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26/08/2009

With the finest soul music, past and present. Trevor's Album of the Week is Marvin Gaye's 1973 release Let's Get It On.

Trevor's Album Of The Week is Marvin Gaye's 1973 release Let's Get It On.

After brilliantly surveying the social, political, and spiritual landscape with What's Going On, Marvin Gaye turned to more intimate matters with Let's Get It On, a record unparalleled in its sheer sensuality and carnal energy.

Always a sexually charged performer, Gaye's passions reach their boiling point on tracks like the magnificent title hit (a number one smash) and You Sure Love To Ball. Silky and shimmering, the music is seductive in the most literal sense, its fluid grooves so perfectly designed for romance as to border on parody.

With each performance laced with innuendo, each lyric a come-on, and each rhythm throbbing with lust, perhaps no other record has ever achieved the kind of sheer erotic force of Let's Get It On, and decades later it remains the blueprint for all of the slow jams to follow.

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Wed 26 Aug 2009 22:00
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Music Played

  • Cheryl Lynn

    Encore

  • Sounds of Blackness

    Optimistic

  • Eric Roberson

    Bad For Me

  • The Police

    Voices Inside My Head

  • Teddy Pendergrass

    The More I Get, The More I Want

  • YOUR JAM

    • India.Arie

      Can I Walk With You

  • Amerie

    Why R U

  • Michael Jackson - I Wanna Be Where You Are

  • Carleen Anderson

    Mama Said

  • Herbie Hancock

    Chameleon

  • Album of the week

    • Marvin Gaye

      Let's Get It On

  • Roy Ayers

    Thank You Thank You

  • Mary J. Blige

    Be Without You

Broadcast

  • Wed 26 Aug 2009 22:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2

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