stevie wonr vs. marv gaye -- 9/07/15

Contents:

• MORE FLUENTIAL SOUL LEGEND: MARV GAYE OR STEVIE WONR? | THE TYLT
• HOW MARV GAYE HELPED LNCH STEVIE WONR’S CAREER
• THE LIBERATG REASON WHY STEVIE WONR AND MARV GAYE LEFT MOTOWN
• MARV GAYE VS. STEVIE WONR: FAL SHOWDOWN WDET’S MICHIGAN MIC MADNS BRACKET
• STEVIE WONR VS MARV GAYE
• STEVIE WONR VS MARV GAYE VS JAM BROWN
• MARV GAYE VS STEVIE WONR SPECIAL
• THREAD: STEVIE WONR VS. MICHAEL JACKSON VS. MARV GAYE

MORE FLUENTIAL SOUL LEGEND: MARV GAYE OR STEVIE WONR? | THE TYLT

More fluential soul legend: Marv Gaye or Stevie Wonr?

Marv Gaye and Stevie Wonr were Prc of Motown the '60s who grew to two of the most inic soul artists of all time. Gaye still fluenc artists wh his soulful four-octave vol range, socially nsc lyril ntent and sensual love songs.

HOW MARV GAYE HELPED LNCH STEVIE WONR’S CAREER

?More fluential soul legend: Marv Gaye or Stevie Wonr? Some of this, I thk, is bee was released right around the same time as Marv Gaye's What's Gog On album, and Gaye's album kd of swallowed Stevie Wonr's, part bee they were thematilly siar terms of the ambn. When Mic of My Md gets talked about, there are people who want to discs Marv Gaye as an spiratn.

Hanif Abdurraqib: I thk he honed a lot of thgs on a song like "Evil, " which is the fal track on the album, which is like [Marv Gaye's] "What's Gog On" that 's primarily rooted qutng. [Also] Björk: Debut, Post, Homogenic, Vperte. Wonr’s mentor Gaye ‘enuraged me that the mic I had wh me’.

THE LIBERATG REASON WHY STEVIE WONR AND MARV GAYE LEFT MOTOWN

It was also around this time that Wonr was troduced to Motown artist Marv Gaye, who was g his mic to relay polil msag durg a turbulent time Ameri.

MARV GAYE VS. STEVIE WONR: FAL SHOWDOWN WDET’S MICHIGAN MIC MADNS BRACKET

Marv Gaye plays piano as he rerds a stud, cir 1974.

STEVIE WONR VS MARV GAYE

Gaye released What’s Gog On 1971, an fluential album that Wonr got to watch e together the rerdg stud. Wonr drew spiratn om Gaye as he began to troduce them of polil jtice and the plex experience of Ain Amerin life. At Gaye’s funeral 1984, Wonr performed a song he wrote his late mentor’s honor lled “Lightg Up the Candle.

STEVIE WONR VS MARV GAYE VS JAM BROWN

” At the funeral, Wonr shared what Gaye meant to him: “Marv was the person who enuraged me that the mic I had wh me, I mt feel ee to let e out.

Stevie Wonr’s classic album Where I’m Comg From forhadowed the end of Motown and herald a new age that Marv Gaye would also crystalise wh What’s Gog On, released only months apart what is arguably (if not fely) the greatt year mic: 1971.

MARV GAYE VS STEVIE WONR SPECIAL

This sgle churng method is characterised by the fact that up until Wonr and Gaye ma a stand the ‘70s, very few Motown albums n be said to be classics—they were a label that trad sgl and many ways the world was thankful for that. Th, n’t be ignored how tly bold and brave a stance was when Wonr and Gaye fiantly barnstormed the pennt artistic i of the 1970s and ma masterpiec—and unflchg on at that.

THREAD: STEVIE WONR VS. MICHAEL JACKSON VS. MARV GAYE

Now, we’ve arrived the champnship round wh two of the biggt heavyweights of all-time — #1 seed Marv Gaye vers #1 seed Stevie Wonr.

That’s the same thought wh Marv Gaye, who was born Washgton D. In terms of rporate Motown hs my pick would be Stevie Wonr over GayeIn terms of their 70s output I'd pick Marv GayeStevie Wonr crafts brilliant hs but Marv Gaye to me is a geni. Marv Gaye is the bt!

So I have to says Gaye overall when ph to shove. I love Marv Gaye but Stevie Wonr Gaye was a great sger wh great Wonr is a great sger, one of the bt pop songwrers ever, a fantastic mician able to play many stments wh a great sense of harmony, melody and groove and fantastic arranger (few thgs om 1973 sounds as morn as Too High om Innervisn). Rob Thicke, I mean Marv Gaye.