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General => General Music Discussion => Topic started by: KevShmev on February 20, 2020, 08:27:14 PM
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I know there has to be some fans here.
I have to be in the right mood for this kind of stuff, but he has some great stuff. I remember seeing a rendition of Living for the City like 20 years on VH1 Classic and being amazed at how great it was (I was only familiar with a few of his hits prior to that). I eventually got Innervisions, the studio album it is from, which is really damn good. I eventually got Talking Book as well, which is mostly very good. And I just got my hands on his double album classic, Songs in the Key of Life, which sounds loaded with good tunes.
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His '74 album Fulfillingness' First Finale is a great one as well. The two other ones I dig quite a bit are Music of My Mind (from '72) and Hotter Than July ('80).
Stevie is my idol. I don't use that word, nor the g-word that follows, lightly. He is a rare kind of musical genius, a composer/multi-instrumentalist extraordinare. His music exhumes heart and soul.
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I know there has to be some fans here.
I have to be in the right mood for this kind of stuff, but he has some great stuff. I remember seeing a rendition of Living for the City like 20 years on VH1 Classic and being amazed at how great it was (I was only familiar with a few of his hits prior to that). I eventually got Innervisions, the studio album it is from, which is really damn good. I eventually got Talking Book as well, which is mostly very good. And I just got my hands on his double album classic, Songs in the Key of Life, which sounds loaded with good tunes.
Innervisions and SITKOL are my alltime favourites by him (both in general and in the context of his classic album series, which is what I consider is starting from Music Of My Mind up until Hotter Than July.), I'll mention this album on my thread as well. Great songs all around. One of my heroes. (although admittedly, I rarely listen to him nowadays)
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Not really a fan, which means I never bought any of his albums. However, I can still appreciate everything I heard on the radio. :tup
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I have Innervisions and Songs in the Key of Life. Both magnificent albums.
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Stevie Wonder is an artist I sorely need to listen to. I love everything I've heard, but have never heard a full album. I'm going to play Songs in the Key of Life tonight and get back to this thread.
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Innervisions is a fab album.
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I think Superstition is a GREAT song, and I think there's another one of his songs from that same era that I've heard and liked. But the stuff I heard on MTV in the early/mid-80s was awful.
The stuff he did with Eddie Murphy on SNL (e.g., "Cottonland") was AWESOME!
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saw him perform the complete Songs in the Key of Life back in 2015 with my wife.
Epic show :tup :tup
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One of the all-time greats! He had a run there from Music Of My Mind to Hotter Than July (maybe except the "Journey Through The Secret Life of Plants" soundtrack) that is hard for anyone to top.
His last album "A Time To Love" had some strong songs on it but also some not so great.
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Sir Duke is a fucking master class.
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Sir Duke is a fucking master class.
which might actually be an understatement (and IMHO, As is as well, including Herbie Hancock's solo in it)
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Fulfillingness' First Finale and Music of My Mind are next on my list to get, as I've heard that 1972-1976 was his peak, and those will be the two albums from that era I still need, but it looks like a few here are extending that through Hotter than July (1980). I will see how these others go and decide how much I want to keep digging. :hat:
I gave Songs in the Key of Life another spin today (eventually, some in the car, some at work), and that record is definitely as good as the hype. Great, great stuff.
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Shaq claims Stevie can see :laugh: :o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoGe0ONhBq8