Marvin Gaye - Love Starved Heart (1999)

Marvin Gaye - Love Starved Heart (1999)
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Genre: soul | RAR 5% Rec. | Label: Motown | Cat. # 153 868-2 | 1999
This is an expanded version (nine new cuts) of a 1994 album of previously unreleased songs by the Motown superstar, and it sounds for all the world like a Gaye's greatest-hits album piped in from some alternate universe. The songs, stylistically very much of a piece with Gaye's actual hits, are at once tantalizingly familiar and exotic, and it's safe to say that many (if not most of them) would have been successful had they been released at the time. High points include the almost Basie-esque big-band blues "Say When"; "Court of the Common Plea," a divorce song with a "Heard It Through the Grapevine"-esque backing track; "Gotta Say It," which has the same gospel feel as "Can I Get a Witness"; and the soaring "Darling You're Wonderful," where Gaye does a flawless imitation of Sam Cooke at the fade.

This is part of Motown's Lost & Found Series.
Expanded Edition "Lost & Found" Series

Recorded between 1963 and 1969. Includes liner notes by David Ritz and Harry Weinger.
Digitally remastered by Suha Gur (Universal Studios East, New York, New York).


Originally issued as part of a 1994 box set and newly expanded here with nine additional performances, Love Starved Heart assembles 25 unreleased tracks recorded by Marvin Gaye between 1963 and 1971, Motown's golden era. That it took three decades for these songs to see the light of day speaks far more to the intensity of the label's assembly line production ethic than to the quality of the material itself -- at their most pedestrian, these are fine performances simply lost in the shuffle, but at moments like "It's a Desperate Situation," "When I Feel the Need," and "This Love Starved Heart of Mine (It's Killing Me)," Gaye achieves the same peaks of his hits of the era, crafting performances of such sublime beauty and haunting poignance that their failure to reach the masses until now is nothing short of remarkable. Still, where classics like "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" and "Ain't That Peculiar" tend to suffer from years of oldies radio wear and tear, Love Starved Heart sounds positively refreshing -- in their own way, these long-lost songs reaffirm the timelessness of Marvin Gaye's brilliance even more than the familiar hits on which his reputation rests.

TRACKLIST

01. It's a Desperate Situation
02. I Found Something
03. When I Feel the Need
04. This Love Starved Heart of Mine (It's Killing Me)
05. You're a Son of a Gun
06. For Us Both I'll Be Concerned
07. Darling, You're Wonderful
08. Sad Souvenirs
09. I Can't Help It (I Love You)
10. It's a Lonely World Without Your Love
11. Say When
12. Lucky, Lucky Me
13. Get Away Heartbreak (Keep on Moving)
14. Court of the Common Plea
15. You Make Me Do Things
16. Hope I Don't Get My Heart Broke
17. You're the One
18. Dark Side of the World
19. I'm in Love With You
20. Just a Little Love (Before My Life Is Gone)
21. Baby I'm Glad That Things Worked Out So Well
22. Hanging On
23. Gotta Say It, Gonna Tell It Like It Is
24. Love's More Precious Than Gold
25. Loving and Affection
26. Marvin Gaye Interview




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