![]() Post-Al Green What's Going On, which means it's about fucking rather than the human condition, thank the wholly holey. B+īuy the single unless you like soundtrack albums. Worst of all, because they're used a lot, are David Van De Pitte's strings, the lowest kind of movie-background dreck. But the rest is pretty murky even when the lyrical ideas are good-I like the words on "What's Happenin' Brother" and "Flyin' High (in the Friendly Sky)" quite a bit-and the religious songs that bear Gaye's real message are suitably shapeless. And Gaye keeps getting more subtle vocally and rhythmically. "What's Going On," "Inner City Blues," and "Mercy, Mercy Me (the Ecology)" are so original they reveal ordinary Motown-political as the benign market manipulation it is. This may be a groundbreaking personal statement, but like any Berry Gordy quickie it's baited skimpily: only three great tunes. Marvin Gaye Live at the London Palladium B.
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