Songs In The Key Of Life
by Stevie Wonder

From AAL2014 TOP 100 COMMENTER 02/17/2015 01:53 | #135144 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

I don't care what anyone says, this is a top 100 album of all time. No question. Hands down. Let's move on. It is so much better than many albums ahead of it on our website. Objectively I would put it in the top 50.

Anyway, this is an album any fan of music should take in at some point. It is Stevie's masterpiece (even though he had 5 incredible albums). It is so well composed, organized, and performed. So much soul and passion put into this album that took more than 2 years to be released.

I was lucky enough to see him play it live in its entirety and I was given an entirely new view on this beautiful work of art. And as I type this, I have it spinning on the turntable. Again, what a work of art. (Edited)

I know some others have said it already, but this really is one of the few double albums that deserve to be a double album. There is not one filler track, and it covers so many styles yet remains one cohesive unit. It works better than even some progressive rock concept albums that are deliberately trying to retain a thematic element yet they don't get as much success out of it as much as Stevie Wonder just being himself. An additional EP of 4 songs was released afterward with most recent versions of the album including these songs, and they are just as amazing, and easily could have been added on to make it an official triple album from the beginning and I don't think anyone would have minded. When you listen to this album, you listen to a majority of popular music from the 70's and even today. It's a wonderful introduction album to Stevie, as well as an introduction album to good music in general. Frankly it should be in the top 100 on this website at the very least!

From JoaoMoreira 10/28/2016 03:42 | #177602 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

When an album that is genius is also not as great as it should be. It's not easy to get this inside your head.
Almost all songs are great but also all songs are too way extended and the brilliance gets lost. That's the main issue with Stevie Wonder. The guys a genius without a doubt but it feels like he likes too much what he creates.

This is clearly an historic album but if only there were an outside producer to control the excess.

From buzzdainer TOP 100 COMMENTER 05/02/2021 16:42 | #269240 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

Songs in the Key of Life is the rare case in which there is no real way to overhype the artist's achievement. Stevie Wonder's sound on this sprawling album draws seemingly effortlessly from funk, pop, jazz, and Latin styles. Tracks range from the fusion groove of “Contusion” to the delicate voice-and-harp duet “If It’s Magic.” Though more than 130 musicians are listed in the credits (including such stars as Herbie Hancock, George Benson, and Minnie Riperton), Songs in the Key of Life never strays from the singular, blazing vision of one artist. The sneaky pre-chorus in “Knocks Me Off My Feet,” the transcendent, spiraling rise of “As”—hooks pile on top of hooks, tucked irresistibly and unerringly into breaks, fills, and intros, most obviously on the album’s two biggest hits, the nostalgic, swaggering “I Wish” and the shout-out to Wonder’s jazz forebears “Sir Duke,” which quickly took up permanent residence in the repertoire of every marching band in the country. A landmark album by one of my favorite artists of the seventies.

From Tamthebam TOP 100 COMMENTER 12/18/2014 15:46 | #129608 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

One of the greatest double albums of all time and along with Innervisions two of the greatest soul/RnB albums ever. I remember there was a lot of hype before the release of this album as it was delayed time and time again before finally being released at the end of 1976. It more than lived up to the hype. I remember when I finally got my copy and I listened to it for 2 days solid. There are another 4 tracks which were part of the record at the time of release in the form of a 7" single - Saturn, Ebony Eyes, All Day Sucker & the instrumental Easy Goin' Evening My Mama's Call which are now tracks regarded as being part of the album so the album has actually 21 tracks.