This is one of my favorite albums by Marvin Gaye, which came at a transitional time for him. After recording several pop influenced songs from Motown during the mid 1960s he was interested in changing music, both harmonically, and lyrically. This album opened up several conversations about the social struggles[…]

When I started exploring the music of Yes, I was very fascinated with the sound of Chris Squire’s bass, which had a really huge sound like an electric guitar. He took the bass to new levels of expression at the time, including counterpoint melodies to complement the vocals, guitars, keyboards,[…]