This song is a reason I don't listen to critics. I've seen people say after Sexual Healing, there was no other big hit to emerge from it. Uh, obviously they didn't hear this track enough!
Not only was this song a potential big hit [[which Columbia/CBS dropped the ball imho) but it showed how pioneering Marvin was. I don't think, prior to 1982 except for probably Zapp and Roger [[but their albums were out at the same time, I think), was anyone using drum machines in R&B music, it was all still live, but Marvin and Gordon Banks decided on creating an album that was visually almost a techno R&B experience [[or electro funk) and soon everyone was doing it in their own ways.
MG had to go to Europe [[in Belgium and Germany) to create the sound that came out of ML and this was one of Marvin's finest moments in the [[prematurely) autumn of his recording career. It's bittersweet though knowing how far MG would've take this sound. Some say the ML album itself predated the new jack swing movement and judging from what is here and elsewhere, they're not off.
I love the breakdowns to the song and the slow build up and Marvin's ad libs near the end [["when the night time comes, I'll be gettin' some! Get it get it get it get it..."). Genius. Pure genius, man!
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