Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On (1973) [MFSL UDSACD 2039] |re-up|

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Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On (1973) [MFSL UDSACD 2039] |re-up|

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After brilliantly surveying the social, political, and spiritual landscape with What's Going On, Marvin Gaye turned to more intimate matters with Let's Get It On, a record unparalleled in its sheer sensuality and carnal energy. Always a sexually charged performer, Gaye's passions reach their boiling point on tracks like the magnificent title hit (a number one smash) and "You Sure Love to Ball"; silky and shimmering, the music is seductive in the most literal sense, its fluid grooves so perfectly designed for romance as to border on parody. With each performance laced with innuendo, each lyric a come-on, and each rhythm throbbing with lust, perhaps no other record has ever achieved the kind of sheer erotic force of Let's Get It On, and it remains the blueprint for all of the slow jams to follow decades later — much copied, but never imitated.

“I don't believe in overly moralistic philosophies. Have your sex, it can be exciting, if you're lucky. I hope the music that I present here makes you lucky.”
- Marvin Gaye

Let’s Get It On was released on August 28, 1973 and quickly became the biggest-selling recording of Marvin Gaye’s tenure with Motown.

The album peaked at #2 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart and remained at the top of the Soul Albums chart for eleven weeks, making it the best-selling R&B album of 1973. At that time, the single "Let's Get It On" was Motown's largest-selling recording ever, selling over three million copies within 2 years of its release. Let’s Get It On contains 3 top 100 hits, “Let’s Get It On”, “Come Get To This” and “You Sure Love To Ball.”

This will be the first time this historic album will be presented in the Super Audio Compact Disc format, which contains a CD layer and ultra-high resolution layer of music. Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab transferred the original 2- track 1” analog master tapes using the critically acclaimed GAIN 2™ System.