Marvin Gaye

I need to just start writing things in this blog, no matter how dissatisfied I am with them.  I just need copy, I guess, until I have enough posts that it seems like I have a blog.  So, here's what I felt like writing about today: Marvin Gaye.

What's Going On is one of those albums that's always cited by music critics as one of the best albums of all time or the most important soul album ever or the record that changed Motown or etc.  Well, it took me until today to understand how good it is.  Even though it sounds like the soundtrack to driving some sexy lady around downtown Chicago in a 1970s Cadillac, this album is about HEAVY SHIT, man.  I'll let you read all about it yourself, but I think that you should listen to Mercy, Mercy Me while reading the lyrics.  It's like the most powerful Christian-environmentalist soul lament that I've ever heard.  Please listen to it.  It's like taking a globalization class from a gospel singer-sage who sort of also feels like the loving black father you never had.

That's all.  I have to go to sleep.  It'll all be ok, I guess.  But shit, man.  Heavy.