What's Going On

Artist: Marvin Gaye
Label: Motown
Category: Music

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Media: Audio Cassette

UPC: 731453002241
EAN: 0731453002241
ASIN: B000001A5Y

Release Date: 1994-06-21

What's Going On

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Tracks:

What's Going On
What's Happening Brother
Flyin' High (In the Friendly Sky)
Save the Children
God Is Love
Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
Right On
Wholy Holy
Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)

Customer Reviews:

Pure Genius.......2002-03-23

Recently VH-1 screened the viewers top 100 albums of all-time, which started me thinking what would be at the top of my list. I came up with this one.
Marvin produced many soul classics during his lifetime, but none that matched the perceptiveness or depth of this album.
Musical genius, troubled man, deep thinker, husband, father, this amazing work of art sends out a message that is not only political but profoundly personal in showing his many sides.
Here is a man who was decades ahead of his time personally and professionally, 'Marvin Knew'.
If you ever get the chance to experience the pure genius of 'What's goin on' DO IT!.
I promise you won't regret it.

This Is R&B's answer to 'Pet Sounds' and 'Sgt. Pepper'.......1999-12-05

One word describes this album, eternal. Incredble lyrical depth, both personal and political, set off by metaphysical jazz-folk-blues-pop-r&b and melancholic classical arrangements. Marvin's child. This is what he left us, and its more than Puffy or Biggie or Tupackin or R.Kelly or God knows what other joke of an r&b rap artist could ever attempt to achieve in this day and age! (Gotta give props to Wyclef and Lauryn though!) Buy this now. Its message is eternal.

Detroit Soul's Finest Album.......1999-07-15

This album exemplifies Detroit Soul - strings, Spectorish wall of sound, melodies to die for. That the album has no love songs would suggest otherwise - everything here is socially or religiouslky conscious. But the lyrics are so generous, the tunes so marvelously crafted that it stands in a class by itself. It is to Gaye's credit that he steps so far out from the commercial limb of Motown (a social consciousness concept album doesn't sell) and yet hits paydirt! Mercy Mercy Me and What's Going On are just the beginning. This album grew on me in time.

A God Send........1999-07-08

A masterpiece. There is so much worth discussing within this album, I hardly know where to begin. There are so many metaphysical and psychological issues at play that one could write books about the implications in these songs. The more one tries to understand Marvin Gaye, the more one is moved by this masterwork. I was so stunned by this album when I first heard it that I am still in awe of the work every time I put it on.

This a work of love.

Smooth, stimulating.......1999-06-06

This is the perfect music after a long hard day at work. Marvin Gaye was truly a gifted artist sadly missed. I think this CD expresses something deep within him.

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