A Funky Space Reincarnation

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“A Funky Space Reincarnation”

Single by Marvin Gaye

B-side

A Funky Space Reincarnation, Pt. 2

Released

February 11, 1979

Format

7" single; 12" single

Recorded

Marvin's Room, Los Angeles, California, USA, 1977

Genre

Funk

Length

8:17

Marvin Gaye

Marvin Gaye

Marvin Gaye singles chronology

"Pops, We Love You" (w/Diana Ross, Smokey Robinson and Stevie Wonder)
(1978)

"A Funky Space Reincarnation"
(1979)

"Anger"
(1979)

"A Funky Space Reincarnation" is a 1978 funk single recorded and released in 1979 by Marvin Gaye on the Tamla label.

The only American release of Gaye's post-divorce album, Here, My Dear, the song was one of the few upbeat tracks recorded on the mostly moody and introspective album.

In this song, which ran for over eight minutes and seventeen seconds, Marvin described a parallel universe where in the future, he's a captain of a "space bed" and he meets a woman that reminds him of his first wife, Anna.

He then tells the woman that they'd probably get "married in June" and tells her to "smoke a joint from out of Venus".

The song, like many of the tracks on Here, My Dear, doesn't have a distinctive melody, hook or a chorus and was obviously inspired by the likes of funk musicians such as Parliament-Funkadelic and Earth, Wind & Fire.

The song became a modest hit on the R&B charts, where it peaked at number twenty-three there. Marvin cut his very first music video with this song where surrounded by his band and a trio of sexy female dancers, he danced and lip-synched the song in a flashy red outfit.

The song has been recently used in the advert for the Dior perfume J'adore starring Charlize Theron.