Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key Of Life
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Release date: 06 July 2004
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Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key Of Life: Wikipedia Album Entry
Songs in the Key of Life was Stevie Wonder's longest, most ambitious collection of songs, a two-LP (plus accompanying EP) set that -- just as the title promised -- touched on nearly every issue under the sun, and did it all with ambitious (even for him), wide-ranging arrangements and some of the best performances of Wonder's career. The opening "Love's in Need of Love Today" and "Have a Talk with God" are curiously subdued, but Stevie soon kicks into gear with "Village Ghetto Land," a fierce exposé of ghetto neglect set to a satirical Baroque synthesizer. Hot on its heels comes the torrid fusion jam "Contusion," a big, brassy hit tribute to the recently departed Duke Ellington in "Sir Duke," and (another hit, this one a Grammy winner as well) the bumping poem to his childhood, "I Wish." Though they didn't necessarily appear in order, Songs in the Key of Life contains nearly a full album on love and relationships, along with another full album on issues social and spiritual. Fans of the love album Talking Book can marvel that he sets the bar even higher here, with brilliant material like the tenderly cathartic and gloriously redemptive "Joy Inside My Tears," the two-part, smooth-and-rough "Ordinary Pain," the bitterly ironic "All Day Sucker," or another classic heartbreaker, "Summer Soft." Those inclined toward Stevie Wonder the social-issues artist had quite a few songs to focus on as well: "Black Man" was a Bicentennial school lesson on remembering the vastly different people who helped build America; "Pastime Paradise" examined the plight of those who live in the past and have little hope for the future; "Village Ghetto Land" brought listeners to a nightmare of urban wasteland; and "Saturn" found Stevie questioning his kinship with the rest of humanity and amusingly imagining paradise as a residency on a distant planet. If all this sounds overwhelming, it is; Stevie Wonder had talent to spare during the mid-'70s, and instead of letting the reserve trickle out during the rest of the decade, he let it all go with one massive burst. (His only subsequent record of the '70s was the similarly gargantuan but largely instrumental soundtrack Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants.)
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Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key Of Life Lyrics
Stevie Wonder - I Wish Lyrics
Looking back on when I was a little nappy headed boy
Then my only worry was for Christmas what would be my toy
Even though we sometimes would not get a thing
We were happy with the joy the day would bring
Stevie Wonder - Love's in Need of Love Today Lyrics
Good morn or evening friends
Here's your friendly announcer
I have serious news to pass on
To everybody
Stevie Wonder - Ebony Eyes Lyrics
She's a miss beautiful supreme
A girl that others wish that they could be
If there's seven wonders of the world
Then I know she's got to be number one
Stevie Wonder - Black Man Lyrics
First man to die
For the flag we now hold high
Was a black man
The ground were we stand
Stevie Wonder - All Day Sucker Lyrics
Come on up you say
'Cause you can feel your love comin' down
I find myself rushin' over to
Do something for your love
Stevie Wonder - Summer Soft Lyrics
Summer soft
Wakes you up with a kiss to start the morning off
In the midst of herself playin' Santa Claus
She brings gifts through her breeze
Stevie Wonder - Saturn Lyrics
Packing my bags, going away
To a place where the air is clean on Saturn
There's no sense to sit and watch people die
We don't fight our wars the way you do
Stevie Wonder - Pastime Paradise Lyrics
Theyâve been spending most their lives
Living in a pastime paradise
They've been spending most their lives
Living in a pastime paradise
Stevie Wonder - Ordinary Pain Lyrics
When by the phone, in vain you sit
You very soon in your mind realize
That it's not just an ordinary pain in your heart
Stevie Wonder - Joy Inside My Tears Lyrics
I've always come to the conclusion that 'but' is the way
Of asking for permission to lay something heavy on one's head
So I have tried to not be the one who'll fall into that line
But what I feel inside, I think you should know
Stevie Wonder - Have A Talk With God Lyrics
There are people who have let the problems of today
Lead them to conclude that for them life is not the way
But every problem has an answer and if your's you cannot find
You should talk it over to Him, He'll give you peace of mind
Stevie Wonder - If It's Magic Lyrics
If it's magic, then why can't it be everlasting
Like the sun that always shines
Like the poets in this rhyme
Like the galaxies in time
Stevie Wonder - Village Ghetto Land Lyrics
Would you like to go with me
Down my dead end street?
Would you like to come with me
To Village Ghetto Land?
Stevie Wonder - Isn't She Lovely Lyrics
Isn't she lovely? Isn't she wonderful?
Isn't she precious? Less than one minute old
I never thought through love
We'd be making one as lovely as she
Stevie Wonder - Knocks Me Off My Feet Lyrics
I see us in the park
Strolling the summer days
Of imaginings in my head
And words from our hearts
Stevie Wonder - Sir Duke Lyrics
Music is a world within itself
With a language we all understand
With an equal opportunity
For all to sing, dance and clap their hands
Stevie Wonder - As Lyrics
As around the sun the earth knows she's revolving
And the rose buds know to bloom in early May
Just as hate knows love's the cure you can rest your mind assure
That I'll be loving you always
Stevie Wonder - Another Star Lyrics
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Stevie Wonder - Ngicuelela - Es Una Historia - I Am Singing Lyrics
[Ngiculela]
[Zulu translation by Thoko Mdalose Hall]
Ngiculela ikusasg
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