Live!

Live! Artist: Marvin Gaye
Label: Motown
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 731453088627
EAN: 0731453088627
ASIN: B0000060NL


Release Date: 1998-04-07

Live!


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Tracks:

  1. The Beginning: Introduction
  2. The Beginning: Overture
  3. The Beginning: Trouble Man
  4. The Beginning: Flyin' High (In The Friendly Sky)/Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
  5. The Beginning: Inner City Blues(Make Me Wanna Holler)
  6. The Beginning: Distant Lover
  7. The Beginning: Jan
  8. The Beginning: Keep Gettin' It On
  9. Fossil Medley: I'll Be Doggone/Try It Baby/Can I Get A Witness/You're A Wonderful One...
  10. Fossil Medley: Thanks To The Orch
  11. Now: Let's Get It On
  12. Now: What's Going On

Similar Items:

  1. Live at the London Palladium
  2. Trouble Man
  3. Live in Montreux 1980
  4. Dream of a Lifetime
  5. Let's Get It On [Deluxe Edition]

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Marvin the Great.......2005-05-17

Although he really didn't like doing live shows because he was a vocal perfectionist, Marvin nailled this show...I think this album is in the top 3 of all LIVE records ever recorded and released.

3 out of 5 stars Solid, if predictable, live set........2004-08-03

Most live albums have difficulty overcoming their predictability and lack of structure, and this one is no exception. However, Marvin Gaye was a performer blessed with enough mesmerizing talent that many these problems are compensated for. I do wish that he wouldn't run through the medley of his sixties hits so quickly, but the performance of his seventies hits are great, with top-notch renditions of "Let's Get It On" and "What's Going On." Since it was it first solo release since the massive success LET'S GET IT ON, LIVE flew into the Top Ten and proved that live albums could be big sellers as well. While most listeners will be better off with the LONDON PALLADIUM concert disc, dedicated fans will want to own this one too.

5 out of 5 stars Distant Lover!.......2003-11-19

Buy this just for Distant Lover alone. The song itself is brilliant anyway, but the version here is even better than the studio version on Let's Get It On and IMHO the most intense soul track ever recorded; the best singer of all time, Gene Page's orchestra with Ernie Watts on saxophone and a screaming audience whip eachother into a frenzy over that slow, restrained groove. "Do you wanna hear me scream, plleeaasse!"

3 out of 5 stars Peformance ****, Recording has some techinal flaws.......2003-10-28

It's really a lost art. Gone are the days when top flight soul singers toured with a full ochestra. The '70's concerts on the R&B scene benefited from the Jazz era (in this case, the big band era) performers. Believe me, you never hear anything like the Marvin's backup band today.
Marvin Gaye was never completely comfortable on stage. His vocals here rarely rises to the full zenith witness on vinly. But then again by the time of "Let's Get it On", Gaye had adopted a laid-back approach(which latter on influenced Frankie Beverley) to his music and it is very evident on this live recording.
Highlights on the album are "Trouble Man", "Distant Lover" and '60's medley suite. The two big hits are nothing special and pale considerably to the studio versions.
For the most part the audio quality is fine, if not a little "too sweet". But even this new remastered CD contains the same annoying mic feedbacks found on the orignal LP.

5 out of 5 stars Marvin at his best.......2003-09-02

This excellent CD documents one of the greatest singers,songwriters at their best coming off one of the most influential albums of all times "What's Going On". Marvin was abscent from the stage prior to this recorded document some two years. A performer that was particularly parnoid about performing live. What this CD illustrates is the amazing power this man had once he hit the stage. From the opening strains of the overture to the closing of What's Goin On you know you're in for something of a life time. As in added bonus on this cd they added the previously unreleased Flyin High(In The Friendly Sky) Mercy Mercy Me(The Ecology), Keep Gettin It On, Introduction To The Orchestra which didnt appear on the orginal album verison or the orginal Cd verison . Highlites on this fabolous CD Trouble Man, " Distant Lover" Inner City Blues. You know what? the whole cd is so wonderful you really cant pick a highlite. If you did not have this in your collection i certainly highly recommend this it should be in your collection. This is the best document of a genius at work. His legacy will forever live on pick this up.

Music:

  1. Staying Power ~ Barry White
  2. Not a Perfect Man ~ Christopher Williams
  3. Cloud Nine ~ The Temptations
  4. Can't Take That Away (Mariah's Theme) ~ Mariah Carey
  5. A Place To Land ~ Dakota Moon
  6. In the Name of Love ~ Earth Wind & Fire
  7. Bust a Move & Other Hits ~ Young MC
  8. Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now: Best of the Pie Years ~ McFadden & Whitehead
  9. The Philadelphia Sessions ~ Jerry Butler
  10. Willennium ~ Will Smith

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Boss of the Soul: Stream Trombone ~ Curtis Fuller

12th Dimension: If ~ Dimension

12 Grandes De La Banda ~ Banda Clave Azul

Grandes Exitos ~ Emmanuel

Los Super Exitos ~ Los Player's

Madrecita Querida/El Caballo Blanco ~ Various Artists