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albummaster
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- #1
- Posted: 07/17/2013 20:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#973): Songs in the Key of Life
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Today's album of the day
Songs in the Key of Life by Stevie Wonder (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 1976.
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Overall rank: 132
Average rating: 82/100 (from 366 votes).
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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
11. Isn't She Lovely
12. Joy Inside My Tears
13. Black Man
14. Ngiculela - Es Una Historia - I Am Singing
15. If It's Magic
16. As
17. Another Star
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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- #2
- Posted: 07/17/2013 20:12
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I would listen to this, it's in my collection, but I'm not sure I like Wonder enough to listen to 85 minutes of him.
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RockyRaccoon
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Jasonconfused
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- #4
- Posted: 07/17/2013 21:09
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| Puncture Repair wrote: | | I would listen to this, it's in my collection, but I'm not sure I like Wonder enough to listen to 85 minutes of him. |
This. This exactly. Well except it's not in my collection. Stevie Wonder I can handle in single doses, but so much Stevie Wonder at once is probably too much for me to handle.
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drakonium
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- #5
- Posted: 07/17/2013 21:15
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Actually this is IMO not too much at all. This reminds me of a London Calling for soul music. There's really a bit of everything here, and I personally am never bored while listening to it.
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- #6
- Posted: 07/17/2013 22:17
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This is the album that got me liking soul pop. You know how I consider a song worse than 7/10 a flop? Well, back when I first joined, I was surprised to find this album had no "flops." And half the songs were really good.
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Defago
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- #7
- Posted: 07/17/2013 22:26
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Pretty good for reggae.
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Patman360
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- #8
- Posted: 07/17/2013 22:40
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| drakonium wrote: | | Actually this is IMO not too much at all. This reminds me of a London Calling for soul music. There's really a bit of everything here, and I personally am never bored while listening to it. |
Yeah, I'm down with this, I think it's a really good album, not too long at all.
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Mercury
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- #9
- Posted: 07/18/2013 03:38
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This is truly an epic and transcendent album. In my opinion this is absolutely one of the greatest albums ever made. No doubt about that. And really Stevie in his prime was one of the greatest greats there ever was. So diverse and impressive.
It's number 20 on my chart and here is what I wrote on my chart for this album.
"Stevie was, is, a DEEP dude. He's also an extremely gifted musician. He's a master of R&B and Soul and Blues and Jazz and many forms of music. He takes all these elements of greatness and throws them together here. "Songs in the key of life" is one if the greatest double albums i've heard and there a very few missteps throughout. Okay, so I coulda been without "Contusion", but hell! if I have to take that track in order to experience the spiritual uplifting power of almost every other track here, I'm okay with it. And on "Saturn" he took all those elements of music he mastered and took it to another world! Pure genius!"
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- #10
- Posted: 07/18/2013 04:09
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Good album, but waaaaaaay too long. For that reason, I never have any reason to listen to it, and I'll never have any reason to put it on my chart.
Oh, and there's lots of filler. I mean, "Black Man"? I like the message, but there's no reason that song should go on for 8-1/2 minutes.
"As" is the shit, though.
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