"Oil wasted on the ocean and upon our seas, fish full of mercury..."

The guy truly was a prophet. Nearly 40 years on and the shit's more magnified than it probably was in 1971.

Timmy84 said:

The guy truly was a prophet. Nearly 40 years on and the shit's more magnified than it probably was in 1971.

I was just sitting here earlier tonight playing a few oldies; Shuggie Otis, The Main Ingedient, some Con Funk Shun, when I got to Marvin Gaye's "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology", and the line came by me about "...oil wasted on the ocean...", and I thought about the Gulf Coast today. It was such a trip because what Marvin was singing about back then is going on still!

PDogz said:

Timmy84 said:

The guy truly was a prophet. Nearly 40 years on and the shit's more magnified than it probably was in 1971.

I was just sitting here earlier tonight playing a few oldies; Shuggie Otis, The Main Ingedient, some Con Funk Shun, when I got to Marvin Gaye's "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology", and the line came by me about "...oil wasted on the ocean...", and I thought about the Gulf Coast today. It was such a trip because what Marvin was singing about back then is going on still!

Exactly. All the topics he discussed in that album is going on even more so.

Timmy84 said:

PDogz said:

I was just sitting here earlier tonight playing a few oldies; Shuggie Otis, The Main Ingedient, some Con Funk Shun, when I got to Marvin Gaye's "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology", and the line came by me about "...oil wasted on the ocean...", and I thought about the Gulf Coast today. It was such a trip because what Marvin was singing about back then is going on still!

Exactly. All the topics he discussed in that album is going on even more so.

Yeah it's so funny that many of the themes and topics that were brought up in the What's Going On album are somehow more relevant now as they were 39 years ago. I mean nearly every song on that album is a reflection of what is going on in both this country and the world today. Marvin definitely had created something of a revolution when he started doing things his own way back in the day. Not too many artists can convey feelings, emotions or experiences today like he did.

silverchild said:

Timmy84 said:

Exactly. All the topics he discussed in that album is going on even more so.

Yeah it's so funny that many of the themes and topics that were brought up in the What's Going On album are somehow more relevant now as they were 39 years ago. I mean nearly every song on that album is a reflection of what is going on in both this country and the world today. Marvin definitely had created something of a revolution when he started doing things his own way back in the day. Not too many artists can convey feelings, emotions or experiences today like he did.

...and as I had always heard it, he took a real risk making a record like that at the time, but he felt strongly about the message. But again, that part about the oil in the ocean really blew me away. Not that I hadn't heard it a million times before, but right now it makes Marvin's record seem just so much more relevant (and fresh).