TS: Marvin Gaye's I Want You and Here, My Dear

Anna Gordy has passed:

http://www.latimes.com/obituaries/la-me-anna-gordy-gaye-20140201,0,7263024.story

92.

Didn't realize that she and Marvin had reconciled at one point.

RIP Leon Ware

"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.

Marvin was a killer drummer. Trouble man swings

what marvin gaye fan in their right mind would've panned "here my dear" when it came out???? this record is incredible

how awesome is "is that enough"

Quite.

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

It's no contest my favorite Gaye album, at any rate.

Marvin Gaye with the music and backing vocals removed is astonishing pic.twitter.com/iNbjY7F4bI

— Paul Haine (@paul_haine) September 3, 2019

Wow!

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”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_8TVyvwFuM

This remix of Anger (from the bonus CD) is a jam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDOkZETWxzE

*this album being Here, My Dear obviously

xps

I like it a lot, but this is no longer the most underrated Gaye album, In Our Lifetime? is.

I've been promoting it on ILM since the Dubya years.

things you don’t care about: whatever happens to be the most underrated Marvin Gaye album at a particular moment in time

Do you like In Our Lifetime?

This remix of Anger (from the bonus CD) is a jam.

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!

xp

I Want You > In Our Lifetime > Here, My Dear

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)

yep

yep yep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpiCwb85K7w

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.

Didn't I Want You come out first? Your narrative still works, though.

Ah, possibly! But the heart knows no discogs.com structure.

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

Are you OK?

Yes thanks! Head on collision totaled car but not my fault and just caused soreness

I was like “I just bought the David Ritz book about Marvin” and he just kinda smiled blankly

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.

I was like “I just bought the David Ritz book about Marvin” and he just kinda smiled blankly