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Gil Scott-Heron
Ghetto Style
Genres: International Music, Jazz, Special Interest, Pop, Rap & Hip-Hop, R&B

Track Listings (21) - Disc #1
1. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
2. Or Doown You Fall
3. The Needle's Eye
4. I Think I'll Call It Morning
5. When You Are Who You Are
6. Save The Children
7. Did You Hear What They Said?
8. Free Will
9. Speed Kills
10. Middle Of Our Day
11. Pieces Of A Man
12. A Sign Of The Ages
13. The Get Out Of The Ghetto Blues
14. Lady Day & John Coltrane
15. Home Is Where Hatred Is
16. No Knock
17. The Revolution Will Not Be Telvised(Early
18. Sex Education: Ghetto Style
19. Small Talk At 125th & Lenox
20. King Alfred Plan
21. Billy Green Is Dead

CD Details

All Artists: Gil Scott-Heron
Title: Ghetto Style
Members Wishing: 3
Total Copies: 0
Label: Bmg Int'l
Release Date: 7/15/1999
Album Type: Import
Genres: International Music, Jazz, Special Interest, Pop, Rap & Hip-Hop, R&B
Styles: Jazz Fusion, Vocal Jazz, Poetry, Spoken Word & Interviews, Vocal Pop, Old School, Pop Rap, Soul
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 632427867029, 743216280629, 766484980428

Synopsis

Album Description

21 select tracks from the earliest albums by arguably the greatest influence on rap, writer/ avant-garde poet/ musician Gil Scott-Heron. All cuts are from his first three albums, which the Flying Dutchman originally released between 1970-72, and include his signature song 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised', as well as an early version of it. 1998 Camden release.

CD Reviews

The militant Marvin Gaye.

darragh o'donoghue | 04/06/2001

(4 out of 5 stars)

"In these slothful and flatulent times, the polemical art of Gil Scott-Heron can be galvanising. His most famous track, 'The Revolution will not be televised' (this compilation's opener) is characteristic: over spare percussion and restless flute, Scott-Heron raps a pulverising critique of contemporary culture, the mind-numbing effects of televison, the endemic racism of White America. Scott-Heron's concentrated delivery, his terse rhetoric and awesome self-confidence are so bracing, it's only later you notice the song is about everything the Revolution will NOT be.this compilation is taken from Scott-Heron's first two albums, when he moved from performance poet to musician. that first song is such a bruiser, that it's quite a shock to find it followed by some very pleasant, sunny, coffee-table jazz. The lyrics remain angry and confrontational, but somehow seem neutered in such sweet musical context. The closing 6 tracks, taken from a 1972 live performance, suggest what may have been lost. Introducing his 'associates', the set is sparse, stern, funny, fearsome, incendiary (although the version of 'Revolution' is endearingly halting): more like performance poetry or a political meeting than 'music'."