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The best" target="_blank">Best best" target="_blank">Best of Fela Kuti is a 2-CD compilation album by Nigerian Afrobeat artist Fela Kuti, released in 1999 by MCA Records. It was issued in the United States in 2000 as part of a reissue series of Kuti's albums. The album was reissued as The best" target="_blank">Best of the Black President in 2009 by Knitting Factory Records and received universal acclaim from music critics. A companion 2-CD compilation, also released in 1999, was reissued in the U.S. in 2013 by Knitting Factory as The best" target="_blank">Best of the Black President 2.




Critical reception



In a contemporary review for The Village Voice, music critic Robert Christgau said that The best" target="_blank">Best best" target="_blank">Best of Fela Kuti is the essential album from Kuti and "a masterful piece of compilation for an artist who deserves the best" target="_blank">best." He applauded the decision to edit or "unceremoniously" reduce the exhaustive lengths of the original songs in half, adding that they feature "top-notch tirades, explosive horn blasts", and riffs Kuti could "never improve no matter how often he [tried]". Christgau named it the fifth best" target="_blank">best album of 2000 in his list for the Pazz & Jop critics' poll. Vibe magazine's Harry Allen said that it has Kuti's "finest work". In 2005, Spin magazine ranked The best" target="_blank">Best best" target="_blank">Best of Fela Kuti the fourth best" target="_blank">best world music album of all time.
The album's 2009 reissue by Knitting Factory Records received universal acclaim from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, it received an average score of 93, based on 5 reviews. Allmusic's Thom Jurek recommended the album even for listeners who own all of Kuti's previous music: "this is a killer mix and needs to be in the collection anyway." Michaelangelo Matos of The A.V. Club credited it for doing "the impossible by summing up a singular performer who liked his songs to jam on out to a half-hour or more.
Pitchfork critic Mike Powell wrote that, although it does not have "all of Fela's best" target="_blank">best material", the album "isn't just a good place for someone starting out, it's probably the only Fela album many will need to own." In a less enthusiastic review, Will Hermes of Rolling Stone magazine said that the music is "killer", but criticized the lack of recording info in the liner notes: "The music speaks for itself, but presidential history deserves better."




Track listing






Personnel


Credits (such as they are) for the album are adapted from Allmusic.

Fela Kuti – vocals
Adrian Morgan – remastering




References






Further reading


Gehr, Richard (21 March 2000). "Afrobeat Generations". The Village Voice. New York. Retrieved 1 August 2013.
Lynch, David (14 July 2000). "Chief Priest of the Shrine". The Austin Chronicle. Retrieved 1 August 2013.




External links


The best" target="_blank">Best best" target="_blank">Best of Fela Kuti at Discogs (list of releases)
The best" target="_blank">Best of the Black President at Discogs (list of releases)

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