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Originally released : 05-20-1971
Release date : 08-11-2004
Album name : What's Going On
Artist : Marvin Gaye
Ripped by : joelimite
Genre : R&B
Label : Motown
Encoding Software : Lame EOS
Quality : --alt-preset standard
Tracks : 09
Size of Files : 51,8 MB
─ Track list ───────────────────────────────────────── ─── ─ ─
01 03:55 What's Going On
02 02:44 What's Happening Brother
03 03:49 Flyin' High (In The Friendly Sky)
04 04:03 Save The Children
05 01:42 God Is Love
06 03:15 Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
07 07:32 Right On
08 03:08 Wholy Holy
09 05:28 Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
Total time: 35:36 min
─ Release notes ─────────────────────────────────────── ─── ─ ─
What's Going On is not only Marvin Gaye's masterpiece,
it's the most important and passionate record to come
out of soul music, delivered by one of its finest
voices, a man finally free to speak his mind and so
move from R&B sex symbol to true recording artist. With
What's Going On, Gaye meditated on what had happened to
the American dream of the past -- as it related to
urban decay, environmental woes, military turbulence,
police brutality, unemployment, and poverty. These
feelings had been bubbling up between 1967 and 1970,
during which he felt increasingly caged by Motown's
behind-the-times hit machine and restrained from
expressing himself seriously through his music.
Finally, late in 1970, Gaye decided to record a song
that the Four Tops' Obie Benson had brought him,
"What's Going On." When Berry Gordy decided not to
issue the single, deeming it uncommercial, Gaye refused
to record any more material until he relented.
Confirmed by its tremendous commercial success in
January 1971, he recorded the rest of the album over
ten days in March, and Motown released it in late May.
Besides cementing Marvin Gaye as one of the most
important artists in pop music, What's Going On was far
and away the best full-length to issue from the
singles-dominated Motown factory, and arguably the best
soul album of all time.
Conceived as a statement from the viewpoint of a
Vietnam veteran (Gaye's brother Frankie had returned
from a three-year hitch in 1967), What's Going On isn't
just the question of a baffled soldier returning home
to a strange place, but a promise that listeners would
be informed by what they heard (that missing question
mark in the title certainly wasn't a typo). Instead of
releasing listeners from their troubles, as so many of
his singles had in the past, Gaye used the album to
reflect on the climate of the early '70s, rife with
civil unrest, drug abuse, abandoned children, and the
spectre of riots in the near past. Alternately
depressed and hopeful, angry and jubilant, Gaye saved
the most sublime, deeply inspired performances of his
career for "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)," "Inner City
Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)," and "Save the Children."
The songs and performances, however, furnished only
half of a revolution; little could've been accomplished
with the Motown sound of previous Marvin Gaye hits like
"Stubborn Kind of Fellow" and "Hitch Hike" or even "I
Heard It Through the Grapevine." What's Going On, as he
conceived and produced it, was like no other record
heard before it: languid, dark and jazzy, a series of
relaxed grooves with a heavy bottom, filled by thick
basslines along with bongos, conga, and other
percussion. Fortunately, this aesthetic fit in
perfectly with the style of long-time Motown sessionmen
like bassist James Jamerson and guitarist Joe Messina.
When the Funk Brothers were, for once, allowed the
opportunity to work in relaxed, open proceedings, they
produced the best work of their careers (and indeed,
they recognized its importance before any of the Motown
executives). Jamerson's playing on "Inner City Blues
(Make Me Wanna Holler)" functions as the low-end
foundation but also its melodic hook, while an
improvisatory jam by Eli Fountain on alto sax furnished
the album's opening flourish. (Much credit goes to Gaye
himself for seizing on these often tossed-off lines as
precious; indeed, he spent more time down in the
Snakepit than he did in the control room.) Just as he'd
hoped it would be, What's Going On was Marvin Gaye's
masterwork, the most perfect expression of an artist's
hope, anger, and concern ever recorded.
-John Bush (allmusic.com)
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