What is going on? People murdering children, murdering their parents, their spouse, their neighbors, and innocent strangers. Marvin's message is still very true today. We must stop showing hate, talk things out, instead of finding things to fight about!!! I'm only 15yrs. old, but I know that all of this killing is wrong, and in the end will be our downfall. Well said Mr. Marvin Gaye. What is going on??
people, don't lose hope! There still is such a good thing as "good" music nowadays!!! it just never gets famous. So go buy and support the music which we all here love, and never want to see die!!
yo pensaba(antes)que las canciones de protesta y 'activistas'-por decirlo de alguna manera-eran perdida de tiempo ¿se puede cambiar al sistema y al mundo?Si y No,serian demasiadas razones para enumerarlas aqui;pero escuchando al señor Marvin,me doy cuenta que valen la pena,esta cancion y la de 'Mercy' tienen un mensaje simple,poderoso,sin tiempo,¿y por que no?muy bello y que hace reflexionar,en ese entonces y ahora,la pregunta es la misma y la respuesta...
RE: music today being rubbish. So this song came out in 1971. If you go and check out the billboard top 100 for that year there are some great songs on it. There are also a bunch of songs I've never heard of and a few I wish I'd never heard of... The music we hear from 20 or 30 years ago is generally the best from that era and it wasn't always popular at the time. I do agree that compression and all the other tweaks are used far too much. I like me some dynamics.
the shit they produce today is not music, it makes me sick to listen to it.Marvin Gaye and Teddy Pendergrass and of course Barry White the Ojays and the Spinners ,now thats what you call music.the old stuff has depth and meaning soul and heart to it.the shit they put out today is trash,it has absolutely no soul to it AT ALL !!! give me all the soul and R & B music from back in the day and i will be just fine with that,they can keep this new crap they call music, and by the way,i am a white boy.
the shit they produce today is not music, it makes me sick to listen to it.Marvin Gaye and Teddy Pendergrass and of course Barry White the Ojays and the Spinners ,now thats what you call music.the old stuff has depth and meaning soul and heart to it.the shit they put out today is trash,it has absolutely no soul to it AT ALL !!! give me all the soul and R & B music from back in the day and i will be just fine with that,they can keep this new crap they call music,oh and by the way,im a white boy
Funny how things come back around. I remember my father coming back from Vietnam, and hearing this music when I was little. Different time, same message!
@TheNoobPube Listen to me, modern music isn't bad, the production is. I love artists like lady gaga and skrillex but the albums are fatiguing to listen to. They have no dynamic range whatsoever. Even modern mastering engineers are tired of the loudness race.
that is bullshit, music is not dead, and currently there is a whole bunch of bands that if you really cared to discover, you would know what im saying. just a small protion: the mars volta, tortoise, sleepy sun, warpaint, john frusciante, bright eyes, at the drive-in, blonde redhead, swahili blonde, vincent gallo, tv on the radio, the black keys, yann tiersen, jonny greenwood, cat power, wilco, and many, many more.
@DreaminMyLifeAway Call me "out-of-touch", but besides the brilliant Vincent Gallo, I have not heard of one of those artists you mention. Nor will any of them go down in history like Marvin.
I should have put in my opinion in that comment so I wouldn't get other comments except for the one I replied to. I'm not mad, just don't need someone to call me narrow minded, I didn't say, " That's not music no matter what anyone says."
@DrOptimisation THANK YOU! It's so annoying when I see the younger generation discover older music and then preach about it all over YouTube like it's the gospel and how ALL music (past & present) should be like. Music is a beautiful thing. It's constantly changing and constantly re-inventing itself.
@devious575 right he was so ahead of his time that it like he is talking about now i dont see how anyone can hate marvin or i should say dislike this song
The issue isn't that modern music is trash and older music is better. Keep in mind that at one time distorted electric guitars were consider loud, noisy trash. Guys like Buddy Holly couldn't even get gigs for experimenting with that new sound of rock. People said this about Synthesizers "that's not a real instrument!" But synths survived it all and helped shape a new era of sound, just ask Stevie Wonder, who embraced it. The music isn't the issue. The TALENT is what's missing. THAT is the issue.
I was born in 1949 and was also married to a man in 1966 who was in the Military, would you believe this song was banned from being played on Military bases. seeing Marvin Gaye and loving his music...I still played it, that's what freedom is all about !
people say the stupidest shit on youtube...why can't someone just say "wow, what a pretty song. I sure do enjoy the bass line"? its time for a change people, we need to stop this nonsense and comment about the SONG or the VIDEO or the BAND or something, not about how bad music is now a days or something even worse like a cyber argument. I mean i try not to read the comments because half the time it's just pointless shit and i'd love to see more positive comments.
Thank you brother Marvin for the inspiration. I used your voice and wisdom in my cover of your timeless classic. I hope you would be proud. I wish I had got the opportunity to sit down and chat with you when you were alive. But, I'll see you in heaven with brothers Otis and MJ.
this song pretty much screams to his brothers why they kill each other with their little gangster attitudes & tactics. I mean, for real he wrote it about Vietnam. Or did he? Cuz the lyrics serve his home town just fine.
actually I don't agree with .. yes we are noticing a huge differences between the past and present, nowadays music is shit .. we do't need to be judgmental to say that , just we need to listen to both of them . simple sense !
@DrOptimisation I sort of agree, but do you really think electric crap with not good rhythm or no real instruments and rapping about sex or talking, yes talking, about sex all of the time is music. Come on, I know that isn't real music. I can tell the difference when I listen to a song with real instruments and all fake, and the real instruments sound much better. You have to dig deep today to find modern decent music.
@MrZulu2065 Marvin did write a lot of sexual music, though, that was what sold at the time (and still is). it was just a lot more subtle, but he is well known for writing Let's Get It On. I get what you're saying, though, music is mostly done on a computer these days, but that doesn't mean it's not music at all. to someone, somewhere out there, those weird electronic beats are art. personally i don't really like it, though, this is more my style, soul music and rock
@nightmareX1993 wtf u talking about? this page is not about "lets get it on". this page is about war & shit. you wanna talk sex, go to another song, dude.
@MrZulu2065 Music is music. Just because YOU don't like a particular type of music, does not discredit it at all. All it does is make you narrow-minded.
@Wheelio Shut up. Just shut up. Now listen, or read. I did not say that the people who listen to it are stupid, I just have an opinion that modern music to day isn't really good music. Aren't I entitled to MY opinion? I don't need you to call me narrow minded. I love lots of music and you have to dig deep today to find nic new music in my opinion. How am I narrow minded for my opinion. Shut the hell up! >:D
@MrZulu2065 Where in my comment did I say that you called people stupid for listening to today's music? You can say you don't like today's music (which is what you should have said in the first place,) but to say it's "not music" is just plain ignorant. I understood what you said perfectly the first time, you just worded it in a way that came off as extremely unfounded.
@Wheelio It's my opinion, that doesn't make me ignorant. I understand it was made as music, I I I just feel that it's stupid music. It's repetitive, has a lot of dislikers and growing, the people are lazy who make it, I can juust make a song today and it could be published. Didn't I say I was entitled to my opinion. I just feel it isn't real music. Can we close this now?
@DrOptimisation How can you say that? Producers and engineers all over the world are murdering the soul and dynamics of music both live and in the studio with pitch correction, quantization, and over-compression. Musicians are becoming lazy, letting producers fix their recordings on the computer making them sound like loud robots no matter genre of music. Marvin Gaye would NOT approve of this. I'm 18 and I'd rather stay stuck here than in badly produced noise they call music.
@MrRoboto66 Dude open your mind a little bit. There is so much fucking amazing new music out there that it's just silly to claim it's all bad. Every week there are multiple albums that are released by artists who put absolutely everything they have into their music. All these aspects of modern music that you mention as negatives should just be looked at as tools (that's what they really are) to get new sounds, feelings, and ideas out of music. Music does not equal recorded live performance.
@biskwikman Look, every album released within the last 12 years has been over-compressed and over-processed, it's hard for me to listen to a lot of my favorite artists because of this. How would you like it if everyone completely stopped selling regular soda for diet and there was nothing you could do about it? (I hate diet soda) So again, the artists of today aren't bad its just that the production is so horrible that it's hard for me to tell if the music is good.
@MrRoboto66 Oh, please.. I see literally millions of you younger kids go on and on about how "today's music isn't the same" and whatnot. Guess what? People were saying that same thing back in the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, etc. Music evolves. Learn to adapt, or fall behind the times.
@MrRoboto66 then you are ignorant because theres alot of people who still make real music. stop listening to pop charts and youll figure that out yourself. its possible to like more than one thing remember people back then would have said the same thing about the "modern" musicians of that time.open your mind
@TheNoobPube I think that's his point. Back in the day you didn't have to stay away from the pop charts. Nowadays you have to dig under the bullshit to find something decent.
@jerseyirish i want to make it clear that this is a friendly debate :) . it has always been like that and mabye not to the same extent because there wasnt any internet and so the only way to get music would be on the radio or by buying from a shop who would only buy music that they know is going to sell well(aka chart music) this made it impossible to be popular unless you were very good or new the right people(frank sinatra used the maffia to scare the networks into "liking him" .
@jerseyirish continued ... there is still as much good music now and i agree that you do have to sieve through the bad ones but that is only because we have more choice of music now we live in a society were the majority of people just buy music to party.
@NYChica23 we dont, im 16 nd ive grown to up my whole life listening to this music. Now we talk about stupid things, nd we're basically taking our minds off the real things. I listen to rap dnt get me wrong but only to get ready to play for football games nd thats it.
And his fckn father had to kill him ..................such a nice great man would of been like a another martin Luther King for Peace among all color and race i miss you Marvin . You made great music man. You were an artist. Love you so much and missed you so much .
@VitalSigns1 Starting a sentence of with the phrase "I like rock and metal" is like saying "yeah, I'm basically retarded but..." Marvin Gaye did not sing those genres. O.o
Furthermore, any artist who associates their music with supremely BROAD genres like that clearly don't have the capacity to write a truly touching song with such deep social commentary as Marvin Gaye has in Whats Going On.
@bastardsonofsatan Look, you're being an asshole. I'm not disrespecting the man or his music, I'm simply saying that I don't dig it. What would you like me to do huh? FORCE myself to enjoy it? I looked up the song because it was on the top of a Greatest Songs list and I wanted to see if I liked it. Not only do I not like it, but I don't even recognize it, and I won't remember it either.
@VitalSigns1 That's most likely because you don't know the roots of music. you're probably a teenager that thinks slipnot or some crappy rapper, like gaga, made origina music. This is music plain and simple
@VitalSigns1 I don't want to start some stupid cyber war, but if you don't like it, do you really need to comment? seems like the other 31 people didn't bother commenting on a song you didn't like
@ckb1137 they named it 4th because of the story behind the scenes. this song was marvin calling for peace. both in vietnam and with his dad. his dad was basically an extremely strict religious zealot who marvin was never able to make proud through his accomplishments in music, and they had a lot of arguments. hes trying to reach out to his dad in this song, as well as his brother who was in vietnam at the time. in 1984 marvin was shot by his dad following a family argument
@ryanfoley123 ... Amen, Ryan ... I first caught little bits and pieces of this when I was going thru Navy boot camp in Great Lakes, Illinois... I didn't hear the entire song until weeks later, and it BLEW ME UP. Marvin was such a terrific talent and performer !
A #1 hit for Marvin Gaye on the Rhythm & Blues charts. This was the 224th #1 R&B song of the Rock Era. This song also hit #1 on the Cashbox charts and #2 on the Top 40 charts.
no matter how many times i hear this song it makes me cry marvin gaye was a brilliant compassionate man and is greatly missed im 22 white lad and i was brought up on soul music it really touchs me,and ths will be at my wedding when i eventually marry my sweetheart nyasha :).
Yes, a prophet. A talent so unique and beautiful, it makes being alive just that much better. He was so phenomenol he was able to sing the National Anthem, an infamously difficult piece of vocal music, and completely own it. He was a gift, a singular talent and a man who made our nation a bit better with his musical gifts and political message of peace and unity. Love and honor to you Marvin, gone too soon. xoxo
Arguably in the top 5 songs of all-time, many would say right there at number 1. This is simply one of the most conscious songs to ever be recorded. I guess the irony is when Marvin first played it for Berry Gordy, he stated it was "The worst record I ever heard"... needless to say that Gordy's analysis proved to be filled with great error. This song right here has touched the lives of millions upon millions. May Marvin Gaye truly rest in peace.
34 people don't know good music
CrispinMcFall 6 hours ago
What is going on? People murdering children, murdering their parents, their spouse, their neighbors, and innocent strangers. Marvin's message is still very true today. We must stop showing hate, talk things out, instead of finding things to fight about!!! I'm only 15yrs. old, but I know that all of this killing is wrong, and in the end will be our downfall. Well said Mr. Marvin Gaye. What is going on??
Romanceville 11 hours ago
HOW can 34 people dislike this ? Its one of the most sublime songs ever sung.Dont understand,if you dont like it why listen to it?
offtowigan 13 hours ago
people, don't lose hope! There still is such a good thing as "good" music nowadays!!! it just never gets famous. So go buy and support the music which we all here love, and never want to see die!!
swagger234 1 day ago
yo pensaba(antes)que las canciones de protesta y 'activistas'-por decirlo de alguna manera-eran perdida de tiempo ¿se puede cambiar al sistema y al mundo?Si y No,serian demasiadas razones para enumerarlas aqui;pero escuchando al señor Marvin,me doy cuenta que valen la pena,esta cancion y la de 'Mercy' tienen un mensaje simple,poderoso,sin tiempo,¿y por que no?muy bello y que hace reflexionar,en ese entonces y ahora,la pregunta es la misma y la respuesta...
exoticlonghair 1 day ago
RE: music today being rubbish. So this song came out in 1971. If you go and check out the billboard top 100 for that year there are some great songs on it. There are also a bunch of songs I've never heard of and a few I wish I'd never heard of... The music we hear from 20 or 30 years ago is generally the best from that era and it wasn't always popular at the time. I do agree that compression and all the other tweaks are used far too much. I like me some dynamics.
Stevenbrownification 4 days ago
the shit they produce today is not music, it makes me sick to listen to it.Marvin Gaye and Teddy Pendergrass and of course Barry White the Ojays and the Spinners ,now thats what you call music.the old stuff has depth and meaning soul and heart to it.the shit they put out today is trash,it has absolutely no soul to it AT ALL !!! give me all the soul and R & B music from back in the day and i will be just fine with that,they can keep this new crap they call music, and by the way,i am a white boy.
TheFoxfire42 5 days ago
the shit they produce today is not music, it makes me sick to listen to it.Marvin Gaye and Teddy Pendergrass and of course Barry White the Ojays and the Spinners ,now thats what you call music.the old stuff has depth and meaning soul and heart to it.the shit they put out today is trash,it has absolutely no soul to it AT ALL !!! give me all the soul and R & B music from back in the day and i will be just fine with that,they can keep this new crap they call music,oh and by the way,im a white boy
TheFoxfire42 5 days ago
Funny how things come back around. I remember my father coming back from Vietnam, and hearing this music when I was little. Different time, same message!
chrissy1562 6 days ago
Did Marvin perfect the future with this song and "Inner City Blues"?
ViolinSnowKid2 6 days ago
@ViolinSnowKid2 I think he has.
Romanceville 11 hours ago
Gotta love Motown music xD
jasonaldean95 6 days ago
its like he made the song yesterday....
MrBranman718 1 week ago
@TheNoobPube Listen to me, modern music isn't bad, the production is. I love artists like lady gaga and skrillex but the albums are fatiguing to listen to. They have no dynamic range whatsoever. Even modern mastering engineers are tired of the loudness race.
MrRoboto66 1 week ago
that is bullshit, music is not dead, and currently there is a whole bunch of bands that if you really cared to discover, you would know what im saying. just a small protion: the mars volta, tortoise, sleepy sun, warpaint, john frusciante, bright eyes, at the drive-in, blonde redhead, swahili blonde, vincent gallo, tv on the radio, the black keys, yann tiersen, jonny greenwood, cat power, wilco, and many, many more.
DreaminMyLifeAway 1 week ago
@DreaminMyLifeAway Call me "out-of-touch", but besides the brilliant Vincent Gallo, I have not heard of one of those artists you mention. Nor will any of them go down in history like Marvin.
jerseyirish 1 week ago
I should have put in my opinion in that comment so I wouldn't get other comments except for the one I replied to. I'm not mad, just don't need someone to call me narrow minded, I didn't say, " That's not music no matter what anyone says."
MrZulu2065 1 week ago
@DrOptimisation THANK YOU! It's so annoying when I see the younger generation discover older music and then preach about it all over YouTube like it's the gospel and how ALL music (past & present) should be like. Music is a beautiful thing. It's constantly changing and constantly re-inventing itself.
Wheelio 1 week ago
hey brother whats happenin'
JazzSoul1016 1 week ago
32 people don't know what's going on
NinoMaartenGuitar 1 week ago
Who dislikes this classic song??? this song rings true even today! Its a beautiful song with a message that lives on and means even more today.
devious575 1 week ago
@devious575 right he was so ahead of his time that it like he is talking about now i dont see how anyone can hate marvin or i should say dislike this song
SweetCandy8525 1 week ago
Happy MLK Day
jbird7207 1 week ago
The issue isn't that modern music is trash and older music is better. Keep in mind that at one time distorted electric guitars were consider loud, noisy trash. Guys like Buddy Holly couldn't even get gigs for experimenting with that new sound of rock. People said this about Synthesizers "that's not a real instrument!" But synths survived it all and helped shape a new era of sound, just ask Stevie Wonder, who embraced it. The music isn't the issue. The TALENT is what's missing. THAT is the issue.
DavidVerityTV 1 week ago 3
Sing it baby!
michealjackson12121 2 weeks ago
I was born in 1949 and was also married to a man in 1966 who was in the Military, would you believe this song was banned from being played on Military bases. seeing Marvin Gaye and loving his music...I still played it, that's what freedom is all about !
Lindy81349 2 weeks ago 2
Everyone who says that all music today sucks is fucking retarded and isn't really into music anyway.
TheXAvantGarde 2 weeks ago
ooh the top comments are opposite yet valid viewpoints...intriguing.
buttslaya 2 weeks ago 5
My childhood, my hopes, my dreams, my music...
buzzkillean 3 weeks ago 2
marvin had a great voice
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dang579 3 weeks ago
i love you marvin RIP man u were the greatest!!!!!!
DaftDynasty88 3 weeks ago 4
Timeless.
dergeier117 3 weeks ago 2
Who are they to judge us, simply cuz our hair is long?
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Combinia 3 weeks ago
people say the stupidest shit on youtube...why can't someone just say "wow, what a pretty song. I sure do enjoy the bass line"? its time for a change people, we need to stop this nonsense and comment about the SONG or the VIDEO or the BAND or something, not about how bad music is now a days or something even worse like a cyber argument. I mean i try not to read the comments because half the time it's just pointless shit and i'd love to see more positive comments.
jackinatorist 3 weeks ago 2
Thank you brother Marvin for the inspiration. I used your voice and wisdom in my cover of your timeless classic. I hope you would be proud. I wish I had got the opportunity to sit down and chat with you when you were alive. But, I'll see you in heaven with brothers Otis and MJ.
hasbey1 4 weeks ago
this song pretty much screams to his brothers why they kill each other with their little gangster attitudes & tactics. I mean, for real he wrote it about Vietnam. Or did he? Cuz the lyrics serve his home town just fine.
cme98 1 month ago
@DrOptimisation I
actually I don't agree with .. yes we are noticing a huge differences between the past and present, nowadays music is shit .. we do't need to be judgmental to say that , just we need to listen to both of them . simple sense !
MymindW 1 month ago
One of Motown's biggest legends, Marvin Gaye. Can you hear the message in the song?
MrCancer1965 1 month ago
@DrOptimisation I sort of agree, but do you really think electric crap with not good rhythm or no real instruments and rapping about sex or talking, yes talking, about sex all of the time is music. Come on, I know that isn't real music. I can tell the difference when I listen to a song with real instruments and all fake, and the real instruments sound much better. You have to dig deep today to find modern decent music.
MrZulu2065 1 month ago
@MrZulu2065 Marvin did write a lot of sexual music, though, that was what sold at the time (and still is). it was just a lot more subtle, but he is well known for writing Let's Get It On. I get what you're saying, though, music is mostly done on a computer these days, but that doesn't mean it's not music at all. to someone, somewhere out there, those weird electronic beats are art. personally i don't really like it, though, this is more my style, soul music and rock
nightmareX1993 1 month ago
@nightmareX1993 wtf u talking about? this page is not about "lets get it on". this page is about war & shit. you wanna talk sex, go to another song, dude.
cme98 1 month ago
@MrZulu2065 Music is music. Just because YOU don't like a particular type of music, does not discredit it at all. All it does is make you narrow-minded.
Wheelio 1 week ago
@Wheelio Shut up. Just shut up. Now listen, or read. I did not say that the people who listen to it are stupid, I just have an opinion that modern music to day isn't really good music. Aren't I entitled to MY opinion? I don't need you to call me narrow minded. I love lots of music and you have to dig deep today to find nic new music in my opinion. How am I narrow minded for my opinion. Shut the hell up! >:D
MrZulu2065 1 week ago
@MrZulu2065 Where in my comment did I say that you called people stupid for listening to today's music? You can say you don't like today's music (which is what you should have said in the first place,) but to say it's "not music" is just plain ignorant. I understood what you said perfectly the first time, you just worded it in a way that came off as extremely unfounded.
Wheelio 1 week ago
@Wheelio It's my opinion, that doesn't make me ignorant. I understand it was made as music, I I I just feel that it's stupid music. It's repetitive, has a lot of dislikers and growing, the people are lazy who make it, I can juust make a song today and it could be published. Didn't I say I was entitled to my opinion. I just feel it isn't real music. Can we close this now?
MrZulu2065 1 week ago
@DrOptimisation How can you say that? Producers and engineers all over the world are murdering the soul and dynamics of music both live and in the studio with pitch correction, quantization, and over-compression. Musicians are becoming lazy, letting producers fix their recordings on the computer making them sound like loud robots no matter genre of music. Marvin Gaye would NOT approve of this. I'm 18 and I'd rather stay stuck here than in badly produced noise they call music.
MrRoboto66 1 month ago 34
@MrRoboto66
Well said. Time for an Auto-Tune Parade of Shame.
200ariadne 1 month ago
@MrRoboto66 Dude open your mind a little bit. There is so much fucking amazing new music out there that it's just silly to claim it's all bad. Every week there are multiple albums that are released by artists who put absolutely everything they have into their music. All these aspects of modern music that you mention as negatives should just be looked at as tools (that's what they really are) to get new sounds, feelings, and ideas out of music. Music does not equal recorded live performance.
biskwikman 1 week ago
@biskwikman Look, every album released within the last 12 years has been over-compressed and over-processed, it's hard for me to listen to a lot of my favorite artists because of this. How would you like it if everyone completely stopped selling regular soda for diet and there was nothing you could do about it? (I hate diet soda) So again, the artists of today aren't bad its just that the production is so horrible that it's hard for me to tell if the music is good.
MrRoboto66 1 week ago
@MrRoboto66 Oh, please.. I see literally millions of you younger kids go on and on about how "today's music isn't the same" and whatnot. Guess what? People were saying that same thing back in the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, etc. Music evolves. Learn to adapt, or fall behind the times.
Wheelio 1 week ago
@MrRoboto66 then you are ignorant because theres alot of people who still make real music. stop listening to pop charts and youll figure that out yourself. its possible to like more than one thing remember people back then would have said the same thing about the "modern" musicians of that time.open your mind
TheNoobPube 1 week ago
@TheNoobPube I think that's his point. Back in the day you didn't have to stay away from the pop charts. Nowadays you have to dig under the bullshit to find something decent.
jerseyirish 1 week ago
@jerseyirish i want to make it clear that this is a friendly debate :) . it has always been like that and mabye not to the same extent because there wasnt any internet and so the only way to get music would be on the radio or by buying from a shop who would only buy music that they know is going to sell well(aka chart music) this made it impossible to be popular unless you were very good or new the right people(frank sinatra used the maffia to scare the networks into "liking him" .
TheNoobPube 1 week ago
@jerseyirish continued ... there is still as much good music now and i agree that you do have to sieve through the bad ones but that is only because we have more choice of music now we live in a society were the majority of people just buy music to party.
TheNoobPube 1 week ago
@MrRoboto66 Modern music isn't bad, try listening to some stuff that isn't popular.
LiNaK37 6 days ago
@MrRoboto66 ....u record a song..and for your info 8 track had been invented...therefore they could and did fix their mistakes...
TheChills90 1 day ago
31 people don't know what's going on.
GilliamFan 1 month ago
@GilliamFan Or they don't have the good taste that we do ♥♥
NYChica23 1 month ago
@NYChica23 we dont, im 16 nd ive grown to up my whole life listening to this music. Now we talk about stupid things, nd we're basically taking our minds off the real things. I listen to rap dnt get me wrong but only to get ready to play for football games nd thats it.
benblak23 1 month ago
good song
lilshitty100 1 month ago
love this song. but if you're more into the doom and gloam, check out A Perfect Circle's cover of this song. it's pretty good too.
robmadore1 1 month ago
WHAT 31 CLOWNS DISLIKE THIS SONG
JUWANA23 1 month ago
good tune its message just a relevant as when it was written
able506 1 month ago
this tune would be phat for a soulful hip hop track!
ilovebmx27 1 month ago
pure good inspirational music...
leet746 1 month ago
One of the best songs of all time imo
jdterrell 1 month ago
1:33 What's going on?
DestructiveParadise 1 month ago
i loved how he talked in the background...
youngsmoke12345 1 month ago
great song
chris49195092 1 month ago
Today's music is nothing.. It's not a change, it's a demolition.. the only thing left is a beat.. and that's barely there.
Reymius 1 month ago
@Reymius yeah i blam the industry and radio stations. there's still real artist caring on tradition but they dont get shine.
youngsmoke12345 1 month ago
My all time favourite song Ever
such soul in his voice and the words superb
ony ever be one marvin
millwallholdings 1 month ago
Qunado ouço essas musicas da década de 60, sinto saudades de uma época que eu nao vivi. Por que será????
LiaJFMG 1 month ago
a commercial?? whyyyyyy
SUGARSUGAR291 1 month ago
日本の某居酒屋でこの曲リクエストしたら、題名が『愛の行方』と訳されてました。
確かに愛の行方でも良いと思うけど、DJがリクエスト者へ『あなたの愛の行方は？』
みたいなコメントが有って、かなり理解の相違を感じました。
こんな深い曲はないのに・・・。（悲
kwmoonccmoon 1 month ago
@kwmoonccmoon What??
goodmediaproductions 1 month ago
Doing essays to this song is heaven
HearWithoutPrejudice 1 month ago
And to think Berry Gordy didn't want to release this song. LOL
RayWilo 1 month ago
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fuck this A PERFECT CIRCLE SHIT made by niggers!
mamece2 1 month ago
Marvin, rest in peace. for a man that went to soon. the Lord knows, if you were here now, music wouldn't be suffering like it is today
darrius13sniper 1 month ago in playlist when the music was music and it was good
Stupid moron
Pugiron 2 months ago
I love you all
Razz000 2 months ago
even my painter & my new lifelong mate loves this, fuck the painting listen to class
boobiemiff 2 months ago
And his fckn father had to kill him ..................such a nice great man would of been like a another martin Luther King for Peace among all color and race i miss you Marvin . You made great music man. You were an artist. Love you so much and missed you so much .
karen2006p 2 months ago
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moondancer162 2 months ago
Upon clicking this link I saw a trailer to The Devil Inside...? X|
MsKawaiiGirl 2 months ago in playlist Liked videos
gimme soul ...................
absolormario 2 months ago
Some of you just don't Get the messaGe....Damn Shame....But you understand Lil Wayne......
Kingcap1978 2 months ago
I've never heard this song before until today, and after today I'll probably forget it. One word: BORING.
VitalSigns1 2 months ago
@VitalSigns1
have you ever thought of ending your miserable life? Cockroach...
boneshake83 2 months ago
@boneshake83 I listen to rock and metal, this is just boring, I can't get into it
VitalSigns1 2 months ago
@VitalSigns1 Starting a sentence of with the phrase "I like rock and metal" is like saying "yeah, I'm basically retarded but..." Marvin Gaye did not sing those genres. O.o
Furthermore, any artist who associates their music with supremely BROAD genres like that clearly don't have the capacity to write a truly touching song with such deep social commentary as Marvin Gaye has in Whats Going On.
bastardsonofsatan 2 months ago
@bastardsonofsatan Look, you're being an asshole. I'm not disrespecting the man or his music, I'm simply saying that I don't dig it. What would you like me to do huh? FORCE myself to enjoy it? I looked up the song because it was on the top of a Greatest Songs list and I wanted to see if I liked it. Not only do I not like it, but I don't even recognize it, and I won't remember it either.
VitalSigns1 2 months ago
@VitalSigns1 That's most likely because you don't know the roots of music. you're probably a teenager that thinks slipnot or some crappy rapper, like gaga, made origina music. This is music plain and simple
darrius13sniper 1 month ago in playlist when the music was music and it was good
@darrius13sniper I hate slipknot and lady gaga. I listen to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones
VitalSigns1 1 month ago
@VitalSigns1 My bad then. Rolling stones are better than beetles though.
darrius13sniper 1 month ago
@VitalSigns1 I don't want to start some stupid cyber war, but if you don't like it, do you really need to comment? seems like the other 31 people didn't bother commenting on a song you didn't like
MimisaysRAWR 1 month ago
i love marvin gaye, but you all must know how physically abusive he was with his women.
rachelarandilla 2 months ago
BUT I WILL if you just show some concern for me.
semkobenko 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
Leonard where is the REAL you? Your money wont save you.
semkobenko 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
Marvin let's fight this spiritual WAR. BILLY HAS NO POWER.
semkobenko 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
sadly applicable to modern times...
coc0be4n77 2 months ago
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MonicaaKay 2 months ago
The original Detroit Mix is much, much better...
tahaa7 2 months ago
what if marvin gaye was some sort of....prophet
jetsxmonsterz 2 months ago
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kaped23 2 months ago
I LIKE AND IM 11 !!
opurtunist12 2 months ago
@opurtunist12 What do you want, a medal?
yousirareretarded1 2 months ago
This is one of his greatest songs, no doubt about it.
Norma01Huacuja 2 months ago 2
the 4th greatest song of all time according to rolling stone magazine..
don't get me wrong, it's a good song but 4th? i guess it's not really my style
ckb1137 2 months ago 2
@ckb1137 they named it 4th because of the story behind the scenes. this song was marvin calling for peace. both in vietnam and with his dad. his dad was basically an extremely strict religious zealot who marvin was never able to make proud through his accomplishments in music, and they had a lot of arguments. hes trying to reach out to his dad in this song, as well as his brother who was in vietnam at the time. in 1984 marvin was shot by his dad following a family argument
magua4 2 months ago 13
@magua4 u deserve the top comment thumbs up
CJxFLO 2 months ago
War is not the answer! We got to find a way to make some love here today!
orlandoborn 2 months ago
30 dislikes................waht an irony!
AAEJNPPSR 2 months ago
This song was on Tour Of Duty Season 1 episode 5...
dragonzord18 2 months ago in playlist Music videos 2
spelled destruction wrong
straterc 2 months ago 2
If you dont like marvin gaye then you can go swing from a tree.
XoAmiLL16 2 months ago
love this song
msstephlabella 2 months ago
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i love this song!
falsetto54 2 months ago
29 people are 14 yearold and Beebers fans. This is real music :/
19dcp 2 months ago 3
I know we all have our own opinions but how can you dislike a Marvin Gaye song!? Specially this one!? I just do not understand!
OlSoulChild 3 months ago
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this song sucks
Microwavish 3 months ago
Top 5 greatest songs of all time no question.
ryanfoley123 3 months ago
@ryanfoley123 ... Amen, Ryan ... I first caught little bits and pieces of this when I was going thru Navy boot camp in Great Lakes, Illinois... I didn't hear the entire song until weeks later, and it BLEW ME UP. Marvin was such a terrific talent and performer !
raiderdanCA 3 months ago
Sandra Dee Lawson.
sandralawson18 3 months ago
It's "destruction".
7leafHEAVEN 3 months ago 5
@7leafHEAVEN maybe he meant destruction, but this song is a dIstrAction to everything else though..
leritena 1 month ago
Classic
malik19551 3 months ago
some of the best music ever made...
malik19551 3 months ago
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yes nowaday music is pure shit,and marvin was an angel of its kind
lejuge1970 3 months ago
yes nowaday music is pure shit,and marvin was an angel of its kind
lejuge1970 3 months ago 34
@lejuge1970 no its not
Damanik3 1 month ago
A #1 hit for Marvin Gaye on the Rhythm & Blues charts. This was the 224th #1 R&B song of the Rock Era. This song also hit #1 on the Cashbox charts and #2 on the Top 40 charts.
mkl62 3 months ago
Let's all vote for socialism
IIEvoGamingII 3 months ago
no matter how many times i hear this song it makes me cry marvin gaye was a brilliant compassionate man and is greatly missed im 22 white lad and i was brought up on soul music it really touchs me,and ths will be at my wedding when i eventually marry my sweetheart nyasha :).
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mkto5488 4 months ago
Remember. Moms pumpin this back ithe day .
nin this
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MrPacoStarr 4 months ago
In rememberance of Troy Davis, we now listen to this song along with Sam Cooke-"A Cange Gonna Come"!!!!!
cjdixon1995 4 months ago in playlist Music That I Like
Jim...this is for you (Jim, the *spare time* DJ..eh eh eh from Aberdeen, Scotland)...
Love to you...(your new friend)
Melody Fox (aka the Princess of Rock)
Love Peace Music
melodyfoxdj 4 months ago
I wouldn't put it as the fourth best song of all time, but it's damn good.
Polterguist 4 months ago in playlist Polterguist's Favourited Videos
I wish he was still alive.
JoshThomasFilms 4 months ago
I love this song, it really has a good message!
canocitos 4 months ago
Marvin hit #2 in Billboard, 4-10-71. God bless ya, for postin' it. Thanx! RIP, brother Marvin.
DaveWollenberg 4 months ago
this song goes out to Troy Davis' family. RIP him and the integrity of our justice system (that never existed in the first place).
HelplessnessBlues 4 months ago 4
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Troy Davis? Whose that?
BassGuitarGuy128 4 months ago
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@BassGuitarGuy128 Dude, you cannot be serious.
gearsofwar2pwnfest 3 months ago
Median-Right On(feat. HaLo) Produced By 9th Wonder
Tyvisual 4 months ago
Do this lousy ads have to be played????? It ruins the video. :(
coomason5 4 months ago 8
@coomason5 exactly what i was thinking
able506 4 months ago
@coomason5 Corporate greedy assholes and their ads.
BBQFanNo1 4 months ago in playlist Marvin Gaye
Ther were some cold rainey days in july in the late 60s on Beach Haven N.J. it was and still is a Summer place.Skim Board Yo.
billydnc58 4 months ago
we need some of what this songs singin about now
able506 4 months ago
one of the greatest songs of all time..
AliBanana1493 4 months ago 13
@AliBanana1493 Rolling Stones actually listed it has the 4th greatest song of all time
UberTacoNoob 2 months ago
@UberTacoNoob niiice
AliBanana1493 2 months ago
this song is about love peace and happiness
Tompettylady601 4 months ago
Fathers and hijos no need to escalate !
libertelibre 4 months ago
i think the people the that clicked dislike did it on accident they had to of who in there right mind do not like marvin gaye
aglam85 4 months ago
Yes, a prophet. A talent so unique and beautiful, it makes being alive just that much better. He was so phenomenol he was able to sing the National Anthem, an infamously difficult piece of vocal music, and completely own it. He was a gift, a singular talent and a man who made our nation a bit better with his musical gifts and political message of peace and unity. Love and honor to you Marvin, gone too soon. xoxo
TheOneandOnlyMartha 4 months ago
hopefully in another 10 years this song won't seem like it was written today
hkaos 4 months ago 3
24 ppl are justin bieber and lady gaga fans....
reelm4f1486 4 months ago
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for those that mean the world to me
48supermanblankie 4 months ago
marvin is still winning
benzo360able 4 months ago
24 people don't know what's going on.
littlepearl275 4 months ago 41
@littlepearl275 hahahahahaha........you get it and you're right. =)
Moonchalice 4 months ago
@littlepearl275 29 now
AntElii 2 months ago
@littlepearl275 HA HA now it's 30 ppl who don't know what's going on.
selipspecialties 2 months ago
24 I dont know what kind of people hate this??? wow.....have a happy life guys..wow
turnex1 4 months ago
I wish Marvin was still here today!
iluvssw08 4 months ago
What's going on, you ask? Big business -.-
Rainbowsixoperator1 4 months ago
Arguably in the top 5 songs of all-time, many would say right there at number 1. This is simply one of the most conscious songs to ever be recorded. I guess the irony is when Marvin first played it for Berry Gordy, he stated it was "The worst record I ever heard"... needless to say that Gordy's analysis proved to be filled with great error. This song right here has touched the lives of millions upon millions. May Marvin Gaye truly rest in peace.
poetryselite 4 months ago 2
@poetryselite I could'nt have said it any better.
monty5510 4 months ago in playlist my songs