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Music : Innervisions
Rating: 
- Stevie's best album
While the conventional wisdom has "Songs in the Key of Life" as SWs best album, I found it to be a little long winded, with too many tracks running out of ideas/steam long before their end,
On Inner Visions IMHO, we find him with a collection of songs which hang together beautifully, which is perfectly paced, and without a duff track. The familiar hits need no introduction, and those which never made a single release are as strong.
When this album was released, Stevie was pushing the boundaries , developing the synthesiser sound he had pioneered on Music of my Mind" and "Talking Book", taking Soul music (and music in general in fact) to new places.
If you are in any way a fan of modern R & B, you need this album to find out where the sound came from, if you are a fan of Soul or Funk, it is indispensible.
Rating: - Wonder's best - sweetest soul ballads to latin jazz-funk
Can a Moog be made to serenade? You bet it can. Stevie is blasting on all cylinders here - the album's moody, moralistic, funky, emotionally soulful.
There's the warning of being swept away by drug-induced euphoria in "Too High" but you will be carried off even higher by the "Golden Lady". "Livin' just enough for the city" and "Misstra know-it-all" will sadden - it's easy to identify with the victims.
Heart-rendering stuff.
Rating: - The best and most thematic Stevie Wonder album
Stevie Wonder once explained that "Talking Book" was a collection of better songs, but that "Innervisions" was a better overall statement, especially in terms of his sense of spirituality. Certainly this 1973 album is more coherent thematically. "Higher Ground" and "Living For The City" represent the pinnacle of his songwriter, working on such a different level. "Superstition" might be my favorite Stevie Wonder song, but it is not his best song, if that makes any sense. The ballads "Golden Lady" and "All in Love is Fair," along with "Doncha Worry Bout a Thing," and "Jesus Children of America," are the non-hits that more than justify picking up "Innvervisions" instead of stopping with the latest Stevie Wonder hit collection (e.g., "The Definitive Collection"). Add "Talking Book" to the mix and that would be the minimum essential requirements for the Stevie Wonder section of your music library.
Rating: - soul surrender
lil' stevie wonder grew up and became the sweetest soul singer of his generation. on innervisions, his reliance on cheap keyboard sounds doesn't yet sound dated--and the songs, like 'higher ground' and 'he's misstra know it all'--and, god, 'living for the city'--conquer all. superb.
- Stevie's best albumWhile the conventional wisdom has "Songs in the Key of Life" as SWs best album, I found it to be a little long winded, with too many tracks running out of ideas/steam long before their end,
On Inner Visions IMHO, we find him with a collection of songs which hang together beautifully, which is perfectly paced, and without a duff track. The familiar hits need no introduction, and those which never made a single release are as strong.
When this album was released, Stevie was pushing the boundaries , developing the synthesiser sound he had pioneered on Music of my Mind" and "Talking Book", taking Soul music (and music in general in fact) to new places.
If you are in any way a fan of modern R & B, you need this album to find out where the sound came from, if you are a fan of Soul or Funk, it is indispensible.
Rating:
- Wonder's best - sweetest soul ballads to latin jazz-funkCan a Moog be made to serenade? You bet it can. Stevie is blasting on all cylinders here - the album's moody, moralistic, funky, emotionally soulful.
There's the warning of being swept away by drug-induced euphoria in "Too High" but you will be carried off even higher by the "Golden Lady". "Livin' just enough for the city" and "Misstra know-it-all" will sadden - it's easy to identify with the victims.
Heart-rendering stuff.
Rating:
- The best and most thematic Stevie Wonder albumStevie Wonder once explained that "Talking Book" was a collection of better songs, but that "Innervisions" was a better overall statement, especially in terms of his sense of spirituality. Certainly this 1973 album is more coherent thematically. "Higher Ground" and "Living For The City" represent the pinnacle of his songwriter, working on such a different level. "Superstition" might be my favorite Stevie Wonder song, but it is not his best song, if that makes any sense. The ballads "Golden Lady" and "All in Love is Fair," along with "Doncha Worry Bout a Thing," and "Jesus Children of America," are the non-hits that more than justify picking up "Innvervisions" instead of stopping with the latest Stevie Wonder hit collection (e.g., "The Definitive Collection"). Add "Talking Book" to the mix and that would be the minimum essential requirements for the Stevie Wonder section of your music library.
Rating:
- soul surrenderlil' stevie wonder grew up and became the sweetest soul singer of his generation. on innervisions, his reliance on cheap keyboard sounds doesn't yet sound dated--and the songs, like 'higher ground' and 'he's misstra know it all'--and, god, 'living for the city'--conquer all. superb.