Motown rocks

What is it about Motown? Which other label has had such a lot of brilliant artists?

Just bought a compilation of 50 Motown songs and nearly all of them are fabulous (dodgy Diana Ross and Boyz II Men ones aside).

Listened to them one after another whilst making my nephew a birthday card and didn't want to skip a single track.

Some of my favourite songs of all time are Motown:
Heard it through the grapevine - Marvin Gaye
Money - Barrett Strong
Shop around - The Miracles
Do you love me - The Contours.

Amazing.