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| From | Stewart Mason <flamingo@theworld.com> |
| Subject | Re: Rainy day driving music |
| Date | Mon, 07 Apr 2003 18:29:44 -0400 |
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At 07:35 PM 4/7/2003 -0000, stevedurben2000 wrote:
>Dave, I did the same thing with BMG! Only I went for 4 discs by
>Stevie (INNERVISIONS, MUSIC OF MY MIND, TALKING BOOK, FULFILLINGNESS
>FIRST FINALE). I'm with you on this being great and essential stuff.
>If I had to pick I might pick FFF as my fav but it's really
>interchangeable for me with INNERVISIONS (I just don't like the lead
>track on Innervisions) & TB. It's "weird" how he was at such a peak
>and followed with SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE. Then churned out SECRET
>LIFE OF PLANTS, which I have not heard but understand it is dreadful
>(true ?). He never seemed to regain what he once had (if I'm mistaken
>about that someone please let me know).
That's not at all true about SECRET LIFE OF PLANTS, which I really enjoy.
The crappy reviews I think were due at the time to people misunderstanding
the point of the album, that it was a mostly-instrumental, jazz-leaning
score to a documentary film. Stevie hadn't released a new album since KEY
OF LIFE some three or four years previously, and when this album came out,
a surprising number of people didn't twig that SECRET LIFE wasn't really a
"proper" Stevie Wonder album. I'm not going to claim that this is a
masterpiece or anything, but it's better than its reviews would lead you to
believe.
HOTTER THAN JULY wasn't entirely useless either.
S
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