Stevie Wonder - Music of My Mind
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Artist: Stevie WonderEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2000-03-21
Music Label: Motown
Soundtracks:
- Love Having You Around
- Superwoman (Where Were You When I Needed You)
- I Love Everylittle Thing About You
- Sweet Little Girl
- Happier Than The Morning Sun
- Girl Blue
- Seems So Long
- Keep On Running
- Evil
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Free Music Review: (3.5 stars) Great, but overrated
Hit: 4 Stars
Look, I'm a massive Stevie Wonder fan. If you ask me, all his albums from Talking Book to Hotter Than July are absolute essentials, and along with the Rolling Stones he was the best musician of the '70s. I even like most of In Square Circle, though it takes a lot of abuse. And this... well, there's a lot to like about it. It's mostly creative. It's consistent. It has a couple great songs. But in truth I don't feel this ranks among his best material. There are a mere nine songs here, and only five of those nine are any good. The atmospheric space-funk-jazz - think Pink Floyd, almost - "Superwoman" is obviously the best, one of the two that does rank among Stevie's best material. The other is the powerful funk of "Keep On Runnin'", with a fantastic clavinet part and great refrain. Okay, maybe the non-space funk "Love Having You Around" does too, if I'm in a good mood. And "I Love Every Little Thing About You" is pleasant, at least. Unlike "Sweet Little Girl". That slurred voice over really gets on my nerves. I'm sure it's supposed to be a parody or something, but it's a bad parody. I gotta admit, though, that part about Sweet Sweetback and the "I love you more than my clavinet!" line is funny. Too bad he had to say it in the stupid slurred drunk voice. It just may be the worst song of his "mature" career. "Happier Than the Morning Sun" is annoyingly minimalist, not as much of a song as it is Stevie playing an annoying harpsichord-like keyboard and reciting some dull love song lyrics; "Girl Blue" is a particularly painful ballad with more trite lyrics (this is one Wonder release you don't listen to for its lyrics - unlike the next five. It's also got those damn phased vocals). He's just getting to know synthesizers here, too: sometimes he works wonders with them (the closing sermon "Evil"; funky "Keep on Running"; jazzy on "Superwoman"), sometimes he works blunders with them ("Seems so Long"). So this is slightly uneven and not as consistent as what was to come, in spite of containing one or two of Wonder's greatest songs. A few words more about the lyrics: Stevie was nowhere near his socially relevant peak here. Every song but "Evil" is a love song, which isn't bad, but hey, I've heard a lot of love songs. More to the point, both "Love Having You Around" and "I Love Everything About You" contain the lyric "You've been (or stuck) with me through thick and thin" - in fact, the lyrics to those two and "Happier Than the Morning Sun" are essentially the same things. And both "Sweet Little Girl" and "Girl Blue" use the term "Little girl" predominately, which shows me he didn't really put much thought into these lyrics. But the next five albums are fantastic. Especially the follow-up, Talking Book. Please do get all of those. They rule.
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Stevie Wonder was getting his fusion of soul, rock, and various other styles together when Music of My Mind appeared in early 1972. A bit shapeless compared with Talking Book, the masterpiece he'd release by the end of the year, this disc nonetheless finds the then-21-year-old self-assuredly deploying an array of synthesized textures and natural voices: check out the drawl lurking around the edges of "Sweet Little Girl." Not an essential album, but an entertaining one--and one that, in retrospect, carried enormous implications for the future of American music. --Rickey WrightPop Music CDs
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