Name: In Our Lifetime
Brand: Marvin Gaye

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

5353430

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Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

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Format detail

180 Gram LP.

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2016-05-27

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

33 & 1/3 Record Distributors LLC

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

600753534304

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Total Cap

1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Marvin Gaye

Genre US

Funk / Soul

Label US

Motown

Marvin Gaye was an American singer-songwriter and musician with a three-octave vocal range. He was born on April 2, 1939 in Washington, D.C., USA and tragically died on April 1, 1984 in Los Angeles, California, USA when he was shot by his father Marvin Gay Sr.
Gaye started his career as a member of The Moonglows in the late fifties. After the group disbanded in 1960, he embarked on a successful solo career and signed with the Tamla subsidiary of Motown Records.
Inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 1987 as a performer, Marvin Gaye is remembered for his incredible talent and contributions to music. He is also known as the brother of Frankie Gaye and the father of Nona Gaye.

Marvin Gaye's album In Our Lifetime. Available here on 180 Gram LP.

Marvin Gaye's In Our Lifetime came after 1978's confessional double album Here, My Dear. In Our Lifetime is one of his finest later albums and captures him as his craft was maturing and becoming more multifaceted. "Ego Tripping Out" works as both a parody of the "love man" with a few autobiographical flourishes as he sings, "Got a sweet tooth/For the chick on the floor." Slowly but surely the religious matters do surface here. The buoyant "Praise" has a blithe riff inspired and/or lifted from Stevie Wonder and has Gaye getting his message across without being preachy. Although no song is especially brilliant here, the level of Gaye's musical sense and his vocal prowess carry him throughout. The unfinished and non-Gaye-approved "Far Cry" has lyrics that are steam-of-conscious and are barely decipherable. The mesmerizing "Love Me Now or Love Me Later" has Gaye examining both good and evil with equal skill. The last track, the title song, has Gaye back in the party frame of mind and has great horn charts and a propulsive beat.

In Our Lifetime

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