Mastercuts Presents Marvin Gaye

Marvin Gaye | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 15, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Mastercuts Singles
• ASIN: B0009X5IP0
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,230,864 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Inner City Blues

2. Let’s Get It On

3. Ain’t Nothing Like The Real Thing

4. Stubborn Kind Of Fellow

5. What’s Going On

6. Rockin’ After Midnight

7. Sexual Healing

8. Distant Lover

9. God Is Love

10. I Heard It Through The Grapevine

11. Come Get To This

12. Pride And Joy

13. Your Precious Love

14. If This World Were Mine

15. Joy

Editorial Reviews

Marvin Gaye (born Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr.) was an African American pop, soul and R&B singer, arranger, musician, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and record producer who gained international fame during the 1960s and 1970s as an artist on the Motown label. His best records are still highly regarded, and he is often cited as one of the finest singers of his era.

Along with Stevie Wonder, Gaye is notable for fighting the hitmaking but creatively restrictive Motown record-making process, in which performers and songwriters/record producers were generally kept in separate camps. Gaye forced Motown to release his 1971 album What's Going On, which is today hailed as one of the best soul albums of all time. Subsequent releases proved that Gaye, who had been a part-time songwriter for Motown artists during his early years with the label, could write and produce his own singles without having to rely on the Motown system. This achievement would pave the way for the successes of later self-sufficient singer-songwriter-producers in African American music, such as Michael Jackson, Luther Vandross, Babyface, and R. Kelly.

Mastercuts is proud to present in one essential collection, Marvin Gaye’s greatest and most endearing songs!

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Deceptively packaged, December 29, 2005

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This review is from: Mastercuts Presents Marvin Gaye (Audio CD)

While you'd expect a compilation of Marivn Gaye's best studio tracks, this is not what you get with this CD. It contains, with few exceptions, live footage in suboptimal sound quality... which are by no means essential. There is nothing wrong with a good live recording, but the one-page booklet doesn't even identify the venue or date of recording.

This CD does not live up to the high standard that the early "Mastercuts" compilations - those dedicated to musical genres - have set.