Reflections [Import]

Gil Scott-Heron | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 25, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Ariola Germany
• ASIN: B000024QBI
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #33,672 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #18 in Music > Miscellaneous > Poetry, Spoken Word & Interviews > Poetry
  • #58 in Music > Rap & Hip-Hop > Old School

Track Listings

1. Storm Music

2. Grandma's Hands

3. Is That Jazz?

4. Morning Thoughts

5. Inner City Blues

6. Gun

7. B Movie

Editorial Reviews

1992 reissue from BMB of his 1981 album for Arista. Seven tracks, including 'Storm Music', 'Grandma's Hands' and 'Morning Thoughts'.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Listen to B-Movie NOW (2006), May 17, 2006

By 

Nic "Nic" (Paris, France) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Reflections (Audio CD)

Americans are living the consequences of what Mr. Scott-Heron warned of more than twenty years ago.

"Mandate, my ass"

"What has happened is that, in the last twenty years America has changed from a producer to a consumer"

"We used to be a producer ... and now we are consumers, finding it difficult to understand"

"Natural resources and minerals will change your world"

Unfortunately, most available versions of this song cut the extended outro, the survival mantra :

"this ain't really your life; it ain't nothing' but a movie"

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 3 great songs backed up by 3 or 4 good ones, December 7, 1999

By 

Steven Savage - See all my reviews

This review is from: Reflections (Audio CD)

I'm not really a fan of Jazz and I'm not really sure why GSH appears in the Jazz sections of most record stores but after initially discovering him through the excellent (although not quite as good) "The Revolution will not be televised" a friend pointed me in the direction of "Reflections". The album is funky, angry and clever. Anybody who can do a better version of "Inner City Blues" than Marvin Gaye's original needs to be taken seriously and this song together with the closer "B-movie" are the hilights of a great album.

How can a man make an album that is so politically savvy and sharp but still very funky and sexy? Buy it.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Progressive and poignant, November 4, 2005

By 

Philip Ames (BROOKLYN, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Reflections (Audio CD)

i first found this LP for a pound in a junk bin. i'd heard of Heron and figured that a pound was a safe bet. what i got was a hundred times the value of my money. and definitely worth the much higher price i now have to pay!

no other record of his connected with me as fully as this LP did, it is still a superb record and the CD version has done nothing to suck out any of the vinyl quality (thank God!). Grandma's Hands is one of the most evocative love songs i have ever heard and i still treasure it deeply.

my only disappointment was the song Morning Thoughts, which now just seems turgid and dull. Other than that, the songs are exceptional, the cover versions - I favor this version of Inner City Blues over any other (sorry, Mr Gaye) - are spot on. All in all, worth every cent that it's cost me to date.