Quality, impact, consistency and legacy all factor into these rankings. I’ll be excluding his 1997 Unplugged album, which is basically a greatest hits album and it’s unfair to rank those among original material. So today, I’m finally stepping up to the challenge, ranking all of Maxwell’s LPs from bottom to top. When it comes to music, it’s quality, y’all, not quantity. His song 'Wet Dream' (1968) included overtly sexual lyrics and launched a new style of reggae. He had several hits with the vocal group the Emotions. I probably can’t argue too hard against those differences when there’s this level of consistency across the board. Max Romeo (born Maxwell Livingston Smith, 22 November 1944) is a Jamaican reggae and roots reggae recording musician who has achieved chart success in his home country and in the United Kingdom. The album itself is pretty much everything you could want from a Daft Punk album. There was a gap of over a decade between Human After All and Random Access Memories with only the (admittedly superb) TRON Legacy to keep us going in the meantime. An alternate version of the song was released as a single from the soundtrack album to the 1997 film Love Jones starring Laenz Tate and Nia Long. The Album Daft Punk can’t really be seen as the most prolific act going. Yes, it feels weird that despite enjoying a nearly 25-year career and being one of the most recognizable artists of his era, Maxwell only has five studio LPs to his name.īut if you want to know why I’ve waited so long to rank his discography (despite TONS of requests), here’s facts – all his album are so consistent, so engrossing, so good that ranking them felt like an impossible task.Ĭhances are, your personal list will look much different. The third single from Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite, 'Sumthin' Sumthin'', peaked at number 22 on the Billboard Dance Music chart. My response: Legends have nothing to prove to content-hungry children. If you aren’t putting out music regularly, you’re irrelevant, I was told. Maxwell Artist Information Overview Biography Discography Filter Discography By - Maxwells Urban Hang Suite. 2001 - Lifetime From Maxwells 2001 Now album, Lifetime was nominated. I had a convo awhile back with an R&B fan who claimed that the recent obscurity of R&B legends, including neo-soul superstars like D’Angelo, Erykah Badu and, yes, Maxwell, would tarnish their legacies.