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Dream of a Lifetime
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by Marvin Gaye
Sales Rank: 1165198
Price:$1.12
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Listener Reviews & Comments
This review is from: Dream of a Lifetime (Audio CD)
Listening to this album is a sad experience, and not the good kind of sad. Basically, this joint release from Columbia and Motown finds both studios attempting to clear out their vaults of some of the previously unreleased material from Marvin. The graphic cuts "Savage In the Sack" and "Masochistic Beauty" are almost uncomfortably lewd, and some claim that Marvin never even intended them for release (they say he just liked to shock visitor to the studio by playing them). The semi-hit "Sanctified Lady" (which strongly peaked at #2 on the R&B chart, but failed to scrape the Hot 100) is less pornographic (even though it's obvious that "lady" was dubbed over "p***y" at the last minute), however, it's also melodically less engaging. There are couple more tracks that are just average ("Symphony," the title track), and one where Marvin rambles on and on but never really says much ("Life's Opera"). The best track is easily the perceptive "It's Madness" (#55 R&B), although "Ain't It Funny" is also a nice groove. However, these tracks could have easily been issued on a better compilation (of which there have been plenty). But the worst thing about DREAM OF A LIFETIME is not the relative poor quality of tracks, but the fact that Columbia and Motown went ahead and released tracks that Marvin had not approved for release - all so they could make a profit off of his death.
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Dream of a Lifetime
by Marvin Gaye
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