Let's Get It On

I listened to this with my wife and now I'm pregnant, so - five stars.

Sex - The Album.

Far too sexy for me. Makes me feel uncomfortable. Fuck knows what that says about me.

Just so smooth. Who else could get away with a song called Let's Get It On and then a song three songs later called Keep Gettin It On. Unparalleled swagger.

Let’s get it off

Oh, oh, oh Marvin you have just brought me to climax. I've jizzed all over my mum's neck. Fetch me a glass of milk and a Snickers at once.

Fantastic. So good. Will resisten a million times. Makes me want to caress my plants.

🍆💦

Marvin Gaye, solely responsible for the baby boom of 1974

Marvin's 13th and most successful album. This is smooth, smooth, smooth. A very easy listen. Some classify as smooth soul or slow jam. Sounds good to me. You definitely hear its influence on future late 70's/early 80's R&B and soul. Apparently, this album was a change in typical Motown recordings in that it was free-flowing album-oriented as opposed to their typical album containing-hit singles-next-to-each-other format. Certain artists have that liberty and I would think Marvin Gaye would be one of them at this point. The themes of these songs are very straight-forward: romance, lust and sex. Marvin's music and voice take it to another level. Some song highlights for me: the title track "Let's Get It On", "Keep Gettin' It On" - similar to the title track with a little more funk, "You Sure Love To Ball" - smooth jazz background music and a great female moan and "Just to Keep You Satisfied" - tremendous vocal performance with sweeping orchestral music. Really not a bad song on the album. I recommend listening to this album as a whole; there is a great flow to the music.

Love Marvin Gaye, love his voice, but this album is extraordinarily repetitive

Let’s Get It On - Marvin Gaye 1. Let’s Get It On - This is a classic how else am I supposed to rate this? 5/5 2. Please Stay (Once You Go Away) - I would make love to this 100%, it’s Marvin Gaye. 5/5 3. If I Should Die Tonight - I’m such a sucker for this. Gives me Disney princess type love. I want it so bad. 5/5 4. Keep Gettin’ It On - This song makes me wanna grind all over somebody. 5/5 5. Come Get To This - I would skip around the city to this, dance around the living room with the LOML to this 5/5 6. Distant Lover - IF I COULD RATE THIS HIGHER I WOULD. SOO GOOD. One of my all time faves ever I hold this song so close to my heart it’s unreal. 1000000/5 7. You Sure Love To Ball - I’m such a sucker for the saxophone, imagine getting undressed to this song. I’d die for it. 5/5 8. Just To Keep You Satisfied - For some reason I can see this song in a ballroom. Enchanting, beautiful, elegant. 5/5 Notes: My ratings were way too low on OK Computer. I’m noting it as a 4/5 because I keep wanting to listen to it and I’m enjoying it way more.

One day in 1970, Marvin Gaye was like: "SEGGS!" Then, everybody turned to look at him.

My man Marvin gone too soon ❤️

Now that's more like it. Never listened to this one as much as What's Going On or Here My Dear for some reason but I should have! Another masterpiece. Always love the atmospheres he creates. Love him doing his own backing vocals and the interplay there. Listened to this one 2xs + deluxe edition bonus tracks.

3.5/5 Very horny album Sounds great, Marvin oozes soul Didn’t know Let’s Get it On had a literal sequel, or that it would better than the OG

Holy cow. This is our second from Marvin Gaye (somehow we haven't had What's Going On yet? that doesn't seem right). While Here My Dear was a really excellent surprise, this album tops even that. Yeah, it's very obviously a collection of jams to bone to. But damn man, they are all (in more ways than one) bangers. I genuinely loved all but one track, and that one was still pretty cool. I wasn't expecting depth beyond the title track, as I really don't see people talking about this album, but it goes the distance. I can so strongly hear the influence that he had on guys like Frank Ocean. This is a new favorite R&B/Soul album for me, going into the all time fiver club. Favorite tracks: All but "You Sure Love to Ball," which is still a good song. Album art: Not entirely sure what Marvin is doing in this picture. Is he playing guitar behind his head? Is he holding a pizza box, winding up before he smashes it on the table in front of him? Is he just hitting a "raise the roof" emote style? No idea. But it's blurry, the font is pretty shitty, and it doesn't even matter because the music is that good. 5/5

There’s definitely a comparison here about the strong correlation between this album and actually ’getting it on’. It’s starts very strong. Using its best, time and tested proven moves. That intro that is damn near Pavlovian. It’s just great, gets everything loose, hits the right spots. Then it settles into pure smoothness. Going through the motions a bit, but still nice. Then it almost realises things have … fallen off the boil a little. So it goes back to the same moves of the opener, just a little less effective. Then more, nice, functional, smoothness … and then it just end a little bit too quickly without a satisfying ending. Just me? It’s an album that is our silk, a great background soundtrack. It’s more clearly named than any Ronseal product.

4.1 - A luscious bedroom soundtrack strictly for grown folks, underpinned by sophisticated orchestration and Marvin Gaye's rich bari-tenor. Smooth and snag-free. My only knock is that "Keep Gettin' It On" sits lamely in the middle of the album as an unnecessary reprise of the title track.

What an absolute treat. This album has been in my collection for ages. I adore Marvin Gaye. He had the voice of an angel when he was on this earth and he is an angel up there now. Superb

An iconic album. It's like a soft slow and luxurious.............foot massage. Oooo yeah.....no tickling.

i’m asexual but like i get it

1000 Albums You Must Listen Before You Die + 1 Album You Must Listen Before You Fuck

There is a reason, a very good reason, why most people only know one song on this album.

Sexy, soulful jazz. This is an album where you can feel the music in your soul, in your person

I love marvin, if a dude played this song in the car w me id lowk fuck him (apa walkom) so sexual got me feeling something... oooh... sorry got a little off track there favourite song(s): title track, if i should die tonight

Ugh Marvin Gaye is the coolest. Really enlightening knowing the sexual content was a way to cope with childhood trauma. Also "quiet storm" is an amazing sub genre. I want to know what he's doing in the album art. I love this album.

Smooth Sexy Soul

There's not a lot to say about this - other than to argue if it or "What's Going On?" is better. I lean slightly to this.

Ah, Marvin Gaye. Beautiful voice, well constructed songs. A pleasure to listen to.

If this album doesn't make you smile when it comes up, that's too bad, because it's a masterpiece. I've owned this lp for years but I don't remember where I got it and it doesn't have a cover. I've listened to it a lot though. 540 albums in with the generator and this one's a highlight.

What a great ‘mood’ record this is, from clearly a man who was deeply in love at the time. From the fantastic backing singer group to the exceptionally timed horn section moments, and a voice that oozes emotion. What a great and timeless record this is.

holy bangers. definitely night time music

If you like amazing male vocals, soul, and (this is key) sexy, sexy lyrics, this album is for you! Luckily, I like all of those things.

Love this album. Definitely in my top 100 albums.

Absolutely stunning. Listen to the deluxe version, and in particular the instrumental version of Cakes. A must have album for any music lover.

9.25/10, great album

Epitome of '70s soul. This is a perfect album.

Just a dope album with great vocals obviously but the band is also super tight and make the most of every track. No skips and at 30 some minutes it’s a really easy album to sit through and vibe with.

What's getting on, S? The spree of MG's What's Going On, Here My Dear, and Let's Get It On has convinced me he was the master of the concept album, a mode I'd thought cursed. He matches form with function perfectly, and it all starts with how he uses his voice. Sonically, this is consistent to the point of repetition, but as the record is only 35 minutes long it becomes this perfect expression of his sentiment.

Obviously the title track is a classic, still imitated till this day, never as good as the original. The entire album is the embodiment of classic R&B soul music, his vocals, instrumentation, everything about this album had so many impacts on future music. Classic

Only knew Gaye's 'What's Going On' album, so this was a new one for me. The first listen I didn't have it on loud enough and felt a bit underwhelmed. Evidently my ears just needed to adjust... when it finished I put it straight back on and, wow, his voice just hit me. And 'If I Should Die Tonight'... poor Marvin.

there is no song more emblematic of sex than Let's Get It On. It's archetypal to the point of no longer being lowbrow. It is our shared language, and it is powerful, and it is glorious.

Oh my, this albulm has been my favorite so far, the rhythm was great. 10/10

It’s a shame that this album is solely remembered for its title track because the rest of the album is truly “all killer, no filler.” Every single song is a carefully-crafted, passionate masterpiece that showcases all the different flavors of love. Tracks like “I Should Die Tonight” are inescapable representations of passionate and unconditional love, and songs like “Please Stay” are of course musical sex, but it’s songs like “Just To Keep You Satisfied” and “Distant Lover” that really make the album for me. The former is a complex goodbye song, and the latter synthesizes this heartbreak with the rest of the album’s longing: you can hear both the longing and pain in Gaye’s desperate pleas at the end of the song. This album perfectly sets the indescribable intricacies of love to music.

2-3 Standout songs go beyond 5 stars and lift the slightly less good (but still groovin) tracks up from a 4. I'd say 4.5 but roundin' up.

It must have been hard even for Marvin Gaye to follow up What’s Goin’ On? (if we skip the Trouble Man soundtrack); having dealt with social issues and the environment, Gaye went for something a little more private, a little more sensual on Let’s Get It On. There are terrific tracks here and Gaye’s genius, especially as a vocalist, is apparent throughout. The backing singers are brilliant, I thought - no, wait, that’s all Marvin (except when it’s The Originals on Just to Keep You Satisfied). The jams are glorious and the only criticism is the brevity - a few tracks feel like kernels of ideas not quite fully formed and at half an hour - well, look, I guess that’s long enough for what Marvin had in mind…

One of the finest. Masterful, moving, soulful, spiritual and heartfelt. A wonderful example of the enduring power of music by one of its greatest exponents.

Zuhause, Heidenheim, Deutschland. Gutes Album.

God damn this is sexy. And usually im a freakin prude and dont get into this kinda stuff but its feels so sensual and loving. Makes me much less uncomfortable that WAP. Wildly good stuff here though. I've always head of Marvin gaye and I know the songs that are part of the general culture but I like the rest of get it on other than the 3 seconds in some shitty commercial. Just groovy and fun songs all around.

This was an incredible album to start and the day too Fun in the morning, sexy at night

Wow very good

Smooth as butter

No song other song on this album is as stand out as Let's Get It On but it all sounds very sophisticated and accomplished, if a bit samey.

Obviously I’d heard of this album and its title track before. I did not realise that I had never actually heard the title track the whole way through. Everyone knows that iconic intro but I didn’t know much else beyond that. Overall the album is as smooth as you’d expect from Marvin Gaye and was a wonderful listen.

people still lift the melodic feel and the progression from this album Favorite track: Let's get it on other picks: come get to this, distant lover, just to keep you satisfied

Really good album with one of the best songs of all time, I did find at times it could drag on a bit, but still a great album

Fantastic album, like everything Marvin put out. I like the previous album “What’s Going On” a bit more for the funk it brings. “Let’s Get it On” is more reliant on soul and sexual energy. Still, an absolute classic.

Very different feel to what’s going on, less gospel inspired and a lot more groovy funk songs, all of which all have a very clear theme. I really liked this, funk is one of those genres which is an automatic win for me, especially if it’s a singer like Marvin Gaye, each song seemed to have a use of an instrument which hooked me funk wise, whether it was muted electric guitar, a type of drum sound, the bass line or saxophone which were all made even better by the great vocals. I do wish this was a bit longer though to be honest. This is also his first funk album which is crazy. Favourites: let’s get it on, please don’t stay, keep gettin’ it on, come get to this and distant lover. Overall, 8/10.

R&B liquid gold. Beatiful beautiful stuff.

Fantastic!

Classic

Ooooh baby

Very cool listen

I have to say, I quite enjoyed the whole hangout vibe of it. 4/5.

On “Let’s Get It On”, Marvin Gaye demonstrates why he’s the king of love songs. Tracks flow top down like molasses; Gaye’s voice envelops you like a warm hug. I was also very surprised by the tight, live sounding percussion. Just like me, I wish this project lasted longer.

What a classic sound. I'd recognize it anywhere, even if I didn't know the song. I can't believe I am just learning today that his father murdered him. YIKES. Anyway, this album is sex.

Ha! What an album. The drums coming in on Let’s Get It On after those three sexy wahs is so satisfying and perfectly sets the mood for the rest of the album. It’s stunning in its lush arrangements and vocals, creating a dreamy space of all encompassing sensuality and tenderness. Beautiful.

Lets Get It On This is sex music, these are sex people. I’ve oscillated between 3 and 4 on this quite a bit. The title track is brilliant of course, I like how the theme re-emerges throughout, his voice is expectedly superb and there are some nice rhythmic, percussive elements, particularly on the very good Please Don’t Stay and on Come Get To This and Distant Lover. But on the other hand, while the overall quality is pretty high, some songs feel a little too meandering in comparison to the stronger songs - If I Should Die Tonight, the aforementioned Distant Lover, You Sure Love to Ball all have a tendency to slip by and not stick as well in the memory. And like Here, My Dear was thematically quite one note, this also rather labours the point that Marvin is very very horny. I’ll stay with a high 3 - some great highs, its nicely brief and I like it, but it doesn’t quite get to a 4. 💦💦💦 Playlist submission: Let’s Get it On

Oh Marvin, I'm sorry, you're wonderful but "You Sure Love to Ball" really creeps me out, though "Let's Get It On" is great. Splitting the difference at a 3.

Suoraan meemillä sisään. Seksikästä soulia. Parhaat: Let's Get It On, Keep Gettin' It On

у меня встал

really good but i have no hoes so

Lighter-hearted jazz. Let’s Get It On is iconic. The rest is more of the same which gets repetitive. There’s a reason only one song has most of the clicks, not that any of it is bad. If I Should Die Tonight is good too.

The title track wasnt actually as cheesy and I remember. Definitely a sensual album through and through. Not sure I'd listen again but I think I got it.

Soul just isn't my thing. I'm sure this album was cutting edge and revolutionary when it came out, but it just feels cheesy today. I didn't dislike the album, but I don't think it's one I'd intentionally listen to again.

It’s a really good album don’t get me wrong. I just don’t think there’s any space in my life where it really fits in. Maybe sitting outside by the fire? Otherwise it’s just not my taste

It's smooth. And classic. You've got to be in the right mood with the right person for this album to really shine.

Put this on and let the lovin commence.

Let’s Get It On and Keep Gettin It On already put me in a great mood and instantly noticed that this album was going to be something special. A 30 minute album is perfect for my taste. The production is unbelievably refined for 1973: warm, funky, groovy, and filled with that soulful tenderness Marvin Gaye was unmatched at. You can hear every subtle detail in the instrumentation, that perfect mix of funk, soul, and slow R&B. Even after all these decades it still feels fresh, intimate, and alive to me. Overall just so smooth. Fantastic. So good. An incredibly easy and enjoyable listen, truly an iconic album. Smooth as butter. My favorite tracks are all of them — Let’s Get It On, Please Don’t Stay, If I Should Die Tonight, Keep Gettin’ It On, Come Get to This, Distant Lover, You Sure Love to Ball, and Just to Keep You Satisfied.

I don't even know what sex feels like and this album worked on me. I think that's all I have to say to justify my thoughts on it (9/10, 5/5 on this scale)

Sometimes I feel bad for the title track. It's a truly great tune; without a doubt one of the best Marvin Gaye would ever make. Smooth, sensual, soulful ... I mean, goodness, those strings, those horns, those **vocals** ... it's a real masterclass in baby making music. Hell, you could probably get pregnant just listening to it. I don't think it really even has a structure; it's just one of the best pieces of mood music I done ever heard. And you can't take the first ten seconds seriously. How often have you heard this song used as a joke? Specifically that opening guitar lick and the following "I'VE BEEN REALLY TRYYYYYYYIN', BABY / TRYNA HOLD BACK THIS FEELING". I swear, it's nearly up there with "Bad To The Bone" as needle drops I don't even recognize as real songs; they may as well have been shipped straight to stock music libraries. It's like how sometimes there's a piece of media with such a strong meme that when you see it in context it feels like it's edited in. And it really is a shame that this is the kind of reaction I've grown to have to these opening seconds, 'coz although I haven't heard every song he's ever recorded, I do truly believe it's one of his best, bar none. As for the rest of the album ... well, let's admit that there's not much to say about it, really. Do you like the title track? D'y'think it's good mood music? Well, there's seven other tracks just like it. As an album experience it's obviously not as varied and as strong as his last record — y'know, a little thing called 'What's Goin' On'. I don't think I'd be able to blame someone for getting tired of this album quickly, even if it is only 31 minutes. Jus', this much love making in such a short period of time? Most people, understandably, wouldn't be able to keep up. But myself, I'm not gonna act like this is a bad thing. Even though nothing else on the album is as strong, individually, as the title track, it still succeeds in carrying through **the mood**. You've gotta acknowledge, this is an incredibly **consistent** album in that regard. And that's ultimately what's important here. So it doesn't change things up as 'What's Goin' On' did — this album still ended up making Marvin Gaye a sex symbol. That's what really mattered. And, hey, y'know, you ask me, it's probably better to have a full 31 minutes of love makin' music than only one song. (I also wanna point out, too, before I get to my conclusion, how much I love that Side 1 opens with "Let's Get It On" and closes with "Keep Gettin' It On". That's just great, honestly.) So, yeah, that's all I gotta say about 'Let's Get It On'. There's probably more I could've pulled out, given that I heard Gaye included some themes of spiritual healing in the lyrics — but let's be real, the lyrics are absolutely not the most important thing here. As I keep saying, it's all about the mood, and while I can see how it could be easy to get sick of it real quick ... dammit, Marvin Gaye just does it so well. I can't fault him. I'll tell you this: I listened to this twice in a row, and over the course of the hour I only sort of got tired of it by the end. But that's just 'coz I tried to do it again too quickly. If I'd waited to recover a little, I'm sure ... but yeah. At any rate, it felt like a better hour than the one I spent with 'Here, My Dear', goodness. In the end, I'm very happy and satisfied that I got it on with Marvin Gaye. 10/10 lay.

Marvin always knows how to make a damn good album, even under the Motown system. 4.5 bumped up to 5.

I’m at a 4.5 that I’ll pretty easily bump up to a 5. Maybe it’s because of Prince taking the sort of foundation Marvin Gaye set on this album to a natural extreme on “1999”, or just the much more sex-positive culture that’s been fostered in the 52 years since this album came out, but I found myself less inclined to hear this as just a “sexy” album. I’m more inclined to treat it as a sort of landmark in mixing the soul music of the late 1960s with a sort of carnal passion that would come to define the R&B music of the next… well, several decades to come. This is a sexually liberating & radically freeing album, especially for 1973. Marvin Gaye’s voice sells everything here, and frankly, it just kind of sounds like sex. The same applies to the instrumentals, which… hoo. The sax / percussion work here is a perfect backdrop for the lyricism for the vast majority of the album, and as a whole, the atmosphere this album creates for itself clearly set a new standard for other artists to follow, in terms of talking about passion like that. Just listen to a track like “If I Should Die Tonight”. That one’s incredible. Here’s a fascinating stat for you, which could be coincidence, but I will actively choose to believe is correlation & causation: according to a CDC study on the vital statistics of 1974 (Page 75 here: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsus/nat74_1.pdf), the average number of births per month from January to June of that year was roughly 251,812. The average number of births from July to December was roughly 277,627. According to the Billboard 200 (https://www.billboard.com/artist/marvin-gaye/), this album’s peak on the charts was #2, in October of 1973. Add 9 months to that, and you get to… July of 1974. Yes, this album’s peak lines up with enough lovemaking to raise a rolling birth average by 26,000 babies per month for the back half of an entire year. If this really is a tangible & provable Marvin Gaye effect, then maybe this album deserves a 10 for that alone, I dunno. So, why a 4.5 and not a flat 5? Eh, just a little one-note by the end, really. The passion is there, his vocals are sensual, and nothing is wrong at all. I just think the album loses some of the steam it has after the excellent “Distant Lover”, as the final 2 tracks didn’t quite come across as strongly as the first 6 did, especially on “You Sure Love to Ball” (great instrumental though). Regardless, I’d be a moron to not bump it up – this is Marvin Gaye setting a brand new standard for how to approach the topics of sex, sensuality & passion in music, and doing it in a way that still feels tasteful & sophisticated enough (especially in the instrumentation / vocals) to treat it as a serious shift, as opposed to a shock factor / publicity switch off of the back of the more socially conscious tones of “What’s Going On”. I’m very excited to get “What’s Going On” down the line, but as far as this goes, it’s a 4.5 that’s easily bumped up to a 5.

Just fantastic. The title track is iconic and basically the musical motif of sex. The rest of the album is just as good, Gaye's performance is full of emotion. Even the album art is timeless, you still see dudes dressing like this to this day

This man was a legend. Full stop. He deserves all the praise that comes his way. BTW, if you can't get lucky to this album, try harder!

Deep cuts are actually fire too.

Great soul

The sexual energy fueled my workout

extra points cos Marvin Gaye’s estate sued robin thicke

I loved it, never heard it before!

Fun and sexy. Keep getting it on is a great crate digging cut

finally listened to the whole album. smooth, warm, soulful. loved it.

I listened to this while in a room on my own and had to take a cold shower to calm myself down.

A shoo-in for the quite short list of the best Motown albums (not comps) of all time. Marvel at the production, marvel at Gaye's singing. The lyrics are well - complicated. Though it is indeed about getting it on, its also (as in the reflective bitter end track) about the hurt as well. Also what a beanie hat.

I won’t listen to this as much as I probably should, but damn, when I’m in the mood for it, it’ll hit so good.

C'est un énorme oui c'est fabuleux, du miel pour les oreilles

I'm not sure there's been an album I've listened to in the last two weeks that I knew would be awesome from the first eight bars. It was positively moody. It all say together well, and gave the vibe of a great album. I can see what the author of High Fidelity was on about. 5 stars!

This album is like a soldier spending one last night with his sweetheart before going on his next tour of duty the following day. Closing themselves off to the sadness of tomorrow, they focus solely on each other and their love. Yea they get freaky, of course they’re gonna. But also they enjoy these final fleeting moments of being with one another. Towards the end of the night, the fear of tomorrow seeps into the man’s mind, but he continually reminds himself to enjoy the beauty of this moment.

This oozes sex