Songs In The Key Of Life (Stevie Wonder)
® 1976 © 2000
Songs in the Key of Life (1976) was the highest high point of Stevie Wonder's career.
Track Listing
| Volume I | |||
| 1. | Love's in Need of Love Today (7:05) |  | |
| 2. | Have a Talk with God (2:42) | | |
| 3. | Village Ghetto Land (3:25) | | |
| 4. | Confusion (3:45) | | |
| 5. | Sir Duke (3:52) | | |
| 6. | I Wish (4:12) | | |
| 7. | Knocks Me Off My Feet (3:35) | | |
| 8. | Pastime paradise (3:20) | | |
| 9. | Summer Soft (4:16) | | |
| 10. | Ordinary Pain (6:22) | | |
| 11. | Saturn (4:54) | | |
| 12. | Ebony Eyes (4:10) | | |
Volume II | |||
| 13. | Isn't She Lovely (6:33) | | |
| 14. | Joy Inside My Tears (6:29) | | |
| 15. | Black Man (8:29) | | |
| 16. | Ngiculela - Es Una Historia/I Am Singing (3:48) | | |
| 17. | If It's Magic (3:11) | | |
| 18. | As (7:07) | | |
| 19. | Another Star (9:59) | | |
| 20. | All Day Sucker (5:06) | | |
| 21. | Easy Goin' Evening (My Mama's Call) (3:58) | | |
Album Review
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 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".
The 2000 reissue boasts radically improved remastered sound.
Rickey Wright.
All lead vocals by Stevie Wonder Produced, Arranged, Written and Composed by Stevie Wonder except wherre indicated All tunes published by Jobete Music Company Inc. & Black Bull Music Inc. (ASCAP).
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.
Rickey Wright.
All lead vocals by Stevie Wonder Produced, Arranged, Written and Composed by Stevie Wonder except wherre indicated All tunes published by Jobete Music Company Inc. & Black Bull Music Inc. (ASCAP).
