All titles written by Gil Scott-Heron except where noted. Gil Scott-Heron, vocals; with accompanying musicians. Recorded in New York between late summer 1970 and March 3, 1972. Compact discs. Program notes (55 p. : ill.) in container.
Contents:
Disc one. Songs. Lady Day and John Coltrane ; Home is where the hatred is ; Save the children ; The revolution will not be televised ; Did you hear what they said? ; Pieces of a man / Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron ; Speed kills / Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron ; Everyday ; I think I'll call it morning / Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron ; When you are who you are / Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron ; Free will / Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron ; Or down you fall / Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron ; The needle's eye / Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron ; The middle of your day / Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron ; A sign of the ages / Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron ; Who'll pay reparations on my soul? Disc two. Poetry, jazz & the blues. Introduction/The revolution will not be televised ; Whitey on the moon ; No knock ; Small talk at 125th and Lenox ; Billy Green is dead ; Sex education : ghetto style ; The vulture ; The prisoner / Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron ; --and then he wrote meditations ; Plastic pattern people ; The get out of the ghetto blues / Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron ; Artificialness (Pretty Purdie & the Playboys) ; Ain't no new thing ; Brother ; Evolution (and flashback) ; The King Alfred plan ; Enough ; Paint it black ; Omen ; Wiggy ; Comment #1 ; The subject was faggots. Disc three. The alternate free will. Did you hear what they said? (alt take 1) ; The middle of your day (alt take 1) / Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron ; Free will (alt take 1) / Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron ; Speed kills (alt take 3) / Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron ; The King Alfred plan (alt) ; No knock (alt) ; Wiggy (alt) ; Ain't no new thing (breakdown take) ; Billy Green is dead (alt) ; --and then he wrote meditations (alt) -- No knock (breakdown alt take) ; Free will (alt take 2) / Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron .
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