4.21.2011

Song 51: Inner City Blues (Make Me Want To Holler), Marvin Gaye

A few songs on the Top 100 Political Music Countdown thus far have a political take on religion and a few songs bring religion into politics. Marvin Gaye's Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) always struck me as beautiful and interesting for its transition from a fighting stance (Oh Make Me Want To Holler) to a position of prayer (God Bless You, And Keep You). Desperate times for desperate people. The Holy and the Profane.