Marvin Gaye What's Going On.

[luka]

What's Going On?

 

[luka]

1. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
2. Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
3. The Beatles - Revolver
4. The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street
5. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
6. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
7. The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
8. Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde
9. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground And Nico
10. Patti Smith - Horses
11. Love - Forever Changes
12. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
13. Steely Dan - Countdown To Ecstasy
14. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
15. The Band - The Band
16. The Stooges - Fun House
17. Television - Marquee Moon
18. Joni Mitchell - Blue
19. The Beatles - The Beatles
20. Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
21. David Bowie - Station To Station
22. The Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks
23. The Clash - London Calling
24. The Beatles - Abbey Road
25. David Bowie - Hunky Dory
26. The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
27. The Beatles - Rubber Soul
28. Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica
29. David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust
30. The Doors - The Doors
31. Otis Redding - Otis Blue
32. James Brown & The Famous Flames - Live At The Apollo Vol. 1
33. Nirvana - Nevermind
34. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
35. Prince - Sign 'O' The Times
36. The Byrds - The Notorious Byrd Brothers
37. R.E.M. - Automatic For The People
38. The Who - The Who Sell Out
39. Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
40. Big Star - Third (AKA Sister Lovers)
41. Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
42. Gram Parsons With Emmylou Harris - Grievous Angel
43. The Ramones - Ramones
44. Iggy Pop - Lust For Life
45. Lou Reed - Transformer
46. Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
47. The Byrds - Younger Than Yesterday
48. Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express
49. The New York Dolls - New York Dolls
50. Moby Grape - Moby Grape

 

[sufi]

In 1969 or 1970, I began to re-evaluate my whole concept of what I wanted my music to say ... I was very much affected by letters my brother was sending me from Vietnam, as well as the social situation here at home. I realized that I had to put my own fantasies behind me if I wanted to write songs that would reach the souls of people. I wanted them to take a look at what was happening in the world.[14]

 

[luka]

Thanks for the heartfelt personal reflections!

 

[luka]

I got it, aged say, 15. Liked it ok, gradually started to find it repellent.

 

[luka]

Looking back there's a haunted quality I hadn't quite picked up on

 

[luka]

It started to sound a bit too cocktail umbrella lounge lizard Latin hotel lobby band. I really grew to dislike it. But I was playing it this evening I said to my friend compare and contrast with Curtis mayfield they said "he's not trying to be liked"
I thought that was a good thing to say and made me enjoy the album more

 

[Corpsey]

Inner city blues is great, sumptuous, a whole world

 

[luka]

There's certain,y a distance there, a distance afforded by virtuosity, an almost off handed virtuosity no longer thrilled with itself

 

[luka]

Inner city blues is great, sumptuous, a whole world

Is this a quote from mojo magazine?

 

[Corpsey]

It's a quote from my heart

 

[Simon silverdollarcircle]

I really love it. It's a like an extended prayer innit. Hypnotic devotional music that swirls around itself for an hour.

I think it's really sullied by now being the canonical one album made by a black person that racist Beatles dads are allowed to like as much as the beatles

 

[Simon silverdollarcircle]

Why did the dads choose this one album though, out of all the albums? I think it's because it's not funky, except inner city blues. Funkiness scares the dads.

In a related sort of way, it's hard to write the world funkiness without checking yourself and ask "do I really want to write the word funkiness here? Do I have to?"

And yet sometimes one does

 

[version]

I bought the CD as a teenager after seeing it in a list like this and didn't really get it. I loved the title track, but felt every other track sounded like a worse version of it. I'll have to give it another listen at some point.

 

[luka]

I really love it. It's a like an extended prayer innit. Hypnotic devotional music that swirls around itself for an hour.

Maybe it is but it's also quite a cold album, there's a hauteur there, a lot of distance

 

[luka]

I bought the CD as a teenager after seeing it in a list like this and didn't really get it. I loved the title track, but felt every other track sounded like a worse version of it. I'll have to give it another listen at some point.

That's a perfect description of let's get it on too as it happens.

 

[Simon silverdollarcircle]

I like that bit where he goes on and on about won't somebody SAVE THE CHILDREN????????

it's so unfiltered and dances right on the edge of being ridiculous while also being totally true. That's just what I like in music

 

[subvert47]

It's total and utter bobbins.

 

[Landfill Elektronikz]

I love it. And I like most of Marvin’s seventies gear.

 

[luka]

I love it. And I like most of Marvin’s seventies gear.

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