Marvin Gaye "Masochistic Beauty" (1985)

[greatvoice23]

I bought the cassette back in 1985, been waiting 4 someone to post this, lol...put your face right here, start to eat, get down!!!

[shesobreezy]

Once you hear this song you cant forget it he sayin some wild shit

[arkansoul]

Kinda sounds like Ray Parker Jr.'s "For Those Who Like To Groove".

[mcqueen5]

Marvin wrote this as a Joke to wind some Women he went out with, who did the dirty on him.

I was his friend while in the UK and Belgium in 1980-83

[Lilmssunshine305]

thats that shit



[FFSOUND]

Great !!

[TamTam501]

Though you're on the other side of the rainbow now, no one can touch you baby! Talent beyond reason!

[MusicJunkie0688]

His music Inspires me to an aspiration movement and be someone of value not just be something!! I understand his greatness but I am not as great as god but gifted like all human beings ,with a gift not to endulge but to prosper more happiness from the gift!Music has saved me and particular Marvins writing in his music!!God bless his soul and music he's given the world.

[janitation]

Marvin Gaye gangsta rap!! Ice Cube you listening?/ LOL!

[marting1984]

i agree with SPTO. This seems like one of those hidden track songs that the artist is just having fun with in the studio. But does this actually show up early on the album? It's more funny than sad, though.

[tryingharder]

Me and my buds used to play the hell out of this in high school. I have no idea how we found out about it. Brilliant song! People are not one thing.

[olumwandishi]

MG Rapping in that Cockney Rhyming Slang!

[RTistic]

This reminds me a LOT of Klique "Inside me"

[dexfx69]

when i first bought this, i thought it was very disturbing; Marvin very coked up and very corrupted by it. God bless you marvin, I hope you've managed to free yourself from your demons.

[closetome]

dope

[markgrebetz]

"Its my duty, to spank your booty!" Marvin could definitely write.

[KrfNYC2]

The only part of this song that I like is Marvin in the background.

[TheSoulsister1]

This is the real Marvin Gaye.My kind of black man.This song is good to play while having sex.ROUGH SEX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[RetroCool73]

Trust Marvin to make going out of ones mind on cocaine sound so great!

[capria41194]

I'm trying not to laugh but this is funny: "Get Down! Shutup!"

[mankneck]

i'm obsessed with this song

[KikiMercury]

It's my Duty. To spank your Booty.

[southensmokin]

haha marvin sounds sooo cooool with his british accent lol.

[edscottable]

song wasn't intended by marvin to make it to wax. he was rapping with quincy jones while quincy was doing the thriller stuff with michael. q let marvin hear some of what was going on and marvin was stuck on that vincent price voice over. marvin got in the studio and fucked around with that and here's what we have. marvin still made it funky and thats why some dumbass thought it was worthy of putting out, post marvin. and we love the dude so much that some of us bought it.

[LaydeeTee0890]

Wow, is all I can say after hearing this song. I don't know if this is serious or not but it is a pretty amusing song. Nothing like anything that I have heard before.But that is Marvin for ya!

[mjramsden13]

Extremely beautiful. Thank you Mr Marvin Gaye for opening your heart.

[grapevine4]

This song is serious. Remember "HERE MY DEAR"? Rappers today rap about worst things. Marvin is still ahead of his time. "Oil wasted on the oceans and upon our seas" Thanks for the comments on the music.

[mousepadd20]

Get down! Shutup!

[XplicitVocalz]

Wow...I love all of Marvin's song including this one, but this this is obviously a sex driven track.. I aint mad at ya Marvin R.I.P..lol...I'm trying my best not to bust out laughing here from listening to this song, since I am in an outside location on the computer..lmao.."Bitch are you coming"...lol. We just need to remember that when a person is on drugs a lot more will come out. A lot of 60's, 70's and 80's artists were high on something, but there was a lot of great music produced.

[giseba7]

I had this album back in 1984! I wasn't even 18!

[kewanw16]

@giseba7 There was never a warning label sticker on that album at all.

[Swoth]

Most hilarious song about promiscuity ever!

[thebeautifulman69]

i think marvin was probably on cocaine when he recorded this and the demons just came out in a freestyle. it is heart breaking that he recorded such a song with such evil lyrics. on the same album is a song called "it's madness" which is the most beautiful yet saddest song about unrequited love. that song is true art and marvin at his very best. this song is just garbage.

[nonadeb53]

OMG.....MEANT TO BE RELEASED OR NOT, SUCH PASSION AND ANGER.....

[lenorakixxx]

Perfection..................i loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

[KrfNYC2]

I love Marvin, but he missed with this one. Not his best album.

[samedesire]

OMG ...could you be more more ignorant?

...its not Marvin Gaye with a british accent...it's Malcolm McLaren

[Gemini199981]

He liked SNM comics.....

[endorphinz]

Oh, this is freakin' phenomenal! lol...funky as shit, smooth as silk, dark as hell.

The things you know you should

You never do

In spite of all the pain

It puts you through

[haneehoo09]

didnt expect to see this uploaded! One of my FAV songs by MG!!

[unamuerte]

Some people say this meant to be funny, and I'm not taking it seriously, yet this disturbed me when I first heard at 13 mixed up with his other soul stuff. My first Marvin album! Still, the beat is rather catchy...

[nrq9000]

You can't take something like this too seriously. This is hilarious if you have a taste for dark comedy.

[angeleoq]

Marvin snapped off on this song, crack or not, its real talk. This song is funny and true for many people at the same time...

[TheSugar13]

this is so cooolllllllll!!!!!

[54cookie1]

Wow he was caught up. Sounds like he hated being enslaved. Perfect example of what drugs do to you, take a perfect genius and turn him into an insane monster. I'm glad he was able to overcome. Just goes to show you everybody has a jekell and hyde side.

[damnpublic]

Marvin rappin' straight up nasty!  He had to be on that coke. Wow! Everybody knows the thing you love; while you're on your knees raise your dress above! Get Down. Gotta LOL!!!!!

[SupaStarry]

Omg Marvin! lol all i can say is...Whoa

[zimzalabims]

funky!

[cortorbor]

When you come for me, you come for God? Marvin was sad and disturbed towards the end.

[isaackh86]

Bitch, are you cumming...WTF??!!

[DADDY2U4EVER]

Cocaine is a helluva drug.....lol. Put your face right here and start to eat, Get down!

[owleyez86]

OMG! That coke had Marvin going off the deep end! This song is hot ghetto mess!!!!!!!!!

[riktok]

looks like today´s hip hop lyrics ...

[LMNTAN31]

I love Marvin! When I first heard this several years ago you could have bought me for a penny and got back change!lol! This is part of his genius..miss you, Marvin

[freakygothic]

"bitch are you coming?"

hilarious : )

[roasdirector]

Marvin Gaye has two faces!!!!

[mjramsden13]

Dark Magus! He does the darkest dreams, while his highly esteemed lady sleeps xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx MR

[ildizastro]

...and if this was Marvin just having fun,you can imagine what he would have produced being serious and focussed.....ohhhh i forgot..he produced all his songs Having FUN!!!!

The best...there was,there is,there will ever be!RIP

[NewKokujinOptions]

Wow. Marvin Gaye using a British accent.. Awesome haha!

[tryingharder]

@NewKokujinOptions I think he lived in Belgium for a time

[usuc4lyfe]

I think he really cut loose on this cut, he might of been high but he sounds like he was having fun recording this.

[treehuggerdude4]

hehehe

thats hilarious!

[freakygothic]

i love this song lol the lyrics are brillantly and hilariously wirtten

[hijklmnop06]

O shit,Marvin rapping,"Lihe a hoar"?,wtf i dont think this was meant to be heard nor released,a acscent and shit,wierd,iono

[MGillDesign]

I agree, hijklmnop06,

I don't think this was meant to be heard either. I think it was Marvin getting his dark inner frustrations, desires and hang-ups out by letting loose or joking around in the studio (not meant for public release).

CBS released it to make money.

[RipPazillion]

This is Marvin at his autobiographical best! The tapestry of his life was the thing that took him back to the studio again and again. It was something he was clearly more hooked on than Toot! Singing out his pain was his therapy. That's how he offloaded the dark as well as the light things in his life.

[fonzayo]

This is art, yes, I think. quite old English and dramatic, David Bowie like. Marvin had that thing for music, words and drama. Quite creative.

[stress92]

This song always disturbed me a little bit, but I think it has a nice groove. I always interpreted the second verse like he was singing to or about himself

[tharowkilla]

why does it disturb u ?

[grapevine4]

We were just having fun! This is different for Marvin, a some what rap song in the 80's? Sexual overtones, and explicit lyrics? Huh? Rappers do that today don't they?

[paytonbf1]

I believe that Marvin was coked out when he did this track, and I honestly believed that he didn't intend to have this track released. But, it sounds good none the less!!  RIP Marvin!!

[snslo]

hes talking about someone in particular here....true story

[Elisabeth1903]

hes talking about some girl he dispies..

he talks about karma at 4:11. what books did he read??

[smthomas23]

Marvin probably would have freaked out if he knew this was released!!!

I wore the cassette out back in day!!!!

[soulmusic247]

Marvin was just out of it here. I always put this song on when I want a good laugh. Thanks for posting.

[snslo]

why does this make you laugh ?

[SPTO]

This is probably the most heart breaking song Marvin ever did. The man was clearly at the end of his rope and he just let out his most sadistic side. I believe that with a clearer head Marvin would never record such diametrically opposed material compared to what always done well.

Marvin had the knack of taking the worst things in life and making beautiful music out of it but this time Marvin just let out his raw emotion and frustrations on record.

[rovingeye2]

To know and love what exists in the light you have to be aware of what resides in the dark. It's a journey many people have to take.

[giseba7]

@SPTO This may've been a recording never to hit the shelves, but perhaps did because of his death. Yet his recordings over the years do take a full circle. I think drugs and music success and dips are a part of all musicians cycle. Sex was big on his list. Perhaps we just learn more about him in this song.

[msfeliciam]

@SPTO Easy. I don't think this song is serious. I think it's a joke, moreover, I'm sure it is a joke. I don't think he, using British accent, was to be serious :). Beside this, it ha a nice funky beat.

[bobbyearlhelms]

@SPTO it still hurts me when i hear it but i knew him.

[bertmarx]

@SPTO shut the fuck up.. he turning them hoes out..

[SPTO]

@bertmarx That's...a real mature response. I never said the song was BAD I only said the material was not something that Marvin would've done if he was in a clearer state of mind or he would've found a way to be more subtle about it.

[bertmarx]

@SPTO awwww..

[trademark1874]

LooooL just heard it (It's my duty, to spank your booty)

[trademark1874]

Hehe i got the first view...Nice post!!