What's Going on | 
 enlarge | Artist: Marvin Gaye
Label: Motown
Category: Music
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Rating:  183 reviews
Sales Rank: 979
Format: Extra Tracks, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.7 x 4.7 x 0.4
MPN: 064022
UPC: 044006402222
EAN: 0044006402222
ASIN: B00007FOMP
Release Date: January 14, 2003
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| Tracks:
| • | What's Going On | | • | What's Happening Brother | | • | Flyin' High (In The Friendly Sky) | | • | Save the Children | | • | God Is Love | | • | Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) | | • | Right On | | • | Wholy Holy | | • | Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) | | • | God Is Love (Bonus Track) | | • | Sad Tomorrows a/k/a "Flyin' High (In The Friendly Sky)" (Bonus Track) |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com essential recording
Sly & The Family Stone might have psychedelicized soul music, but Marvin Gaye personalized it. Although the powers-that-were Motown didn't even want to release the record, the unexpected success of What's Going On, issued in 1971, inspired Stevie Wonder, Curtis Mayfield, and just about every other black artist on the planet to take greater responsibility for their music and its meaning. Gaye co-wrote the songs and produced the album, flavoring it with layer upon layer of his own multi-tracked vocals, oceans of hand percussion, strings, flutes, and jazzy horn solos. Spacey and loose as a spliff-fueled Sunday afternoon jam in the park, the nine songs all played like a hit single. The title track--inspired by his brother's return from the Vietnam War--and the obvious social commentary of "Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)" and "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" actually were hit singles. Two other tracks ("Wholly Holy" and "Save the Children") would inspire hit covers by Aretha Franklin and Diana Ross, respectively. Nevertheless, What's Going On sounds as fresh today as it did the week that it came out. Recommended reading: Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye by David Ritz (McGraw-Hill, 1985). --Don Waller
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| Customer Reviews:
 OH MARVIN................ September 24, 2008
Dorene Spicer (NEW JERSEY)
AT 52 YEARS OLD THIS REMAINS MY FAVORITE ALBUM OF ALL TIMES AS MARVIN IS MY FAVORITE SINGER!HIS MESSAGE STILL RINGS TRUE AND REVALENT,TO THESE HORRIFIC TIMES W ARE LIVING IN.................THERE WILL NEVER ANOTHER ARTIST QUITE AS SENSITIVE AND INTUATIVE TO SOCIAL INJUSTICES AS MARVIN.................A TRUE RENAISSANCE MAN!
Timeless Music September 21, 2008
The Shepherd
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
If anyone would like to hear a prophet of the times, they should listen to this CD by Marvin Gaye.
The situation of the world at the time of the recording of this album, has not changed from the world we live in today.
An album that has stood the test of time September 19, 2008
Christopher Coates (Perth, Australia)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I agree with the many reviews that rate this a classic album. I know more people who bought this album, than any of the other great soul albums released in the early 70's.
I have several other Marvin Gaye albums, but this is the only one I still play all the tracks.
It's so sad his personal life was ruined by drug addiction.
This is beautiful, heartfelt music.
 Marvin Gaye August 27, 2008
James A. Vikse (Blythe, CA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm a big fan but this cd did not have the songs I like best
Songs of life and death July 5, 2008
Noringtyn Similchjalvic (USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Wow. When it comes to an album like What's Going On, it's easy to become jaded. Critics have been praising this thing since the day of its conception, have been hailing it as a masterpiece since before you even knew how to read, have apparently been putting it on a pedestal since before Marvin Gaye was born. It gets old after a while. It's the kind of album that becomes cliche before you even hear it, that's the kind of thing you can have a conversation about even if you don't own a copy. It's the Dark Side Of The Moon of soul.
Well, I have some advice for you: If you don't already own a copy, buy one right now. Put on some headphones. Turn the volume up. Close your eyes. Listen. And fly away. This album has an entire world in it, a world of wah-wah guitars and moaning strings and divine horns and mind-enveloping percussion. It's a world of textures and feelings. Emotion bleeds out of every gorgeous layer of sound, radiates from every nook and cranny. It's the kind of thing you can swim in. Listen: There's joy, despair, anguish, hope, suffering, pain, beauty. There's life in it. The critics were right on the money with this one.
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