Is it me or is Marvin Gaye's music post Let's Get It On pretty damn bad?

[marybrewster]

Don't you think HEAR, MY DEAR was recorded hastily and INTENTIONALLY subpar?

[Motown Eddie]

Don't you think HEAR, MY DEAR was recorded hastily and INTENTIONALLY subpar?

Yes! It's been suggested by a few critics that Marvin Gaye did that intentionally so that his ex-wife Anna wouldn't get a lot of money from the sales of that LP. I'd also like to add that Here, My Dear was too long [remember it came out as a two-record set].

[Sotosound]

Yes! It's been suggested by a few critics that Marvin Gaye did that intentionally so that his ex-wife Anna wouldn't get a lot of money from the sales of that LP. I'd also like to add that Here, My Dear was too long [remember it came out as a two-record set].

Not a good career move. Shows that Marvin was a guy with serious issues.

Is that the way for a lot of great artists, however?

Are the personality characteristics that allow such open-minded and unfettered creativeness also the same personality characteristics that render a person relatively unstable and not well-suited to the harsh world of commercialism, ego-stroking, and fan adoration?

[Motown Eddie]

Not a good career move. Shows that Marvin was a guy with serious issues.

Indeed; Marvin Gaye while being one our most beloved artists had a lot of serious issues especially at the time that his ex-wife Anna divorced him. And you can read all about them in the many books that have out since Marvin's tragic murder in 1984 [like David Ritz's Divided Soul or Michael Eric Dyson's Mercy, Mercy Me].

[MichaelSherry59]

Indeed; Marvin Gaye while being one our most beloved artists had a lot of serious issues especially at the time that his ex-wife Anna divorced him. And you can read all about them in the many books that have out since Marvin's tragic murder in 1984 [like David Ritz's Divided Soulor Michael Eric Dyson's Mercy, Mercy Me].

That book is one of the darkest books about a soul singer I have ever read

[Motown Eddie]

That book is one of the darkest books about a soul singer I have ever read

You Said It! I picked up Divided Soul the moment it came out in 1985 and yes, it was one of the darkest [and saddest] stories about an artist. It's too bad that Marvin Gaye did not go into therapy in order to deal with the many demons that he had.

[Motown Eddie]

Are the personality characteristics that allow such open-minded and unfettered creativeness also the same personality characteristics that render a person relatively unstable and not well-suited to the harsh world of commercialism, ego-stroking, and fan adoration?

Unfortunately, there are a lot of similar stories in the world of music [as well as sports, movies, politics as well as everyday life] to Marvin's where gifted people way lost their way due to adoration, narcotics or commercialism.