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Albums similar to What’s Going On

These are the albums most often named alongside Marvin Gaye - What’s Going On by people listing five favorite records. If you are looking for artists similar to Marvin Gaye, this is where their listeners went. Nobody wrote these recommendations and no algorithm guessed at them: every album below is one that a real person put on the same list.

1. Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
2. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
3. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
4. Parliament - Mothership Connection
5. Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
6. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
7. Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
8. Prince - Purple Rain
9. David Bowie - Low
10. Madvillain - Madvillainy
11. Tricky - Maxinquaye
12. The Beatles - Abbey Road
13. Joy Division - Closer
14. Prince - Sign “☮︎” the Times
15. Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
16. Nas - Illmatic
17. Arve Henriksen - Chiaroscuro
18. Crywolf - Cataclasm (Deluxe Twin Disc Edition)
19. Djo - Decide
20. Felt - The Splendour of Fear
21. Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - Greatest Hits
22. Jah Shaka - Jah Shaka meets Aswad in Addis Ababa Studio
23. James Blake - The Colour in Anything
24. Joe Pass - Virtuoso
25. Laura Nyro - Eli & the 13Th Confession
26. Meshuggah - Catch Thirtythree
27. Ravi Shankar - In San Francisco
28. Stevie Wonder - Fulfillingness’ First Finale
29. Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club
30. King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Butterfly 3000

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