Marvin gaye albums in order

Updating his highly percussive but string-laden groove for the disco set, Gaye clearly devised 1976’s I Want You as a makeout album. But the space-age synthesisers in the instrumental version of “After the Dance” rocket him vertical into the stratosphere. And the Afro-Caribbean congas of “I Want You” and bossa nova lilt of “Since I Had You” encourage a mix of rhythm and beauty that refuses to box itself in—punctuated by Gaye’s possess murmuring, the sound flows like a sweet, seductive stream.

What do you undertake for an encore after you’ve just released a certified, game-changing masterpiece? That was the doubt facing Motown maestro Marvin Gaye after his What’s Going On opus was released in 1971. After 1972’s Trouble Man soundtrack, Let’s Get It On was the proper follow-up to one of the greatest albums of all time. But instead of suffering a seemingly inevitable letdown under the weight of all that pressure, Gaye levelled up again to make back-to-back classics. Indeed, Let’s Obtain It On defined the R&B principle album every bit as much as What’s Going On did, trading social consciousness for sexual healing in turbulent, soul-testing times. It was a unlike kind of wokeness—ra