its off a spoken word album but it has some ambient synthy backing (i think) and gil talks about how he wasn't "gonna write no more poems like this" but "the motherfuckin dogs are in the streets"
― gaz (gaz), Monday, 13 October 2003 22:29 (twenty-one years ago)
'The mother-fuckin' dogs are on the street...'
google
it's on 'the mind of gil scott-heron'
― ron (ron), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 04:23 (twenty-one years ago)
― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 06:32 (twenty-one years ago)
hardly any threads on GSH according to search?
new album coming out on XL(!) next year: http://imnewhere.net/
― unban dictionary (blueski), Monday, 14 September 2009 13:48 (sixteen years ago)
^ one of those 4 previews is a smog song! and it sorta sounds it was produced by sa-ra creative partners and Fennesz. sounds great.
― jaxon, Tuesday, 15 September 2009 02:25 (sixteen years ago)
I am SO excited for this record. the sample of "where did the night go?" is incredible. can't even believe he's covering smog but seriously to hear that GSH is back at it is like renew-my-spirit stuff.
― Herodcare for the Unborn (J0hn D.), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 00:39 (fifteen years ago)
g.s.h. and bill callahan totally sing in the same way, anyway - voices that shift from note to note like they're using a gearstick. i saw gil a couple of times this year: i'd kill for some solo numbers but expect it'll be him & the group throughout.
― high-five machine (schlump), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 01:23 (fifteen years ago)
Okay so I had no clue this was coming and now I'm really excited about this too. That sample IS incredible.
― Sean Carruthers, Wednesday, 30 December 2009 01:29 (fifteen years ago)
Man, I heard "We Almost Lost Detroit" for the first time I ever while driving from (where else?) Detroit to Ann Arbor over the holidays and holyfuck did it blow my mind. Really wishing that was on iTunes right now, in non-live format anyway.
― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 04:26 (fifteen years ago)
me and the devil vocally sounds amazing but the music sounds like trip hop from 96. would have preferred to have geard GSH backed by himself.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 10:30 (fifteen years ago)
this actually sounds like something moby would make. or sample.
listening to winter in america for the first time, where has this album been all my life??
― lute bro (brimstead), Friday, 18 March 2016 03:57 (nine years ago)
http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1423604.1376246441!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_970/f-heron.jpg
― lute bro (brimstead), Friday, 18 March 2016 04:04 (nine years ago)
frank rizzo with the lie detector blues
― lute bro (brimstead), Friday, 18 March 2016 04:06 (nine years ago)
Awesome album, and how did I never go to see GSH in DC, despite growing up and living in the area. When I did finally think about going to see him live his health had gotten even worse.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 18 March 2016 16:33 (nine years ago)
Winter in America is definitely among Gil's best work. Don't overlook his albums from the later 70's though; specifically Bridges is a personal favorite.
― Austin, Friday, 18 March 2016 17:20 (nine years ago)
he played the UK loads, but i only went and finally bought tickets when the comeback album surfaced, despite having loved his records since i was a teen. there was a big cloud of dust from a volcano in iceland that stopped him flying over, the gig was postponed, and then he died.
i love the one with johannesburg on it. and the one with we almost lost detroit. and the liv album with It's Your World - any twelve minute jam on home is where the hatred is is alllllright with me.
― number one the media distorts everything anyways (stevie), Friday, 18 March 2016 20:10 (nine years ago)
Winter in America was the only Gil LP I could find when I first became aware of him back in college, and I remember being disappointed that it didn't bear any similarity to "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" and was instead this kind of mellow jazz-funk sort of thing. I sold it a few years later. now that my tastes have broadened I really miss that album.
― Οὖτις, Friday, 18 March 2016 20:18 (nine years ago)
Freddie Gibbs cover is good.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQmx6HYpJL8
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 10 March 2021 18:01 (four years ago)
heard this today and loved it
https://soundcloud.com/ron-holloway-official/blue-collar
― Heez, Monday, 2 September 2024 00:51 (one year ago)