Music : Songs In The Key Of Life

Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0601215735727
Format: Box set, Double CD, Original recording remastered
Label: Universal / Island
Manufacturer: Universal / Island
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: Universal / Island
Release Date: May 08, 2000
Running Time: 105 minutes
Studio: Universal / Island
Sales Rank: 320
157357

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Disc 1:

1. Love's In Need Of Love Today - Stevie Wonder, Gary Olazabal, John Fischbach
2. Have A Talk With God
3. Village Ghetto Land
4. Contusion
5. Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder, Gary Olazabal, John Fischbach
6. I Wish - Stevie Wonder, Gary Olazabal, John Fischbach
7. Knocks Me Off My Feet - Stevie Wonder, Gary Olazabal, John Fischbach
8. Pastime Paradise - Stevie Wonder, Gary Olazabal, John Fischbach
9. Summer Soft
10. Ordinary Pain - Denice Williams, Gary Olazabal, John Fischbach, Minnie Riperton, Stevie Wonder

Disc 2:

1. Isn't She Lovely - Stevie Wonder, Gary Olazabal, John Fischbach
2. Joy Inside My Tears
3. Black Man
4. Ngiculela-Es Una Historia-I Am Singing
5. If It's Magic
6. As - Gary Olazabal, Stevie Wonder, John Fischbach, Herbie Hancock
7. Another Star - Bobbi Humphrey, Gary Olazabal, George Benson, John Fischbach, Stevie Wonder
8. Saturn
9. Ebony Eyes
10. All Day Sucker
11. Easy Goin' Evening (My Mama's Call)

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Editorial Review:

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




Rating: - The peak of perfection.
Can anybody think of many double albums on which every track is even 'good' let alone a master work? They are very few and far between as the majority of them just go on for far to long with too much 'filler'. And so we come to SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE by MR. Stevland Morris.
After the masterpiece which was INNERVISIONS in 1973, Stevie Wonder released this magnum-opus in 1976. Is it as good as INNERVISIONS? The answer is a resounding YES, YES, YES!
Up-lifting and beautiful, happy yet ... Read More

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Rating: - Stevie's Magnum Opus
I can't add much to what's already been written here. This is an essential album - though I regard all of the following as essential too:

Talking Book
Innervisions
Fulfillingness First Finale

If you're new to Stevie's work, please don't buy a collection, you'll be missing out on so much!

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Rating: - an absolute classic stevie wonder youre cool!
this a fantastic double album all the songs are fab i also recommend the albums music of my mind talking book and innervisions and original musiquarium there fantastic buy this you wont regret it!!

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Rating: - "Wonder" ful
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.

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Rating: - Stevie's Best
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 ... Read More

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