Genre: Soul
Places I remember: Secondhand shop
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Sexual Healing
Gear costume: Midnight Lady
Active compensatory factors: This was Gaye's final album - tragically, he was killed two years later by his father.
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Sexual Healing
Gear costume: Midnight Lady
Active compensatory factors: This was Gaye's final album - tragically, he was killed two years later by his father.
I am partial to themed albums like this. Moby's Last Night and Taylor Swift's Midnights also take a look at the same time period - midnight to dawn.
Unlike those albums, but like Gaye's Let's Get It On, Midnight Love centres on the more sexual exploits of night time. Hey - it's Marvin!
Being 1982, and as Marvin had just signed with CBS, he wanted to get away from his Motown sound, so there are drum machines, and eighties synths to modernise the sound. BTW, even the CBS label had a make-over for the bright new decade. It also looks slightly suss in hindsight.
What hasn't changed is Marvin's beautiful vocal ability. He has such a great God-given voice.
The material is good and suited to the dance floor. Although Sexual Healing dominates, there are some cool brass driven tracks like Joy and Midnight Lady that lift the mood of the album. Hard not to dance to those!
Where do they all belong? I've owned this album a few times and sold it a few times, but it keeps coming back, so it'll stay.
Where do they all belong? I've owned this album a few times and sold it a few times, but it keeps coming back, so it'll stay.
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