that makes me feel a bit better about myself
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@chienrouge Youâve recently posted a few songs from Marvin Gayeâs Whatâs Going On. When I was younger I always wondered why that album was in the top 5 best albums of all time, each and every year. Yes, it has a few âhitsâ but overall I wasnât that impressed.
Wow my opinion has changed over the years! Itâs a bona fide masterwork. Prescient in its lyrics, and gorgeous in its sounds. The best songs are the ones that arenât that famous imho. I still play the album in full from time to time, never really tire of listening to it.
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And then onto another masterpiece, in the week when Peter Gabriel celebrated his 73th birthday (13 Feb).
I remember being maybe 12 years old as this album came out, buying it, and playing it on my Sony walkman (!), on a perfect winterâs day, full of fresh snow and all, and going to school I believe. That was a great day, and the album has stayed with me ever since. Just played it in full again in my car on the drive to work yesterday.
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Iâm with you one of my favorites. Love, freedom, equality, respect for others, environmentalismâŚitâs got it all. I love the talking parts. Really syncs up nicely with some of fellow Tamla musician Stevie Wonderâs best stuff too.
Also
Letâs get it on is a great album too !
Letâs throw this one in
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I like say it isnât So better lol !
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The receiving line must have been fun to overhear:
Bono, Yoko. Yoko, Bono. Eno, Yoko. Yoko, Eno. Bono, Yoko, Eno, Iman.
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The remix of below song became a big club hit in the early 80s.
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Meh. The only way Yoko could get a song of hers to be a hit was for it to be one where her lack of vocal skills was not a problem. And this is a case in point.
The fact that it became something of a club hit is further evidence that it was not much of anything.
Sorry, I am not much of a Lennon fan and even less enamored with Yoko.
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Not a Yoko fan either! 
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But I have a soft spot for songs from this era - end of the 70s until mid 80s - that are rooted in rock, but have an âacousticâ dance rhythm. And I remembered the Yoko Ono track being on an influential album showcasing a few of those tracks.
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Love john. One of my favorite rockers.
And I actually do admire Yoko tho I donât love much of her music especially the shrieking stuff ! I do find her art interesting. I think she and to a certain extent john took a lot of shit because of her background and different looks. To have your husband murdered is something that gives her other stuff a free pass from me. John fell in love with a smart and powerful woman not a model. Respect to them both.
Plus she has left a mark in her own right on music
I mean does it get any more iconic than this?
Imagine thereâs no heaven
Itâs easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us, only sky
Imagine all the people
Livinâ for today
Ah
Imagine thereâs no countries
It isnât hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too
Imagine all the people
Livinâ life in peace
You
You may say Iâm a dreamer
But Iâm not the only one
I hope someday youâll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
You
You may say Iâm a dreamer
But Iâm not the only one
I hope someday youâll join us
And the world will live as one
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demos leave folks exposed. Here it works.
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