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

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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. 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.

The album is Marv Gaye's follow-up to the groundbreakg social statement he ma on What's Gog On, which n also be thoroughly examed on the likewise expand What's Gog On [Deluxe Edn].

The laid-back strgs on "Cak, " "Symphony, " and "Song #3" observe a new si of Gaye's talents that rivals the lik of Barry Whe terms of swgg soul arrangements. Acpanyg the two discs -- which are hoed a rdboard digipack -- is a 24-page booklet replete wh prevly unpublished photos as well as says om Gaye bgraphers David Rz, Ben Edmunds, and Harry Weger, producer and annotator of Let's Get It On [Deluxe Edn].