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View Poll Results: Innervisions, Songs in the Key of Life or Talking Book?
Innervisions 28 34.15%
Songs in the Key of Life 38 46.34%
Talking Book 10 12.20%
Other 6 7.32%
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Old 11-30-2008, 12:14 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Songs in the Key of Life is the most successful Stevie Wonder project in terms of singles...
It produced 5 singles, out of 17 songs, over a period of 3 years...... Out of those 5, the only genuinely successful pop hits were I Wish and Sir Duke. Not particularly impressive when you look at the actual facts.

Innervisions had more serious hits than SitKoL. 3 major r&b chart toppers, and there were only 9 songs on the album. Innervisions is much better than SitKoL in pretty much every way and I struggle to see for a second why any music critic or journalist, or FAN for that matter, would see otherwise.
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Old 12-05-2008, 10:36 AM   #2 (permalink)
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I struggle to see for a second why any music critic or journalist, or FAN for that matter, would see otherwise.
I know! It's almost as though everyone has their own opinions and tastes. Crazy bastards!
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Old 12-05-2008, 12:43 PM   #3 (permalink)
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I know! It's almost as though everyone has their own opinions and tastes. Crazy bastards!
lol. I understand people have their own opinions and tastes. But there are always motivations behind those opinions and tastes, and usually you can understand what the motivations are. My point is that I cannot understand what possible motivation there could be for preferring SITKOL over Innervisions, given that the former is overly long and contains a bundle of especially boring duds.
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Old 12-05-2008, 01:07 PM   #4 (permalink)
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lol. I understand people have their own opinions and tastes. But there are always motivations behind those opinions and tastes, and usually you can understand what the motivations are. My point is that I cannot understand what possible motivation there could be for preferring SITKOL over Innervisions, given that the former is overly long and contains a bundle of especially boring duds.
I agree that Songs In the Key Of Life is overly long and has some duds ("Village Ghetto Land" comes to mind as a particularly hideous example) but I think the best songs on the album are much better than the best songs on Innervisions. For that reason I think I'd have to rate Songs In the Key Of Life somewhat above Innervisions.
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Old 12-05-2008, 11:40 AM   #5 (permalink)
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It produced 5 singles, out of 17 songs, over a period of 3 years...... Out of those 5, the only genuinely successful pop hits were I Wish and Sir Duke. Not particularly impressive when you look at the actual facts.

Innervisions had more serious hits than SitKoL. 3 major r&b chart toppers, and there were only 9 songs on the album. Innervisions is much better than SitKoL in pretty much every way and I struggle to see for a second why any music critic or journalist, or FAN for that matter, would see otherwise.
Personally, I think Talking Book is better than either of those albums.
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Old 12-16-2008, 04:45 PM   #6 (permalink)
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I never really got in his music, but I really respect him for really putting work in his song and his impact on music in general.
however I can't get past that scene from "High Fidelity", absolutely hilarious...damn you Jack Black
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Old 12-19-2008, 10:33 PM   #7 (permalink)
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BOOGIE DOWN REGGAE WOMAN! I love stevie!
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The fact that Stevie was around way before Prince, and the fact that Prince was influenced by him surely speak for themselves. I think Stvie's music, both lyrically and musically have a lot more depth to them. Oh, and he sounds better too!
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Where's the love for Wevie Stonder?
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