Gil Scott-Heron's Top Ten Songs.
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Gil Scott-Heron was a man of incredible talented. Having started his career as poet и writerhe rose to even greater fame as a revolutionary bluesmanwhose music included oral speech, jazz и funk. With the support of his chief musical collaborator. Brian Jackson and a group of inspired musicians, Scott-Heron wasn't afraid to speak out on the sharp topics: manipulation by the consciousness of the media, the politician racial discrimination, struggle with different types of addiction.
Many music critics have dubbed the rhythmic rebel the godfather of rap. Indeed, mixture Scott-Heron's bookish intellectualism and cynical humour inspired generation rebels hip-hopwho took him in bold vision and drew on his work to create their own tracks. Let's take a look back ten of his most iconic tracks.
"Pieces of a Man" (1971).
Title track to Scott-Heron's debut studio album was an appropriate odoi to broken black men trying to solve their problems. Former magazine critic "Rolling Stone." Vince Aletti commented on the composition:
"One can sense the extent to which Heron's close this theme. He sings with pain in a voice that conveys sadness, bitterness и tenderness".
"Home Is Where The Hatred Is" (1971).
Damn funny, but sad at the same time history о addictwho wanders the city. Many people consider the song autobiographicalas if the musician was telling a story about myself. As the American rapper said Kanye Westprocessing this track and using it to create a composition. "My Way Home.":
"This song still feels the same powerfulas it was more than forty years ago."
"The Bottle" (1974)
Scott-Heron Throughout his career, he's created pioneering music, and "The Bottle" - to prove it. The track about alcoholism rose to number 15 on the charts. R&B in 1974. Although the lyrics of the song were seriousand the music itself was dancing. According to one version, the success of this track inspired music producer and founder of the "Arista Records" Clive Davis to sign a treaty with Scott-Heron.
"H20 Blues" (1974)
The track was recorded at the studio "D&B Sound.". This song has become mass attack on the scandalous politicians who inhabited Gil Scott-Heron's homeland - Chicago. Composition of the era of the Watergate scandal (a political scandal in America in the 70s, ending with the resignation of the country's president Richard Nixon), aimed directly at the president and his team of crooks.
"We Almost Lost Detroit" (1977).
Scott-Heron wasn't afraid to bring up in his art acute problems. This track is about the dangers nuclear power. The musician was inspired by John G. Fuller's book "We almost lost Detroit." power plant Fermiwhich nearly collapsed in 1966. In addition to the idea itself, the musician borrowed from the author and title for your track.
"Angola, Louisiana" (1978).
Scott-Heron и Jackson wrote this track about unjust the imprisonment of a black teenager Gary Tylerwho was locked up in 1975. He was accused of murdering a 13-year-old white child, although the evidence absent. Tyler was arrested for the offence. It's believed that after the police compelled his confession, he became the youngest man ever sentenced to the capital punishment. Many performers, such as bands "UB40." и "Chumbawamba.", have since touched on Tyler's story in their songs, but the first was Gil Scott-Heron.
"Angel Dust" (1978)
In the mid-1970s, a few years before the epidemic. of crack addictionthat hit New York City, phencyclidine, aka. "angel dust"has become a killer drug that has spread through all over America. Scott-Heron had firsthand knowledge of what it was like dependenceso I brought it up in my song. "Angel Dust.".
"I'll Take Care of You" (2010)
Gil Scott-Heron I've been through a lot: prison conclusion, dependence from illegal substances... Album "I'm New Here" marked it return in 2010. The record was recognised as one of the best of works in his career. One version of the song "I'll Take Care of You" first made famous by the singer to Brook Benton. It's been remixed by a British DJ. Jamie xxwho turned the track into sensation on the dance floor.
"Me and The Devil" (2010).
Most avid music lovers know the legend of the original guitar bluesman Roberta Johnsonwho allegedly sold his soul to the devil in exchange for talent. In a beautiful and poignant cover of a Johnson classic. "Me and The Devil" Gil transferred this romantic story to himself.
"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" (1971)
Although the original version sounded kind of rough voiceover poem (it was also included on Gil's album "Small Talk on 125th and Lenox."), the song was later re-released with a musical with an accompaniment that included funk and flutes.
