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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Back To His Best, 10 Nov 2005
It’s always easy for lazy reviewers to listen to a new Stevie album just once and dismiss it as: ‘Not as good as Innervisions, Fulfillingness, Songs in the Key…’ What they fail to realise that like the rest of Mr Wonder’s music, this long awaited album improves every time you hear it.
I was excited about this album as soon as I heard the single So What the Fuss. As usual Stevie kept us waiting for the album, but it was well worth the wait.
This is without doubt Stevie’s finest moment since Hotter Than July. In my opinion there is not a single weak song in this 15 track set.
The opener - If Your Love Cannot Be Moved - is an absolute cracker as Stevie teams up with Kim Burrell. Sweetest Somebody I Know is a beautiful love song, as is Moon Blue - one of the real stand outs.
I cannot get Passionate Raindrops out of my head. It reminds me a little of Rocket Love and has a very infectious chorus. The highlights keep coming and the title track is another impressive moment.
The very best Stevie Wonder albums have all combined moments of funk, sweet melodies, meaningful lyrics dealing with the world’s problems and endless helpings of sweet, sweet soul.
This delivers on all fronts and if, as rumoured, Stevie tours the UK to promote this album, I’ll be as happy to hear the new stuff as the old classics.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Time To Love, 3 April 2006
By A Customer
As an owner of the vast back catalogue of Stevie Wonder albums, I am shamed to admit that it took me nearly a year to purchase this album. (No not because an ability to raise the money)But because of fear. Fear. Fear that the album would not be as good as the many others I own. Fear that I would be dissapointed. Well having finally bought the album last week, I now realise what a mistake I've mad. 77 minutes, of pure magic. No, not the funky edge of Innervisions. But that was 30 years ago. This is 2006. Music and society has changed. And this is a trully classic fusion, of soul, jazz and rnb, providing one of the great contemporary albums. For what it's worth would recommend any Stevie Wonder fan, to dip into their pocket and have this sitting proudly alongise all the other great Stevie Wonder albums. Three, or four songs in particular are just pure magic.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
It grows on you, 2 Nov 2005
Stevie will never again write another Songs In The Key Of Life, Innervisions or Talking Book. Which makes it very difficult to assess his later material, given that you inevitably compare it to what in my opinion is the best music created in the 20th Century.
Furthermore, Stevie will never again be the angry young black blind man living through the late 60s, absorbing and Wonderising influences from funk and psychedelia. He has for many years now been what I would call "cosy", and it becomes almost impossible for songwriters to maintain their brilliance when surrounded by creature comforts and invited onto talk shows.
So I bought this album with a fair amount of trepidation. Would it be I Wish or I Just Called to say I Love You? The "real" Stevie or commercial pap?
At the first listen, I must say I was none too impressed. The odd funky punch, a good bit of inimitable harmonica, some pleasant melodies, but on balance a bit too sugar sweet and ballady.
However, I refused to believe that my Stevie would let me down, so I listened twice, then a third time, and felt a lot better about the album. This man is a brilliant songwriter and flashes of brilliance remain. Some tracks are fillers but the majority are great tunes, perfectly produced, with the classic Stevie combination of killer melodies and great funk.
So all you Stevie fans out there don't despair, give it the benefit of the doubt and I'm sure you'll feel like me that the guy's still got it in him!
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