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[Neo. The Only. The One.]

Man me and @Mugen was jammin on this one in a thread over the weekend and I had the album stuck in my head since then, been waking up every morning singing it, singing it at work and everything.

Tonight I finally put it on... What y'all know about this?

Me and @Mugen was singing "Save the Children" but this album is full of just soulful, classic, iconic, music.

For folks who don't know the story, Marvin was singing "Heard it Through the Grapevine", stuff like that, you know, Motown classics until Berry Gordy and them paired him up with Tammi Terrell (who was romantically connected to James Brown and David Ruffin). Tammi and Marvin made magic on so many songs like "Ain't No Mountain (high enough)", "Ain't nothing like the real thing" and more.

It's been speculated that even though Tammi was with David at the time, that Marvin was in love with her. I believe it... because when she got sick and eventually passed away, Marvin spiraled into a deep depression.

During his time away and while mourning her loss, he was writing what would wind up becoming one of, if not THE, greatest album of all time. And the crazy thing? Y'all brehs know the crazy thing?

Berry Gordy refused to let him record it at first. Motown had never done any socially conscious music like this, and Berry wasn't feeling it. He just knew that the people wasn't gon be feeling it either.

But Marvin forced his hand, and Berry wound up having to give him what he wanted.

And Marvin Gaye... produced this... this... this masterpiece, brehs.

This album gives me goosebumps to this day.

I present to you... "What's Going On".










































Let's go

 

[Samori Toure]

That is not "Songs in the Key of Life" which means it is not the best album ever created.

 

[Depreciating Asset]

Yo I was going to make this thread because it's been 50 years since this top 5 soul album of all time dropped (August 1973) and this shyt still sounds AMAZING. Was listening the other day and COT DAMN....

 

[VertigoKnight]

What's Happening Brother is one of my fave songs ever

But the whole album is an experience

Just timeless music

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

Yo I was going to make this thread because it's been 50 years since this top 5 soul album of all time dropped (August 1973) and this shyt still sounds AMAZING. Was listening the other day and COT DAMN....

Bro.... bro... man, this album almost brings me to tears every time I hear it.

It's incredible, man. Wow. Just.... wow.

What's Happening Brother is one of my fave songs ever

But the whole album is an experience

Just timeless music

Mine too, bro... I've been singing that and "Save the Children" all week

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

Had to come back and post the extended version of "God is Love"

 

[TEH]

I’ll give you 5 minutes to replace that OP with a Sexyy Red album …

 

[Magic Mulatto]

@Mugen a real one…

That boy got good taste…

 

[Ryda52]

Lol, oddly enough, cacs LOVE that album. Old cacs anyways. Also, that’s not even better than Superfly to me, I put it right under it tho.

 

[Toe Jay Simpson]

Somebody here made a Baseball thread titled “will our ball club win the pennant, do you think they have a chance” and it was the greatest thing I have ever seen

 

[jj23]

That is not "Songs in the Key of Life" which means it is not the best album ever created.

This.

This.

Oh and this. Sorry OP

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

Somebody here made a Baseball thread titled “will our ball club win the pennant, do you think they have a chance” and it was the greatest thing I have ever seen

That's my favorite part of the song

Are they still gettin down where we used to go and dance?

Will our ball club win the pennant?

Do you think they have a chance?

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

Lol, oddly enough, cacs LOVE that album. Old cacs anyways.

I wouldn't know. I don't hang out with white folks like that

 

[987654321]

It’s definitely up there. And to the Stevie fans, I also put this above “songs in the key of life” (and I really love that one almost just as much. It’s probably my dad’s favorite, next to “innervisions”, “hot buttered soul”, “Abraxas” and a few others).

My pops had all of motown’s shyt and encouraged us to dig through his records, tapes, and CD’s as often as possible. He also played full albums around the house and while we drove around New Orleans and Atlanta.

This one and “I want you” always stuck out to me the most because of Marvin + the session players’ style of making songs out of jam sessions, and making the songs flow into each other. It was also one of my first introductions to socially conscious r&b/soul from the 70’s (“innervisions” was one of the other ones).

Aside from “I want you” it’s the most perfect, flawless album I’ve ever heard. I still feel like I find little details I missed on previous listens. I don’t think that feeling i got the first time hearing it will ever be recreated.

It’s fukked up how Motown kept artists on a creative leash. Yeah we got classics on classics, but who knows what could have been of Marvin and the band was allowed to go in a room and just do their thing, in a place of artistic freedom, time and time again, with no label executive input.

“What’s going on” is pure artistic magic and I hate that it gets sometime overlooked by his safer work like “let’s get it on”.

 

[ABlackMan]

Man me and @Mugen was jammin on this one in a thread over the weekend and I had the album stuck in my head since then, been waking up every morning singing it, singing it at work and everything.

Tonight I finally put it on... What y'all know about this?

Me and @Mugen was singing "Save the Children" but this album is full of just soulful, classic, iconic, music.

For folks who don't know the story, Marvin was singing "Heard it Through the Grapevine", stuff like that, you know, Motown classics until Berry Gordy and them paired him up with Tammi Terrell (who was romantically connected to James Brown and David Ruffin). Tammi and Marvin made magic on so many songs like "Ain't No Mountain (high enough)", "Ain't nothing like the real thing" and more.

It's been speculated that even though Tammi was with David at the time, that Marvin was in love with her. I believe it... because when she got sick and eventually passed away, Marvin spiraled into a deep depression.

During his time away and while mourning her loss, he was writing what would wind up becoming one of, if not THE, greatest album of all time. And the crazy thing? Y'all brehs know the crazy thing?

Berry Gordy refused to let him record it at first. Motown had never done any socially conscious music like this, and Berry wasn't feeling it. He just knew that the people wasn't gon be feeling it either.

But Marvin forced his hand, and Berry wound up having to give him what he wanted.

And Marvin Gaye... produced this... this... this masterpiece, brehs.

This album gives me goosebumps to this day.

I present to you... "What's Going On".










































Let's go

There is a reprise of flying high man you just feel the music! It’s got so much soul in it.




I love this version man shyt make me wanna shed tears, it’s heartbreaking just as much as it is uplifting. “I did the best I could, nobody understood”

Like fukk man I really go through these emotions in many situations of life.
Try to keep punching every day just thinking like wtf is next