Editing Let's Get It On (section)

== Critical reception ==
{{Music ratings
| title = Retrospective professional reviews
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref name="Ankeny"/>
| rev2 = ''[[Chicago Tribune]]''
| rev2Score = {{Rating|4|4}}<ref name="Kot">{{cite news|last=Kot|first=Greg|author-link=Greg Kot|date=July 22, 1994|page=4|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/283783667|title=Gaye Is Still What's Goin' On Massive Motown Reissue Celebrates Singer's Lasting Legacy|newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]|access-date=February 5, 2017|id={{ProQuest|283783667}} |url-access=subscription }}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|Christgau's Record Guide]]''
| rev3Score = A−<ref>{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the '70s|publisher=[[Da Capo Press]]|isbn=0306804093|chapter=Marvin Gaye: ''Let's Get It On''|chapter-url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=2283|access-date=September 10, 2016}}</ref> 
| rev4 = ''[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev4Score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|year=2011|title=[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]|publisher=[[Omnibus Press]]|edition=5th|isbn=978-0857125958|chapter=Marvin Gaye}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[The Great Rock Discography]]''
| rev5Score = 9/10<ref>{{cite book |last1=Strong |first1=Martin C. |title=The Great Rock Discography |date=2004 |publisher=Canongate |location=New York |page=588 |ol=18807297M |edition=7th}}</ref>
| rev6 = [[Music Story]]
| rev6Score = {{Rating|5|5}}{{CN|date=December 2023}}
| rev7 = ''[[MusicHound|MusicHound R&B]]''
| rev7Score = 4/5<ref>{{cite book|chapter=Marvin Gaye|editor1-first=Gary|editor1-last=Graff|editor-link1=Gary Graff|editor2-first=Josh Freedom|editor2-last=du Lac|editor3-first=Jim|editor3-last=McFarlin|year=1998|title=MusicHound R&B: The Essential Album Guide|publisher=[[Visible Ink Press]]|isbn=1578590264|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/musichoundrbesse00graf}}</ref>
| rev8 = ''[[The New Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev8Score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref name="Hoard">Hoard, Christian (ed.) [https://books.google.com/books?id=lRgtYCC6OUwC&pg=PA324&dq= "Marvin Gaye"]. ''The New Rolling Stone Album Guide'': 324–325. November 2, 2004.</ref>
| rev9 = ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]''
| rev9Score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref name="Qmag">{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Q (magazine)|Q]]|title=Review|page=120|date=August 2003}}</ref>
| rev10 = ''[[Tom Hull – on the Web]]''
| rev10Score = B+<ref>{{cite web|last=Hull|first=Tom|authorlink=Tom Hull (critic)|date=n.d.|url=https://tomhull.com/ocston/nm/get_gl.php?n=Marvin+Gaye|title=Grade List: Marvin Gaye|website=Tom Hull – on the Web|access-date=May 14, 2021}}</ref>
}}
''Let's Get It On'' received positive reviews from music critics. ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' called it "fine in terms of vocal attack and material [...] touches on the excellent in terms of instrumental support", while citing the title track and "Distant Lover" as the album's best recordings.<ref name=seventies/> Jon Landau of ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' found Gaye's performance on-par with that of ''What's Going On'' and wrote that "he continues to transmit that same degree of intensity, sending out near cosmic overtones while eloquently phrasing the sometimes simplistic lyrics".<ref name="Landau"/> Although he viewed that it "lacks that album's series of highpoints", Landau commented that "it ebbs and flows, occasionally threatening to spend itself on an insufficiency of ideas, but always retrieved, just in time, by Gaye's performance. From first note to last, he keeps pushing and shoving, and if he sometimes takes one step back for every two ahead, he gets there just the same — and with style and spirit to spare".<ref name="Landau"/> In ''[[Creem]]'' magazine, [[Robert Christgau]] called the record "post-[[Al Green]] ''What's Going On'', which means it's about fucking rather than the human condition, thank the wholly holey".<ref name="Christgau">Christgau, Robert (December 1973). [http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/crm7312.php Consumer Guide: ''Let's Get It On'']. ''[[Creem]]''. Retrieved on 2011-01-29.</ref>

Since its initial reception, ''Let's Get It On'' has been viewed by writers as a milestone in soul music.<ref name="Hoard"/> In ''The Best Rock 'n' Roll Records of All Time'', Jimmy Guterman writes that the album was "a bit more conventional musically (soul crossing into mild funk) and much more focused lyrically than its predecessor, ''What's Going On''".<ref name=seventies/> ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' writer [[Greg Kot]] commended Gaye for using "the multi-tracked vocals perfected on {{'}}''What's Going On''{{'}}, this time to convey his most intimate desires", commenting that "while the album is replete with erotic imagery, both implied and explicit, it is also as much preoccupied with distance and unfulfilled need".<ref name="Kot"/> Jason Ankeny of [[Allmusic]] called it "a record unparalleled in its sheer sensuality and carnal energy", writing that "Gaye's passions reach their boiling point [...] With each performance laced with innuendo, each lyric a come-on, and each rhythm throbbing with lust, perhaps no other record has ever achieved the kind of sheer erotic force of ''Let's Get It On''".<ref name="Ankeny"/> Ankeny also dubbed it "one of the most sexually charged albums ever recorded."<ref name=bio>Ankeny, Jason. [http://www.allmusic.com/artist/marvin-gaye-p4344/biography allmusic  Marvin Gaye - Biography ]. All Media Guide, LLC. Retrieved on 2008-08-17.</ref> Allmusic's Lindsay Planer cites it as a "hedonistic R&B masterpiece."<ref name=deluxe/> [[BBC Music]]'s Daryl Easlea found Gaye "in supreme command of his material", and viewed it as "much more than an album about simple lust", but an "iconic, rapturous work".<ref>Easlea, Daryl (August 26, 2009). [https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/5crg Review: ''Let's Get It On'']. [[BBC Music]]. Retrieved on 2011-01-29.</ref>

=== Accolades ===
Much like ''What's Going On'', ''Let's Get It On'' has been included in professional lists of the best albums. It was ranked number 58 on ''[[The Times]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s 1993 publication of the 100 Best Albums of All Time.<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://archive.today/20120526235645/http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/times100.htm The Times All Time Top 100 Albums - 1993]}}. Rocklist. Retrieved on 2008-08-17.</ref> ''[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]]'' magazine ranked the album number 15 on its list of the 100 Greatest American Albums of All Time.{{CN|date=December 2023}} In 2003, it was ranked number 165 on ''[[Rolling Stone]]''{{'}}s [[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|500 Greatest Albums of All Time]] publication;<ref name=RS>{{cite magazine| url= https://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6599121/165_lets_get_it_on| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070527144802/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6599121/165_lets_get_it_on| url-status= dead| archive-date= May 27, 2007| title= 500 Greatest Albums of All Time: 165) Let's Get It On| magazine= Rolling Stone| access-date= 2008-08-17}}</ref> the 2020 edition of the list ranked it 422nd.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=2020-09-22|title=The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/|access-date=2021-05-11|magazine=Rolling Stone|language=en-US}}</ref> Also in 2003,  ''Let's Get It On'' was reissued by [[Universal Music]]; the re-release was later given a silver [[Music recording sales certification|certification]] by the [[British Phonographic Industry]].<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.bpi.co.uk/certified-awards/search.aspx| title=Certified Awards| publisher=[[British Phonographic Industry]]| access-date=September 26, 2016| archive-date=August 1, 2017| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170801142929/http://www.bpi.co.uk/certified-awards/Search.aspx| url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2004, ''Let's Get It On'' was inducted into the [[Grammy Hall of Fame Award|Grammy Hall of Fame]] and cited by [[The Recording Academy]] as a recording of "historical significance".<ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.grammy.org/recording-academy/awards/hall-of-fame#l |website= Grammy.com |title= Hall of Fame inductees| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110122042616/http://www.grammy.org/recording-academy/awards/hall-of-fame#l |archive-date= January 22, 2011 |publisher= The Recording Academy| access-date= 2008-08-13}}</ref>

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! Publication
! Country
! Accolade
! Year
! Rank
|-
| Bill Shapiro
|rowspan=14|United States
| The Top 100 Rock Compact Discs{{CN|date=December 2023}}
| 1991
| align="center"|*
|-
| ''[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]]''
| The 100 Greatest American Albums of All time{{CN|date=December 2023}}
| 2002
| align="center"|15
|-
| [[Dave Marsh]] & Kevin Stein
| The 40 Best of Album Chartmakers by Year{{CN|date=December 2023}}
| 1981
| align="center"|6
|-
| [[Elvis Costello]] (''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]'', Issue No. 483)
| 500 Albums You Need{{CN|date=December 2023}}
| 2005
| align="center"|*
|-
| [[Infoplease|Infoplease.com]]
| Must-Have Recordings{{CN|date=December 2023}}
| 1998
| align="center"|*
|-
| Jimmy Guterman
| The 100 Best Rock and Roll Records of All Time{{CN|date=December 2023}}
| 1992
| align="center"|27
|-
| ''[[Kitsap Sun]]''
| Top 200 Albums of the Last 40 Years{{CN|date=December 2023}}
| 2005
| align="center"|67
|-
| [[Paul Gambaccini]]
| The World Critics Best Albums of All Time{{CN|date=December 2023}}
| 1987
| align="center"|84
|-
| [[The Recording Academy]]
| [[Grammy Hall of Fame|Grammy Hall of Fame Albums and Songs]]{{CN|date=December 2023}}
| 2004
| align="center"|*
|-
| Robert Dimery
| ''[[1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die]]''{{CN|date=December 2023}}
| 2005
| align="center"|*
|-
| ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' ([[Steve Pond]])
| Steve Pond's 50 (+27) Essential Albums of the 70s{{CN|date=December 2023}}
| 1990
| align="center"|39
|-
|rowspan=2|''Rolling Stone''
|rowspan=2|[[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|500 Greatest Albums of All Time]]{{CN|date=December 2023}}
| 2003
| align="center"|165
|-
| 2020
| align="center"|422
|-
| ''[[Vibe (magazine)|Vibe]]''
| 51 Albums representing a Generation, a Sound and a Movement{{CN|date=December 2023}}
| 2004
| align="center"|*
|-
| ''[[Hot Press (magazine)|Hot Press]]''
| align="center"|Ireland
| The 100 Best Albums of All Time{{CN|date=December 2023}}
| 1989
| align="center"|32
|-
| ''[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]]''
|rowspan=8|United Kingdom
| Mojo 1000, the Ultimate CD Buyers Guide{{CN|date=December 2023}}
| 2001
| align="center"|*
|-
| ''[[NME]]''
| All Times Top 100 Albums{{CN|date=December 2023}}
| 1985
| align="center"|46
|-
| ''NME''
| All Times Top 100 Albums + Top 50 by Decade{{CN|date=December 2023}}
| 1993
| align="center"|145
|-
| ''[[The New Nation]]''
| Top 100 Albums by Black Artists{{CN|date=December 2023}}
| 2005
| align="center"|27
|-
| ''[[Sounds (magazine)|Sounds]]''
| The 100 Best Albums of All Time{{CN|date=December 2023}}
| 1986
| align="center"|24
|-
| ''[[The Times]]''
| The 100 Best Albums of All Time{{CN|date=December 2023}}
| 1993
| align="center"|58
|-
| ''[[Time Out (company)|Time Out]]''
| The 100 Best Albums of All Time{{CN|date=December 2023}}
| 1989
| align="center"|3
|-
| ''[[The Wire (magazine)|The Wire]]''
| The 100 Most Important Records Ever Made{{CN|date=December 2023}}
| 1992
| align="center"|*
|-
| [[Adresseavisen]]
| align="center"|Norway
| The 100 (+23) Best Albums of All Time{{CN|date=December 2023}}
| 1995
| align="center"|101
|-
| ''Pop''
| align="center"|Sweden
| The World's 100 Best Albums + 300 Complements{{CN|date=December 2023}}
| 1994
| align="center"|101
|-
| [[OOR]]
| align="center"|Netherlands
| Albums of the Year{{CN|date=December 2023}}
| 1973
| align="center"|41
|-
| [[VPRO]]
| align="center"|Netherlands
| 299 Nominations of the Best Album of All Time{{CN|date=December 2023}}
| 2006
| align="center"|*
|-
| ''[[Spex (magazine)|Spex]]''
| align="center"|Germany
| The 100 Albums of the Century{{CN|date=December 2023}}
| 1999
| align="center"|93
|-
|rowspan=2|''Rock de Lux''
|rowspan=2|Spain
| The 100 Best Albums of the 1970s{{CN|date=December 2023}}
| 1988
| align="center"|39
|-
| The 200 Best Albums of All Time{{CN|date=December 2023}}
| 2002
| align="center"|53
|-
|align="center" colspan="7" style="font-size: 8pt"| (*) designates lists that are unordered.
|-
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