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It’s especially awkward because this is my first full Marvin Gaye album – obviously, I know some of the bigger hits, but for my first one, getting a long open letter recapping a failed, chaotic, vindictive, messy & dysfunctional marriage ending in a nasty divorce period is certainly a first impression. I was pretty captivated first play through - none of the preachy stuff that put me off "What's Going On" and not as relentlessly horny as "Let's Get In On" - a mood that intrigued me but was hard to pin down, melancholy, wistful, with, yes, a splash of horniness.
At least from what Marvin provided, it's apparent he bled his heart out onto the paper to get this out. We are forced to recall a lost love.
The otherworldly setting is far in the future, a time “light years ahead” when “music won’t have no race.” Marvin calls out the years – 2073, 2084, 2093 – just as in “I Met A Little Girl” he called out the year of his marriage. Marvin Gaye’s voice glides like silk on a lot of these tracks, & when he means a line, there’s just a hint of extra vitriol, or grief, or whatever emotion each track calls for that makes the delivery feel all the more emphatic.
Time To Get It Together (3:54)
VIII. By then, though, it was 1976 and Marvin was consumed by other concerns – creeping doubts about his creativity, fears of performance (singing, sexual and otherwise), plus a growing reliance on drugs as anti-depressants. And it goes FOREVER, fucking hell. It was autobiographical, confessional, infuriatingly self-justifying and very funny.
It’s a very cathartic project. the Beach Boys's Vegetables), where "unrecognised masterpiece" often equates to self-indulgent, un-edited piffle from a flailing artiste. The transformation between raw feeling and polished art is evident in the soft, subtle way Gaye sings about rage. The latter was my favorite and seemed to theme the entire album, but there's no weak points here.
It’s full of contradictions: some outright bangers, some complete dross.
5
10/10 listening to this album feels like a light has entered my life
5
De éste disco no conocía ninguna canción.
5
Marvin Gaye was a gift from God. That voice is so smooth. If you’re going through it, this is the album for you.
But it soon becomes clear that the singer is concerned with more than is divorce; his struggle is to keep from going mad. I don’t think I could have survived without one.”
In 1965, they adopted a child, Marvin Gaye III, and all seemed well.
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Lacking much of a hook or a resolution to the melody, its sounds like they are asking you to chill. This time around he feels exploited – “plucked clean” in his words – accusing Anna, in haunting refrain, of being “too possessive or jealous.” The weight of his pity-me-poor-me tone is lifted, however, by humor and ingenious rhyme: “What could I do, the judge said, ‘She got to keep on livin’ the way she ‘customed to.’” The internal monologue ends with Marvin’s glum reflections on “attorney fees…why do I have to pay attorney fees?” He cuts of the matter with “this is a joke… I need a smoke…wait a minute…” You can see him firing up a joint, settling back and listening to Fernando Harkness’ tenor sizzle over a groove that stays funky from start to finish.
Here, My Dear can be viewed as a study in vacillation, Gaye’s struggle to turn anger into understanding, rage into compassion.
It was a difficult album to understand, requiring both patience and attention. I think I’ll settle for a solid 3. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a very good 5, but there’s something awkward about rating a man’s ability to air out his grievances.