Stevie Wonder-- C or D?

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It probably would've been better executed had it made just a few years later, but, at the same time, I like it a lot for its messiness. It's not unlike something that would've been on Rundgren's Something/Anything and it has that same breezy "We're just having fun in the studio writing songs. Are we even being recorded? Who cares - btw, somebody tell the engineer to order pizza," tone.

Cunga, Sunday, 29 March 2009 05:45 (fifteen years ago) link

xpost I deserve that

Nurse Detrius (Eric H.), Sunday, 29 March 2009 06:12 (fifteen years ago) link

love love love that whole album.

tahw dna (stevie), Sunday, 29 March 2009 08:42 (fifteen years ago) link

From Talking Book to Songs in the Key of Life Stevie was the man. I can't think of too many musicians that had a better run than he did from 1972 to 76. Even the weaker stuff, like Music of My Mind, would be a career highpoint for most. I don't see how anyone could say dud.

leavethecapital, Sunday, 29 March 2009 12:51 (fifteen years ago) link

six months pass...

i always feel guilty that i don't like stevie wonder that much.

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headroom (max) (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 16 October 2009 20:57 (fourteen years ago) link

u should. sorry. :(

Ømår Littel (Jordan), Friday, 16 October 2009 20:59 (fourteen years ago) link

i don't like stevie wonder i LOVE HIM

it's like a Shark-Cage but for "Your Junk" AKA Your Penis & Balls (stevie), Saturday, 17 October 2009 11:25 (fourteen years ago) link

yeah i know i don't know what's wrong w/me.

i have like talking book and innervisions and songs in the key of life, too, so it's not like i haven't heard "the right albums"

headroom (max) (M@tt He1ges0n), Saturday, 17 October 2009 16:23 (fourteen years ago) link

i wouldn't sweat it too hard matt, you seem like a rockin dude otherwise

it's like a Shark-Cage but for "Your Junk" AKA Your Penis & Balls (stevie), Saturday, 17 October 2009 17:32 (fourteen years ago) link

two months pass...

Could we have a Stevie Wonder albums poll? Please!

krakow, Friday, 15 January 2010 00:15 (fourteen years ago) link

what's stopping you

shake hands with Gongo? (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 15 January 2010 00:16 (fourteen years ago) link

A combination of tiredness right now and a feeling that people don't necessarily like polls as much as me, making me cautious about starting them. I'll do it tomorrow night if it's not shot down or appeared at someone else's hands (feel free, if the urge strikes you, anyone) by then. I'd be very interested to see how the big player albums stack up against each other.

krakow, Friday, 15 January 2010 00:28 (fourteen years ago) link

loads of Stevie fans here and he's had a pretty weird career (who, oh who will rep for 80s Stevie?) I'm sure it'll go over well

shake hands with Gongo? (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 15 January 2010 00:33 (fourteen years ago) link

i would love to vote in a stevie wonder poll, do it!

shartyman (stevie), Friday, 15 January 2010 08:14 (fourteen years ago) link

Would anyone want any of the compilations on the list, or would the wikipedia Live & Studio albums selection be OK?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevie_Wonder_discography

krakow, Friday, 15 January 2010 08:25 (fourteen years ago) link

I recommend stickin with studio LPs

shake hands with Gongo? (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 15 January 2010 16:45 (fourteen years ago) link

I'd honestly break it into decades ... '60s, '70s, and then '80s on.

And include the Syreeta albums.

queen frostine (Eric H.), Friday, 15 January 2010 16:51 (fourteen years ago) link

def break it into decades. including the syreeta albums will make the 70s much harder to choose from!

come one dude (stevie), Friday, 15 January 2010 16:53 (fourteen years ago) link

huh I've never heard any of those, how many are there?

shake hands with Gongo? (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 15 January 2010 16:55 (fourteen years ago) link

she did two in the early 70s, stevie produced/wrote at least one of them, and they're both excellent.

come one dude (stevie), Friday, 15 January 2010 17:05 (fourteen years ago) link

Thanks to Eric H we now have: 1970s Stevie Wonder Album Poll

krakow, Sunday, 24 January 2010 19:36 (fourteen years ago) link

Stevie Wonder could release an album a month for the rest of his life, each of which consisted of only 70 solid minutes of him farting, and his status as Total Classic wouldn't be at all challenged in my book.

Come to think of it, it might actually be strengthened, given that scenario.

SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 25 January 2010 01:21 (fourteen years ago) link

I want Farts In The Key Of Ass volumes right now.

queen frostine (Eric H.), Monday, 25 January 2010 01:22 (fourteen years ago) link

Sounded good (although not amazing) on the Haiti telethon the other night

curmudgeon, Monday, 25 January 2010 18:01 (fourteen years ago) link

three months pass...

Sixty years old today!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_XgqLz-YbA

rim this, fuck that (Eric H.), Thursday, 13 May 2010 13:45 (fourteen years ago) link

Happy birthday Stevie Wonder! One time a long time ago I listened to Signed, Sealed, Delivered on the Motown box set and it was just the right day for me to really understand how great it was & I proceeded to listen to it for four straight hours, every listen revealing new things about the groove & your rad vocal performance & it was one of the best times I've ever had listening to music! You rule forever and when people hate on you for I Just Called or whatever you tell em underrated aerosmith albums wonders how many songs these haters have written that people use to build bridges between themselves & the people they love! Also, your pioneering use of the recording studio as a creative space is fuckin rad, and your taste in microphones is peerless! Have a kickass birthday! your fan, underrated aerosmith albums I have loved

Fucking hilarious that somebody (the guy who started this thread) would think Stevie Wonder is overrated.

Bill Magill, Thursday, 13 May 2010 14:19 (fourteen years ago) link

One of his more underrated singles:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8vMmgeDiKU

cool and remote like dancing girls (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 13 May 2010 14:31 (fourteen years ago) link

Somebody e-mailed me this morning that he is doing a free show at the Verizon Center in Washington DC on May 26th as part of a tribute.

Promotion code is DCPS

http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/150044A3B87C8CA1?artistid=1445022&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=52

Having sold the Washington Wizards and Verizon Center to Ted Leonsis last week, the Pollin family is ready to celebrate its lengthy connection to this area. Irene Pollin, the widow of the franchise patriarch, and her sons, Robert and Jim, will host a free, private concert featuring legendary musician Stevie Wonder on May 26.

The Pollins plan to honor employees of Washington Sports and Entertainment and those of several civic and public service organizations, such as the D.C. Fire Department and police department, public school teachers and hospital workers from George Washington Hospital and Sibley Hospital, where Abe Pollin was treated before his passing last November. They are fittingly dubbing the event, "Living for the city," for Wonder's classic hit single.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/wizardsinsider/2010/05/pollins-living-for-the-city-wi.html

curmudgeon, Thursday, 13 May 2010 14:46 (fourteen years ago) link

seven months pass...

What is the most embarrassingly sentimental Stevie Wonder song? He has a ton, but which one is the worst?

Inspired by hearing this today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ1-duv_zNk

You almost want to blame Stevie for inspiring that unique Michael Jackson-style of kitsch in pop that's so heavy-handed.

Cunga, Friday, 24 December 2010 00:34 (thirteen years ago) link

one year passes...

I saw Stevie Wonder for the first time on Sunday night, and man I was not prepared for how overwhelming it would be to see him perform right in front of me. Just, wow. I bawled like a baby. That music's been such a huge part of my life for so long, all woven around my family, as well as my friends...it hit me hard. In a good way! Like I dunno, being at some kind of weird outdoor church. Dancing in the middle of that huge crowd, tears streaming down my face. I had no idea it would be like that.

LA weekly has a great review + setlist: http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2012/08/stevie_wonder_outside_lands_august_12_2012.php

(I read another review in a local rag that said Stevie was 'meandering' and 'indulgent' ... u_u )

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 17:15 (eleven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

http://www.towleroad.com/2012/08/stevie-wonder-some-people-who-think-theyre-gay-are-confused.html

The actual quote isn't really very declarative. Chalking this one up to "from a different generation," but it's still disheartening, even though I've been well aware that Stevie's ideas about the nuts and bolts of relationships have always been pretty reactionary. Doesn't take much effort for me to picture him being bewildered by the dynamics of male-male or female-female relationships.

Eric H., Friday, 31 August 2012 15:06 (eleven years ago) link

yeah this is the guy who wrote "Superwoman."

a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 31 August 2012 15:07 (eleven years ago) link

Hah, that's almost exactly what I posted on FB.

Eric H., Friday, 31 August 2012 15:08 (eleven years ago) link

two months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45ZSIeSsmwI

man oh man

collardio gelatinous, Sunday, 11 November 2012 05:49 (eleven years ago) link

was just listening to the 70s-era live boot that opens with a 17 minute contusion this morning... wish stevie would put out some of his valt of unreleased 70s stuff at some point.

Ryan's taint is definitely unavoidable. (stevie), Sunday, 11 November 2012 10:50 (eleven years ago) link

Supposedly there's a clause in his contract stating that his unreleased material is to be destroyed when he dies. But that might only be studio stuff (which, if there's unreleased 70s material, arrg).

5-Hour Enmity (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 11 November 2012 15:53 (eleven years ago) link

yeah, i'd heard that, and it is a cold comfort!

Ryan's taint is definitely unavoidable. (stevie), Sunday, 11 November 2012 16:48 (eleven years ago) link

They say that Stevie Wonder's unreleased songs are 10 zillion light years away.

Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Sunday, 11 November 2012 19:42 (eleven years ago) link

two months pass...

You've got to I've got to they've got to
We've got to They've got to We've got to

Cunga, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 10:14 (eleven years ago) link

one year passes...

Conversation Peace's "Cold Chill" is excellent!

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 02:55 (nine years ago) link

Loved Treat Myself off that album too.

Belt is brown (stevie), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 06:25 (nine years ago) link

He's doing a short US tour where he's doing all of Songs in the Key of Life. I think you need a citi card for today's presale

curmudgeon, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 15:34 (nine years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Scoop!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUgngvsWLlE

nostormo, Saturday, 11 October 2014 22:52 (nine years ago) link

Not completely blind =/= not blind. Lots of legally blind people have enough sight to watch sports (Stevie has courtside seats), use cameras and otherwise interact visually with the their surroundings.

Retinopathy of prematurity (Stevie's diagnosis, caused by exposure to high oxygen concentrations in an incubator after premature birth) produces a spectrum of visual deficits, many people affected are left with at least some sight.

The fact that Stevie wears sunglasses all the time is itself an indicator that he's not totally blind (or else the ambient light levels wouldn't affect him).

My Dad's blind but not completely so, he wears dark glasses even indoors. His friends who have no sight at all usually don't bother wearing glasses, there's no point.

Wouldn't be a surprise if Berry Gordy and co had decided to market Stevie as "blind" without bothering to explain the details.

Plasmon, Sunday, 12 October 2014 04:23 (nine years ago) link

Also, you'd be surprised what blind people can do. Ray Charles use to fly his plane, and he swore he could land* it too, though nobody would let him.

*he had a plan where he would bust the glass on the dials with his lighter and read them by touch

Popture, Sunday, 12 October 2014 06:18 (nine years ago) link

Even if stevie wasn't blind he'd still be the eighth wonder of the world.

what i wouldn't do for an LP of stevie's demos of sleeping alone, bring your sweet stuff home to me, his tracks for syreeta and minnie, etc...

Terrific ribbon, Moe (stevie), Sunday, 12 October 2014 08:32 (nine years ago) link

one year passes...

"Do I Do" is so fantastical

calstars, Thursday, 21 January 2016 23:31 (eight years ago) link

YES

Less surprised by the total lack of surprises (stevie), Friday, 22 January 2016 09:23 (eight years ago) link

If there were another 20 minutes of it I would want to hear them all

Less surprised by the total lack of surprises (stevie), Friday, 22 January 2016 09:23 (eight years ago) link


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