"Please Stay (Once You Go Away)" by Marvin Gaye, from Let's Get It On.

I cannot get enough...I need help. When he sings

"I won't be able to sleep peacefully in the bed without ya beside me...anymore"

I swear I get weak in the knees like a schoolgirl.

My Marvin obsession is threatening to rival my Prince obsession. One thing about the both of them that just kills me is the way they can take a lyric like the one above, which doesn't really have to be anything special, and sing it in a way that smacks you silly. There are so many examples of both of them singing a lyric that, on paper, is seemingly mundane, but coming out of their mouths it's like a revelation from the stars.

Anyhoo...please show your love for this classic Marvin track.

That's a good one to get stuck on.

Listening to it now.

minneapolisgenius said:

Me too!

Now it's on "Just to Keep You Satisfied."

My all-time favorite vocalist !!

that title always confused me, though,
because that's not what he sings:

"Baby, please stay,
Don't go away...."

paligap said:

I know, me too.

But still...it's Marvin. He could call it "Sniff My Ass, Bitches!" and we'd still be bowing down.

FunkMistress said:

Damn!! I was drinkin' when I read that....gotta go get some napkins!






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paligap said:

Oops.

FunkMistress said:

Very good cut from a very good album. After "What's Goin' On", Marvin really let loose. Marvin and Prince both shared the love/lust parallel which they held up to something spritual. Funk Mistress, u sound like u could have been in the crowd on "Marvin Gaye Live". Listen to the cut "Distant Lover". That has to have the loudest screams and squeals ever recorded on wax for a black man. U can totally hear the love and the lust those women felt for Marvin.

blackguitaristz said:

Definitely, I love the live "Distant Lover." I like it better than the album version; I love the way he was playing off the crowd. They were going absolutely bat-shit for him, and he responded by really playing up the high-drama emotional aspects of the song.

FunkMistress said:

Yep, the live version is better. Marvin had complete control over his audience. He knew what time it was, and it showed there in spades. A lot of cats that wasn't used to that type of buckwildness from women would have booked off of the stage. But Marvin threw down and totally turned it out. I would've hated to have been the cats that had to clean up the arena after that concert, u know what I'm saying?

FunkMistress said:

You've been musically molested by Marvin...



...one of the Master Manipulators of women via song.

tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm

blackguitaristz said:

They probably had to get a bunch of industrial-strength spatulas to pry the panties off the stage and floor.

theAudience said:

I resent that! The whole thing is completely consensual.

FunkMistress said:

Excuse me.

I stand corrected



tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm

Truly a wonderful song - and album.

Marvin rules.....and always will

'Let's Get It On' is my favorite Marvin Gaye album.EVERY track on there is classic Marvin.The song "You Sure Love To Ball" is the sexiest jam of all-time,by any artist!

DavidEye said:

ghadammit u know i love that song

Pretty little sexy baby...

The whole Let's Get It On Album is classic, I never skip a track on that 1.

Marvin is the master.