0502. Marvin Gaye
What's Going On

Marvin's back! Just three weeks after we got a hefty dose of his love comes his first solo-produced album which, by all means, was a wholly different thing than on any of his ten previous studio releases.
Coming out of a depression brought on by the death of his long-time friend and singing partner Tammi Terrell, Marvin couldn't bear continuing with the radio-friendly harmless lyrics and had to fight to release this, an album that regularly gets into every new "greatest albums list" that comes along (and of course it's on my list too).

The only song I have a bit of a ambivalent feeling towards is Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology), coincidentally the only one not co-written with anyone else, but it's only because Robert Palmer's soulless cover two decades later. Damn him.
But as for the rest, this is an album with a unified sound. And while some of the tracks sounds eerily similar to others, but still distinct so they won't get mixed up.
Wanting to make a change has probably never sounded better.