Audio CD review:
Marvin Gaye - The Very Best of Marvin Gaye

Marvin Gaye - The Very Best of Marvin Gaye

Band: Marvin Gaye Title: The Very Best of Marvin Gaye Rating: Release Date: 17 July, 2001 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Stubborn Kind Of Fellow 2: Hitch Hike 3: Pride And Joy 4: Can I Get A Witness 5: You're A Wonderful One 6: How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) 7: I'll Be Doggone 8: Ain't That Peculiar 9: It Takes Two 10: Ain't No Mountain High Enough 11: Your Precious Love 12: If I Could Build My Whole World Around You 13: Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing 14: You're All I Need To Get By 15: You 16: I Heard It Through The Grapevine 17: Too Busy Thinking About My Baby 18: That's The Way Love Is 19: His Eye Is On The Sparrow 20: What's Going On 21: Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) 22: Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) 23: You're The Man - Pts. I & II 24: Where Are We Going? 25: Trouble Man 26: Let's Get It On 27: Come Get To This 28: Distant Lover - Live 29: I Want You 30: Got To Give It Up 31: Anger 32: Ego Tripping Out 33: Praise 34: Sexual Healing

Editoral Review Foremost are the previously unreleased "Where Are We Going?" which marries Nixon-era (and beyond) social concerns to a lilting groove that brings to mind Spinners records of the period, and an alternate mix of Gaye's rare version of "His Eye Is on the Sparrow. Another Marvin Gaye overview/introduction? Why not? Pulling together the usual hits from "I'll Be Doggone" to "Grapevine," "What's Going On" to "Let's Get It On" to "Sexual Healing"--all musts for any R&B or pop fan--this two-CD set also offers treats for the Marvin connoisseur. " Very Best also pays proper tribute to Gaye's final years at Motown with the full 11-plus minutes of the intensely, casually funky "Got to Give It Up," Here, My Dear's smoldering "Anger," and several tracks from the under-heard Love Man/In Our Lifetime sessions. More than just a profit-generating package from the parent company, it's a loving, rounded selection that's sure to widen newcomers' perceptions of a great artist's creativity and spirit. --Rickey Wright .. You can see a complete list of all Marvin Gaye discography, or go back to the Marvin Gaye tabs