'Let's Get It On' - Marvin Gaye. Perfection (Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye)

Member Name: Mioliere

Product:	Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye
Date:	24/07/08 (12 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Every track

Disadvantages: None - well, only that it's not long enough

What words can ever do Marvin Gaye justice? I first fell in love with him and that incredible voice when I heard 'Abraham, Martin and John' (not on this album, sadly) for the very first time. It has remained my all-time favourite song.

As for his classic, 'Let's Get It On' - this is absolutely mind-blowing in its perfection. The title track is one of the sexiest and most seductive songs ever - a great song to fall in love to! As with all Marvin Gaye's songs, there is a depth of soul and passion that is hard to beat. 'Let's Get It On' is also a bonus remix at the end of the album and that's brilliant, too.

One of my favourite tracks is number 6, 'Distant Lover', which is fantastic; I also have this on vinyl on 'Marvin Gaye Live - His Classic Live Album' and it melts my heart every time I hear it.

Also brilliant is track number 3, 'If I Should Die Tonight'; listening to that is pure unaulterated bliss.

To hear 'Just to Keep You Satisfied', track number 8, is to know what Paradise must be like. There are not enough words in the English dictionary to describe it.

The musical arrangement and backing is, as ever with Marvin Gaye, almost as perfect as his voice and makes the very most of it.

If I could only have one album, it could quite possibly be this one. Every track is wonderful. Who knows how many more all-time classics we have been denied because his life was so cruelly and tragically cut short?

Summary: Soul at its very best