Gold: Marvin Gaye

This inclusive set collects all of Marvin Gaye’s important hits and emphasizes other aspects of his music, including his more political turns in the early ’70s. So there’s much here, from the 1962 swelter “Hitch Hike” and the beautiful “Ain’t That Peculiar” to the Tammi Terrell duet “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” and Gaye’s wrenching and career-defining anti-war ballad “What’s Going On.” By the time we reach his 1982 smash “Sexual Healing,” it feels as though we’re on intimate terms with Gaye, with a full understanding of his immense draw and hushed command as a singer, songwriter, producer, and cultural trailblazer.