when this song came out, my brother jerry made us listen.. someday you will remember this, and I do he died in 77, do to voilent.. for gearld lee rainey I miss you brother
Soul music hasn't died,it has changed voice's;it was just his time and he knew it,but we are lucky because he left his SOUL with us in his MUSIC********SO HE STILL LIVE.
How could two people NOT let this song grip their soul? I don't care what race or religion you are, if you have a soul? this man speaks to it!! Always has, always will.
"Thug" means a thug a bad person to every 13 to 16 year old male that is living in a urban community i know because i grew up during that time listening to Tupac's mesage and the outcome wasn't good for me and many other young men the same age as myself infact alot of my friends are not out of it yet I was lucky
"Thug" means a thug a bad person to every 13 to 16 year old male that is living in a urban community i know because i grew up during that time listening to Tupac's mesage and the outcome wasn't good for me and many other young men the same age as myself infact alot of my friends are not out of it yet I was lucky
@HeliosVideos but ur saying people of color and IM black lolol ur are assuming that he didnt ur making a judgement that is very wrong ur going of of ur own experience, get over yourself
My Favorite Marvin Gaye Song, Rest In Eternal Peace Mr. Gaye, This Was A True Masterpiece And A Song That Foretold The Future Back In 71' To Where We Are Today In 2011, 40+ Years Later, Such A Sad Place...
GOSH!! MARVIN WAS 'WAY' BEFORE HIS TIME...WHAT HE SANG THEN, IS GOING ON TODAY. I CAN SAY THE SAME FOR TEDDY PENDERGRASS(WAKE UP EVERYBODY) YOU AGREE?
@LLBS2010 It pains my soul to live in the Detroit area and realize that Marvin could walk through the neighborhoods and see the same suffering today ...... it seems we are regressing ....
This song is just as relevant now as it was when it first came out , inflation, war ( vietnam in 71, iraq& afghanistan now), crime, fucked up police, the more things change , the more they stay the same, and it also shows just how timeless this song is.
@2003fordmustang281 Umm both were from different generations but had the same impact on this nation, they both delivered the same message. Tupac expressed his through a more urban lifestyle, just 'cause a person says "Thug Life" doesn't make them a bad person.
Quite simply the greatest album ever recorded.Way way ahead of his time.This is not James on bass but the great bob babbit(who's white).As to the man who pressed the dislike button we still love you man.
-_-'' ok im pissed....who the hell is the bastard that pushed the damn dislike button...?
ima kick this bastards ass till he 'got to give it up' and say it made a mistake because he was sad at the moment, he had the 'inner city blues' in him cause he 'heard through the grape vine' that he lost his job and his wife
(sorry ino thats corny and stupid but i had to say it xDD i love marvin too much to let this asshole push the dislike button!!! >:( )
@xXCloudRoxXx why do people care so much when other people dont like the same music as them i just pushed the dislike button come get me mother fucker
This entire LP at that time was like the Bible of the World going into devastation, Marvin Gaye laid it all down on that LP, didn't miss a thing that was GOIN' ON!
@playboatify Me too, was in LA at the time and Loved and lived this album in '71-'72 It was like the Bible of the times, being a Christian though you do know what I mean. He laid it all down~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
dflamish --- Me too, I was in LA at the time and Loved and lived this album in '71-'72 It was like the Bible of the times, being a Christian though you do know what I mean. He laid it all down~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
WE GOING TO BE SINGING THIS FOR S LONG TIME THE WAY WE ARE GOING I PRAY FOR THE YOUNG MEN OF THE WORLD PRETTY SOON THERE WON'T BE ANY NOF YOU LEFT! WAKE UP YOUNG MEN! WAKE UP PLEASE!!!!!!! STOP KILLING YOURSELVES OFF! YOU ARE NEEDED
if this generation knew what marvin was singing about it's know different from their greatest idol 2-pac the wisdom and knowledge marvin and pac had different time's different place respect these brother's 4 they were heirs of martin luther king from their souls ya dig!
I was watching the monique show last night and smokey robinson was on, smokey said that marvins gaye's album "what's going on" is a prophecy for this generation as it is speaking of whats going on now! Marvin was truelly ahead of his time!!
cant get enough of this song. these ppl here spoke the truth back then now singers just talk about themselves.... *t.i kinda talks about the truth now and then though...*
I am more concerned about the next 1000 years being a golden age than the end of days than to reminisce about the "good old days". Marvin was good. I wish I had that voice, but those days drove him to heroin and death. Let us LOVE each OTHER. Don't kill your hater, love them and convert them to LOVE. Or leave them to their deserved fate in the LAST WAVE. Love those who CAN love and leave those who can't. Your LOVE is the salvation of us ALL. What is going on now? FEEL it? Our fate on a thread.
@BadHalfPenney Speak the name of god instead of his title to be heard. Allah? Yelah? YHWH? Jehovah? It is all good. WE are ONE. I am too busy getting love to rant on this video anymore. EAT PRAY LOVE. :).
Very, Very Deep Minded & Talented Individual... There Will Never Be Another Marvin Gaye. He Was Truly A God Send, May God Forever Bless Your Soul Brotha.
@DaleCredico Back in the day does exist, but it is also a myth. Marvin was no saint even though he had the voice of an angel. We need myths to keep going, because even if you never give up you can still fail. Then you got to get up and go again till you can't go anymore.
"money we make it , before we see it you take it. Make me wanna holler the iway they do my life. Inflation, no chance to increase finance, bills pile up sky high send that boy off to die." The more things change the more they stay the same.
yall are funny.......when are we gonna not worry about color? and worry about how GREAT music is???? Great stuff........My favorite band Sevendust covered this song and the people on this channel will say, thats bullshit.......but anybody that covers a song that is not in there genre....i will definitely respect.....especially when it rocks!!!
@stp2122 So are you saying let's not worry about color just because that is what the song is about and that's why it is a GREAT song not just a catchy tune, but instead worry about whether the song will sell more drinks for your cover band?
This album is one of the most classic. I have it on vinyl and cd. The whole thing is a perfect masterpiece. Notice, if you listen to the lyrics, nothing has changed. Same things happening in 2010. If you think the government gives a crap about you, you are sadly mistaken. You are just a worker to make the richer get richer. There are certain lyrics in this albums that brings me to tears. Brillant composer.
This song should be released now and will hit #1 on the charts. Just Marvin's version. Another artist will screw it up and I don't care who it is. Almost forty years later; nothing has really changed. I was six when this was released in 1971. Unbelieveable!
@damnpublic This would indeed be very interesting! I was 14 when this was released. A lot of younger people don't even know that this music even exists. More than likely, it would be something entirely 'new' to them - like bell bottom pants and platform shoes. No...nothing has changed much...and if you live long enough, you start to see a pattern, which doesn't exactly bode well for the future. I love this song, btw.
"In 1965 alone African Americans represented almost one-fourth of the Army's killed in action. In 1968 African Americans, who made up roughly 12 percent of Army and Marine total strengths, frequently contributed half the men in front-line combat units, especially in rifle squads and fire teams." What's going on?
Do the math: Blacks formed 11 percent of the US population. How many were men of draftable age? Maybe 3% or 4%? Yet they comprised almost 15% of combat fatalities. Do you really think that the Army was colorblind in Viet Nam while the National Guard was beating and shooting peaceful civil rights marchers in Alabama? You can call ME racist if you want but I recognized what those confederate flags draped over bunkers meant if you want.
@TQCKyle "During the height of the U.S. involvement, 1965-69, blacks, who formed 11 percent of the American population, made up 12.6 percent of the soldiers in Vietnam. The majority of these were in the infantry, and although authorities differ on the figures, the percentage of black combat fatalities in that period was a staggering 14.9 percent." from The Oxford Companion to American Military History
@sanfordtm Why should this even matter? They were ALL human beings! It's not as if blacks were 50% of the US population. And why would this even matter? I just don't understand this kind of thinking at all. What the fuck does it matter, whether somebody is black, white, red, yellow or green? Suffering + death is the same for everyone.
@55ella2007k WHY? It doesn't matter to me but it matters to racists that try to make it look as though the US sent more black people by percentage into battle than we did white. Are you so politically corrct you could not see that?
Of course we are all human beings. That's not his point. The point is that Black people in this country have been fucked over more than whites, and is evident in the way that they are treated in institutions, such as the military institution. That's what this song is about, and what most of the songs were about on his album: The suffering of poor people of color who could never catch a break from the system.
I was riding in a friends corvette stingray from Indianapolis to Illinois back then/listening to Marvin. Well I have one of those myself now. The real stingray, 1978.
I was riding in a friends corvette stingray from Indianapolis to Illinois back then/listening to Marvin. Well I have one of those myself now. The real stingray, 1978.
I was riding in a friends corvette stingray from Indianapolis to Illinois back then/listening to Marvin. Well I have one of those myself now. The real stingray, 1978.
I was riding in a friends corvette stingray from Indianapolis to Illinois back then/listening to Marvin. Well I have one of those myself now. The real stingray, 1978.
I was riding in a friends corvette stingray from Indianapolis to Illinois back then/listening to Marvin. Well I have one of those myself now. The real stingray, 1978.
I was riding in a friends corvette stingray from Indianapolis to Illinois back then/listening to Marvin. Well I have one of those myself now. The real stingray, 1978.
I was riding in a friends corvette stingray from Indianapolis to Illinois back then/listening to Marvin. Well I have one of those myself now. The real stingray, 1978.
I was riding in a friends corvette stingray from Indianapolis to Illinois back then/listening to Marvin. Well I have one of those myself now. The real stingray, 1978.
During Marvin's Motown years when he wanted to become more socially conscience, him and Berry Gordy used to get into it, he didn't want Marvin to be socially conscience because he thought it was kill his career but as you all can see it did not kill his career, it made his career stronger.
Back in the day artists and musicians spoke to change. Now all broadcasts are castrated, packaged for sale, meant to anaesthetize your mind. "American Idols" are created, true artists are ignored to be muzzled. DJs aren't rebels they are corporate whores. Marvin asked brothers to work together. Corporate gangsters want brothers to kill each other. Why did more black men die in Viet Nam than whites? Does anyone even know what's going on now?
@BadHalfPenney clearly it was a conspiracy. I believe it was operation "get behind darky." Let's see some figures. You can't go claiming shit on the internet without facts just because you talked to some old guy at the bus stop.
whoa whoa whoa. relax buddy. obviously you're memories of the old days outweigh your knowledge of events. never let your feelings distort truth. payola started in the 50's radio dj's have been whores ever since. "american idols" were simply found via radio instead of TV, and we still have people singing about change. and "corporate gangsters" ? really? I would tell you to grow up but I can tell your prob already 50. Either way, get a fukin grip buddy. Delusional bastard
@carlmolito Here is the truth as I see it: the situation in Viet Nam was similar to the situation now with gays in the military. I have seen posts say "Sure, let them join. We'll send them right up to the front line first thing." To get them killed. The hatred is no different, just the target. There have always been whores in entertainment, you are right. They make good entertainment. But now it seems that is all we get. Grow up? If cussing makes you mature then congratulations, you made it.
@BadHalfPenney you obviously have no idea of reality do you ??? It's the same ideology just another time there was no revolution and there will never be ...wake up there is to much people who don't care about true lasting change many have died and will die for a beliefs that will never come true.
@zionchild83 I have many ideas of reality, just like you do, and neither need to defend them or convince you that yours are wrong and mine are right. Since you are just as big a liar as I am, my opinion is that yours and mine are both lies, and the truth is something else altogether. If you don't like that either, I simply do not care. Don't "wake up", stop lying to yourself that either of our opinions is important in any way.
Wow... I'm a 80's baby but i can feel Marvin. Songs today have no lyrics.... well you have to get a good mix tape or somthing like that cause you wont here it on the radio.
me too i m from 88 but can't stand most of nowaday songs! juste a few! im a big 90's rap fan! i hate rap from today same for rock n roll like siouxies snd the banshees was dope! don't know what happened!?
I guess I was born in the wrong decade too and I was born in the 1980s and I don't really care for the music of today either. I like some of it but not all of it.
its ok man. This music is TIMELESS! Marvin was one of the best. died way before his time. Just keep liking the music YOU like! The emphasis is on the YOU. Great stuff out there. AND DO NOT USE ANY RADIO STATION AS YOUR BAROMETER!
You can't be born in the wrong decade! You either like something or you don't. Me? born in the 50's , love Motown and Trance. Square that. Music is about dancing llp p
Iam loving this baby! Gotta turn it up! Appreciate the upload rovingeye2! Im excited that MOTOWN acts be coming to NZ (Feb 2010) to celebrate 50 years of M-Town - The grps coming over are Temptations, Supremes, 4 Tops and the Miracles. Im getting my ticket and Im over the moon about it! I also look forward to the MJ tribute they will be doing! :=D
marvin had his finger on the pulse of the people. It was true back in our day and the genius of it is it's still true for this generation. Hopefuly though for the future it will only be a soul stirring memory of the past's sad reality. Brilliant artist, loved it and lived it. Sly
I'm 28 and I'm italian....se ad alcuni nn piace Marvin o il genere musicale(tra l'altro unici ed inimitabili),non significa che sia "merda" o facciano schifo.....questa è musica....e vive tutt'ora!
Does anyone ever notice marvin comes out with the perfect song during an event back in his life time....and iam 17 and my dad got all his songs..and i like old school and Motown way more than 2days music....old music never die
agreed..i am 16 and i love this music. r.i.p. marvin, it was so tradgic what happened but his music lives on. a ledgend.....i just wish they made classics like this nowdays, tis a shame of todays music. : /
when this song came out, my brother jerry made us listen.. someday you will remember this, and I do he died in 77, do to voilent.. for gearld lee rainey I miss you brother
dra4myboys 2 weeks ago
Killer Base!!
adiiyer 1 month ago
this is the representation for anyone in a struggle or just want to feel good
BlackandCoal 1 month ago
Soul music hasn't died,it has changed voice's;it was just his time and he knew it,but we are lucky because he left his SOUL with us in his MUSIC********SO HE STILL LIVE.
thrilladijaq22 3 months ago 2
How could two people NOT let this song grip their soul? I don't care what race or religion you are, if you have a soul? this man speaks to it!! Always has, always will.
ctfirebattchief 3 months ago 5
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I see this is one of the records Pac grew up on
RapFanatic4ever 3 months ago
Marvin, Marvin, what happened. Wish you was here w/us today.
Miss you bro.
jas5273 4 months ago
I know this song by the documental
2pac resurrection
TheKadafioutlawz 5 months ago
Aw Marvin. Always could melt my heart with his voice, and his truth. Inner City Blues.... what a visionary.
elves4me 5 months ago
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durrwin 5 months ago
Soul in music died when he did!!!!!!!!!
MrMusicman488 6 months ago
embrace your blackness; stop dying, straightening and to hell with colored contacts... embrace\ the hell of blackness
misterwesstuff 6 months ago
still listening . . . . 2011
lorraineofcalm 6 months ago
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troyzilla1 6 months ago
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"Thug" means a thug a bad person to every 13 to 16 year old male that is living in a urban community i know because i grew up during that time listening to Tupac's mesage and the outcome wasn't good for me and many other young men the same age as myself infact alot of my friends are not out of it yet I was lucky
2003fordmustang281 7 months ago
"Thug" means a thug a bad person to every 13 to 16 year old male that is living in a urban community i know because i grew up during that time listening to Tupac's mesage and the outcome wasn't good for me and many other young men the same age as myself infact alot of my friends are not out of it yet I was lucky
2003fordmustang281 7 months ago
Sinatra didn't impact people of color at all...
HeliosVideos 7 months ago
Sinatra didn't impact peple of color at all...
HeliosVideos 7 months ago
@HeliosVideos ur very wrong...just because he didnt inmpact u dosnt mean he didnt impact ppeople like me
Dreal05starnation 6 months ago
@Dreal05starnation don't take it personally, i relaying my own experience while making a broad generalization... get over yourself
misterwesstuff 6 months ago
@HeliosVideos but ur saying people of color and IM black lolol ur are assuming that he didnt ur making a judgement that is very wrong ur going of of ur own experience, get over yourself
Dreal05starnation 6 months ago
this song transcends music, sorry lady gagag. It captures the sensibilities of an entire generation of black folks
RunawayTrane 7 months ago
Had it on 8Track BABY!!!
MrAstroboy1997 7 months ago 2
joe budden - who killed hip hop
KTOProductions 8 months ago
素敵。。。次元が変わるよう
oirannoe 8 months ago
that is cool , such a music - for my soul , he give his soul wholly , and bring to extazy, God.
diamondheart68 9 months ago 2
My Favorite Marvin Gaye Song, Rest In Eternal Peace Mr. Gaye, This Was A True Masterpiece And A Song That Foretold The Future Back In 71' To Where We Are Today In 2011, 40+ Years Later, Such A Sad Place...
GaelaMorgana 9 months ago 2
qui sont les 2 crétins (assholes) ?
gammaGTgammajereste 10 months ago
in 2 months this will be 40 years old and still good
historyghosthunters 10 months ago 4
I wish someone could come close today
kedeens 10 months ago
not a man on earth can tie his shoes. still 30 yrs later, the soul of my soul!
ParkingLotPro 10 months ago
this man walks on clouds. i am better for this. love exists
dvargashell 10 months ago
GOSH!! MARVIN WAS 'WAY' BEFORE HIS TIME...WHAT HE SANG THEN, IS GOING ON TODAY. I CAN SAY THE SAME FOR TEDDY PENDERGRASS(WAKE UP EVERYBODY) YOU AGREE?
LLBS2010 11 months ago 4
@LLBS2010 It pains my soul to live in the Detroit area and realize that Marvin could walk through the neighborhoods and see the same suffering today ...... it seems we are regressing ....
wdrauch 9 months ago 10
@wdrauch
I agree. Musically also, don't you think?
4fingersinge 2 months ago
This song is just as relevant now as it was when it first came out , inflation, war ( vietnam in 71, iraq& afghanistan now), crime, fucked up police, the more things change , the more they stay the same, and it also shows just how timeless this song is.
zande0001 11 months ago 5
Don't ever compare 2-pac to Marvin Gaye 2-pac was a thug
2003fordmustang281 11 months ago
@2003fordmustang281 and Marvin was a dope fiend.....your point?
i81b4u2003 9 months ago
@2003fordmustang281 Umm both were from different generations but had the same impact on this nation, they both delivered the same message. Tupac expressed his through a more urban lifestyle, just 'cause a person says "Thug Life" doesn't make them a bad person.
Tmontana44 7 months ago
1971... History does repeat itself, if you're not careful (2011-....)
william52648 11 months ago 3
RIP MARVIN
mrfungihead 11 months ago 2
Quite simply the greatest album ever recorded.Way way ahead of his time.This is not James on bass but the great bob babbit(who's white).As to the man who pressed the dislike button we still love you man.
743slickrick 11 months ago 4
Way, way before his time........this 'stuff'' going on now!!!
LLBS2010 11 months ago
A morally tortured, musical genus.
RJOH794449 11 months ago
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RJOH794449 11 months ago
OH!! I luv it! I am having an experience at my desk man!
ILuvMusic4real 1 year ago
-_-'' ok im pissed....who the hell is the bastard that pushed the damn dislike button...?
ima kick this bastards ass till he 'got to give it up' and say it made a mistake because he was sad at the moment, he had the 'inner city blues' in him cause he 'heard through the grape vine' that he lost his job and his wife
(sorry ino thats corny and stupid but i had to say it xDD i love marvin too much to let this asshole push the dislike button!!! >:( )
xXCloudRoxXx 1 year ago 2
@xXCloudRoxXx why do people care so much when other people dont like the same music as them i just pushed the dislike button come get me mother fucker
shirtlesscam2 1 year ago
This entire LP at that time was like the Bible of the World going into devastation, Marvin Gaye laid it all down on that LP, didn't miss a thing that was GOIN' ON!
dflamish 1 year ago 2
they had to push the dislike button on mistake
thetwim 1 year ago
YOU THINK
ladaziab01 1 year ago
1 soulless bastard on the dislike button
Abigmandis 1 year ago
Loved & lived this album in Summer '72, the best LP of its decade.
playboatify 1 year ago 2
@playboatify Me too, was in LA at the time and Loved and lived this album in '71-'72 It was like the Bible of the times, being a Christian though you do know what I mean. He laid it all down~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
dflamish 1 year ago
dflamish --- Me too, I was in LA at the time and Loved and lived this album in '71-'72 It was like the Bible of the times, being a Christian though you do know what I mean. He laid it all down~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
dflamish 1 year ago
Love to play his songs. Always very inspiring and cultural. Always well recieved by audiebies everywhere. RAYZ12able
RAYZ12able 1 year ago
WE GOING TO BE SINGING THIS FOR S LONG TIME THE WAY WE ARE GOING I PRAY FOR THE YOUNG MEN OF THE WORLD PRETTY SOON THERE WON'T BE ANY NOF YOU LEFT! WAKE UP YOUNG MEN! WAKE UP PLEASE!!!!!!! STOP KILLING YOURSELVES OFF! YOU ARE NEEDED
c4m2d0 1 year ago
With the way the current US government is,we may be singing this tune again.
1ooman 1 year ago
You would think Marvin wrote this song after watching CNN in 2010.
DarkHalo08 1 year ago 4
if this generation knew what marvin was singing about it's know different from their greatest idol 2-pac the wisdom and knowledge marvin and pac had different time's different place respect these brother's 4 they were heirs of martin luther king from their souls ya dig!
getmoneyboyyyz 1 year ago
james jamerson played some of the most sublime bass in music history on this album.
jr55ful 1 year ago 2
I was watching the monique show last night and smokey robinson was on, smokey said that marvins gaye's album "what's going on" is a prophecy for this generation as it is speaking of whats going on now! Marvin was truelly ahead of his time!!
southensmokin 1 year ago 2
The mans voice was amazing!
dagreatmpvc 1 year ago 2
I love this song! Marvin was a amazing artist!
dagreatmpvc 1 year ago
Marvin Represented the D. Product of Detroit. And this song still reflects today about living in Detroit.
yah4495 1 year ago 2
cant get enough of this song. these ppl here spoke the truth back then now singers just talk about themselves.... *t.i kinda talks about the truth now and then though...*
xXCloudRoxXx 1 year ago
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His voice is amazing & the beat is so haunting = the chills
trenjr628 1 year ago
His voice is amazing & tha beat is so haunting = the chills
trenjr628 1 year ago 4
Great and eternal tune.
Downbythewater73 1 year ago
make me wanna holler throw up both my hands
keaukila 1 year ago
I am more concerned about the next 1000 years being a golden age than the end of days than to reminisce about the "good old days". Marvin was good. I wish I had that voice, but those days drove him to heroin and death. Let us LOVE each OTHER. Don't kill your hater, love them and convert them to LOVE. Or leave them to their deserved fate in the LAST WAVE. Love those who CAN love and leave those who can't. Your LOVE is the salvation of us ALL. What is going on now? FEEL it? Our fate on a thread.
BadHalfPenney 1 year ago 2
@BadHalfPenney Speak the name of god instead of his title to be heard. Allah? Yelah? YHWH? Jehovah? It is all good. WE are ONE. I am too busy getting love to rant on this video anymore. EAT PRAY LOVE. :).
BadHalfPenney 1 year ago
So this is the beat/tune that inspired Ralph Tresvant’s “Sensitivity”??? WOW!!!!!!!!!!!
theman2017inc 1 year ago
Marvin Gaye Iconic!!!!
kbella301 1 year ago 5
sounds good even in2010
kendra3136 1 year ago 17
@kendra3136 Sounds even better in 2011
marcelliversetti3 11 months ago 7
Dr.Dre Sampled This For The D.O.C.'s "The Formula"
R.I.P. Marvin,Originals are always the best :)
KingPin23rdOfTha1700 1 year ago
Very, Very Deep Minded & Talented Individual... There Will Never Be Another Marvin Gaye. He Was Truly A God Send, May God Forever Bless Your Soul Brotha.
R.I.P.
kingbmore73 1 year ago
Back in the day doesn't exist.
Look deeper in the present and
don't ever give up.
DaleCredico 1 year ago
@DaleCredico Back in the day does exist, but it is also a myth. Marvin was no saint even though he had the voice of an angel. We need myths to keep going, because even if you never give up you can still fail. Then you got to get up and go again till you can't go anymore.
BadHalfPenney 1 year ago
RIP EDDIE "BONGO" BROWN
DFWOODSII 1 year ago 2
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Man words can not discribe this dudes voice! RIP
azzy1971 1 year ago
Man words can not discribe this dudes voice! RIP
azzy1971 1 year ago
I gotta say he is sinatra of the soul music
daugmis10 1 year ago 30
"money we make it , before we see it you take it. Make me wanna holler the iway they do my life. Inflation, no chance to increase finance, bills pile up sky high send that boy off to die." The more things change the more they stay the same.
jnwalker44 1 year ago 4
This was the man. The music died with this man. He oozed real soul cause he knew pain. He grew up in pain all hts life.
brenb1211 1 year ago 2
Ella, I agree 100 percent. It's one of my all time favorite Marvin songs.
damnpublic 1 year ago
yall are funny.......when are we gonna not worry about color? and worry about how GREAT music is???? Great stuff........My favorite band Sevendust covered this song and the people on this channel will say, thats bullshit.......but anybody that covers a song that is not in there genre....i will definitely respect.....especially when it rocks!!!
stp2122 1 year ago
@stp2122 So are you saying let's not worry about color just because that is what the song is about and that's why it is a GREAT song not just a catchy tune, but instead worry about whether the song will sell more drinks for your cover band?
BadHalfPenney 1 year ago
Make me wanna holler, the way they do my life!
TechGeek1213 1 year ago
This album is one of the most classic. I have it on vinyl and cd. The whole thing is a perfect masterpiece. Notice, if you listen to the lyrics, nothing has changed. Same things happening in 2010. If you think the government gives a crap about you, you are sadly mistaken. You are just a worker to make the richer get richer. There are certain lyrics in this albums that brings me to tears. Brillant composer.
carvinblack 1 year ago 2
What's going on is THE greatest album ever made. Nothing grooves as quite like it. Mind blowing.
blakefish80 1 year ago
I'm White and love this guy...alot
salm37 1 year ago 2
@salm37 wait...What?
Butters681 1 year ago
@salm37 . . .and American?
kevintheshedend1976 1 year ago
" The prince of motown."
hapzap13 1 year ago
This song should be released now and will hit #1 on the charts. Just Marvin's version. Another artist will screw it up and I don't care who it is. Almost forty years later; nothing has really changed. I was six when this was released in 1971. Unbelieveable!
damnpublic 1 year ago
@damnpublic This would indeed be very interesting! I was 14 when this was released. A lot of younger people don't even know that this music even exists. More than likely, it would be something entirely 'new' to them - like bell bottom pants and platform shoes. No...nothing has changed much...and if you live long enough, you start to see a pattern, which doesn't exactly bode well for the future. I love this song, btw.
55ella2007k 1 year ago
white supremacy is what is going on.
Go get a late pass and step.
gat333 1 year ago
"In 1965 alone African Americans represented almost one-fourth of the Army's killed in action. In 1968 African Americans, who made up roughly 12 percent of Army and Marine total strengths, frequently contributed half the men in front-line combat units, especially in rifle squads and fire teams." What's going on?
BadHalfPenney 1 year ago
Do the math: Blacks formed 11 percent of the US population. How many were men of draftable age? Maybe 3% or 4%? Yet they comprised almost 15% of combat fatalities. Do you really think that the Army was colorblind in Viet Nam while the National Guard was beating and shooting peaceful civil rights marchers in Alabama? You can call ME racist if you want but I recognized what those confederate flags draped over bunkers meant if you want.
BadHalfPenney 1 year ago
@BadHalfPenney Actually it was more like 22% of the dying in Vietnam...At least that's what I heard from historian Wallace Terry...
freein2339 1 year ago
@BadHalfPenney you just said 1/4th........ now you are saying 15%?
Are you a racist?
sanfordtm 1 year ago
@TQCKyle "During the height of the U.S. involvement, 1965-69, blacks, who formed 11 percent of the American population, made up 12.6 percent of the soldiers in Vietnam. The majority of these were in the infantry, and although authorities differ on the figures, the percentage of black combat fatalities in that period was a staggering 14.9 percent." from The Oxford Companion to American Military History
BadHalfPenney 1 year ago
What has changed in 39 years? The names of the players,is all...vote them all out!!!!...peace in the streets...
eplaksin 1 year ago
The greatest.
RabbiRedEye 1 year ago
@RabbiRedEye not to be sinical but that adds up to 100.5 percent even tho it is impossible to exceed 100 percent
XxDaRkPhAnTaSy 1 year ago
FACT:
86% of the men who died in Vietnam were white
12.5% were black
sanfordtm 1 year ago
@sanfordtm Why should this even matter? They were ALL human beings! It's not as if blacks were 50% of the US population. And why would this even matter? I just don't understand this kind of thinking at all. What the fuck does it matter, whether somebody is black, white, red, yellow or green? Suffering + death is the same for everyone.
55ella2007k 1 year ago
@55ella2007k WHY? It doesn't matter to me but it matters to racists that try to make it look as though the US sent more black people by percentage into battle than we did white. Are you so politically corrct you could not see that?
sanfordtm 1 year ago
@55ella2007k
Of course we are all human beings. That's not his point. The point is that Black people in this country have been fucked over more than whites, and is evident in the way that they are treated in institutions, such as the military institution. That's what this song is about, and what most of the songs were about on his album: The suffering of poor people of color who could never catch a break from the system.
youngatheartgirl 1 year ago
It aint a black or white thing, its a poor thing BadHalfPenney You sound Racist bro
Raiderfn31 1 year ago 2
@Raiderfn31 It's a hate thing. Seeing rascism and pointing it out does not make you rascist, just aware and unwilling to take part in it.
BadHalfPenney 1 year ago
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I was riding in a friends corvette stingray from Indianapolis to Illinois back then/listening to Marvin. Well I have one of those myself now. The real stingray, 1978.
lotty506 1 year ago
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I was riding in a friends corvette stingray from Indianapolis to Illinois back then/listening to Marvin. Well I have one of those myself now. The real stingray, 1978.
lotty506 1 year ago
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I was riding in a friends corvette stingray from Indianapolis to Illinois back then/listening to Marvin. Well I have one of those myself now. The real stingray, 1978.
lotty506 1 year ago
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I was riding in a friends corvette stingray from Indianapolis to Illinois back then/listening to Marvin. Well I have one of those myself now. The real stingray, 1978.
lotty506 1 year ago
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I was riding in a friends corvette stingray from Indianapolis to Illinois back then/listening to Marvin. Well I have one of those myself now. The real stingray, 1978.
lotty506 1 year ago
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I was riding in a friends corvette stingray from Indianapolis to Illinois back then/listening to Marvin. Well I have one of those myself now. The real stingray, 1978.
lotty506 1 year ago
I was riding in a friends corvette stingray from Indianapolis to Illinois back then/listening to Marvin. Well I have one of those myself now. The real stingray, 1978.
lotty506 1 year ago
I was riding in a friends corvette stingray from Indianapolis to Illinois back then/listening to Marvin. Well I have one of those myself now. The real stingray, 1978.
lotty506 1 year ago
A true talent that left us too early.
Rest in Peace Marvin
wolfman383 1 year ago
MARRRRVVVINNN
alk3forever 1 year ago
"who are they to judge us" amazing song
sara29121995 1 year ago
So you think Beyounce Single Ladies is not socially relevant? Lol@Single Ladies.
macewindu67 1 year ago
music today is not the same god bless marvin gaye
nommomuntu 1 year ago 2
you aint kiddin nothin comes close to this classic song ! voice of an angel
adski71 1 year ago
A master at work. Easily the best "socially aware" album ever made and here we are nearly 40 years on and it still speaks the truth!
shonuffido 1 year ago 2
i grew up listen to his music marvin is music i dont know what these people be singin about these days
sexycrissy420 1 year ago
Man, Gil Scott Heron's version has nothing on this one. But I still can dig both.
R.I.P. Mark Essex. New Orleans-1973.
IPrinceMajestic 1 year ago
During Marvin's Motown years when he wanted to become more socially conscience, him and Berry Gordy used to get into it, he didn't want Marvin to be socially conscience because he thought it was kill his career but as you all can see it did not kill his career, it made his career stronger.
honeegrrl 1 year ago
Fantastica...cult Mondiale e INIMITABILE!
RareGroove Lv01 Gold...Divina...St***
SteveDJOnline 2 years ago
i dnt evn kno half the music in the charts 2day i like the stuff frm 50's-80's & i was born in 1992. especially the lovers rock & roots reggae
SharaabiNo1 2 years ago
Back in the day artists and musicians spoke to change. Now all broadcasts are castrated, packaged for sale, meant to anaesthetize your mind. "American Idols" are created, true artists are ignored to be muzzled. DJs aren't rebels they are corporate whores. Marvin asked brothers to work together. Corporate gangsters want brothers to kill each other. Why did more black men die in Viet Nam than whites? Does anyone even know what's going on now?
BadHalfPenney 2 years ago 54
Very good comment! It's just too crazy now..I like Marvin Gaye's music so much.
jordanlne08 2 years ago
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sanfordtm 1 year ago
@BadHalfPenney Actually the percentage of black men killed in the war was less than the percentage of blacks in the US.
86.5% were white
12% were black
This does not deminish the sacrafices blacks endured during the war.
sanfordtm 1 year ago
@BadHalfPenney clearly it was a conspiracy. I believe it was operation "get behind darky." Let's see some figures. You can't go claiming shit on the internet without facts just because you talked to some old guy at the bus stop.
TQCKyle 1 year ago
How many white men died in WWII, KOREA,Spanish American War,American Revolution, WWI and the Civil War?
So you saying white man didn't give his share?
Yea right,you keep believing that revisionist bullshit.
OGEECHEEMAN 1 year ago
@OGEECHEEMAN No, I'm saying that caucasian European Americans have taken MORE than their share.
BadHalfPenney 1 year ago
@BadHalfPenney
Hey, you don't have to explain yourself to these people. I understand what you're trying to say.
youngatheartgirl 1 year ago
@youngatheartgirl thank you. peace.
BadHalfPenney 1 year ago
fasho
vinnyvega25 1 year ago
@BadHalfPenney
whoa whoa whoa. relax buddy. obviously you're memories of the old days outweigh your knowledge of events. never let your feelings distort truth. payola started in the 50's radio dj's have been whores ever since. "american idols" were simply found via radio instead of TV, and we still have people singing about change. and "corporate gangsters" ? really? I would tell you to grow up but I can tell your prob already 50. Either way, get a fukin grip buddy. Delusional bastard
carlmolito 1 year ago
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BadHalfPenney 1 year ago
@carlmolito Here is the truth as I see it: the situation in Viet Nam was similar to the situation now with gays in the military. I have seen posts say "Sure, let them join. We'll send them right up to the front line first thing." To get them killed. The hatred is no different, just the target. There have always been whores in entertainment, you are right. They make good entertainment. But now it seems that is all we get. Grow up? If cussing makes you mature then congratulations, you made it.
BadHalfPenney 1 year ago
@BadHalfPenney
Amen to that, i can dig it. Sad to say it seems like the rest of the world don't.
88ritchie 1 year ago
@BadHalfPenney you obviously have no idea of reality do you ??? It's the same ideology just another time there was no revolution and there will never be ...wake up there is to much people who don't care about true lasting change many have died and will die for a beliefs that will never come true.
zionchild83 1 year ago
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BadHalfPenney 1 year ago
@zionchild83 I have many ideas of reality, just like you do, and neither need to defend them or convince you that yours are wrong and mine are right. Since you are just as big a liar as I am, my opinion is that yours and mine are both lies, and the truth is something else altogether. If you don't like that either, I simply do not care. Don't "wake up", stop lying to yourself that either of our opinions is important in any way.
BadHalfPenney 1 year ago 2
@BadHalfPenney Good Morning Sunshine
zionchild83 1 year ago
@zionchild83 Not where I am at, brother, but thank you anyway. Peace.
BadHalfPenney 1 year ago
@BadHalfPenney Those were the days!!!
theman2017inc 1 year ago
@BadHalfPenney is that true about more blacks being killed in vietnam war ?
rbx22 1 year ago
@BadHalfPenney
mane oh mane I would like to speak to you in person lol
88ritchie 1 year ago
Wow... I'm a 80's baby but i can feel Marvin. Songs today have no lyrics.... well you have to get a good mix tape or somthing like that cause you wont here it on the radio.
ItsMeBitchss 2 years ago 3
my thoughts exactly...
lilmavin 2 years ago
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FUCK YOU ! Who the fuck are you calling a NIGGER you NIGGER ! I am not a fucking nigger !
You are a fucking faggot cock sucking bitch. You are a gay lord !
You are a whitey/cracker/honkey and sellout who has no fucking life !
GO FUCK YOURSELF You asshole LOSER !!!!
chsn09 2 years ago
me too i m from 88 but can't stand most of nowaday songs! juste a few! im a big 90's rap fan! i hate rap from today same for rock n roll like siouxies snd the banshees was dope! don't know what happened!?
mfgrimm777 2 years ago
True Classic!
lovejangie1 2 years ago 2
I guess I was born in the wrong decade too and I was born in the 1980s and I don't really care for the music of today either. I like some of it but not all of it.
UTubeViwer84 2 years ago 3
its ok man. This music is TIMELESS! Marvin was one of the best. died way before his time. Just keep liking the music YOU like! The emphasis is on the YOU. Great stuff out there. AND DO NOT USE ANY RADIO STATION AS YOUR BAROMETER!
muzac4themasses 2 years ago 5
You can't be born in the wrong decade! You either like something or you don't. Me? born in the 50's , love Motown and Trance. Square that. Music is about dancing llp p
stephenpaulbeckett 2 years ago 2
The bongos you here in the beginning are playd by the famous BONGO EDDIE!! - this was recorded before i was born! Jammin'
bintsaundra 2 years ago
WOW. I regret being born in the 80s. Fuck the 80s. 70s was bout it.
SivvySiv 2 years ago
R.I.P Marvin Gaye. This was the best song by marvin gaye and his music and legacy will not be forgotten. same with Michael Jackson
MichaelJacksonfan811 2 years ago 4
Iam loving this baby! Gotta turn it up! Appreciate the upload rovingeye2! Im excited that MOTOWN acts be coming to NZ (Feb 2010) to celebrate 50 years of M-Town - The grps coming over are Temptations, Supremes, 4 Tops and the Miracles. Im getting my ticket and Im over the moon about it! I also look forward to the MJ tribute they will be doing! :=D
aotearoablossom 2 years ago
marvin had his finger on the pulse of the people. It was true back in our day and the genius of it is it's still true for this generation. Hopefuly though for the future it will only be a soul stirring memory of the past's sad reality. Brilliant artist, loved it and lived it. Sly
slyhernandez 2 years ago 15
I'm 28 and I'm italian....se ad alcuni nn piace Marvin o il genere musicale(tra l'altro unici ed inimitabili),non significa che sia "merda" o facciano schifo.....questa è musica....e vive tutt'ora!
VIVA MARVIN
Orkidearosa 2 years ago 3
one of the best songs ever written of any genre.
justtony21 2 years ago 5
Does anyone ever notice marvin comes out with the perfect song during an event back in his life time....and iam 17 and my dad got all his songs..and i like old school and Motown way more than 2days music....old music never die
Chris0sexy 2 years ago 3
im 22 and have been on marvin since birth . this shit is timeless holmes.
americangangster86 2 years ago 3
i am only 16 and i appreciate real music like this!!!! too bad i was born in the wrong century so i didnt get 2 enjoy it while it was at its best!
redmanrane 2 years ago 5
You mean born in the wrong decade, not century.
HankLandMan 2 years ago 2
agreed..i am 16 and i love this music. r.i.p. marvin, it was so tradgic what happened but his music lives on. a ledgend.....i just wish they made classics like this nowdays, tis a shame of todays music. : /
fabulous233 2 years ago 5
Is this the full version? I am getting sick of all those other ppl posting the shorter one!!!
UUUUSSSS 2 years ago 5