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MOTOWN 28723LP
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Reissue, originally released in 1972. 2018 release. "Imamu Amiri Baraka's Pan-African manifesto It's Nation Time -- African Visionary Music, out of print since 1972, repressed in 2018 via Motown/UMe. The spoken-word jazz album, originally released on Motown Records' Black Forum subsidiary, has been repressed on 150g black vinyl with tip-on jacket in a faithful reproduction of the original packaging." "In the liner notes for Amiri Baraka's 1972 album It's Nation Time (Motown-Black Forum), Baraka asserts, 'This recording is an institution.' Recording on the heels of the 1970 Congress of African People, Baraka felt that the establishment of a pan-African nation was paramount, but where ought such a nation to be established? Could a recording be an institution? What does a nation sound like? The album, which received a limited release under Motown's progressive Black Forum label, mixes poetry with free jazz, African drumming, and R&B -- melding together the popular with avant-garde and traditional forms of black music. In doing so, It's Nation Time attempts to re-inflect black life with a proud African ancestry and spirituality... It was a call to action for black people to imagine new futures for themselves -- an album that put into action his ideas about black music and Black Nationalism by creating new black sonic space within the dimensions of the stereo LP." --Jessica E. Teague, from Sound Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal (2015)
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UMG 53426LP
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2016 reissue. Originally released in 1973. 180 gram vinyl. "By the early '70s, Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye were in completely different creative territories. Ross was settling down as a professional diva, while Gaye was pushing his art forward with What's Going On, Trouble Man, and Let's Get It On. What they shared, apart from a mutual admiration, was that they were two of the biggest artists on Motown and that their voices sounded terrific together. So it wasn't entirely surprising that the duo teamed up in 1973 for the Diana & Marvin album. Although the album didn't produce any timeless classics, the results were still very good -- good enough for the record to be one of Ross' best efforts of the era. The highlights are the three singles ('You're a Special Part of Me,' 'My Mistake (Was to Love You),' 'Don't Knock My Love'), but even the weaker tunes are redeemed by the duo's indelible chemistry." --Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music
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UMG 53430LP
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2016 reissue on 180 gram vinyl. "1981's In Our Lifetime served as Marvin Gaye's final album for Motown before leaving for Columbia Records where he cut his last ever record Midnight Love (1982). After scrapping the bedroom funk album Love Man, Marvin changed gears with the more contemplative In Our Lifetime centered around his internal struggles, our brief time on this earth and of course love. Passionate and personal, the criminally underrated In Our Lifetime features a little bit of everything you want from Marvin Gaye and latter day gems like 'Praise,' 'Life Is For Learning' and 'Heavy Love Affair' stand as consummate bookends to his Motown supremacy." --Jason Elias, All Music
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G 965LP
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Exact repro of this 1973 release. Produced by Norman Whitfield and featuring the songs "Hey Girl (I Like Your Style)," "Ma," "Plastic Man," "Masterpiece," "Law Of The Land" and "Hurry Tomorrow."
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GS 931LP
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Exact repro of Starr's 1968 Motown debut. "...arguably his best album; it included both Gordy and Ric Tic singles like 'Agent Double-O-Soul.' It shows that at times, Starr could be as riveting and exciting as any male singer on the soul circuit; he was simply unable to consistently maintain that level." -- All Music Guide
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M 802V1LP
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Exact repro of this 1974 soundtrack to the sequel to Black Caesar. Produced and arranged by Freddie Perren and Fonce Mizell. Includes the gangsta sleazy bassline classic "Easin' In" (featured on Soul Jazz Records' Can You Dig It? compilation), but the pumpin' killer soul and giant blocks of funk on tracks like "Big Papa" and "Runnin'" prove this record's worth in the blaxploitation soundtrack canon.
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G 963LP
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Exact repro reissue, originally released in 1973. Tracks include "Papa Was A Rollin' Stone," "Killing Me Softly With His Song" and -- oh, you're gonna melt -- "Walk On By."
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