"sparrow" is a motherfucker of a song. that free sax.
― mutant slow drum (BradNelson), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 21:14 (twelve years ago) link
listening to the double CD remaster of Hear My Dear now, and it sounds great - so much more vivid than the original CD. the alternate versions are great as well, especially 'Anger' and 'Time To Get It Together', my two favourites from the original album.
― Hüsker Dü is what Tears For Fears pretends to be (stevie), Tuesday, December 9, 2008 1:10 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i think i actually prefer the alternate versions! sparser, the synths are mixed lower...feels more of a piece w/"whats goin on"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 9 January 2012 19:06 (twelve years ago) link
Just discovering HMD. "Is that enough" is such a smoked-out jam. Lots of amazing hypnotic grooves, and his background vocals are always as interesting as the leads. Also that cry of Aaaannaaa! Shivers.
― SongOfSam, Saturday, 28 January 2012 22:23 (twelve years ago) link
Been obsessed with I Want You the last few months. It's so intimate and economical, and I feel like it hangs together better than most of his records. Maybe that's because it limits itself to just one winning theme, or maybe it's because it's less singles saturated than some of his other records, so I never feel like I'm pulled out of the record. Either way, I love this thing.
― Evan R, Thursday, 21 February 2013 20:49 (eleven years ago) link
the sing-songy spoken bits in the title track are so odd.
― the Spanish Porky's (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 27 June 2013 23:30 (ten years ago) link
in Here, My Dear that is
― the Spanish Porky's (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 27 June 2013 23:31 (ten years ago) link
Anna Gordy has passed:
http://www.latimes.com/obituaries/la-me-anna-gordy-gaye-20140201,0,7263024.story
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 1 February 2014 20:58 (ten years ago) link
92.
Didn't realize that she and Marvin had reconciled at one point.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 1 February 2014 21:30 (ten years ago) link
RIP Leon Ware
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 26 February 2017 06:09 (seven years ago) link
"Time to Get It Together" is such a weird song. Around 1:30 in you can hear someone sliding up the volume on the bass drum. it kicks with authority for a brief spell and then fades back to normal again for the rest of the song. apparently gaye played most of everything on the album. if so, it comes together in an astounding way on this song. the arrangement snaps together in such an odd but natural way that it could only come from a single mind.
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 26 February 2017 07:42 (seven years ago) link
Marvin was a killer drummer. Trouble man swings
― calstars, Sunday, 12 March 2017 02:16 (seven years ago) link
what marvin gaye fan in their right mind would've panned "here my dear" when it came out???? this record is incredible
― marcos, Monday, 10 April 2017 15:16 (seven years ago) link
how awesome is "is that enough"
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Sunday, 7 April 2019 18:51 (five years ago) link
Quite.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 7 April 2019 18:55 (five years ago) link
The dinky organ he plays in the outro rules.
also after about ten years of listening to it i've realized i want you is my favorite album of all time or close
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 6 September 2019 11:02 (four years ago) link
It's no contest my favorite Gaye album, at any rate.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Friday, 6 September 2019 13:15 (four years ago) link
Marvin Gaye with the music and backing vocals removed is astonishing pic.twitter.com/iNbjY7F4bI— Paul Haine (@paul_haine) September 3, 2019
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 6 September 2019 13:22 (four years ago) link
Wow!
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 03:59 (four years ago) link
I love this album. wonderful grooves throughout, beautiful mournful harmonies. thanx to the person bumping the (when did you stop tweeting me) when did twitter stop being cool? thread for reminding me of it today.“Is That Enough” must be the best song ever to mention “attorney fees”.
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 19:47 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_8TVyvwFuM
― I like signing up to dead sites (sleeve), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 19:52 (three years ago) link
This remix of Anger (from the bonus CD) is a jam.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDOkZETWxzE
― dinnerboat, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 19:55 (three years ago) link
*this album being Here, My Dear obviously xps
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 20:00 (three years ago) link
I like it a lot, but this is no longer the most underrated Gaye album, In Our Lifetime? is.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 20:20 (three years ago) link
I've been promoting it on ILM since the Dubya years.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 20:22 (three years ago) link
things you don’t care about: whatever happens to be the most underrated Marvin Gaye album at a particular moment in time
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 20:30 (three years ago) link
Do you like In Our Lifetime?
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 20:31 (three years ago) link
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 20:37 (three years ago) link
haven’t listened to it in years, but I don’t remember ever liking it as much as HMD. have it lined up right now tho!
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 20:42 (three years ago) link
xp
I Want You > In Our Lifetime > Here, My Dear
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 21:10 (three years ago) link
no matter how many times i hear this, my reaction remains the same: holy shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wbfh30z1_u8
"i want you" (vocal and rhythm only)
― please don't refer to me as (Austin), Sunday, 5 December 2021 22:25 (two years ago) link
yep
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 6 December 2021 15:40 (two years ago) link
yep yep
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 December 2021 06:04 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpiCwb85K7w
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 22 February 2024 07:13 (two months ago) link
I always feel like these albums are two chapters in the same sad story - Here My Dear, Marvin's marriage falls apart. I Want You picks up a coupla years later, and now he's chasing women who are too young for him and leave him feeling like an old fool, lost in a world he doesn't understand anymore and caught up in a blizzard of cocaine that shrinks his dick and leaves him dazedly wandering the disco in search of cheap thrills when he really wants love.
― impostor syndrome to the (expletive) max (stevie), Thursday, 22 February 2024 09:28 (two months ago) link
Didn't I Want You come out first? Your narrative still works, though.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 22 February 2024 10:23 (two months ago) link
Ah, possibly! But the heart knows no discogs.com structure.
― impostor syndrome to the (expletive) max (stevie), Thursday, 22 February 2024 11:24 (two months ago) link
I got in a big car wreck last week in NE DC. The officer who helped was an older guy named officer Gay. After a while I broke down and asked if he was from the famous family from DC and indeed he was. Never met him though
― Comfortably numbnuts (Heez), Thursday, 22 February 2024 12:52 (two months ago) link
Are you OK?
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Thursday, 22 February 2024 13:06 (two months ago) link
Yes thanks! Head on collision totaled car but not my fault and just caused soreness
― Comfortably numbnuts (Heez), Thursday, 22 February 2024 13:18 (two months ago) link
I was like “I just bought the David Ritz book about Marvin” and he just kinda smiled blankly
― Comfortably numbnuts (Heez), Thursday, 22 February 2024 13:19 (two months ago) link
Glad you're ok. Some folks involved in DC soul scene over the years, like the now late Reverend Sandra Truesdale of the Legendary Musicians organization, would mention how they knew Marvin Gaye from school, but wow, still some family in the area too.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 22 February 2024 20:44 (two months ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 24 February 2024 04:06 (two months ago) link