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April 27, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

His Evolution Was Never Televised: The Anger and Poetry of Gil Scott-Heron

The first I was really aware of Gil Scott-Heron – and I mean really aware– was hearing Paul Ubana Jones perform an a cappella take on Home Is Where the Hatred Is. (Here’s the Gil Scott-Heron original.) I had heard of Gil Scott-Heron; I knew this famous piece. But hearing Jones speak and sing the words…well, that really made me take notice. The compilation […]

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June 14, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Roger Waters: Is This The Life We Really Want?

Roger Waters Is This The Life We Really Want? Columbia Over a quarter century after his last studio solo album, Roger Waters returns and fittingly – since we’d already amused ourselves to death he’s now concerned with whether this is the life we really want. As if he warned us back then and we didn’t […]

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March 22, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 729

Murry Wilson, The Many Moods of Murry Wilson (1967) Any Beach Boys book or doco will tell you there was really only one mood for Murry Wilson – angry. Well, there were shades I guess: bitterness, jealousy, envy…he was a nasty piece of knitting. He claimed to be some sort of musician and therefore the […]