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Marvin Gaye – I Want You (Vinyl) Original Japanese Pressing
Tamla Motown Records (1976)

4.00 out of 5 based on 1 customer rating
(1 customer review )

$50.00

Rare High Quality 1976 Japanese First Pressing! Vinyl Still In Top Condition! Heavy Grade Cover Includes Insert With Lyrics. The Funk-Fuelled ‘I Want You’ Is Another Essential Marvin Gaye Album!

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SKU: VIP-6309 Categories: Japanese Pressings, Pop, Rarities, Soul / Dance / Reggae Tag: Marvin Gaye
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Rare High Quality 1976 Japanese First Pressing! Vinyl Still In Top Condition! Heavy Grade Cover Includes Insert With Lyrics In English & Notes In Japanese. The Funk-Fuelled ‘I Want You’ Is Another Essential Marvin Gaye Album!

Condition – Vinyl: EXCELLENT! Couple of very light surface marks, which do not affect play at all.

Condition – Cover: EXCELLENT!

Japanese vinyl pressings are highly sought after by audiophiles and collectors, due to their premium sound quality and beautifully presented packaging. The sonic quality of Japanese records is regarded as the best in the world. No wonder all the original Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab records were pressed in Japan! The covers are printed on better quality heavy stock paper too. Nice condition original Japanese pressings are becoming scarcer ~ and therefore more collectable and valuable every year.

Side 1:
I Want You (Vocal)
Come Live With Me Angel
After The Dance (Instrumental)
Feel All My Love Inside
I Wanna Be Where You Are

Side 2:
I Want You (Intro Jam)
All The Way Around
Since I Had You
Soon I’ll Be Loving You Again
I Want You (Intro Jam)
After The Dance (Vocal)

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Japan

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EX / EX

Format

LP

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1 review for Marvin Gaye – I Want You (Vinyl) Original Japanese Pressing
Tamla Motown Records (1976)

  1. geoffofdunnlirium@hotmail.com
    4 out of 5

    AMG – November 27, 2018

    Decades later this still reverberate with class, sincerity, grace, intense focus, and astonishingly good taste. I Want You is as necessary as anything Gaye ever recorded. 4 ½ Stars I Want You, while it a Top Ten smash for Marvin Gaye in 1976, is not as generally as well-known as its predecessors for several reasons. First, it marked a sharp change in direction, leaving his trademark Motown soul for lush, funky, breezy disco. Secondly, its subject matter is as close to explicit as pop records got in 1976. Third, Gaye hadn't recorded in nearly three years and critics were onto something else -- exactly what, in retrospect is anybody's guess. From the amazing Ernie Barnes cover painting "Back to Sugar Shack" to the Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson string and horn arrangements to Leon Ware's exotic production that relied on keyboards as well as drums and basses as rhythm instruments, I Want You was a giant leap for Gaye. The feel of the album was one of late-night parties in basements and small clubs, and the intimacy of the music evokes the image of people getting closer as every hour of a steamy night wears on. But the most astonishing things about I Want You are its intimacy (it was dedicated to and recorded in front of Gaye's future second wife, Jan), silky elegance, and seamless textures. Gaye worked with producer Leon Ware, who wrote all of the original songs on the album and worked with Gaye to revise them, thus lending Gaye a co-writing credit. The title track is a monster two-step groover with hand percussion playing counterpoint to the strings and horns layered in against a spare electric guitar solo, all before Gaye begins to sing on top of the funky backbeat. It's a party anthem to be sure, and one that evokes the vulnerability that a man in love displays when the object of his affection is in plain sight. Art Stewart's engineering rounds off all the edges and makes Gaye's already sweet crooning instrument into the true grain in the voice of seductive need. "Feel All My Love Inside" and "I Want to Be Where You Are" are anthems to sensuality with strings creeping up under Gaye's voice as the guitars move through a series of chunky changes and drums punctuate his every syllable. In all, the original album is a suite to the bedroom, one in which a man tells his woman all of his sexual aspirations because of his love for her. The entire album has been referenced by everyone from Mary J. Blige to D'Angelo to Chico DeBarge and even Todd Rundgren, who performed the title track live regularly. By the time it is over, the listener should be a blissed-out, brimming container for amorous hunger. I Want You and its companion, Ware's Musical Massage, are the pre-eminent early disco concept albums. They are adult albums about intimacy, sensuality, and commitment, and decades later they still reverberate with class, sincerity, grace, intense focus, and astonishingly good taste. I Want You is as necessary as anything Gaye ever recorded. 4 ½ Stars

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