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Best Stevie Wonder album?

Posted on 10/17/16 at 11:48 am
Posted by ThePTExperience1969
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Apr 2016
13360 posts
Posted on 10/17/16 at 11:48 am
Listened to Stevie's golden age albums last week and was completely blown away by the multi-instrumentalist ability and impeccable singing. Going with Talking Book-that album has everything, the funk, the expressive spirituality, a beautiful closer, the heavenly Stevie vocals and fricking Superstition for crying out loud. Musical perfection comprising a single album.
Posted by SpyBoy
New Orleans
Member since May 2007
940 posts
Posted on 10/17/16 at 12:22 pm to
Kinda hard to choose, honestly. But I wouldn't give it to Songs in the Key of Life even though that might be the most popular choice. I think that album would have been better off as a single LP and trimming some of the more forgettable songs off.

My list in order:

Innervisions
Talking Book
Fulfillingness' First Finale
SITKOL
Posted by The Spleen
Member since Dec 2010
38865 posts
Posted on 10/17/16 at 12:38 pm to
Songs In the Key Of Life


Posted by MorbidTheClown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2015
65675 posts
Posted on 10/17/16 at 12:39 pm to
quote:

SITKOL
Posted by MorbidTheClown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2015
65675 posts
Posted on 10/17/16 at 12:45 pm to
of course the greatest hits album

Track listings[edit]
Disc 1
"Part-Time Lover" (7" single version)
"I Just Called to Say I Love You" (Single version)
"Superstition" (Single version)
"Sir Duke"
"My Cherie Amour"
"I Was Made to Love Her"
"Overjoyed"
"Hey Love"
"Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours)"
"You Are the Sunshine of My Life" (Single version)
"Ribbon in the Sky" (Edited version)
"Master Blaster (Jammin')" (7" single version)
"Living for the City" (Single version)
"Uptight (Everything's Alright)"
"Lately"
"Do I Do"
Disc 2
"Send One Your Love"
"Ebony and Ivory" (with Paul McCartney)
"All I Do"
"That Girl"
"For Your Love" (7" single version)
"I Wish"
"You Will Know" (Radio edit)
"Boogie On Reggae Woman" (Single version)
"Higher Ground" (Single version)
"These Three Words"
"Stay Gold"
"Love Light in Flight"
"Kiss Lonely Good-Bye" (Edited version)
"Hold On to Your Dream"
"Redemption Song"
Posted by Baloo
Formerly MDGeaux
Member since Sep 2003
49645 posts
Posted on 10/17/16 at 1:16 pm to
Songs in the Key of Life, though i won't argue with an Innervisions partisan.
Posted by SpyBoy
New Orleans
Member since May 2007
940 posts
Posted on 10/17/16 at 1:26 pm to
quote:

of course the greatest hits album


booooooo
Posted by MorbidTheClown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2015
65675 posts
Posted on 10/17/16 at 1:27 pm to
i wasn't really voting for that...just posting a track list for fun..

my vote went to "songs in the key of life".
Posted by SpyBoy
New Orleans
Member since May 2007
940 posts
Posted on 10/17/16 at 1:33 pm to
fair enough.

That track list reminds me of a great scene from High Fidelity: NSFW - language
Posted by Larry
Collierville, TN
Member since Jul 2004
5454 posts
Posted on 10/17/16 at 2:22 pm to
Songs in the Key of Life
Posted by TFTC
Chicago, Il
Member since May 2010
22266 posts
Posted on 10/17/16 at 2:34 pm to
quote:

ngs In the Key Of Life
Posted by Thurber
NWLA
Member since Aug 2013
15402 posts
Posted on 10/17/16 at 2:58 pm to
songs in the key of life
Posted by ThePTExperience1969
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Apr 2016
13360 posts
Posted on 10/17/16 at 8:55 pm to
Seems like Songs In the Key of Life is the consensus "best" Stevie album. It's a solid album and sets a great standard for subsequent albums released by people like Prince and Michael Jackson. Just always felt the preceding 3 albums, particularly Talking Book, evoked such great passion and emotion as well as kept the listener engaged with the flow of their contained tracks moreso. Songs definitely deserves to be among the great double-albums in history though.
This post was edited on 10/17/16 at 8:56 pm
Posted by SpyBoy
New Orleans
Member since May 2007
940 posts
Posted on 10/17/16 at 9:48 pm to
Yea that's exactly what I was saying

SITKOL is to stevie wonder what kind of blue is to jazz. The solid, accessible album that's easy to call "the best."

And believe me, I love that album too, but it isn't his best work.
Posted by Big Chipper
Charlotte, NC
Member since Sep 2008
2767 posts
Posted on 10/18/16 at 6:01 am to
Innervisions by far.
Posted by bleeng
The Woodlands
Member since Apr 2013
4061 posts
Posted on 10/18/16 at 11:21 am to
IMO:
Innervisions
Music of my Mind
Talking Book
Fufillingness' First Finale
This post was edited on 10/31/16 at 5:47 pm
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