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Trouble Man [Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered, Soundtrack]

Marvin GayeAudio CD
4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (48 customer reviews)

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  • Audio CD (April 7, 1998)
  • Original Release Date: 1972
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered, Soundtrack
  • Label: Motown
  • ASIN: B0000060NH
  • Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Music
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (48 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #22,745 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Two phenomenons of early-'70s soul--Marvin Gaye and the soundtracks of blaxploitation flicks--met on this 1972 souvenir of the violent Robert Hooks vehicle. Unlike Curtis Mayfield's concurrent Superfly, however, Gaye's record mostly fails to rise above the clichés of film music. Save for the pained, dramatic title single and a few moments of sax-and-wah-wah strutting, much of what's here fails to touch Mayfield's song suite. That's ironic, given that Gaye bookended Trouble Man with two conceptual triumphs, What's Going On and Let's Get It On. His fans, and students of the genre, won't find this a total disappointment, but with "Trouble Man" itself available on a number of best-of CDs, it's inessential. --Rickey Wright

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CD Digitally Remastered

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4.8 out of 5 stars
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4.8 out of 5 stars
Marvin Gaye composed and played in this wonderful jazz-soul soundtrack. F. A. Lage Filho  |  14 reviewers made a similar statement
I suggest you listen to this album. Geraldine W. Visco  |  6 reviewers made a similar statement
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Haunting and atmospheric score. August 2, 2004
Format:Audio CD
Marvin long considered his score to the forgotten film TROUBLE MAN to be his best work. While I would not call it his best (could anything really top WHAT'S GOING ON, LET'S GET IT ON, or HERE, MY DEAR?), it is a fantastic album in it's own right. Textured and atmospheric, this lovely, complex score deserved to be featured in a much better movie. It's often compared with the ground-breaking soundtracks SHAFT and SUPERFLY, however TROUBLE MAN is much more poised and intricate than those funk classics. It sounds more like a bittersweet separation, rather than a head-on collision. Though largely instrumental, TROUBLE MAN does contain the hit title song (#7 Pop, #2 R&B), which is justifiably considered one of Gaye's classic singles.
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Marvin's soundtrack is a sweeping urban soundscape. August 9, 1999
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Format:Audio CD
Marvin Gaye's body of work never ceases to amaze me. While it is true that "Trouble Man", the soundtrack, has been actually produced by the 5 or 6 arrangers listed in the jacket credits, Marvin lent his name to the final product, and if you listen to his output from the "What's Going On"- "Let's Get It On"-"I Want You"-"Here My Dear" era there are some awe inspiring, but lesser commercial ventures. "Marvin and Diana" and this are prime examples of what I'm saying. Listen to the butterscotch and blues multi-vocal tracking on "Cleo's Apartment" and listen to how it segues into the "Trouble Man" single--sublime! The bluesy Marvin Gaye vocals and the Trevor Lawrence (he sounds as if he were playing on a late night street corner, doesn't he?) saxophone work makes this an excellent CD. It was remastered using 20-bit technology in 1998 and it will hold it's own against any pure jazz album. Get it from Amazon.com, now.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars He May Have Been a "Troubled Man"...but Brilliant! November 20, 2012
By L. Boki
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
3 Cheers, a toast of Dom and a 15 minute standing ovation as the final entry into the expanded editions of Marvin's golden era is finally here in time for Thanksgiving 2012. Like millions of others, "What's Goin' On" felt like the soundtrack of my formative years. Coming right during the spring I graduated from high school, okay yes I'm near ancient, I declared it as my "Best Album of All Time"!!!! It wasn't necessary for Marvin to follow it up right away because I listened on a daily basis, never tiring of it.

But then, after dropping the single "You're the Man", Marvin made a complete left turn and expressed his musicality and jazz instrumentation with the soundtrack to a 70s movie that I never had any intention to of seeing, "Trouble Man". What I liked about the album immediately was the challenge it brought to my musicality. It was another opportunity to expand my musical knowledge. I had followed Santana's transformation into jazz at around the same time with "Caravanserai" and "Love, Devotion and Surrender" with John McLaughlin. ("You're the Man" may have proven that it was impossible to top "What's Goin' On". It is not like there wasn't more to say about any of the number of topics that album presented. I anxiously wanted a follow- up or so I thought. But it was clear that he had made such a definitive statement that, for the time, all that could be said, Marvin had said).

Diana Ross had offered the Great American Songbook via Billie Holiday's vast repertoire. And that was jazz and blues with vocals. Marvin was stepping into a jazz soundtrack possibly closer to Quincy Jones' early A&M releases. It was different from the transcendental jazz that Santana was venturing into. Where Berry Gordy may have initially resisted "What's Goin' On", with its political leanings, I would have thought that he was particularly excited by his achievements on "Trouble Man". It was a percursor to "Round Midnight".

Somehow Marvin manage to achieve a Top 10 Pop and R&B single with the title track. This would greatly assist the soundtrack's ultimate success where the movie may have underperformed. In a fascinating way, the single could also have been autobiographical. Interestingly, Marvin would begin to experiment with acting in little known movies like "Chrome and Leather". Though "Trouble Man", the film, did not come through Motown Industries, Inc like "Lady Sings the Blues", it would have been interesting to see Marvin in the lead actor role that Robert Hooks assumed.

Though there was no follow-up to the lead single, it would have "T Stands for Trouble" as an instrumental candidate. Funky and rhythmic, Marvin, like Stevie explored the world of keyboards and synthesizers. Radio in 1972 wasn't that adventurous save for the new medium, FM. The FM band could have possibly rotate a few of the instrumentals on the soundtrack.

Prior to "What's Goin' On", I was naive to the fact that Marvin had written such modern day classics, "The Bells", "Baby I'm for Real" and/or the sublime "If This World Were Mine". Marvin's formidable talent as a songwriter/producer was only eclipsed by his ability to play a variety of instruments with The Funk Bros. on the soundtrack to "Trouble Man". "Trouble Man" was another great entry into Motown's transformation into an album label in the 70s. Just as Stevie and Diana had spread their creative wings, followed a little later by Smokey, Marvin reinforced his position with the Mount Rushmore of the Motown stable. "Trouble Man" remains as proof of the talent of the Motown stable that would evolve and blaze throughout the 70s.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Nice CD
The cd is very good. But I had to get it from the UK and did not know I was ordering it from the UK. Watch out people.
Published 4 days ago by Visa
5.0 out of 5 stars Marvin Gaye, what can I say?
Some times it is hard to find old music but finds like this make it worthwhile. Marvin Gaye fans should buy it.
Published 11 days ago by D. A. White
5.0 out of 5 stars No trouble with this one, man
This is arguably Marvin Gaye's greatest album. You may think that's impossible since it's largely instrumental, but one listen will make you a true believer. Read more
Published 2 months ago by F. Coombs
5.0 out of 5 stars Great album
Album is just great mix of R&B and Jazz...I don't think Marvin put out bad music. My son digs this more than I do and it was released twenty years before he was born.
Published 2 months ago by S Foote
5.0 out of 5 stars Genius, Revisited!
40 YEARS? REALLY???? How can that possibly be? I feel so old to have been on this planet long enough to recall this music when it was so brand new and... Read more
Published 3 months ago by MarshallR
4.0 out of 5 stars Undercover Marvin Groove
"Trouble Man" captures Marvin Gaye at his musical peak and hits the mark as a great, if understated and overlooked soundtrack album. Read more
Published 3 months ago by G. YEO
5.0 out of 5 stars Directly Channelled From God
Trouble Man 40th Anniversary Expanded Edition

I owed this album on vinyl and it was alway within easy reach of my Technics SL-1200 turntable. Read more
Published 3 months ago by nmollo
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful
This CD is the greatest back in the day type sound that is so alluring. I think Marvin was an outstanding person in this world, who was put here to make us enjoy CD's like this!
Published 3 months ago by Vickie Shaw
3.0 out of 5 stars Trouble Man set
Today's movie soundtracks are nothing like the classic soundtracks of lets say, Henry Mancini or Bernard Herman. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Michael Payne
5.0 out of 5 stars Marvin Gaye - Trouble Man
One of my favorite tracks by Marvin Gaye..after listening to the expanded edition of this cd, I must say that i love every bit of it and it is relaxing to me because most of this... Read more
Published 4 months ago by LeQuent
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