Marvin Gaye "What's Going on" - Greatest Soul Album of all time?

[Taverner]

I say yes

The bassline in "Make me wanna holler", the flow of side 1 - this is music that will make you cry

[onestepforward]

1. It is one of my all-time favorites

and the lyrics still speak true today.

"In 1969 or 1970, I began to re-evaluate my whole concept of what I wanted my music to say... I was very much affected by letters my brother was sending me from Vietnam, as well as the social situation here at home. I realized that I had to put my own fantasies behind me if I wanted to write songs that would reach the souls of people. I wanted them to take a look at what was happening in the world" - Marvin Gaye

[Taverner]

3. Yes - I just played the whole thing, and it definitely resonates today

[Fire Walk With Me]

2. Gotta love Marvin Gaye- but don't forget the Temptations.

:thumbsup:

[qnr]

20. Absolutely, don't forget the Temptations n/t

[Captain Hilts]

4. Yes. First major soul protest album.

[Orsino]

21. Wins the into-a-nearby-phone-booth award, too.

Who knew that the purveyor of the finest beggin'-pleadin' love songs had this in him?

[madrchsod]

5. i can`t think of a better one....you know you forgot a video.

here`s one of my marvin fav`s...i think tammi was ready to get it on!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz-UvQYAmbg&feature=player_embedded

[qnr]

19. Another bright light lost early. To a brain tumor of all things :( n/t

[japple]

24. He didn't die of a brain tumor. He was shot and killed by his

father.

[VMI Dem]

6. Al Green - I'm Still In Love With You

Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life

[Taverner]

8. Al Green is good. Stevie's good. But this album, my friend, is amazing.

It's the whole, that is greater than the sum of its parts.

[Tikki]

7. I adore Marvin Gaye's music....and another gone...

but never forgotten...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-FQL-tJ3ic
"These Arms of Mine"...Otis Redding


Tikki

[applegrove]

9. I love that song. Don't know the album though.

[Capn Sunshine]

10. During that period

Marvin did a shitload of concerts, and they were, note for note of "What's Going On" in the same order as the album. Probably saw or backed twenty shows in the southwest back then. Each was an individually beautiful experience, like Marvin.

It was cool. I lived in Marvin's House shortly after his death; my partners and I had purchased it from him during his losing my mind phase. He moved back in with his dad and was dead like two months later. It was kind of weird about Marvin; many fans had heard that he buried money in his yard and many was the time we would get home and see someone running off with a shovel, and a fresh hole in the lawn.

[S n o w b a l l]

17. Wow...very interesting story!

I remember when he got shot and was in shock for quite awhile.

[Kingofalldems]

11. Sorry--James Brown Live At The Apollo c.1964

No contest.

[Jade Fox]

12. Curtis Mayfield original soundtrack 'Superfly'

Ghetto Child is the most amazing song.....ever.

Just a suggestion.

[S n o w b a l l]

13. I would agree...

Curtis Mayfield, Temptations, Isaac Hayes, Al Green...all great. But Marvin rules.

[kid a]

14. yes!

[AllenVanAllen]

15. Excellent album. It's a timeless classic.

I don't listen to it enough.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtUMa0FtuWY

[greenbriar]

16. He was awesome

Gone too soon

[S n o w b a l l]

18. Well, now you did it...

Can't stop listening to him now.

Inner City Blues (great video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDckI2P_DPA&feature=related

Trouble Man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Usl-h5f-8W0&feature=related

[HughBeaumont]

22. Yes. With "The Isaac Hayes Movement" coming a close second.

[S n o w b a l l]

23. One more for Marvin

Commodores

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlsfYDj2HWA

[japple]

25. When the song "Make Me Wanna Holler" first came out, I misheard

the line "Make me wanna holler, throw up both my hands" as "make me wanna holler, throw up on my hands." It was quite some time before I found out what the lyrics really were.

[zanne]

26. "Mercy Mercy Me'-The Ecology

From the 70's, a song from Marvin about global warming. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9BA6fFGMjI&feature=related