Characters

Artist: Stevie Wonder
Label: Motown
Category: Music

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Media: Audio Cassette

UPC: 737463624848
EAN: 0737463624848
ASIN: B000001AJV

Release Date: 1990-10-17

Characters

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Tracks:

You Will Know
Dark 'N' Lovely
In Your Corner
With Each Beat of My Heart
One of a Kind
Skeletons
Get It - Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder
Galaxy Paradise
Cryin' Through the Night
Free
Come Let Me Make Your Love Come Down
My Eyes Don't Cry

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Customer Reviews:

I Wore My Cassette Out!!!.......2005-12-26

I bought this on cassette when it first came out. I have since wore it out. I have purchased it on CD and find the songs You Will Know, Skeletons, and With Each Beat Of My Heart to be among the best on this CD. The only song that I don't like is Free. Buy it and you won't be sorry!!!

A touch of Wonder.......2005-03-02

This album is the last of Stevie Wonder's 80's projects. This album was preceded by hit albums such as HOTTER THAN JULY,THE WOMAN IN RED movie soundtrack and IN SQUARE CIRCLE. YOU WILL KNOW would later appear on the 1996 compilation SONG REVIEW. GET IT,a duet with Michael Jackson is a reciprocation for Wonder collaborating with Jackson on JUST GOOD FRIENDS from Jackson's BAD album,released in 1987 as this album. All the other songs are good.

back to the future.......2004-11-17

in this era of protools, perfect pitch, programmed pop, it's easy to forget the stevie wonder championed the one man band concept in black music as early as 1972. he absolutely can be credited with helping usher in a new era of technology with the use of synthesizers, drum machines and programming to flesh out his sound. the ingredient that was not lost was the human touch. a musician first, stevie always included the musical elements of chord structure, rhythm, and melody in his work. By the 80's black pop was less melody and story driven and more beat driven and stevie's music was no exception. in service to the beat, it seems most of the musicianship was getting lost in the mix. his 80's output "in square circle", and to a lesser extent "characters" seem like contractual obligation projects. there are some gems here. "free" and "skeletons" are the socially conscious stevie we expect. "free" especially, with it's crescendo building chorus, is a joy to listen to. the ballads are also good but nothing we haven't heard from stevie before. i suppose after innovating for 20+ years, stevie can't be faulting for coasting a bit. not my favorite stevie cd but fun to listen to.

WAY Underrated!!!!!!!.......2004-03-25

Hey Wonder fans!Come back to 1987 and take a revisit to Wonder's most underrated album I can think of!"Characters" thankfully came before Wonder's sad daliance with dull New Jack
swing arrangements on some of his 1990's albums and makes a much
improved follow up to the unfocused "In Square Circle".Similar sound,MUCH better songwriting.From the sad but memorable "You Will Know",the stomping funk of "Dark And Lovely"the Micahel
Jackson duet "Get It","My Eyes Don't Cry" and the classic
"Skeletons",this album is packed with corkers!And no filler-the latinish "Crying Through The Night",the Supreme's-like "In Your Corner" and the roadhouse R&B of "Come Let Me Make Your Love Come Down" are ticklish highlites while the fabulous
"Galaxy Paradise","Free" and the pulsing ballad "Each Beat Of My Heart" are quintessencial Wonder tunes that (as usual) seem to defy catagorization.And he even has time to throw in a classic pop/R&B tune in "One Of A Kind".This is also one of Stevie's few albums seemingly aimed primarily at the 1980's urban Afro Amercian audience-perhapes a sad reminder of the album's seeming lack of universal success.But that doesn't make ANY of it's 12 cuts any less potent so "Characters" is STILL an all-time Wonder classic!

Stevie Rocks.......2004-02-22

I own "Characters" on vinyl. There are two songs on Side 1 that i feel are really great and fun to dance to. I'm talkin about "Dark N Lovely" and "In Your Corner". Whenever i'm in a really bad mood or if i have one of those days where it feels like it can't get any worse, i just play those 2 songs back to back and then...instant good mood. I would suggest buying this cd just for those 2 songs alone. I'm gonna go listen to the rest of the album now...

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