Marvin Gaye | What’s Going on | Vinyl
What’s Going On is Marvin Gaye’s landmark 1971 concept album, a socially conscious song-cycle about war, poverty, and injustice that redefined what soul music could say.
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Gaye produced the album himself against Motown’s initial resistance, weaving conversational, overlapping vocal takes and lush orchestral soul arrangements into a loosely connected narrative told through the eyes of a Vietnam veteran returning home. The title track, “Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology),” and “Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)” all became top-10 singles, and the album is now routinely cited among the greatest ever made, topping Rolling Stone’s revised “500 Greatest Albums” list in 2020. This 50th anniversary 2LP pressing spreads the original nine-track sequence across double vinyl to mark half a century since the record’s release.
Track List
Side A
- What’s Going On
- What’s Happening Brother
- Flyin’ High (In The Friendly Sky)
Side B
- Save the Children
- God Is Love
Side C
- Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
- Right On
Side D
- Wholy Holy
- Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
Release Details
- UPC: 0602435584171
- Label: MOTOWN
- Format: LP Vinyl — 50TH Anniversary, 2LP
- Genre: R&B/Soul
- Release Date: 4/1/2022
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