What are your 10 favourite Marvin Gaye tracks?

**Hitsville_Jazza** · 08-01-2016, 12:59 PM

Hey guys,

Classic Motown are running a competition to see who can come up with the best Marvin Gaye: Essentials playlist. You can only choose 10 tracks though, which is pretty tough!

http://classic.motown.com/story/crea...ials-playlist/

What would your 10 tracks be? Interested to hear people's thoughts...

RossHolloway · 08-01-2016, 02:03 PM

10 favorite tracks? What an impossible list. I don't even know where to start.

**marv2** · 08-01-2016, 04:02 PM

1. I Want You
2. Pride and Joy
3. How Sweet It Is to Be Loved by You
4. What's Going On?
5. Inner City Blues
6. Sexual Healing
7. Wonderful One
8. Anger
9. Too Busy Thinking About My Baby
10. I Heard It Through the Grapevine

**sup_fan** · 08-01-2016, 04:12 PM

I Want You
All The Way Around
You're all I need to get by [[duet)
Got To Give It Up
Sexual Healing
Let's Get It On

**Guy** · 08-01-2016, 04:26 PM

Impossible. No 10-track compilation would ever be comprehensive enough to title the "essential" Marvin Gaye. I am most enamored of his 70s output.

1. What's Going On
2. I Want You
3. Let's Get It On
4. Got To Give It Up
5. Trouble Man
6. Inner City Blues [[Make Me Wanna Holler)
7. Distant Lover
8. After The Dance
9. A Funky Space Reincarnation
10. If I Should Die Tonight

And I'm already second-guessing all of my choices.

**theboyfromxtown** · 08-01-2016, 06:10 PM

That's The Way Love Is
I Wish It Would Rain
Chained
Aint That Peculiar
I'll Be Doggone
Take This Heart Of Mine
Lonely Lover
You'se The Son Of A Gun
Your Unchanging Love
Can I Get A Witness

**soulster** · 08-01-2016, 08:51 PM

For my list, i'll stick to the hits, in no particular order:

What's Going On
Let's Get It On
Stubborn Kinda Fellow
It Takes Two [[with Kim Weston)
Chained
Too Busy Thinking About My Baby
I Want You
Trouble Man
Baby, Don't You Do It
I Heard It Through The Grapevine

Bonus track:

Mercy Mercy Me [[The Ecology)

**marv2** · 08-01-2016, 09:39 PM

Originally Posted by soulster

For my list, i'll stick to the hits, in no particular order:

What's Going On
Let's Get It On
Stubborn Kinda Fellow
It Takes Two [[with Kim Weston)
Chained
Too Busy Thinking About My Baby
I Want You
Trouble Man
Baby, Don't You Do It
I Heard It Through The Grapevine

Bonus track:

Mercy Mercy Me [[The Ecology)

How come you get a bonus track? Ok then my bonus track is "Ain't That Peculiar"!

**johnjeb** · 08-01-2016, 10:02 PM

You're A Wonderful One
Can I Get A Witness
Ain't That Peculiar
I'll Be Doggone
You
I Heard It Through The Grapevine
Too Busy Thinking About My Baby
So Long
Pride and Joy
Hitch Hike

**luke** · 08-02-2016, 11:30 AM

Ain't that Peculiar
Come get to this
I want you
Stubborn kind of Fellow
Let's Get it On
Too busy thinking bout my baby
What's Goibg On
Inner City Blues
Sexual Healing
Take This Heart of mine

**Motown Eddie** · 08-02-2016, 12:41 PM

1. "How Sweet It Is [[To Be Loved By You)"
2. "I Heard It Through The Grapevine"
3. "You're All I Need" [[with Tammi Terrell)
4. "Too Busy Thinking About My Baby"
5. "What's Going On"
6. "Trouble Man"
7. "Let's Get It On"
8. "After The Dance"
9. "Got To Give It Up [[Pt. 1)"
10. "Sexual Healing"

**Bluebrock** · 08-02-2016, 03:03 PM

Truly an impossible task. I have currently got my "list" down to 18 , and i cannot for the life of me bear to trim many more from the list, and everytime i think about this subject i remember another tune i had forgotten about. Sorry but this task is quite impossible.

**luke** · 08-02-2016, 03:47 PM

Lol. Now I'm upset I left off Grapeviine, Got to give it up and It takes two!

**snakepit** · 08-02-2016, 05:16 PM

Just a little love
My love for you
I'll take care of you

Oh I give up...too hard
But those above will do

**arr&bee** · 08-03-2016, 12:56 PM

Well let's see...you...heard it through the grapevine...pretty little baby...i'll be doggone...your unchanging love...funky space reincarnation...forever...hitchhike...let's get it on...what's goin on, it's so hard to pick a top ten for marvin because all his work is classic to me so these are just off the top of my head.

**JimBagley** · 08-03-2016, 01:26 PM

Can I Get A Witness
Ain't No Mountain High Enough [[with Tammi Terrell)
Heard It Through The Grapevine
You're All I Need To Get By [[with Tammi Terrell)
What's Going On
You Sure Love To Ball
I Want You
Distant Lover
Got To Give It Up
Sexual Healing

Bonus Tracks:
Purple Snowflakes
My Mistake [[with Miss Ross)

**robb_k** · 08-03-2016, 01:46 PM

I'm not much of a fan of Marvin Gaye, so this list might look a little weird. If we take out the duets, I would add, I'll Be Doggone, Pride and Joy, The Masquerade is Over, Mama Loochie [[as Moonglows' lead), [[You're a) Wonderful One, and the last one would probably be some "B" side I'm forgetting. I like his mellow, but early stuff better than his raucus songs. I rarely like ANY music of any kind after the end of the '60s, or maybe a few cuts from 1970 and 1971. I don't like anything I've heard from him after 1967. But then, that could be said by me of just about any singing artist.

Stubborn Kind of Fellow
Your Unchanging Love
Ain't That Peculiar
How Sweet It Is [[To Be Loved By You)
The Onion Song [[with Tammi Terrell)
It Takes Two [[with Kim Weston)
Ain't No Mountain High Enough [[with Tammi Terrell)
You're All I Need To Get By [[with Tammi Terrell)
Ain't No Mountain High Enough [[with Tammi Terrell)
You're All I Need To Get By [[with Tammi Terrell)

**sansradio** · 08-03-2016, 01:52 PM

Impossible, but here goes:

I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Chained
Ain't No Mountain High Enough
Your Precious Love
Let's Get It On
You Sure Love to Ball
Soon I'll Be Loving You Again
Anger
Time to Get It Together
Sanctified Lady

**Ngroove** · 08-03-2016, 02:50 PM

I don't Spotify, my music purely is derived from CD and vinyl, but here goes:

Note: While the seventies Marvin had several grooves I can groove on [[Come Get To This, I Want You, After The Dance, You Sure Love To Ball), for the most part, my Marvin is the Sixties Marvin, Prince of Motown.

"Tear It On Down" - from In The Groove
"There Goes My Baby" from In The Groove
"Forever" - from How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You
"Little Darling [[I Need You)" - from Moods of Marvin Gaye
"Your Unchanging Love" - from Moods of Marvin Gaye
"Straighten Up And Fly Right" from A Tribute To The Great Nat King Cole
"I Want You 'Round" from Take Two
"Too Busy Thinking About My Baby" from M.P.G.
"Good Lovin' Ain't Easy To Come By" from Easy
"I Can't Help But Love You" from You're All I Need

**144man** · 08-03-2016, 03:25 PM

1. Baby Don't You Do It
2. Take This Heart of Mine
3. This Love Starved Heart of Mine [[It's Killing Me)
4. Lonely Lover
5. Try It Baby
6. I Heard It Through the Grapevine
7. Pretty Little Baby
8. When I Had Your Love
9. You're the One for Me
10. Just A Little Love [[Before My Life Is Gone)

Only solo recordings considered.

**captainjames** · 08-03-2016, 03:57 PM

1. Sanctified Lady
2. Too Busy Thinking About My Baby
3. You're Special Part Of Me [[w/Diana Ross)
4. Let's Get It On
5. What's Going On
6. Inner City Blues
7. Ani't No Mountain High Enough [[w/Tammi Terrell)
8. I Want You
9. I Heard It Through The Grapevine
10. Pride and Joy

**woodward** · 08-03-2016, 07:49 PM

Stubborn Kind of Fellow
Once Upon a Time [[with Mary Wells)
You're a Wonderful One
I'll Be Doggone
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Sexual Healing
One More Heartache
That's the Way Love Is
Hitch Hike
Try It Baby

I included the Mary Wells Duet in my 10. Request did not say to include duets or not.