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Marvin Gaye, What's Going on
Audio CD
Disk ID: 901902
Disk length: 1h 6m 14s (17 Tracks)
Original Release Date: 1971
Label: Unknown
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1. What's Going On | 3:54 |
2. What's Happening Brother | 2:43 |
3. Flyin' High (In The Friendly Sky) | 3:49 |
4. Save The Children | 4:02 |
5. God Is Love | 1:41 |
6. Mercy Mercy Me | 3:13 |
7. Right On | 7:31 |
8. Wholy Holy | 3:07 |
9. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) | 5:28 |
10. Let's Get It On | 4:51 |
11. Please Don't Stay (Once You Go Away) | 3:27 |
12. If I Should Die Tonight | 3:03 |
13. Keep Gettin' It On | 3:09 |
14. Come Get To This | 2:41 |
15. Distant Lover | 4:16 |
16. You Sure Love To Ball | 4:42 |
17. Just To Keep You Satisfied | 4:26 |
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Review
Sly & The Family Stone might have psychedelicized soul music, but Marvin Gaye personalized it. Although the powers-that-were Motown didn't even want to release the record, the unexpected success of What's Going On, issued in 1971, inspired Stevie Wonder, Curtis Mayfield, and just about every other black artist on the planet to take greater responsibility for their music and its meaning. Gaye co-wrote the songs and produced the album, flavoring it with layer upon layer of his own multi-tracked vocals, oceans of hand percussion, strings, flutes, and jazzy horn solos. Spacey and loose as a spliff-fueled Sunday afternoon jam in the park, the nine songs all played like a hit single. The title track--inspired by his brother's return from the Vietnam War--and the obvious social commentary of "Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)" and "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" actually were hit singles. Two other tracks ("Wholly Holy" and "Save the Children") would inspire hit covers by Aretha Franklin and Diana Ross, respectively. Nevertheless, What's Going On sounds as fresh today as it did the week that it came out. Recommended reading: Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye by David Ritz (McGraw-Hill, 1985). --Don Waller
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