Now which Marvin Gaye did you prefer? Pre or Post-70's?

[candykamaine]

Why did you stop listening to radio in 1966, and stop buying records in 1971? Just curious.

if i can recall correctly he posted that that music was going in a direction that he did'nt like, if i can recall correctly.

[Boogiedown]

Prefer everything after and including I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE , [[except the grating duets) , peaking with GOT TO GIVE IT UP

[soulster]

if i can recall correctly he posted that that music was going in a direction that he did'nt like, if i can recall correctly.

See, I don't understand that logic because music he likes was made after that time too. Maybe he didn't like everything, but some of what he likes was there.

[robb_k]

if i can recall correctly he posted that that music was going in a direction that he did'nt like, if i can recall correctly.

Your recollection is quite correct. I stopped listening to the radio because I had to suffer through listening to a lot of songs I didn't like, to finally hear one I liked. The kind of music I liked was based much on melody. When Funk came in, most of the songs had qualities I didn't like. Furthermore, I didn't like the sound of moog synthesizers and the new instrumentation.

I liked a lot of Motown's product from 1967-71, and I still liked most of the Jazz instrumentals , and a fair amount of Chicago Soul and some Philly-International product, but little else that was played much. I heard them at the record stores, and still bought a lot of records from 1967-1969. I bought a few in 1970-71, but only a handful in 1972[[mostly Spinners on Atlantic and Drifters on Bell, plus a couple other "old-sounding songs"), and only one in 1974 [["I'm Doin' Fine Now") and one in 1976 [["Right Back Where We Started From").