8.3
Avg Score
3
Opinions
#4,640
All Time
2
Tracks
“When Marvin Gaye released ‘What’s Going On’ in 1971, it shifted music almost immediately. Spawning three chart-topping singles (‘What’s Going On’, ‘Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)’ and ‘Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)’), the album, which boldly embraced the perspective of a Vietnam veteran returning to a broken America, showed a whole generation of black artists that their art could touch on ”
“Recorded in 1972, this largely unreleased “lost” album is a fascinating glimpse into what one of the great 20th-century artists strategically allowed the culture to see.”
