05 February 2010
By Lyov
In R&B, Soul
What’s Going On (Deluxe Edition)
This deluxe edition of WHAT’S GOING ON includes a 20-page booklet with
complete lyrics, never-before-published photos from personal family collections and an essay by David Ritz.
Recorded live at The Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C. on May 1, 1972.
Originally released in 1971, WHAT’S GOING ON remains a landmark album, one that redefined music with powerful, anthemic songs that remain pertinent to this day. Before WHAT’S GOING ON, R&B albums were collections of singles, with secondary “filler” material rounding out the LPs. Marvin Gaye changed all this by releasin...
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Deluxe Edition, Funk, Marvin Gaye, motown, rhythm and blues, rnb, Soul, What's Going On
24 January 2010
By Lyov
In Pop, R&B, Soul
Conversation Peace
Conversation Peace is made up of love songs in the key of life and life songs in the key of love, just like all the other records Stevie Wonder has made for the past 20 years. What changes, as he gets older, is just how much love he’s willing to bring to a life that doesn’t seem to be getting any better. 1995 means drive-by shootings, gang wars and homelessness in the urban milieu that has always been Wonder’s lyrical home. But where he once got downright angry in “Big Brother,” or reporterly and objective in “Living For The City,” Wonder is now reaching out to his fellow man and spreading his love around. He gets murdered in both verses of the funky “My Love Is With You,” and responds with bouncy pop choruses, a message to “spread the love I’ve given,” and, only at the song’s tail end, a plea to “ban the hand gun.” This is the idea of love conquering all taken to an extreme....
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Conversation Peace, Funk, motown, Pop, rnb, Soul, Stevie Wonder
Nina Simone
Gelka
The Radio City Rockettes
Jamie Cullum
Ella Fitzgerald
