在一张伟大的What's Going On之后，Mavin Gaye似乎就像很多退伍的越战老兵一样颓废了下来。大师明确表态不再对政治发表见解。他要把精力放在男女性爱上。同样经典的Lets Get It On诞生了。 这张LP里8首格的标题都很sexy, 首推的还是标题作品。Marvin一上来就把他的欲望燃烧到了沸点。如此挑逗的单曲卖出了4百万张的销量。与之相辉映的是You Sure Love To Ball。 Mavin得演绎可谓如丝一样顺滑。他把男女的性唱成了爱。枕边语式的Slow Jam让人飘飘然。到了结尾，大师还不忘后戏，Just To Keep You Satisfied无疑是现在很多喜欢情色主题的歌手需要学习的。千万不要草草了事。 情色的主题显得不够伟大，但是Slow Jams的风格给日后10年的R&B的发展以很好的蓝本。另外，此张专辑也是Quiet Storm曲风的鼻祖。Smokey Robinson1975年的Quiet Storm正是受了Let's Get It On唱腔的启发。 So, Remember it and Let's Get It On。。。。。。。。。。

It starts with a sunrise, it ends with "one star shining," and in between Closing Time contains an honest year's worth (1973, to be exact) of sweet, melodic, vintage Tom Waits--minus some of the vocal growl and thematic grit of his later stuff (but you can see it coming). Waltzes, lullabies, blues, jazz, you name it. Driving songs and drinking songs, even an honest to gosh country tune: "Rosie." There are torchers ("Lonely"), scorchers ("Ice Cream Man"), and back-porch senior citizen love songs ("Martha"): "Those were the days of roses/Poetry and prose, and/Martha, all I had was you and all you had was me." Other standouts are "I Hope That I Don't Fall in Love with You" (guess what--he does!) and "Grapefruit Moon," in which Waits croons: "Every time I hear that melody, something breaks inside." Hang on to your hearts and hats, folks. --Dan Leone