The Soulful Moods Of Marvin Gaye (Audio CD)

   This is an amazingly bad sounding CD. I don't care if it's a budget CD or not, but all of the tracks are not mono; they horribly electronically rechanneled to simulate stereo, and it sounds like I can hear turntable rumble at the start of each song, making it dubbed from a disc.This is an early Motown album, and of course, it was probably recorded in mono, but there's no excuse for such a lousy sounding CD, regardless of its pricepoint.Musically, of course, this is well before Marvin Gaye got his 'groove on', so it's mostly turgid ballads. Not as jazzy I thought it might be.So, musically it's 3 or 4 stars, but sonically it's 0 or 1 star. If you want it, I'd proceed cautiously.