Music of My Mind

Artist: Stevie Wonder
Label: Motown
Category: Music

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Format: Original recording reissued
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 601215735321
EAN: 0601215735321
ASIN: B00004S367

Release Date: 2000-03-21

Music of My Mind

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Tracks:

Love Having You Around
Superwoman (Where Were You When I Needed You)
I Love Everylittle Thing About You
Sweet Little Girl
Happier Than The Morning Sun
Girl Blue
Seems So Long
Keep On Running
Evil

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Stevie Wonder was getting his fusion of soul, rock, and various other styles together when <I>Music of My Mind</I> appeared in early 1972. A bit shapeless compared with Talking Book, the masterpiece he'd release by the end of the year, this disc nonetheless finds the then-21-year-old self-assuredly deploying an array of synthesized textures and natural voices: check out the drawl lurking around the edges of "Sweet Little Girl." Not an essential album, but an entertaining one--and one that, in retrospect, carried enormous implications for the future of American music. <I>--Rickey Wright</I>

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A QUANTUM LEAP FOR STEVIE.......2007-02-23

I WOULDN'T SAY THAT WITH THIS ALBUM, STEVIE WONDER CAME INTO HIS OWN, BECAUSE HE HAD RECORDED A LOT OF FANTASTIC MUSIC BEFORE THIS, BUT THIS ONE TAKES HIS MUSIC TO A WHOLE OTHER LEVEL. I HAVE HAD THIS ALBUM, CASSETTE, CD, SINCE IT CAME BACK LONGER THAN I CARE TO REMEMBER. THIS ALBUM WAS THE STEPPING STONE TO TALKING BOOK AND INNER VISIONS, WHICH WERE ALSO ALL TIME CLASSIC RECODRINGS. IF I HAD TO DESCRIBE THIS CD, I WOULD SAY IT WAS THE FIRST ONE THAT REALLY FEATURED THE MATURE VOICE OF STEVIE WONDER.

An absolute beauty.......2007-02-11

Dear fellow music-lovers:
Even though some music-critics think that Music Of My Mind is inferior to Talking Book, I would urge you to take a plunge into this record.
It's Stevie at his very best. Lovely melodies, unheard-of harmonies, only the drum is out of beat once in a while. But then: this is the music they played in the 70's - it's entirely without computing, and therefore as real as the hum of beas!
Stevie is impressively inspired, at his most sensual. This record is outstanding; every song has its high moments.
I hear myself humming those tunes over and over - more than 35 years after recording.
It's a record for all time. Why don't you make it your own soundtrack?

Superwoman (Where were you when I needed you).......2006-09-14

... this song Superwoman (Where were you when I needed you)... if you don't allready know it will blow your mind.. get it

Good but not Great.......2005-08-15

Are there lots of good songs on this Cd? Yes of Course. There some songs that haven't aged at all. Most songs are great soul and R&B. Girl Blue lyrically is the best song i have ever heard, to bad he decided to play around with the synthesisers to much!

This isn't a Stevie wonder album i would start on, his others are much stronger 1-10. Some of these songs just aren't that good.

Essential.......2005-04-23

Music of My Mind is Stevie Wonder's first fully-successful recording in which he assumed complete artistic control. Recorded at the start of the 70s, when the singer-songwriter-multi-intstrumentalist was not yet 25, this suite of songs sounds remarkably fresh and relevant; and its arrangments transcend whatever changes in musical tastes have rendered so many lesser recordings from lesser artists of the day passe.

Despite its lack of any obvious hit single (the album's catchiest songs far exceed the four-minute mark), Music of My Mind is an essential recording. From the celebratory opener, "Love Having You Around" to the emotionally raw indictment of "Superwoman," to the rousing r and b shouter "Keep on Running," Wonder manages to extend and develop catchy songs into full-blown mini-epics. The shorter songs here are equally impressive: "Evil," the album's closer, is sung with such conviction, such faith, that it's difficult not to get caught up with Wonder's vision for a more healing, loving world; "Been So Long" and "Love Everything About You" are two distinct variations on romance--one moody and introspective, the other playful and light; and even a gag tune like "Sweet Little Girl," which functions in part as a powerful satire on blacksploitation, is too ingratiating to dismiss.

A must-have for any music collector.

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