If you skipped my other CD mixes, fine. This is the one to download. One night I dragged Benji to see Coffy at the Film Forum - not really knowing what to expect. I was transfixed. It was hard-core, it was sexy, it was righteous revenge, it was ... Pam Grier. She's a better vigilante than Batman. If you haven't seen Coffy or Foxy Brown, you really should. I can honestly say that my sense of entertainment was altered when I saw Coffy.
Listening to these clips recently, I don't think people today would be able to make these movies. In fact, I was really excited when I heard Quentin Tarantino was making Jackie Brown. However, it was unbelievably tame compared to her early films. There's a thirst for justice and revenge pumping through her original films.
And besides the films, the music is incredible. I really don't even want to bother trying to explain why it's so great. Just listen to it.
So consider this mix a primer course in blaxploitation films. There are two discs. The highlight is track 9 on the second disc - transitioning from Marlena Shaw into one of my favorite clips from Coffy and then into "Treat Her Like a Lady". It scratches an itch I didn't know I had.
This music doesn't work well out of context. It's meant to be listened form start to finish - not randomly. And be sure that the files are marked for gapless playback. There are lots of fade ins and fade outs that don't work if there's a gap in playback.
