"There isn’t much more that can be said about Marvin Gaye’s enduring masterpiece, What’s Going On, that hasn’t already been said. It truly is a perfect, transcendent record. Still, for the principled and discerning music consumer, having a record company try and sell you a third reissue of an album is pretty off-putting. They’ve made this one pretty tantalizing, though, playing up all the right angles and gimmicks; Motown/UMe is cashing in on the recent revival in vinyl fetishism by including a first-ever-vinyl copy of the ultra warm and dry original “Detroit-mix” of What’s Going On, which would later be sweetened up and soaked in reverb when Gaye followed Motown to Los Angeles and released the final version." READ THE FULL REVIEW HERE

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