Donny Hathaway was an amazing talent - I literally just listened to that album yesterday. His recordings with Roberta Flack are fantastic, too.

X-Ray Spex - Germ Free Adolescents


1978 EMI UK

Gil Scott-Heron - Pieces of a Man


1971 Flying Dutchman

Got a box from one of my top enablers this morning - these were the first 2 discs I played (I'm on side two of Pieces of a Man right now).

I've been meaning to pick up a copy of Germ Free Adolescents for ages, but never saw it in my usual haunts, so when this showed up on a trusted seller's list, I grabbed it (along with 10 or so other records). Some find Poly-Styrene's voice grating, but I think it's distinctive as hell. Germ Free Adolescents, Identity and The Day the World Turned DayGlo are pretty well known, but the rest of the album's worth a listen, too.

I doubt the Gil Scott-Heron record needs much of an intro. Politically charged soul jazz with Gil's proto-rapping on some tracks - most famously, on The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.

@whyaduck

I'm a fan of that X Ray Spex album as well, took awhile to grow on me, but it's a classic for sure. I do not have any GSH in my collection...need to rectify that eventually.

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^^@Boombat and Whyaduck I guess I gotta start checking the Jam's stuff a little closer. I've read a lot of good feeback on them but never really investigated further.

@LM, nice change-up with the Tyrone Davis - Can I Change My Mind recommendation. I got a few bad Tyrone Davis singles that definitely isn't one of them.

Best of comps can be pretty drab but I can't recommend "snap!" By The Jam enough. If you wanna get straight to it, there you go. Fucking great compilation.

^Thanks Boombat, I'll check for that!

Also great stuff Whyaduck, X-Ray Spex and Gil-Scott Heron in one post... Good shit.

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