Audio CD review:
Marvin Gaye - Vulnerable

Marvin Gaye - Vulnerable

Band: Marvin Gaye Title: Vulnerable Rating: Release Date: 22 April, 1997 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Why Did I Choose You 2: She Needs Me 3: Funny, Not Much 4: This Will Make You Laugh 5: The Shadow Of Your Smile 6: I Wish I Didn't Love You So 7: I Won't Cry Anymore 8: Why Did I Choose You (Alternate Vocal Performance) 9: I Wish I Didn't Love You So (Alternate Vocal Performance) 10: I Won't Cry Anymore (Alternate Vocal Performance)

Editoral Review Neither Gaye nor Scott was satisfied with the performances (though a number of the vocal tracks he cut at the time appeared on the posthumous album Romantically Yours), but in the midst of personal turmoil a decade or so later, Gaye returned to the tapes. In the late '60s, Sinatra fan Gaye commissioned arrangements of several standards from pop-jazz composer Bobby Scott. Spinning a web of overdubbed voices, he found something in the likes of "I Won't Cry Anymore," "Funny, Not Much," and "Why Did I Choose You?" that transformed the songs into a corollary to Here, My Dear, the 1978 concept album that traced the tale of his shattered first marriage. As pained and beautiful as that set, if much less angry in its essential assumptions, Vulnerable is a brief (seven three-minute tracks plus three alternate versions) but potent document of Gaye's vocal mastery and emotional incisiveness. --Rickey Wright .. You can see a complete list of all Marvin Gaye discography, or go back to the Marvin Gaye tabs