| Let's Get It On |  | Artist: Marvin Gaye
Label: Motown
Category: Music
List Price: $9.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  31 reviews
Sales Rank: 587112
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.2
UPC: 602517810020
EAN: 0602517810020
ASIN: B001DZDTNG
Release Date: September 16, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Let's Get It On | | • | Please Stay (Once You Go Away) | | • | If I Should Die Tonight | | • | Keep Gettin' It On | | • | Come Get to This | | • | Distant Lover - Marvin Gaye, Gordy, Gwen | | • | You Sure Love to Ball | | • | Just to Keep You Satisfied | | • | Let's Get It On | | • | You Sure Love to Ball \ |
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Amazon.com essential recording
Marvin Gaye's 1973 album, Let's Get It On, is a marvel of sexual blandishment every bit the artistic equal of, say, John Donne's best seduction poems. The difference, though, is that the poetry here isn't in the verse--which gets a trifle cliched--but in the supple pulse of the grooves and in the aching need of Gaye's sensual voice. The marvelous title track, a No. 1 hit, riffs on the earlier hook of Gaye's "What's Going On" to reach a more primal climax, and everything else here--a steamy swirl of sax, strings, and backing voices--is sexy, beautiful, and simply sublime. --David Cantwell
Album Description
2008 reissue of his 1973 album Let's Get It On is his follow up to his 1970 political concept album, What's Going On? This CD includes 15 bonus tracks. Gaye left social concerns behind for those of a more initimate nature with this album which was a huge success. Originally released in 1973, this album broke new ground gaining its place in history as one of the most sexual albums ever recorded, laying the basis for every slow jam ever after and making Gaye both socially concerned and sexy, a potent commercial combination.
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 It doesn't get much better August 9, 2008
I think it might be a sin to give Marvin Gaye anything less than 5 stars. But this classic album was an absolute steal as Amazon's MP3 Daily Deal (which is where I find some of the most unique, original music I own). Including two of his most widely known songs, "Let's Get It On" and "Distant Lover", the album is a great listen. A definite icon in the world of popular music!
I have NEVER felt soooo GOOD before... May 8, 2003
4 out of 9 found this review helpful
If you don't own this CD, you have NO game. In fact, you prob'ly don' e'en know the meaning'a the term. I know thas' harsh, but is' the truth. Marvin epitomized some love an' romance on this album. Every slinky groove on here an' every soulful an' passionate cry he sends out is the stuff for the ages. This ALONE became the blueprint for every R&B loveman out there, but I can guarantee y'all that couldn't NONE'a 'dem amass the real, an' I mean REAL emotions that pour outta your speakers when you got this album in there. Is' a brief set'a bedroom songs, only eight tracks, but EVERY ONE'a dem is a classic in their own right. From the eternally-played-out title song to 'Please Stay (Don't Go Away)' to the absolutely beautiful 'If I Should Die Tonight' an' on to the bouncy, freaknik of 'Come Get to This'. But the true pinnacles to me come toward the end. On the hypnotic an' dreamlike 'Distant Lover' Marvin is jus' NAKED with vunerability an' emotion; I mean jus' listen to them passionate screams, is' like no other, fa'real. An' then there's the closing song 'Just to Keep You Satisfied', a monumental ballad of love, lust, pain, heartache, struggle an' movin' on. When he cries out "I'll never loooovvve NOBODY, like I LOOOOVVVED you!" it almost brings a tear to my eye. Ending the album on this note was almost a precursor to 'Here, My Dear', his album-long chronicle of his divorce from his first wife, which is, in my opinion, his greatest artistic achievement. But, lemme not get into that, 'cause we ain't there yet. Right now, we got the most CLASSIC album'a love, sex an' romance on the face'a this planet. An' we got Marvin Gaye; laid-back, reassured, calculated, crazed, an' ready to get it on with all the classy, beautiful ladies who're down. Marvin may be gone from this world, but I'll forever be grateful for the time he was afforded an' for what of his life he gave to the masses. An' for this young 22-year-old man, he did EV'RYTHING right. This album is one'a the few that merits the overused term ESSENTIAL. If you're like me an' live for some soul music, an' you don' own this by now, well, I don't know, you're jus' slippin' bad an' you better hurry up an' get it for you completely fall off.
keep gettin it on yall... July 25, 2002
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
...this is proly the only marvin gaye i will ever own!
i love that passion and the romance that some grown folks can generate when they get together and do somethin, so any singer that pours his or her emotions out to cover me in some love, lust or whatever is in-between that does it for me, then they gonna earn my praise....
teddy pendergrass.
smokey robinson.
isaac hayes.
some o'jays.
the isleys.
yall get the picture... and marvin gaye! he's just on here doin his thang and makin me glad he did it! you aint got this yet? you slippin and folks when they come by to visit you are gonna know it!... get this and enjoy...
 WHEN SEX WAS STILL A LITTLE TABOO July 4, 2002
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Eversince PRINCE and rap groups made their sexual fantaisies musically fashionable in the 80's and 90's,the theme by itself has lost the ability to schock.In 1973,LET'S GET IT ON was the new opus by the man we often called the original lover man.This record is certainly not a masterpiece, but it is in fact a pleasant soul product that can be described as a prelude to the ever pop fascination with love and sex that are so overwhelming today.Listen to it for what it is and you should enjoy it.MARVIN will always have his place in the heart of soul fans of the sixties and seventies.He was as we often said the handyman of MOTOWN ,who started as a drummer and end up being one of the company's biggest star.
His Best next to What's goin' on April 24, 2002
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Let's get it on is one of the best love ballads of the 1970's. Come get to this represents free sexuality. You sure love to ball is Buck wild sex. Distant Lover is long distance love. This is a classic buy it!
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