Troubleman Soundtrack
gruntgravel
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Has anyone else been surprised with how good this is? I knew Marvin was talented, but Goddamn! The notes say he wrote, arranged and plays the Rhodes on the entire album. Shit, he does'nt really even sing on this at all. 
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I don't remember being surprised at all. Good though.
One of the better ones, an a mystery as to why it has remained unavailale all these years.
this is a stones throw-ish beef.
Rey, got my eye on a record of yours...don't be surprised if you're addressing a package to montreal by the weekend...
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I don't think I've sat with this whole record all the way through but I shall tonight.
Has anybody seen the movie Marvin Gaye was in? It was made in the late 60's (I think) maybe 70 by the latest. It's some biker flick. I only caught some of it on TV but I'd like to check that out.
CHROME & HOT LEATHER (1970) Big, bad William Smith runs a group of renegade bikers
who murder a girl out of stupidity. Turns out her boyfriend is a marine straight out of Vietnam,
and he intends on avenging her death. Cool bikers vs, soldiers flick, complete with Marvin Gaye
as one of the marines.
Sounds like a flick Delay's homegirl would be in.
this made my day,
Rey[/b]: Package is being shipped this Thursday
I was totally suprised too when I got the Trouble Man soundtrack and I always buy it because it's the ideal gift, I think. I was also suprised by Together Brothers by Barry White, which actually is an excellent film. I love that record and it gains meaning and depth when you have watched the film. Did Barry do the arrangements?
I'm chillaxed. I just don't understand what the point was to squabble over something that really had nothing to do with my post. Yes, the record is not ALL instrumental, but the majority of songs are are, and that is unusual as far as his body of work goes. That was the crux of my post, not the fact that troubleman is not a 100% certified and bone fide all instrumental album. Reynaldo came down like a total dick, and I noticed he edited his post to delete the part where he questions whether I have listened to the album. I don???t have time for that type of elitist record snob rhetoric.
I think another big reason he was in Belgium because he was fleeing the IRS.
I wouldn't have been surprised.
Remember, these albums were soundtracks[/b]. I tend to think of albums like this as movie scores FIRST and the artist's album SECOND. Common sense should tell you that these albums weren't going to be typical of the rest of the artist's output. I know that's saying a lot with boundary-pushers like Marvin Gaye who raised the bar with each new album, but even then...
This track was made with a 4 bar tape drumloop instead of live drums,...kinda like hiphop style production but in 1972,....fresh huh!
Remember, these albums were soundtracks. I tend to think of albums like this as movie scores FIRST and the artist's album SECOND. Common sense should tell you that these albums weren't going to be typical of the rest of the artist's output. I know that's saying a lot with boundary-pushers like Marvin Gaye who raised the bar with each new album, but even then...
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Oh...everyone is just so sanctimonious and snug around here.
Nice! This is the kind of shit that I find interesting.
I found my first copy of Trouble Man at a time when I didn't have common sense, probably at the age of 15, so that might explain the initial suprise. I think I was mainly suprised by how good it was, not so much that it wasn't a typical Marvin Gaye record, if such a record exists. But anyway, this movie gave him the opportunity to go out of the song format and explore different moods, as Together Brothers did for Barry White, which is great and I wish it would have happened more.
Sanctimonius, hell[/b] - we just don't agree, is all. Didn't even mean it to be a slam. With all due respect, Grunt, if it's the soundtrack to a movie, I know good and well it's not going to be What's Going On, Part 2. Maybe if it were a stand-alone album without a movie to go along with it, THEN I'd be shocked by that elpee, but let's be real about it!
As creative as Marvin was, I don't think ANY of his albums could be referred to as WGO, Part 2. Or three, or four, or on down the line...
I apologize - I didn't mean to imply that neither you or Grunt didn't have sense. I guess because it's a soundtrack, I'd just come to a record like that with different expectations. Why else would Marvin Gaye share an album cover with actor Calvin Lockhart?
Seriously, though - as we implied above, by the seventies there really was no such thing as a typical Marvin Gaye record, yet the Trouble Man album still manages to surprise.