I Want You (Remastered) Marvin Gaye

• 1 I Want You 04:34
• 2 Come Live With Me Angel 06:29
• 3 After The Dance 04:25
• 4 Feel All My Love Inside 03:23
• 5 I Wanna Be Where You Are 01:20
• 6 I Want You 00:20
• 7 All The Way Around 03:51
• 8 Since I Had You 04:04
• 9 Soon I'll Be Loving You Again 03:14
• 10 I Want You 01:41
• 11 After The Dance 04:37
• Total Runtime 37:58

Info for I Want You (Remastered)

Another in a series of superb wandering groove albums from the premier sweet soul singer. He took the standard three-minute pop soul song and expanded the format. It is Gaye that is responsible for today's smooching urban R&B; he was for much of his career many years ahead of the game. This has been described as his 'oral sex' album, not that the others were not; this has the erotic edge. Built around the title track, the album is a theme album and as such should be played as a whole. There are no 'Too Busy Thinking Bout My Baby's' on this; it is a much more challenging but satisfying work.

„I Want You, while it was a Top Ten smash for Marvin Gaye in 1976, is not as generally well-known as its predecessors for a number of reasons. First, it marked a sharp change in direction, leaving his trademark Motown soul for lush, funky, light disco. Secondly, its subject matter is as close to explicit as pop records got in 1976. Third, Gaye hadn't recorded in nearly three years and critics were onto something else -- exactly what is now anybody's guess. From the amazing Ernie Barnes cover painting 'Back to Sugar Shack' to the Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson string and horn arrangements to Leon Ware's exotic production that relied on keyboards as well as drums and basses as rhythm instruments, I Want You was a giant leap for Gaye. The feel of the album was one of late-night parties in basements and small clubs, and the intimacy of the music evokes the image of people getting closer as every hour of a steamy night wears on. But the most astonishing things about I Want You are its intimacy (it was dedicated to and recorded in front of Gaye's future second wife, Jan), silky elegance, and seamless textures. Gaye worked with producer Leon Ware, who wrote all of the original songs on the album and worked with Gaye to revise them, thus lending Gaye a co-writing credit. The title track is a monster two-step groover with hand percussion playing counterpoint to the strings and horns layered in against a spare electric guitar solo, all before Gaye begins to sing on top of the funky backbeat. It's a party anthem to be sure, and one that evokes the vulnerability that a man in love displays when the object of his affection is in plain sight. Art Stewart's engineering rounds off all the edges and makes Gaye's already sweet crooning instrument into the true grain in the voice of seductive need. 'Feel All My Love Inside' and 'I Want to Be Where You Are' are anthems to sensuality with strings creeping up under Gaye's voice as the guitars move through a series of chunky changes and drums punctuate his every syllable. In all, the original album is a suite to the bedroom, one in which a man tells his woman all of his sexual aspirations because of his love for her. The entire album has been referenced by everyone from Mary J. Blige to D'Angelo to Chico DeBarge and even Todd Rundgren, who performed the title track live regularly. By the time it is over, the listener should be a blissed-out container of amorous vibes. I Want You and its companion, Ware's Musical Massage, are the pre-eminent early disco concept albums. They are adult albums about intimacy, sensuality, and commitment, and decades later they still reverberate with class, sincerity, grace, intense focus, and astonishingly good taste. I Want You is as necessary as anything Gaye ever recorded.“ (Thom Jurek, AMG)

Marvin Gaye, vocals
Malvin 'Wah Wah' Ragin, guitar
Ray Parker, Jr, guitar
David T. Walker, guitar
Dennis Coffey, guitar
Jay Graydon, guitar
Sonny Burke, keyboards
John Barnes, keyboards
Jerry Peters, keyboards
Chuck Rainey, bass
Wilton Felder, bass
Ron Brown, bass
Henry Davis, bass
James Gadson, drums
Gary Coleman, percussion
John 'Jack' Arnold, percussion
Bobbye Jean Hall, percussion
Eddie 'Bongo' Brown, percussion

Recorded 1975–76 at Marvin's Room and Hitsville West in Los Angeles
Produced by Marvin Gaye, Leon Ware, Arthur 'T-Boy' Ross

Digitally remastered

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