Stevie Wonder - Music of My Mind
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Free Music Review: Simply Breathtaking!
Hit: 5 Stars
Now 23,I grew up on all the 60's and 70's classic Wonderhits.What a shock when I turned 15 and baught this-I was amazed
then and I'm amazed now."Music Of My Mind" is the pure,open-
minded funky exploration of a liberated soul-someone forced to do
others (Motown's) bidding for years and is now doing what he wishes.And I'm glad he did.The noisy,fuzzed,uptempo starter
"Love Having You Around" sounds nothing like a Wonder track
thus far-it sounds like a brilliant collaberation with every
jazz-funk pioneer of the day but no-it's all one guy."Superwomen"
takes Stevie's more familiar love song style and gives it a
far more mature rendering-ditto for "I Love Every Little Thing
About You"."Sweet Little Girl" is an oddly bluesy soul track heavy on harmonica and segueing into an Isaac Hayes-esqe "rap" at
the end.The peaceful "Happier then The Morning Sun" uses the
then-novel clavinet as one usually an acoustic guitar-considering
it's the only instrument on the track."Seems So Long" and "Evil"
are fairly traditional for this kind of album but "Girl Blue"
is a very unconventional slow number with a flowing arrangement.
"Keep On Running" is Wonder's most strident funk thus far,and
keeping it up for a full eight-minutes.Wheather or not it's
a flaw or an asset,"Music Of My Mind" has o it's credit being
Wonder's only album to day from which a hit single could not be
drawn-it surely isn't commercial,it isn't traditional pop music
but it's very memorable,impeccably produced and executed and in
many respects very catchy.You just have to hear it!
Free Music Review: New Remastering Opens up this MIND
Hit: 5 Stars
The dark horse of Stevie Wonder's "70s Power Albums",MOMM is a more experimental album.Though not given classic status like it's predecessors,it established Stevie as a major artist.For year it has been revered,yet its CD release in 1988 has been shoddy with sub-par sound(a travisty considering it was recorded at circa-1971 state of the art studios like Electric Lady) as well as reduced packaging(no lyrics,truncated cover)usually treated as a budget line product.Now MOMM has been remastered in crisp clean digital sound that brings out a clarity that probably hasn't been heard since its been mastered all those years ago.Happier Than The Morning Sun finally sounds as bright as its title indicates,while the funky clavinets of Love Having You Around and Keep On Running sounds as sweaty and sinister as they would on Superstition.Superwoman(Where Were You When I Needed You), already previewed on At The Close Of A Century,benefits the most with its errie yet mournful synth lines enhanced.Lost since the vinyl format has been phased out,is the original gatefold collage as well as the lyrics.MOMM, although dense and experimental,is now a new listening experience like when you first laid the needle down for the first time back in '72 and heard all these new sounds and textures in Stevie's music.Free Music Review: The explanation for every thing that follows...
Hit: 5 Stars
This CD is pure Stevie. I must admit that I am still in the process of "discovering" Stevie Wonder (I only have this album and the 5 that follow) and so far I feel that "Music of My Mind" and "Songs In the Key of Life" are the best."Music..." is incredible from beginning to end. It is a cohesive album that flows entirely. Every song is great. After listening to it only a few times, I was already singing along with it. I felt as though I had heard all the songs before I had ever heard them (you know what I mean?). Fantastic melodies which are so much fun to listen to (and sing!).
I myself play music and this album is incredibly challenging, but at the same time very simple. I would recommend this album purely for the musicianship and more importantly the songwriting aspects. The chord changes are crazy!! The melodies are perfect!! All of it is beautifully produced and sounds crisp and new. I heard this for the first time 30 years after it was released and it is still applicable in every way music can be applied; musicians and non alike.
For weeks, I would play the disc in my car while going out on the town and all of my friends love it and want it!!... I can't say how much this album means to me. It really gets me going in all sorts of ways be they happy, sad, ready to party, ready to cry, nostalgic, or optimistic. It really is a positive sound without being corny or sappy. This and "Songs in the Key of Life" are really some albums you can fall in love with. I can't remember finding an album that I could just listen to over and over and each time it would get better and better. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED...ESSENTIAL?? YUP.
Free Music Review: By any other artist this would get 5 stars
Hit: 4 Stars
I was weighing up whether to give this five stars or four. I had reviewed all of Stevie albums from the 70s (except Secret Life of Plants because I haven't heard it and Songs in the Key of Life because that review will take some time since that album is so great) and given them 5 stars each. Is Music of My Mind a contender of Stevie's greatest album. Possibly. But with the opposition, Music seems to be lost. Talking Book, Fulfilliness First Finale and Songs In The Key of Life are better than Music of My Mind. However raw Music of My Mind is, I felt it was better than Innervisions. To be fair to Innervisions, it is a classic so I gave it 5 stars. To be fair to his other albums, I had to give it 4 stars. Favourite cuts would have to be I Love Every Little Thing You Do, Love Having You Around and EvilFree Music Review: Stevie's First and Lesser-Known of 70's "Power" Albums
Hit: 4 Stars
Music Of My Mind is the album that showed what Steveland Morris (aka Stevie Wonder) was TRULY capable of doing once creative control was given to him by the Motown execs. Here is Stevie spotlighted as producer, composer, arranger, lyricist, singer, and musician, doing it in a way that might seem pedestrian in today's age of synthesized instrumentation and electronic studio wizardry, yet seemed like a revelation at the time this underrated gem was released. Every track offers some part of what Stevie's all about as an artist and the seminal work he does with the budding synthesizer technology he had access to back then alone is worth picking up this album for.I would've given this a 5-star rating for what it spawned afterwards in terms of Stevie's phenomenal output during the 70's, but as it is I winded up docking a star only because his following albums, especially the next two that came immediately after MOMM were even better in terms of the focus and artistic vision that were showcased. Still, no serious music listener can trace the development of Stevie Wonder the self-contained artist without first checking up on this undoubtedly essential album.