Marv Gaye - Let's Get It On Album Reviews, Songs & More | AllMic

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• ‘LET’S GET IT ON’: MARV GAYE’S ROMANTIC SOUL LANDMARK

‘LET’S GET IT ON’: MARV GAYE’S ROMANTIC SOUL LANDMARK

Marv Gaye. After brilliantly surveyg the social, polil, and spirual landspe wh What's Gog On, Marv Gaye turned to more timate matters wh Let's Get It On, a rerd unparalleled s sheer sensualy and rnal energy.

Always a sexually charged performer, Gaye's passns reach their boilg pot on tracks like the magnificent tle h (a number one smash) and "You Sure Love to Ball"; silky and shimmerg, the mic is sctive the most leral sense, s fluid groov so perfectly signed for romance as to borr on parody. Marv Gaye’s ’70s ncept albums spanned wound tak on socpolil ncerns (What’s Gog On), the llapse of his own first marriage (Here, My Dear), and the ep heat of sex and romance celebrated on Let’s Get It On.

Gaye, of urse, ma sctn the rerd’s center, but hardly s only subject. Even the tle track, ed endlsly by media as a cue for unbridled sexs, has s philosophil bent (“Sce we got to be here, let’s live”) and a blurred le between love for a woman and the “sanctified” feel of the church Gaye was raised .

Marv Gaye artwork - Courty: UMG. Marv Gaye started releasg albums at the age of jt 22, 1961. Gaye fans were primed and ready for this sensuo celebratn via the tle track lead sgle, which h the charts July that year and was the send of a six-week n atop the Billboard Hot 100 when the album charted.

“Gaye his voice ( both lead and background) to create a dreamlike qualy only slightly ls surreal than he did on What’s Gog On, his very bt rerd to date, ” wrote Jon Land Rollg Stone. Listen to the bt of Marv Gaye on Apple Mic and Spotify. marv gaye.

Love marv gaye i had to have this & add to my Collectn. Let's get on Album and I want You are classic Marv Gaye Smooth groove rerds of the mid 70s.

The first Gaye pure d release, What's Gog On, was a b of a disappotment to me. The bt soundg track for me was Distant Lover, givg somethg close to the "right there the room" of my iends who was there said when he returned om reloadg his drk, "I'm not a Marv Gaye fan, (no he was Led Zeppel, Deep Purple) but his goln voice, and the texture of the acpanyg mic is so tasty, I would have no problem listeng to this multiple tim. I'm a big fan of Marv Gaye - om his early days at Motown th his Sexual Healg days.

Reviewed the Uned Stat on May 6, 2022Marv Gaye was a top sger.