Best marvin gaye albums

But instead of suffering a seemingly inevitable letdown under the weight of all that pressure, Gaye levelled up again to make back-to-back classics. It was a different kind of wokeness—raising your libido between the sheets instead of your fist out in the streets—but no less revolutionary. There is no foreplay along this journey to erotic enlightenment. The album makes its intimate intentions clear from the first notes of the testosterone-charged title track, as Gaye comes on strong with a swag and swerve unheard in his earlier Motown material.

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One about the deaths of African-American men at the hands of the police, the other about climate change. How can an album written and recorded 50 years ago, be as relevant today as it was back then? With that in mind, it makes sense why an album dealing with that very subject matter would make it to the 1 spot. His musical partner, Tammi Terrell had been diagnosed with and subsequently died from a brain tumour, his marriage to Anna Gordy had fallen apart and his dependency on cocaine was getting worse.