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Songs In The Key Of Life | 
 enlarge | Artist: Stevie Wonder
Label: Universal / Island
Category: Music
List Price: £11.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  31 reviews
Sales Rank: 1105
Format: Box Set, Double Cd, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Running Time: 103
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.8 x 0.4
MPN: 157357
UPC: 601215735727
EAN: 0601215735727
ASIN: B00004SZWD
Release Date: May 8, 2000
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| » | Love's In Need Of Love Today | | » | Have A Talk With God | | » | Village Ghetto Land | | » | Contusion | | » | Sir Duke | | » | I Wish | | » | Knocks Me Off My Feet | | » | Pastime Paradise | | » | Summer Soft | | » | Ordinary Pain |
Disc 2
| » | Isn't She Lovely | | » | Joy Inside My Tears | | » | Black Man | | » | Ngiculela-Es Una Historia-I Am Singing | | » | If It's Magic | | » | As | | » | Another Star | | » | Saturn | | » | Ebony Eyes | | » | All Day Sucker | | » | Easy Goin' Evening (My Mama's Call) |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Songs in the Key of Life was the highest high-point of Stevie Wonder's career. More sprawling than Innervisions and Talking Book, this 2 LP-plus-EP was also less of a consistent stunner than either of those masterworks. That Songs retains an enormous amount of visionary relevance, though, is demonstrated not only in Coolio's borrowing of "Pastime Paradise" as a template for "Gangsta's Paradise", but in the cold-as-ice synthesized string quartet of "Village Ghetto Land". This is Stevie, so naturally that cut's anger is balanced by the ultra-buoyant "I Wish," "Sir Duke", and "Another Star". --Rickey Wright
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| Customer Reviews: Read 26 more reviews...
"Wonder" ful January 29, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Have the vinyl. Now got the CD and its still timeless. I have many favourites. Love "I am singing" this sums up stevies life in music.
The song writing is 1st class. in my view far better than Lennon/Mccartney ever were. This guy does the lot himself. This album should be in every collection. best selling double album of all time, i believe. Well justified.
Stevie's Best January 10, 2008
Somehow it seems uncool to rate an artist's most succesful album as their best, but I make no apology for doing so in this case.
By 1976, Stevie Wonder had established himself as perhaps the first black artist who could consistantly sell albums in all markets around the world, winning awards, including best album Grammys. It is amazing to think that he had been around for over a decade, but was still only 26 years old. He wrote, sang, played and produced with the maturity of a much older man.
My favorite tracks are 'As' which was the third or fourth single so didn't do too well, but the lyrics are worthy of Smokey. It is the last word in love songs. It was revived a few years back by George Michael and Mary J Blige. I also like 'Village Ghetto Land', a biting social commetary. Then there is 'If It's Magic' a stunningly simple track with just Stevie's voice and a harp. It calls for a wider universal love.
As a teenager, I saved pocket money for weeks to buy the vynil, and replaced it on CD as soon as it was released. Now here it is remastered for next to nothing! People don't realise they are born today!
Absolute genius April 9, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
All of Stevie Wonder's output in the 1970s (up to 'the Secret Life of Plants') should have a place in your record collection, but this should be right at the front so all you friends can see what great taste you have when they come and visit.
There's track after track of absolute pop genius and, although there are a few duffers, they only serve to give you time to catch your breath before Stevie's off with another classic. This is probably the one record I would grab if my record collection decided to spontaneously combust.
There just aren't enough stars... April 1, 2007
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
What can you say about this, really? Why am I even bothering to write this review? How can I put into words what this album is like, or express the way it has been a freind and companion to me for pretty much all of my life.
The sound of a true genius let loose to create freely, at the top of his game, with ideas spilling out of him almost faster than he can get them onto paper.
Stories of Stevie working through the night - and working session musicians into the ground then sending them home and immediately demanding another group of players to help him record this joyous music seem beleivable when listening to it. The songs just kept coming and this album quite quickly turned into a double and then almost on the eve of it's release Stevie crammed in another four tracks which were put onto an E.P. and given away away with the album.
My personal favourite is Summer Soft, not one of the many hits on the record but it just soars, up and up and up. and Stevie's voice - and Stevie's music - just seem to be without limit or boundary. But it doesn't matter what my favourite is. You won't be needing the skip button, you'll love every bit of it.
So do you not own this album? How have you got this far in life without it?
 Stevie's defining album February 16, 2007
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
Whilst I prefer Inner Visions, because it is a tighter, more focused work, "Songs..." is remarkable precisely because Stevie allowed his creative urges full rein.
It was a gargantuan release in every sense, a double album (I had forgotten there was also an EP) from an artist who had produced a string of major albums since his artistic freedom was gained from Motown, everyone wanted to see what he had been working on for close on 3 years.
He did not disappoint. Here, you will find social comment , love songs, tributes and more. To go through the tracks individually would deny the way "Songs.." was meant to be heard - as a whole. It hangs together, with variety on each side of the original vinyl release which is not diminished by the CD reissue. It is true that some songs outstay their welcome, but you can forgive that. A testimony to the quality is that many songs have become well known despite never being granted a single release from the album. For instance "As", which, incidentally, I have always wondered about - is it addressed to his lover or to God.
This album has been a major influence since its release 30 years ago,with many artists recording their own versions as well as stealing samples. Stevie Wonder never hit the same heights after this,(although Hotter Than July was a good album) and, if for no other reason, this is a classic album that should be in any music fans collection.
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