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― mark s, Wednesday, 11 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
As far as his albums go, I don't think I've heard an entire one that wasn't from the 70's. I will say, though, that the last great song he recorded was "Overjoyed".
― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 11 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
stevie has a handful of albums i'd place amongst my favorites of all time, so jimmy, i'm going to have to ask what you find so damned overblown about his 70s work? ;) but, on the other hand, a compilation of his finest sides pre-music of my mind would trump all of those albums if only for its sheer exuberance.
in many ways, i think that like stax was to soul, stevie was to r&b, in that often times the records were the extreme of the genre and therefore wouldn't be recommended to the average motown listener or what have you. that said, there's a bracing humanity to his work and what i love most about innervisions, for one, is that stevie makes me feel like he's singing to ME, as corny as that doubtlessly sounds.
― fred solinger, Wednesday, 11 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Interesting question is why... I suspect there is a profoundly different sensibility with the core black audience. I keep trying with the ballads but I haven't found a way in yet..
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― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
Also musicians keep writing ballads - not just commercially-minded musicians either. Why, if people don't like them? The obvious answer is that people do. But it is mostly true that the specific subset of 'people' writing and thinking about music (here at least but everywhere else I've been too) tend not to like ballads.
― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
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― James Ball (James Ball), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 15:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
his music has a high cheese quotient. he's obviously brilliant tho.
― The Brainwasher, Monday, 7 January 2008 23:17 (sixteen years ago) link
"Old ILX" morelike "retarded waste of space" amirite?
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 7 January 2008 23:18 (sixteen years ago) link
even the schmaltziest Stevie ballad has Stevie singing, though.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 7 January 2008 23:18 (sixteen years ago) link
stevie wonder episode of the cosby show was awesome
― El Tomboto, Monday, 7 January 2008 23:20 (sixteen years ago) link
I think Stevie Wonder CCR is one of the few artists who I might (wrongly I'm sure, I instinctively feel this kind of thinking is wrong but:) feel justified in using as a yardstick i.e. if somebody doesn't have at least some love for Stevie Wonder CCR
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 7 January 2008 23:21 (sixteen years ago) link
don't get me wrong I love Stevie but I can totally see how he would seem completely annoying to people who only know "That's What Friends Are For" or the Jungle Fever soundtrack or whatever
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 7 January 2008 23:22 (sixteen years ago) link
whereas if you can't dig CCR on some level, you are not human
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 7 January 2008 23:23 (sixteen years ago) link
but most of the strawmen you cite would know, thanks to movies and his great habit of licensing songs, all kinds of stuff: "Sir Duke," "Superstition," "I Wish," "My Cherie Amour," "Isn't She Lovely," etc.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 7 January 2008 23:24 (sixteen years ago) link
btw he hasn't lost it: A Time For Love was pretty good.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 7 January 2008 23:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Wow, scanning the beginning of this thread it's shocking to me to a. read posts from people professing to outright dislike all of his stuff and b. seeing such subdued responses to the stevie hate.
Shakey, I don't really like CCR at all. John Fogerty's voice gives me a bad reaction. Plus I find the songwriting tedious.
― dell, Monday, 7 January 2008 23:54 (sixteen years ago) link
whereas if you can't dig CCR on some level, you are not human involved in the search for some lost repository of salt-of-the-earth white-people righteousness and/or authenticity
― nabisco, Monday, 7 January 2008 23:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Or not really, but that seems to be what's at stake there, a little bit, in certainly larger senses
NB I like some CCR songs okay. You know, the catchy ones.
― nabisco, Monday, 7 January 2008 23:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Plus I find the songwriting tedious.
does not compute
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 7 January 2008 23:58 (sixteen years ago) link
what does that mean, that you hate music? all music is written.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 7 January 2008 23:59 (sixteen years ago) link
oh sorry - reading too quickly (missed the "the")
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 00:00 (sixteen years ago) link
I can't write to save my life today, anyway, so...
― dell, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 00:16 (sixteen years ago) link
How did this turn into a CCR discussion?
I rode an elevator with Stevie Wonder once (and his "handlers"). He smelled like very expensive cologne.
If you can't find something of his to enjoy in his catalog, I'd hasten to suggest that you really aren't trying (or listening) very hard. I mean, he hasn't done anything worth listening to for over a couple of decades by now, but still.
― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 00:45 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Dom Passantino, Monday, 7 January 2008 23:18 (Yesterday) Link
No fucking doubt. I don't love Stevie unconditionally--I think too many of his songs in his mature period could lose a couple of minutes with nothing lost--but i hate the first part of this thread unconditionally
― Billy Pilgrim, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 01:00 (sixteen years ago) link
I mean, he hasn't done anything worth listening to for over a couple of decades by now
This is actually wrong. They may not have been as strong as his 70s output, but - "I Just Called...." and "Part Time Lover" aside - the four "proper" albums he has released since then have all been quite nice indeed. Just not up there with his 70s stuff. On the other hand, they are way better than "Journey Through The Secret Life Of Plants".
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 01:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Why were there so many threads started around 2001 that all about dissing some beloved musician or band only to be revived and set straight a few years later?
Were there more retards on ILM back then?
― Moodles, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 01:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Hah, I was in an elevator with Stevie Wonder once, as well. He had a seeing-eye dog w/him, and at one point he firmly said "Down, down on the floor, now, lady!" to his dog, and an older woman on the elevator immediately dropped to her knees and pushed her purse towards him.
True story.
― dell, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 01:28 (sixteen years ago) link
love stevie wonder ballads
― deej, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 01:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Don't ever bump this thread again.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 8 January 2008 03:54 (sixteen years ago) link
-- dell, Tuesday, January 8, 2008 1:28 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link
this is a story that will make me laugh for years and years
― Billy Pilgrim, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 03:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Stevie Wonder exuberates fantasticisms
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 04:00 (sixteen years ago) link
It happened in Snopesville, AL, no lie.
― dell, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 04:07 (sixteen years ago) link
my Stevie Wonder story is that I saw him play here when I was a kid - my mom was a Librarian-in-Charge at an LACoPL and all the in-charges from around the county came to Watts for some event (I was nine or ten, I don't remember what the event was) and he played a few songs solo. Stevie Wonder's voice in a small library is really something to hear and I wish I had been about four years older because I would have taped it.
― J0hn D., Tuesday, 8 January 2008 07:08 (sixteen years ago) link
That's amazing! All of the people who I've met who grew up in soCal seem to take it for granted. It still seems like Oz to me, right or wrong..........
― dell, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 07:24 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.sfgate.com/blogs/images/sfgate/culture/2007/08/02/stevie-wonder.jpg
DON'T FUCKING DRIVE DRUNK
― Mackro Mackro, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 08:56 (sixteen years ago) link
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/b/be/300px-BFfourbars.jpg
― dell, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 09:03 (sixteen years ago) link
On August 6, 1973, just days after the release of Innervisions, Wonder was in a serious automobile accident while on tour, when he struck a telephone poll while driving drunk. This left him in a coma for four days and resulted in a permanent loss of his sense of smell.
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 09:17 (sixteen years ago) link
I didn't realize the driver was drunk. Explains how Stevie Wonder has been using so much time fighting drunk driving since then.
One of the things he said in the mid 80s campaign was that "Before I ride with a drunk, I'll drive myself".
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 12:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Umm, Geir. Reread that, then compare it with the following:
On August 6, 1973, just days after the release of Innervisions, Wonder was in a serious automobile accident while on tour, when a log from a truck went through a passenger window and struck him in the head. This left him in a coma for four days and resulted in a permanent loss of his sense of smell.
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 18:07 (sixteen years ago) link
oh wait theyre different. i thought he was driving drunk... didnt i hear that?
― 69, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 18:22 (sixteen years ago) link
dude, he's blind. he would have hit that telephone pole drunk or not.
Stevie is as Classic as it gets, and there are still good songs on Conversation Peace and the Jungle Fever soundtrack. I need to listen to A Time 2 Love.
― stevie, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 20:51 (sixteen years ago) link
His last album at least has "Moon Blue," which is pretty gorgeous. The DJ Spinna remix of "My Love Is On Fire" is the only version of that song I'll listen to, tho.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 8 January 2008 20:56 (sixteen years ago) link
I would rank "A Time 2 Love" as his best album since "Hotter Than July" although not by a huge margin as they are all pretty decent (maybe apart from those two soundtracks)
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 22:48 (sixteen years ago) link
this thread deserves to die a painful death
so nobody should post
― bakerstreetsaxsolo, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 23:38 (sixteen years ago) link
http://images.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2008/01/08/obama/story.jpg
― The Brainwasher, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 23:58 (sixteen years ago) link
love and affection moving in the direction
― strgn, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 09:50 (sixteen years ago) link
he barely makes a dollar and you best believe she hardly makes a penny
― strgn, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 09:51 (sixteen years ago) link
just enough
― strgn, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 09:52 (sixteen years ago) link
JUST ENOUGH
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 11:04 (sixteen years ago) link
for the citaaaay
Skyscrapers and everythang
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 14:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Stevland Hardaway Judkins
― gnarly sceptre, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 15:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Ol' Ethan Padgett
― libcrypt, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 15:21 (sixteen years ago) link
The Dirtbombs cover of Livin for the City is really worth hearing if you never have.
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 15:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Their cover of Maybe Your baby is better, though, IMHO...
― stevie, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 15:34 (sixteen years ago) link
they don't do bad covers
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 15:40 (sixteen years ago) link