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Free Music Notes for Love Starved Heart-Expanded EditionFree Music Review: Give me more Marvin! Hit: 5 StarsAgain, Marvin proves to be a great artist! You can tell from these recordings that he was going places and beyond expectation. Some of these recordings, like "Baby I'm Glad That Things Worked Out So Well" were on the Motown Masters release, which came out sometime in the mid-80s. But, this version is far better than the Motown Masters release.
Free Music Review: Track 1 - the best song about love ever! Hit: 5 StarsThis is great! The first song just does it for me, as well as 'Son of a Gun', just magic! Not the power or importance of subject of 'What's Going On', or funky like 'Trouble Man' this is pure sexyness on CD! It sounds like sweet as honey ans soft as really really soft things!
Free Music Review: Fans of Marvin's Sixties sound, take note! Hit: 4 StarsMarvin Gaye had little regard for the bulk of his Sixties output, dismissing it as "assembly line" material. It's a shame he felt that way because he was such a gifted performer. This underrated underpromoted gem blew me away. I *love* the early Motown sound and this set added to the incredible output for which the Motown Sound was known and is remembered. This will stack up against anything Marvin had released--and, for that matter, the Four Tops, Temptations, and Stevie Wonder--from the same period. Download some of the samples and see if you don't agree. Excellent liner notes as well.
Free Music Review: Right On, Marvin Hit: 3 StarsThere's been plenty of Marvin Gaye "hits" collections to go around in every conceivable audio format. And piles of praise has generally been afforded Gaye's seventies output from critics and groovemasters alike. Yet, in a succession of labels maintaining the Motown catalog, MCA, Polygram, and now, Universal, a majority of Gaye's album output from the sixties has been given short shift. While the artistic struggle between Gaye and the Motown machinery has been well-documented, a whole generation of CD fans have only pieces of the story, and aren't able to hear the album releases for what they were. When Gaye took a standard-stock Motown song that'd been passed around through other artists, there was always something - in register or intonation - that strained the mould. Gaye could never simply cover a song, he was a true interpreter. As Gaye recorded material by the lesser-known Motown songwriters, he abandoned much in the name of artistic progress, leaving many unpolished jewels behind. Fans will revel in the release of "Love Starved Heart," and the curious will take notice. If these are leftovers, just imagine what we're all missing by not having Gaye's original albums in-print on CD.
Free Music Review: Right On, Marvin Hit: 3 StarsThere's been plenty of Marvin Gaye "hits" collections to go around in every conceivable audio format. And piles of praise has generally been afforded Gaye's seventies output from critics and groovemasters alike. Yet, in a succession of labels maintaining the Motown catalog, MCA, Polygram, and now, Universal, a majority of Gaye's album output from the sixties has been given short shift. While the artistic struggle between Gaye and the Motown machinery has been well-documented, a whole generation of CD fans have only pieces of the story, and aren't able to hear the album releases for what they were. When Gaye took a standard-stock Motown song that'd been passed around through other artists, there was always something - in register or intonation - that strained the mould. Gaye could never simply cover a song, he was a true interpreter. As Gaye recorded material by the lesser-known Motown songwriters, he abandoned much in the name of artistic progress, leaving many unpolished jewels behind. Fans will revel in the release of "Love Starved Heart," and the curious will take notice. If these are leftovers, just imagine what we're all missing by not having Gaye's original albums in-print on CD.
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