when was the last time you heard something from 'what's going on?'

Last month, watched that documentary about Marvin and his weirdo father

"he left us a book to believe in
in it we've got a lot to learn."

vs.

"save the babies."

mercy

Heard "What's Going On?" on the repetitive oldies station recently.

me too. on sunday, i think it was.

That station plays "What's Going On?", "Green-Eyed Lady", and "One Way or Another" pretty much every hour, so it's an okay station by me.

it came on straight after 'wichita lineman' too

Late last year. Heard a local rapper sample something I couldn't place right away. Turns out it was the choral part at the end of "Mercy..." The rap wasn't so hot but the sample was very well done. Someone should steal the idea.

yesterday, because the after-work drive-time dude on the local sports talk station always uses "mercy mercy me" as his ending bumper music

I just heard Cyndi Lauper's cover of "What's Going On?" on a Casey Kasem '80s countdown rebroadcast a week or two ago.

It had been 20 years since I'd heard it; I'd completely forgotten about its existence.

my little sis sings several of the cuts off this to me regularly; she sang "What's Happening Brother" to me yesterday.

I ask my cat "Hey baby, what you know good?" all the time.

Listened to the album about one month ago.

I heard the title tune yesterday, when I played it at a DJ gig. That prompted me to listen to the whole album on the way home from the gig, I hadn't really listened it through in ages. I'd totally forgotten how great "Make Me Wanna Holler" is, it's almost as good as the title tune. I still think the album as a whole is overrated though, most of the tunes between the first and the last are kinda formless and samey. (I know they're supposed form a suite or something, but that just emphasizes the sameyness.) In the "best soul album ever" category I think both Curtis and Everything Is Everything beat this one easily.

I listen to it fairly often for bass inspiration. I think the album would be a lot less interesting if it had more standard bass playing.

But I agree that a few Curtis albums are better than any Marvin album.

This inspired me to do a poll:

"Curtis" vs. "What's Going On" vs. "Everything Is Everything" vs. "First Take"

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I agree that the basslines are pretty cool even in the more mediocre tunes.

it's on my ipod and, despite having the entire drive filled up, pops up with surprising frequency.

oo i noticed the bass playing this time through too. some of the songs on this still make tear up. 'mercy mercy me' came on while i was getting soy milk at ralph's last year and i had to compose myself, pathetic.

American Masters documentary on PBS last week.

Can't remember, but I listened to "Ain't That Peculiar" mere hours ago.

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