Let's Get It on [Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered]

Marvin Gaye | Format: Audio Cassette

Product Details

• Audio Cassette (April 7, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
• Label: Motown
• ASIN: B0000060NK
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #635,719 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Let's Get It On

2. Please Stay (Once You Go Away)

3. If I Should Die Tonight

4. Keep Gettin' It On

5. Come Get to This

6. Distant Lover

7. You Sure Love to Ball

8. Just to Keep You Satisfied

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com essential recording

Marvin Gaye's 1973 album, Let's Get It On, is a marvel of sexual blandishment every bit the artistic equal of, say, John Donne's best seduction poems. The difference, though, is that the poetry here isn't in the verse--which gets a trifle clichéd--but in the supple pulse of the grooves and in the aching need of Gaye's sensual voice. The marvelous title track, a No. 1 hit, riffs on the earlier hook of Gaye's "What's Going On" to reach a more primal climax, and everything else here--a steamy swirl of sax, strings, and backing voices--is sexy, beautiful, and simply sublime. --David Cantwell

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What Can I Say?, October 12, 2000

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Sean C. - See all my reviews

This review is from: Let's Get It on (Audio CD)

This is, no doubt, one of the greatest sensual/soothing records of all time. It's constantly in rotation in my CD player, matter of fact, I'm listening to it right now. To all Marvin's true fans I would also suggest picking up his 4 CD "Master" collection. It's tight, especially disc 3 & 4. Anyway, if you haven't done so yet, pick up "Let's Get It On," you'll be glad you did. Thanks, Sean C.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars More than a seduction CD..., February 10, 2000

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yygsgsdrassil "yygsgsdrassil" (Crossroads America) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Let's Get It on (Audio CD)

I know this album had an influence in my life--from long weekends in the dormitory missing my out of town girlfriend("Distant Lover" sometimes made me feel better, sometimes it didn't) to those blue lighted frat parties where we freshmen guys thought that we could get with one of the junior or senior coeds (everybody sang "AAAAaaah baby" with Marvin on the title track and the party was on)...and then as I got older and understood what Marvin was talking about ('Cause we know all the words to all the songs and mindlessly sing along with them, but never really connect them to our own lives, really...am I right?) in "Just To Keep You Satisfied" and how his situation seemed to divide his soul even more and how my situation was seeming to parallel his. Many call this Marvin's outright seduction CD, well, that may be true but, between the lines you can feel much more... you can feel his struggle to remain an individual in a despotic system (Motown, the U. S.of A.), you can feel the rumblings of Marvin and Anna's age difference take its toll on the duo, particularly with Marvin garnering attention from younger women(--it seems no one really knows what goes on behind closed doors), you can hear father time knocking at his own 40something door. What happened, of course, is that Marvin did what most artists do when several personal struggles envelope their very being--he created a perfect piece of work..this "seduction CD". And, fortunately for us, we are able to also relive some of our own moments, good and not so good, some involving romance, some not, with Marvin's work.

12 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Shows the virtue of mix tapes and "best of" collections, June 6, 2000

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Tim Lieder "Founder of Dybbuk Press" (New York, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Let's Get It on (Audio CD)

I bought this CD for the first song. It is one of the best songs ever written and one that emphasises romanticism over sexuality (ironic is that when Marvin Gaye sings about sex, you know he's singing about love. When Barry WHite sings about love, you know he's singing about sex - heck, you are in the bedroom with him.) and after seeing High Fidelity I needed to have this song in my head.

Unfortunately the rest of the album is mediocre. There are two other really good songs ("Distant Lovers" and "Just To Keep You Satisfied") but the rest of the songs are forgettable, mediocre or just plain awful. "You Sure Love to Ball" should have been a "lost" track. "Keep Getting it On" is just banking on the success of "Let's Get it On" and repeats all the great riffs of the original song, relating everything to a peacenik mentality that I suppose was popular when America was engaged in a stupid war, but is really dated now. The other three songs are forgettable.

So buy it if you really love the title song, but note that the three good songs on this CD are on "best of" collections. If you want a Marvin Gaye cd that is consistantly excellent, buy "What's Going On"