Marvin Gaye, Love Songs: Bedroom Ballads - 46m 43s

Tracks & Durations

1. Why Did I Choose You	3:24
2. She Needs Me	3:26
3. You Sure Love To Ball	4:43
4. Funny, Not Much	2:44
5. Soon I'll Be Loving You Again	3:14
6. This Will Make You Laugh	2:54
7. Funk Me	5:27
8. The Shadow Of Your Smile (Previously Unrealeased Alternate Vocal)	3:05
9. I Wish I Didn't Love You So	2:35
10. Since I Had You	4:05
11. Feel All My Love Inside	3:24
12. I Won't Cry Anymore	2:54
13. Falling In Love Again	4:38

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Review

Marvin Gaye's Vulnerable is the work of a genius adrift--a lavishly arranged, never-completed album of standards about unrequited love that the great singer tinkered with from 1967 to 1979, finessing his vocals and overdubbing them into a fine, layered mesh. (It was finally issued a few years ago.) Love Songs: Bedroom Ballads is a peculiar beast, combining the seven extant tracks from the Vulnerable sessions with six boudoir-minded originals recorded between 1973 and 1980. It's all splendid, if a little too schizophrenic to help seduce the soul fan of your dreams. Gaye had an exquisite touch with the tender lyrical sentiments of the vintage pop he was revisiting, although he tended to get a lot more direct when he put things his own way. "Why Did I Choose You" is one of his prettiest performances, but it's miles away from "Funk Me," and the panting and moaning in the background of the fabulous "Since I Had You"--well, if Gaye had had housemates, they'd have run the dishwasher. --Douglas Wolk

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