Let’s Get It On – 1973 Marvin Gaye
October 29th, 2009 . by admin
Released: September 1973.On Let’s Get It On, Marvin Gaye articulated love and in ways that presented sex as what it is for adults, a temporary escape from the world. Not until Prince’s “1999″ (the single, not the album) did someone articulate the dichotomy between social awareness and personal necesities more succinctly. Let’s Get It On was a bit more conventional musically (soul crossing into mild funk) and much more focused lyrically than it’s predecessor, What’s Going On. The record is about loneliness, about ego, about all that goes into someone’s mind when he or she is trying to make another person matter. Let’s Get It On takes place in a bedroom, but it’s about more than the act itself. As much as What’s Going On, the album is about fitting into a perfect community. It’s impossible to choose one album over the other. After brilliantly surveying the social, political, and spiritual landscape with What’s Going On, Marvin Gaye turned to more intimate matters with Let’s Get It On, a record unparalleled in its sheer sensuality and carnal energy. Always a sexually charged performer, Gaye’s passions reach their boiling point on tracks like the magnificent title hit (a number one smash) and “You Sure Love to Ball”; silky and shimmering, the music is seductive in the most literal sense, its fluid grooves so perfectly designed for romance as to border on parody.
Duration : 0:6:33