#571 Marvin Gaye's *What's Going On*
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🗓️ 4 November 2016
⏱️ 60 minutes
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In 1971, Marvin Gaye made a career left turn with the album What's Going On, adopting a socially conscious sound that addressed war, racism, and drugs. 45 years later, What's Going On remains as relevant as ever. Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot present a Classic Album Dissection of the iconic record. Then, they review a contemporary protest album from Common.
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| 0:00.0 | Good music is what we want to hear. |
| 0:05.0 | What do you mean? |
| 0:06.0 | Good music. |
| 0:07.0 | It's what we dance to, what our children will dance to. |
| 0:09.0 | And if you don't want to play it, then take your records and go home. |
| 0:13.0 | Did you have a band? Good or bad? |
| 0:23.0 | It's a great band, it's a bad band, it's like pizza, baby. |
| 0:25.0 | It's good no matter if there's music in the air. 45 years ago, |
| 0:35.0 | ago Marvin Gay released his masterful album, What's Going On. |
| 0:40.0 | And it's just as relevant today as ever. |
| 0:42.0 | I'm Greg Kott. And I'm just |
| 0:43.6 | Jim Deregadas. We'll do a classic album |
| 0:46.1 | dissection of what's going on and we'll review Black America |
| 0:49.8 | again the new record from rapper Common. That's all coming up on sound opinions. |
| 0:57.0 | You're listening to sound opinions. I'm Greg Kott with Jim De Regottis and we want to do a deep |
| 1:06.6 | album dissection of one of the classic Motown records of the 70s, Marvin Gaye's What's Going On, which was released in May of 1971. |
| 1:15.8 | Oh, what's going on? |
| 1:18.8 | What's going on? |
| 1:19.8 | What's going on? |
| 1:20.8 | Yeah, what's going on? Oh, what's going on? What's going on? |
| 1:24.0 | What's going on? |
| 1:25.0 | A culmination of a period in Marvin Gay's life, |
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