Moving Target [Import]

Gil Scott-Heron | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 9, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Sony/Bmg Int'l
• ASIN: B0000073NW
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #165,257 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This albums shows Gil at his best, in his world, February 3, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Moving Target (Audio CD)

It must be said that Gil Scott Heron was ahead of his time. Many of today's hip-hop artists are riding on his coat tails with their music. His songwritting ability takes a real look at the condition of the world. Gil aways sung about the true!!!!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gil at his best, September 23, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Moving Target (Audio CD)

I've seen Gil Scott-Heron in concert and he is one of the only artists I've seen that sounds as good as his album. He performed many of the cuts off of this fantastic album The songs have his trademark biting lyrics combined with his resonating voice and jazzy style. Listening to this CD will be as good as attending his show.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A poetic plea for world peace!, August 30, 2008

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Patricia Hennessy "CD Cellar 4" (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Moving Target (Vinyl)

Gil Scott-Heron's last proper album for more than a decade, Moving Target was recorded after a period of intense touring (hence the title) and, perhaps understandably, finds the Midnight Band playing a larger role than usual. It also may reflect the group's travels, as the typical, tastefully jazzy R&B and funk grooves -- like set-opener "Fast Lane" and "Explanations" -- are supplemented with more exotic sounds. Like Stevie Wonder, for whom he and the Midnight Band opened a tour in 1980, Scott-Heron and his bandmates were experimenting with reggae. "No Exit" has clear echoes of Bob Marley, while "Ready or Not" is a sultry island jam. Both tunes also had themes more personal than political, a shift noticeable elsewhere on the album (even "Washington D.C.," with its seemingly obvious subject, is as much about the resilient spirit of D.C.'s citizens as it's about the city's politicians). That's somewhat surprising, given that Scott-Heron had recently enjoyed success with "B-Movie," a pointed attack on then-president Ronald Reagan. But "Blue Collar" is a populist manifesto that gives shout-outs to working folks in a variety of professions across the fruited plain before concluding with the dispirited chorus, "There ain't no place we ain't been down," and "Black History/The World" offers nearly ten minutes of Afro-centric theorizing, beginning with a spoken introduction that hearkens back to Scott-Heron's sarcastic, poetic beginnings and ends with a simple -- some would say simplistic -- plea for peace and world change.