Living For The City (track)
by Stevie Wonder

Living For The City by Stevie Wonder
Year: 1973
From the album Innervisions (track #3)
Average Rating: 
91/100 (from 378 votes)
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Visions
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Living For The City
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Living For The City appears on the following album(s) by Stevie Wonder:


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Average Rating: 
91/100 (from 378 votes)
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This track is rated in the top 1% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 90.7/100, a mean average of 90.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 91.1/100. The standard deviation for this track is 11.5.

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From 01/25/2021 20:10 | #265096
My favorite Stevie Wonder song. A sprawling epic that tells the story of a black boy growing up in poverty, and the struggles him and his family go through
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From 12/30/2018 22:01 | #228350
wonderful storytelling.
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From 06/24/2016 19:54 | #169645
A mindblowing trip of a song taking the listener to places they've never wanted to go, but must.
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From 03/27/2015 13:29 | #137934
A song that captures the troubles of the city in specific for black people.
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From 06/15/2014 23:57 | #114532
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