Talk:In Our Lifetime (Marvin Gaye album)

Reception
In the reception section it detracts by presenting how Mr. Gaye himself felt about the work, and then never goes on to say what sort of criticisms or praises might have been made. It merely says that it had been forgotten. On--APDEF (talk) 16:08, 21 May 2011 (UTC)e would think an encyclopedic entry about a work of art would have some mention of its strengths and weaknesses. A bit more than the chart position is in order. I think.

With the reception of both projects, Marvin was the main critic. Love Man was like a sequel to the blithe and confusion of Here, My Dear and Gaye in his state probably didn't have enough ideas to generate a thematic album. The Odyssey Studios mixes made more sense but I guess Motown was angry about 'Love Man' being the third project he aborted.In Our Lifetime would have become even more successful if Motown executives hadn't been so handsy but I guess they might stolen the tape as retaliation for how much time he spent off the music market. The Odyssey Studios Mix makes more sense with its intros and overdubs, like the sound affects for Love Me Now or love Me Later or Heavy Love Affair; if those had been submitted rather than the clicky remakes, the album maybe would have been esteemed like a Prince album. Motown was always very controlling of the content in their artist's albums (Berry Gordy especially, who initially rejected What's Going On), despite the fact that the Love Man album contained sexually awkward and woosy lyrics, which was nearly unheard of in Here, My Dear. Motown must have not cared about Marvin's trouble and this is a frequent problem in the workplace. Jeez, if Love Man was released Gaye could have suicided that year. An album like that is by drunkards.

I do like how Marvin updated 'Ego Tripping Out' to give it a religious feel and the album would have been 5-star if it had been finished.

Fun fact
Did you know that The Odyssesy Studios Mix is not quite the version that was stolen? The finallyrics for 'Funk Me' were more recently recorded by Marvin and these weren't found in the 1980 mix. Mrakd002.302 (talk) 13:01, 27 March 2017 (UTC)