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Artist | Stevie Wonder
Title | Songs In The Key Of Life
Genre | Soul Format | Album
Source | CD Time | 104:53
Label | Motown Store | 2000
Catalog | 157 357-2 Rip | 2019-12-17
Bitrate | 971 kbps Size | 770.62 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | FLAC 1.3.1
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CD 1/2
01. Love's In Need Of Love Today 7:05
02. Have A Talk With God 2:42
03. Village Ghetto Land 3:25
04. Contusion 3:45
05. Sir Duke 3:54
06. I Wish 4:12
07. Knocks Me Off My Feet 3:36
08. Pastime Paradise 3:27
09. Summer Soft 4:14
10. Ordinary Pain 6:23
CD 2/2
01. Isn't She Lovely 6:34
02. Joy Inside My Tears 6:29
03. Black Man 8:29
04. Ngiculela / Es Una Historia / I Am Singing 3:48
05. If It's Magic 3:12
06. As 7:08
07. Another Star 8:28
08. Saturn 4:53
09. Ebony Eyes 4:08
10. All Day Sucker 5:05
11. Easy Goin' Evening (My Mama's Call) 3:56
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Stevie Wonder is a much-beloved American icon and an indisputable
genius not only of R&B but popular music in general. Blind virtually
since birth, Wonder's heightened awareness of sound helped him
create vibrant, colorful music teeming with life and ambition.
Nearly everything he recorded bore the stamp of his sunny, joyous
positivity; even when he addressed serious racial, social, and
spiritual issues (which he did quite often in his prime), or sang
about heartbreak and romantic uncertainty, an underlying sense of
optimism and hope always seemed to emerge.
"Songs In The Key Of Life" was Wonder's longest, most ambitious
collection of songs, a two-LP (plus accompanying EP) set that - just
as the title promised - touched on nearly every issue under the sun,
and did it all with ambitious (even for him), wide-ranging
arrangements and some of the best performances of Wonder's career.
The opening "Love's in Need of Love Today" and "Have a Talk with
God" are curiously subdued, but Stevie soon kicks into gear with
"Village Ghetto Land," a fierce exposΘ of ghetto neglect set to a
satirical Baroque synthesizer.
Hot on its heels comes the torrid fusion jam "Contusion," a big,
brassy hit tribute to the recently departed Duke Ellington in "Sir
Duke," and (another hit, this one a Grammy winner as well) the
bumping poem to his childhood, "I Wish." Though they didn't
necessarily appear in order, Songs in the Key of Life contains
nearly a full album on love and relationships, along with another
full album on issues social and spiritual. Fans of the love album
Talking Book can marvel that he sets the bar even higher here, with
brilliant material like the tenderly cathartic and gloriously
redemptive "Joy Inside My Tears," the two-part, smooth-and-rough
"Ordinary Pain," the bitterly ironic "All Day Sucker," or another
classic heartbreaker, "Summer Soft."
Those inclined toward Stevie Wonder the social-issues artist had
quite a few songs to focus on as well: "Black Man" was a
Bicentennial school lesson on remembering the vastly different
people who helped build America; "Pastime Paradise" examined the
plight of those who live in the past and have little hope for the
future; "Village Ghetto Land" brought listeners to a nightmare of
urban wasteland; and "Saturn" found Stevie questioning his kinship
with the rest of humanity and amusingly imagining paradise as a
residency on a distant planet. If all this sounds overwhelming, it
is.
Stevie Wonder had talent to spare during the mid-'70s, and instead
of letting the reserve trickle out during the rest of the decade, he
let it all go with one massive burst. (His only subsequent record of
the '70s was the similarly gargantuan but largely instrumental
soundtrack Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants.)
Originally released on Tamla 340, October 8, 1976, here's "Songs In
The Key Of Life" remastered by Kevin Reeves at Universal Mastering
East in 2000.
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