Protest Songs: Marvin Gaye

Ok so I just wanted to talk about the whole Marvin Gaye album just because I listened to the whole thing and i think its probably one of the most meaningful albums that I've ever heard. I loved like every song, of course I had my favorites (Inner City Blues, What's Going On) but I enjoyed every song overall and it was a lot easier for me to listen to than Dylan. I don't know if it was the easy, lighthearted beats or the simple, powerful lyrics but I felt like I got a lot more out of it that Freewheelin'. I like how he used the ideas of family in almost every song and how most of the songs also had rhetorical questions in them, it made me think about how I would've felt at the time, and how i feel now with our own war going on. I just really thought that these songs are another good way of understanding the feeling of the time period.