#711 Marvin Gaye's What's Going On & the Wah-Wah Pedal

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🗓️ 12 July 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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This week, hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot look back on Marvin Gaye's classic album What's Going On. They discuss the tracks, cultural climate and overarching themes of the 1971 album, many of which are more relevant than ever today.

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0:21.0	Wab mabble mabh lah bam bam bam bam bam bam From W be EZ Chicago and PRX, this is Sound Opinions. I'm Jim De Regattis. And I'm Greg Kott. It's week two of Sound Opinions summer school,
0:25.2	and we're giving you a master class on soul of the 70s. First, we revisit our classic album
0:30.7	dissection of Marvin Gay's groundbreaking 1971 album, What's Going On?
0:35.4	Oh, Mercy,
0:40.0	Mercy, Nes,
0:41.0	You're Fes We'll discuss the album's impact and how it sounds and its messages live on.
0:50.0	We'll also talk about a signature sound in soul R&B and psychedelic rock, the Wawa pedal.
0:56.3	That's all coming up on sound opinions.
1:01.4	You're listening to sound opinions and this week we are holding week two of our sound
1:05.9	opinions summer school. We're putting on our professor hats and revisiting some of our favorite
1:11.6	albums to explain why they matter.
1:14.7	Today we're looking at the Marvin Gay Classic, what's going on?
1:18.6	And later on we'll discuss the unique presence of the Wawa pedal in 70s music by artists including gay as well as the
1:26.0	temptations and more.
1:28.3	But first, what's going on?
1:30.5	Was released in May 1971, It remains one of the textbook examples of a great soul record. What's going on? What's going on? Yeah, what's going on?
1:49.0	A culmination of a period in Marvin Gay's's life which was very troubled Jim.
1:54.2	This man was probably as reliable a hitmaker as Motown had during the 60s.
2:00.0	He was one of the most versatile singers they had.
2:02.4	He could go up-tempo and rough.
2:05.1	He could sing the sweet ballads. He could do duets.
2:08.3	He was all over the charts in the 60s with songs like Hitchhike and Can I Get a Witness, Ain't That peculiar,
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