The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

by Gil Scott-Heron

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  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 1974
  • Label: Flying Dutchman
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 33:29
  • Community rating: 4.19/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Compiled by Flying Dutchman Records from his first three seminal albums, this retrospective highlights the visceral, rhythmic poetry of the visionary vocalist. The biting sociopolitical critiques layered over deep, syncopated jazz-funk grooves provided an incredibly influential foundation for the development of conscious hip-hop.

Genres

Descriptors: political, conscious

Tracklist

  1. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (3:05)
  2. Sex Education: Ghetto Style (0:51)
  3. The Get out of the Ghetto Blues (5:06)
  4. No Knock (1:29)
  5. Lady Day and John Coltrane (3:34)
  6. Pieces of a Man (4:52)
  7. Home Is Where the Hatred Is (3:19)
  8. Brother (1:45)
  9. Save the Children (4:25)
  10. Whitey on the Moon (1:29)
  11. Did You Hear What They Said? (3:31)

Credits

  • Gil Scott-Heron - primary artist, written-by
  • Jerry Jemmott - bass
  • Ron Carter - bass
  • Bernard Purdie - drums
  • Hubert Laws - flute, alto saxophone
  • Burt Jones - guitar
  • David Spinozza - guitar
  • Charlie Saunders - percussion

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