Wii U Game Reviews: Super Mario 3D World (Review)

I posted this on my Wii U Review Blog. I am having a ton of fun playing these games and writing these reviews. If you’ve read any of my game reviews for The Nintendo 64 Museum, you’ll know I write those in a sort of stuffy, formal, fussy form, as I try to treat that

Marvin Gaye — Midnight Love

9/10 All of Marvin Gaye’s introspection on the nature of good and evil inside himself found within the album, In Our Lifetime, gives me a headache. I think those lyrics are a sign of Marvin’s increasingly troubled mental state at the time. He would only release one more album before his death. Midnight Love is

Marvin Gaye — In Our Lifetime

7/10 Marvin Gaye’s penultimate album, In Our Lifetime, is an absolute mess. Fittingly, Marvin’s personal life was an absolute mess, as well. Both of his marriages had failed, and due to his crippling cocaine habit, he was short on cash. This made him even more insufferable, as while his reliability decreased inversely with his mooching

Marvin Gaye — Here, My Dear

8/10 People didn’t know what to make of Marvin Gaye’s Here, My Dear in 1978, so they panned it. People don’t know what to make of it now, so they praise it. Here, My Dear is Marvin’s oddball record, an 80-minute concept album about his divorce from his first wife, Anna. Five songs top the

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Marvin Gaye — I Want You

9/10 Let’s get the bad out of the way first: the moaning. Three songs on Marvin Gaye’s I Want You feature a woman moaning ecstatically. While throwing moaning sounds into “You Sure Love to Ball,” the penultimate track on Gaye’s previous album, Let’s Get It On, worked, the three attempts to better songs with it

Marvin Gaye — Let’s Get It On

10/10 In high school, I had a pretty good intro to any question any teacher ever had for me about mankind, or people in general: “Well, we’re all sensitive people, with so much to give…” I thought it was brilliant, but for some reason, none of the kids in my class got the joke. Starting

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Marvin Gaye – Trouble Man

7/10 There’s a scene in the most recent Captain America film (at the time of this writing, the second one), where a certain character tells a recently reawakened Cap that all he needs to do to catch up on what he missed is listen to Marvin Gaye’s soundtrack for the film Trouble Man. That’s silly.

Marvin Gaye — What’s Going On

10/10 As I mentioned in the intro to this series of Marvin Gaye reviews, What’s Going On was my first foray into the more serious side of Marvin Gaye’s music. After I spent years using lyrics from “What’s Going On” and “Sexual Healing” in inappropriate situations, David Ritz’s incredible Marvin Gaye biography, Divided Soul, convinced