Marvin Gaye - What's Going On (Deluxe Edition 50th Anniversary) (2021) [FLAC]

Artist: Marvin Gaye

Title: What's Going On (Deluxe Edition / 50th Anniversary)

Year Of Release: 1971/2021

Label: Uni/Motown

Genre: Funk, Soul, R&B

Quality: FLAC (tracks,cue,m3u,cover)

Total Time: 01:15:18

Total Size: 421.56 MB

Album Info



What's Going On is not only Marvin Gaye's masterpiece, it's the most important and passionate record to come out of soul music, delivered by one of its finest voices, a man finally free to speak his mind and so move from R&B sex symbol to true recording artist. With What's Going On, Gaye meditated on what had happened to the American dream of the past as it related to urban decay, environmental woes, military turbulence, police brutality, unemployment, and poverty. These feelings had been bubbling up between 1967 and 1970, during which he felt increasingly caged by Motown's behind-the-times hit machine and restrained from expressing himself seriously through his music. Finally, late in 1970, Gaye decided to record a song that the Four Tops' Obie Benson had brought him, "What's Going On." When Berry Gordy decided not to issue the single, deeming it uncommercial, Gaye refused to record any more material until he relented. Confirmed by its tremendous commercial success in January 1971, he recorded the rest of the album over ten days in March, and Motown released it in late May. Besides cementing Marvin Gaye as one of the most important artists in pop music, What's Going On was far and away the best full-length to issue from the singles-dominated Motown factory, and arguably the best soul album of all time.







01. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On

02. Marvin Gaye - What's Happening Brother

03. Marvin Gaye - Flyin' High (In The Friendly Sky)

04. Marvin Gaye - Save The Children

05. Marvin Gaye - God Is Love

06. Marvin Gaye - Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)

07. Marvin Gaye - Right On

08. Marvin Gaye - Wholy Holy

09. Marvin Gaye - Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)

10. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On (Mono Single Version)

11. Marvin Gaye - God Is Love (Mono Single Version)

12. Marvin Gaye - Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) (Mono Single Version)

13. Marvin Gaye - Sad Tomorrows (Mono Single Version)

14. Marvin Gaye - Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) (Mono Single Version)

15. Marvin Gaye - Wholy Holy (Mono Single Version)

16. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On (Original Single Mix)

17. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On (Rhythm 'N' Strings Mix)

18. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On (Coffeehouse Mix)

19. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On (2016 Duet Version) (feat. BJ The Chicago Kid)

20. Marvin Gaye - Symphony (Demo)

21. Marvin Gaye - I Love The Ground You Walk On (Instrumental)