Songs in the Key of Life

Songs in the Key of Life Artist: Stevie Wonder
Label: Umvd Labels
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Limited Edition
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2


UPC: 601215758221
EAN: 0601215758221
ASIN: B00004SZWE


Release Date: 2000-05-02

Songs in the Key of Life


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Tracks:

  1. Love's In Need Of Love Today
  2. Have A Talk With God
  3. Village Ghetto Land
  4. Contusion
  5. Sir Duke
  6. I Wish
  7. Knocks Me Off My Feet
  8. Pastime Paradise
  9. Summer Soft
  10. Ordinary Pain

Tracks:

  1. Isn't She Lovely
  2. Joy Inside My Tears
  3. Black Man
  4. Ngiculela/Es Una Historia/I Am Singing
  5. If It's Magic
  6. As
  7. Another Star
  8. Saturn
  9. Ebony Eyes
  10. All Day Sucker
  11. Easy Goin' Evening (My Mama's Call)

Similar Items:

  1. Innervisions
  2. Talking Book
  3. Fulfillingness' First Finale
  4. What's Going on
  5. Stevie Wonder - The Definitive Collection

Amazon.com essential recording

<I>Songs in the Key of Life</I> (1976) was the highest high point of Stevie Wonder's career. More sprawling than Innervisions and Talking Book, this two-LP-plus-EP was also less of a consistent stunner than either of those masterworks. That <I>Songs</I> 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." The 2000 reissue boasts radically improved remastered sound. <I>--Rickey Wright</I>

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars stevie really wonder.......2007-05-13

great album: one of my favourites through all times. I already own the LP but on cd the quality is excellent. great buy!!!

5 out of 5 stars 10 STARS FOR SOUL.......2007-05-02

You know I found the album of him with two records and listening to it is just so AMAZING!!! Look at all the instruments Mr. Stevie Wonder plays and how he composes each and every song, along with the wisdom Stevie kicks down from his songs. I mean, what ever happened to all that SOUL in today's music???
Much love for the parents and the purpose that Stevie Wonder has continued to live out!

5 out of 5 stars This is true talent!.......2007-04-30

I recently became a Stevie fan over the past year. Like most people, I have heard his songs all my life- well, I'm 21- so I guess like others around my age, and just grown accustom to them. But, recently I have REALLY listen to Stevie and became a fan. This man is so full of talent and it just oozes out when he creates music.
Song in the Key of Life is a great CD, because you get two CDs fully of Stevie genius! At first listen, several of the songs will sound familiar, because unless you've been stuck in a cave somewhere your whole life, you have probably heard at least one or two of the songs.
I love the title of the CD is also genius. Once you listen to the CD you see that the songs on the CD cover many aspects of life, from love, family, hardships and some just funky songs!
This CD and the songs withstand the time. The album was created in 1976 and so many of the songs are heard today and still hold up to the test of time. Many of the songs have also been remixed several times over the years by various artist.
So, if you're looking for a CD that will give you a good glimpse of the stuff that Stevie Wonder is made of, I think that this CD will do the job! So, get the CD and enjoy!

5 out of 5 stars A masterpiece.......2007-03-19

This is classic Stevie at his best. Even after 31 yrs. the songs are still relevant today. If you are a Stevie fan & for some reason this is not part of your cd collection, you must get this at once. Stevie shows why he is a legend on each & every song. One of the best musical compositions of all time!

5 out of 5 stars A True Classic.......2007-03-16

I bought this album for what I'd consider a strange reason: Every week, I watch American Idol, and very often someone sings a Stevie Wonder song. It never sounds very good, and the judges always say "you'll never compare well with the great Stevie..." Knowing some of the major hits, and generally associating him with "I Just Called to Say I Love You" and "Superstition," I decided I must not be getting the full picture. I was thinking of getting a greatest hits comp, but ultimately decided to try a different route: I'd buy two of his masterpieces. I wanted to see the whole picture, rather than just hear the radio hits. So I bought Innvervisions and Songs in the Key of Life. Holy cow did I make the right choice. It took me only one marathon listening session of both albums to hear what I'd been missing all these years.

Many critics and reviewers indicate the album has a slow start, taking a few songs to kick into gear. True, the first songs are slower in pace, but I'd hardly consider it a "slow start." More like: Stevie eases you into a place that you're going to be (and want to be) for a long time (at two LPs and an EP - this really is an epic). With so many songs, I'll only mention a few for brevity's sake: "Sir Duke" is about as danceable a song as I've ever heard while still being substantial. "Black Man" is a history lesson everyone should hear, and examples of important people in American history of many races are mentioned: black, brown, yellow, and white as well. "As" gets under your skin on first listen and never lets go.

If I could stress one thing about this album, it would be this: These songs are ABOUT something. It's not funk music about wanting to get funky. It's not R&B about sex. Sure, sex and dancing are in there. But so are IDEAS, politics, social theory, parental love, fear, hope, and much more. The music, the singing, and the lyrics work absolutely. And they don't sound "dated" at all. That is no small achievement. Few artists have ever reached this level, and few ever will.

So, as a late-comer to the cult of Stevie, I'm happy to say: Better late than never!

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