.... Gone are the days of complacent, apolitical cuddle Souls, passing the time of endlessly repeating the same phrase Gonna Give Her All The Love That I've Got. 1969 for Marvin Gaye - as for the entire pop, rock and soul-world - the turning point reached: beautiful world has the end - it must be expressive, revolutionary, everything is now a political statement equal, Street fight in the black ghettos takes longer than a single page. And Gaye dislike more, he may no longer write the perennial Gesülze and produce no - after all, extremely successful - Tammy Terrell Angeschmachte more, so it does nothing ..... - forces him to his record company, then he takes perforce just a few covers on. Good is '- just well it is not really, because although he is likely to take interesting stuff, the case of boredom grabs nevertheless: Groovin', of the Young Rascals, lost superficially completely each groove a, I Wish It Would Rain - what a Temptations ballad - here seemingly drowning in uniformity, Abraham Martin and John, the country ballad Dions - as it comes because it ?! - Is to no one knows what, and Cloud Nine, the thriller from the wedding of the Temptations, raining from the truest sense of the word. Somehow the worst - the titular, of course, a Whitfield / Strong song, That's The Way Love Is: a cheaper I Heard It Through The Grapevine infusion. This is all not bad, makes downright curious how Gaye will handle it - and yet it lubricates at a first superficial Listen, next to the Verve said originals, just from, is simply one thing and that's actually from Gaye's side : listless.
But then there are surprisingly but one title that stands out positively, one of which one expects Gaye will ride to shame him completely in the ballad Country: Yesterday by the Beatles. But this - quite legitimate - expectations he not met now calculated: Yesterday - the past - is at Gaye actually a soul song with life of its own, which keeps up with the relaxed at the same time numerous appear where Beatles covers Aretha Franklin. The rest: Whitfield / Strong-average commodity .... wrong! After repeated listening the songs begin to grow, especially the mentioned cover versions win own Marvin Gaye-quality, and here in the very special Abraham Martin And John as Soul Song, even if the text thus still not to gaining intelligence, but it can Cover nothing. That is, with all these limitations, an excellent classic Motown production work Whitfield, with plenty of first-class overtones, very sophisticated sound design, and here, in the Japanese edition at least, an excellent remastering. At some point I'll still five star correct .... Oh, now - hear the tenth time goes during recording real.
Yet a year later the Gaye-Re-Start, which become music era ....
