This was a bit of a joke: time, in any case, has made this song something of a laughingstock. Audiences don't even laugh anymore when the inept seducer in some comedy puts the song on the stereo to woo his partner into bed. When Jack Black sang it in High Fidelity, "Let's Get It On" was already dead and buried.
So, I'm not sure what it's doing on this list. It certainly moved me, at some point in time -- the horns, the oohs, "We are sensitive people." Gaye will at least always be remembered for his epic What's Going On album and for "Got To Give It Up," which is the song more deserving to be here.
This comment is less than incisive. Let's Get it On is the perfect expression of its era; it's not just about seduction, it's about change and action. Love, of course, WAS action. (Otherwise Marvin wouldn't have bothered to comment that "we're all sensitive people.") It was a flawed generation, but at least we tried to get it on.
Posted by: Ken Chowder on March 23, 2004 02:03 AM