Marvin Gaye - "What's Going On" label_Rostrum Records But A Tribe Called Quest

But A Tribe Called Quest may have been even stronger

silver-lining song "When It Rains It Pours" and the poignant part-love letter

Preceded by the singles "Happiness" and "Son of Sam"

Williams employed a live-on-the-floor production ethic that not only had the musicians playing together-a relative rarity on major label rock recordings-but playing without the isolation/separation that producers use to keep the sound of each instrument from bleeding into the other musicians' microphones

released in 1995

Marvin Gaye - "What's Going On" label_Rostrum Records But A Tribe Called QuestOriginally released in 1971, this album is widely considered to be Marvin Gaye's master work. A social commentary on American life that remains poignant 30 + years later. However, executives were initially dead set against it's release, calling the single "uncommercial". Thankfully the executives eventually relented and the song soon became a huge hit, going down in history as one of the greatest R&B songs of all time.