I haven’t heard the remixes on Mayfield : Remixed yet, but I wonder if we really need a remix of classic soul songs like Superfly, (Don’t Worry) If There’s A Hell Below We’re All Gonna Go [btw, Rhino, why on earth did you change gonna go to going to go although Curtis Mayfield wrote and sang gonna go?], Move On Up or People Get Ready? There’s nothing wrong with another artist doing a cover version, but remixing the originals? Are major labels really so desperate and have run out of ideas? There’s so much talent out there where investing money would have made much more sense.
So, dear record label CEO, who’s next? Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, Marvin Gaye, Bessie Smith? They all have done great records and most of their songs are totally unknown to the mass market, especially to today’s youth. And you don’t have to ask the artist if he or she likes the idea at all…oh, I forgot, you don’t ask the artists anyway.
2005/17/3 at 17:14
the result is terrible. curtis certainly will turn over in his grave!
2006/24/3 at 22:27
whoever wrote the last couple replies "THEY ARE FOOLS". Maybe they don’t seem to understand how soulful the music produced by Louie Vega or King Britt is. Obviously they said them selve they have’nt hear it yet . Hear it before you comment on it. Understand this Louie Vega has just as much soul as Curtis if not more. Take a little time and find your own soul , because you have abviously lost it Mike