2024 the best of marvin gaye review
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Two-CD set. Includes 34 classic tracks plus an unreleased track and rarities all newly digitally remasted. Track listing includes "How Sweet It is," "It Takes Two," "What's Going On," plus many more favorites.
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
Language : English
Product Dimensions : 5.83 x 5.67 x 0.47 inches; 4.59 ounces
Manufacturer : Universal UTV / Motown
Item model number : 44001436727
Original Release Date : 2001
SPARS Code : DDD
Date First Available : September 2, 2000
Label : Universal UTV / Motown
ASIN : B00005LZT9
Number of discs : 2
Reviewer: BKshowN
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: MGaye
Review: Greatest hits, off the chain⦠a lot of memories there.
Reviewer: Peter Durward Harris
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Excellent compilation of his Motown music
Review: This comprehensive collection contains all Marvin's American hits for Motown as well as highlighting other aspects of his music, including his political songs of the seventies. It does not include Sexual healing, recorded after he left Motown. His British hits were sometimes different from his American hits. Three UK top ten hits are missing, though as this is an American compilation, there is no reason why they should have been included. Abraham Martin and John was an American hit for Smokey Robinson and the Miracles - perhaps it was felt that Marvin's version was better for the UK market. You are everything. A duet with Diana Ross, made the UK top five. Onion song, a duet credited as being with Tammi Terrell but recorded with a stand-in, made the UK top ten.The classic American hits (not all of which charted in Britain) are all here including Can I get a witness, How sweet it is, I'll be doggone, Ain't that peculiar, I heard it through the grapevine, Too busy thinking about my baby, That's the way love is. What's going on, Mercy mercy me, Trouble man, Let's get it on and Got to give it up. Some of his duets are here, too, including Ain't no mountain high enough, Your precious love, If I could build my whole world around you, Ain't nothing like the real thing, You're all I need to get by (all with Tammi Terrell), It takes two (with Kim Weston), What's the matter with you baby (with Mary Wells) and My mistake (with Diana Ross).Marvin always considered himself a balladeer like Frank Sinatra or Nat King Cole rather than a typical R+B singer, but his early attempts to establish himself in this role were not a success. Eventually, he did gain acceptance as a balladeer after proving that he could do the R+B material - compare his definitive version of I heard it through the grapevine with the Gladys Knight version, released a year earlier. Marvin actually recorded the song before Gladys but Berry Gordy initially rejected his version. It shows what perseverance can do.Marvin once again had Berry Gordy worried when he completed his anti-Vietnam album, What's going on. Motown had always been primarily a singles label so this album was completely alien to the marketing department, although it appears that many people at Motown loved it. Once again, Marvin was right. The album was a huge success and four of its tracks are here - they are the first four on CD 2.There are plenty of other great songs here besides the hits and the anti-Vietnam song, too numerous to mention. This remains the best double CD of Marvin's Motown music notwithstanding the omissions. The British hits and Sexual healing are all easy to find elsewhere - not just on other Marvin Gaye albums, but also on various artist compilations.If you can't find this album, you can either buy the more recent double-CD, Very best of Marvin Gaye, or go for the boxed set. In any event, no collection of soul music is complete without at least one Marvin Gaye album.
Reviewer: Manassah
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Late great
Review: One of the few artist that I truly miss and wonder what music he would be putting out now. No one else like him
Reviewer: mpage
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Absolutely The Best Of Marvin Gaye!
Review: I'm glad got this Motown Anthology of Marvin Gaye and got it on an impulse. For fearing that it might not be in stock much longer I decided that I HAD to have a copy. I did have a copy of his 60s hits yet it lacked a few I was interested in namely "Baby Don't You Do It" particularly aside of renditions by The Who and The Band[Their version "Don't Do It" for short] nor did I have each of his duets with Mary Wells("What's The Matter With You Baby") and Kim Weston("It Takes Two"). Apart from the entire album of What's Going On and the title track of Let's Get It On that was featured on the Rhythm, Love And Soul boxed set, I never had any of Marvin's 70s material which went with the times musically speaking as well as spiritually. Check out the live version of "Distant Lover" where it seems the women in the audience couldn't get enough of Marvin and always had that magnetism among female fans. One song included here is from the album he made with Diana Ross "My Mistake(Was To Love You)". On the first disc of the 60s material(which was mono) we have five selections he did with Tammi Terrell-"Ain't No Mountain High Enough"; "Your Precious Love"; "If I Could Build My Whole World Around You"; "Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing" and "You're All I Need To Get By". If you're looking for "Sexual Healing" here you're out of luck here because this strictly Motown material. That would be best found on the Gold collection or the Playlist one[The latter is the Columbia material]. But in my honest opinion, Marvin's best was on Motown no doubt about it. Unless you already have the Motown works of Marvin Gaye, I strongly suggest this collection. That's 47 songs in all! Get it now before asking yourself "What's Going On".
Reviewer: Chertae W.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Nice music
Review: Did some serious rememiniscing with many of the selections. I actually purchased it used to save a few dollars from Amazon and was pleased with the 2 cds. Great music if you're interested rythm and blues or a Marvin Gaye fan, either way a great selection.
Reviewer: RAO
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Sweet sounds of the time of Motown.
Review: Bring this WB back to the days of Motown and above. I purchased this with Stevie Wonder and listen wile I ride bike on high speed trails and noticed things I had never before. Let me in a higher place and pushed me to keep up with the faster rhythm as there are so many at the same time with poetry now missed on CDâs. Both Marvin and Stevieâs songs are well worth taking the time to look up and read so you will understand the kind of love and struggle they sang about. All was done with their gloves off and the sweet falseta making the medicine so much easier to digest. Cross over music like this brought millions of people together. On par with MJ in their range, forever in our hearts and actions with the deep understanding of what has reciently come back to the need for more artists to either cover them or write more of these snap shots of real life that aint changed that much.
Reviewer: Karen Alicea
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Music
Review: Bought as a Christmas gift and he liked it
Reviewer: Laz Trinidad
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The Best Marvin Gaye CD you could buy!
Review: I was pleased to receive my Very Best Of Marvin Gaye CD quickly with no damage to the CD case, This collection contains all the memorable and brilliant Marvin Gaye hit songs from the soulful 1960's and socially conscious 70's to the very last triumph of Marvin Gaye's career the song "Sexual Healing" (1982) from the album "Midnight Love" released before Marvin Gaye's tragic passing only one day before his 45th Birthday on April 1st, 1984 at the hands of his father Marvin Gaye Sr., The sound on this CD is excellent and was remastered with great skill and care, Love this CD!!
Reviewer: Richy
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Un clásico imprescindible.
Reviewer: Client d'Amazon
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Je vous le conseille
Reviewer: Benedetto Andolfi
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Comprato da warehouse ad un euro è stato un acquistone. Qualsiasi giorno sia mettete Gaye in sottofondo e godetevi un po' di buona musica.
Reviewer: PGB
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: This one's simply the best available anthology (47 tracks) of the late, great Marvin Gaye's material from his earliest Motown days to the early 90s, and includes seven duets with Tammi Terrell, Kim Weston, and Mary Wells, and four tracks from 'What's Goin' On (you should probably have that album anyway!). All the great hits are here along with a few album cuts - everything you'd really need. Beware - there are similar 2-disc anthologies out there with less, such as the normally reliable 'Gold' which has only 34 tracks. 'Gold' does have 'Sexual Healing', which is missing from 'Anthology', but if you can do without that song, 'Anthology' is certainly the one to get.
Reviewer: Lina Enchanted
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Easy listening!