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My personal favorite song is the amazing "Knocks Me Off My Feet." Everything about this song is great from the melody to the magnificent production, namely the piano chords. I have appreciated Stevie Wonder for a long time, but after listening to "Songs in the Key of Life", I think I'm in love. This song immediately grasps your attention and holds it until song's end. This album was released in 1976, but somehow each and every song sounds crisp and fresh.
This is music at it's very best.Mikeisha's Top 51. It sounds so good that it sounds like it was recorded yesterday. There are a string of hits on "Songs in the Key of Life" like "Isn't She Lovely.", "As", "Pastime Paradise", "Sir Duke" and "I Wish." Though those tracks were released, each and every song is worth listening to and Wonder obviously put time into each track. When people have conversations about what the best albums of all-time are, most of the time I hear "Songs in the Key of Life" mentioned. "Pastime Paradise"4. "Ebony Eyes" is another highlight.
If "Songs in the Key of Life" is not in your collection, I don't know what's wrong; you need to add it quickly. This is music.
"I Wish"5. What a beautiful, creative, inspirational and sincere piece of work this is.
"Knocks Me off My Feet"2. "As" sends chills through me with every listen.
This song was sampled by a rapper named Nonchalant; she called her version "Until the Day." The lyrics to "As" are very profound. "As"3.
"Isn't She Lovely"
I owned this album in cassette version in the 70's and I had forgotten how fabulous it was. I especially love "I am singing" on cd #2. I used to call it my happy album, because it just plain made me feel good and I am so glad to own it again in cd. I find myself playing it over and over again as a blast from the past and singing at the top of my lungs with it. Buy it. You won't believe how good it feels.
Without the violin serenades, minus the metronome of our actions and measured against our words, he's as ever simple genius here.Would you be happy here, he asks in Renaissance flair. It's just a feeling of the power of the music, its ability to bring you joy. I went to work in those ghettos. Tell me. I listened to the album wearing grooves in the grooves in college.It brightened dingy walls with falling plaster and watermarked stains that held a kid that wanted to be an "artist." One who lost, turned into a teacher that seems a perpetual student. And wobbles like the owner.And I hear records are returning. That's when I got kicked. it really is hard to pick.But for me the album opens with Sir Duke.
Not all but some of my favorite Wonder years tunes are here. The rhythm. Stevie Wonder gave a set of songs that I can put on in times I'm utterly soundless to solutions and exhausted, waiting to get through, or slip by, and find myself inspired.The songs are filled with love, "Wonder," I think the sheer appreciation for life, take a song like "Village Ghetto Land" it's such a statement on life for a child in a ghetto-how really has it changed. What a tribute to his relationship to music.Kids, let me assure you, like the music. I think not.I don't find you here.Maybe "I Wish" is my favorite.hummm.maybe. Or Knocks me Off My Feet. Joyful.I just bought it again to replace the vinyl that skips and jumps. I hope they are.I loved setting up my turntable with this one late nights painting.Like the sound still.Small review, insignificant reviewer, mighty musician.
Just fine. Mother loved it. Was something shes been looking for on disc for a long time. shipped immediately.
I am 25 years old and I like to listen to call kinds of music, nothing is off limits. Imagine my shame to discover Coolio did not write the hook for Gangsta's Paradise (Pastime paradise)among others. I'm mad my parents and others never made me listen to this album. Pretty much every song on this album has been sampled. Thanks a lot guys. I could've been listening to awesome and classicly modern music ages ago.
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