Let’s Get It On (6/15/73) #1 US, #31 UK, #1 RB. Sales: ½ million
Come Get to This (10/11/73) #21 US, #3 UK
You Sure Love to Ball (1/2/74) #50 US, #13 UK
Distant Lover (9/5/74) #28 US, #12 RB
Awards:
Let’s Get It On
Marvin Gaye
Review:
“After brilliantly surveying the social, political, and spiritual landscape with What’s Going On, Marvin Gaye turned to more intimate matters with Let’s Get It On, a record unparalleled in its sheer sensuality and carnal energy.” JA As singer/producer Pharrell Williams told Blender Magazine about his favorite album: “‘What’s Going On may be more socially conscious, but Let’s Get It On is more love conscious. My aunt and uncle would play it, and they’d act like I didn’t know what was goin’ on. But they’d start dancin’ real close. You knew what that meant.’” BL
“Always a sexually charged performer, Gaye’s passions reach their boiling point on tracks like the magnificent title hit (a number one smash) and You Sure Love to Ball; silky and shimmering, the music is seductive in the most literal sense, its fluid grooves so perfectly designed for romance as to border on parody. With each performance laced with innuendo, each lyric a come-on, and each rhythm throbbing with lust, perhaps no other record has ever achieved the kind of sheer erotic force of Let’s Get It On, and it remains the blueprint for all of the slow jams to follow decades later – much copied, but never imitated.” JA
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