonlipbalm (schlump), Friday, 13 September 2013 23:49 (eleven years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Saturday, 21 September 2013 00:01 (eleven years ago)

I really should dig into this guy's discog beyond Curtis and Superfly esp considering the former is one of my favorite albums

― The Reverend, Saturday, 21 September 2013 00:41 (eleven years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Sunday, 22 September 2013 00:01 (eleven years ago)

New World Order's brutal. What buzzkills voted for that?

― kaleb, Sunday, 22 September 2013 00:38 (eleven years ago)

Sweet Exorcist (1974) 0

― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Sunday, 22 September 2013 00:43 (eleven years ago)

i didn't but it's a p affecting lp imo. knowing how he recorded it doubly so.

― schlump, Sunday, 22 September 2013 01:08 (eleven years ago)

Honesty and Something to Believe In are good and came out after 1978.

― whos next with plex (prettylikealaindelon), Sunday, 22 September 2013 09:57 (eleven years ago)

Forgot to vote in this! Only one vote for "Back to the World" :(

― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Sunday, 22 September 2013 12:48 (eleven years ago)

I voted for America Today, but it's an extremely hard choice. I would probably vote differently today if the poll were still open. And then change my mind tomorrow. Truly one of the all time greats, he was.

― Austin, Sunday, 22 September 2013 15:29 (eleven years ago)

somehow had never head sweet exorcist, but remedied that this weekend -- great album!

― tylerw, Monday, 23 September 2013 18:45 (eleven years ago)

two months pass...

somehow had never heard There's No Place Like America Today, but remedied that today -- great album!

― parTy friendly (Dan Peterson), Friday, 29 November 2013 19:20 (eleven years ago)

one year passes...

Same as previous poster, but for Roots.

― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Tuesday, 7 April 2015 16:55 (ten years ago)

three years pass...

Currently floored by the indescribable beauty of this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bll10yozxRI

― ant banks and wasp (voodoo chili), Friday, 10 August 2018 04:50 (seven years ago)

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