This album comes in the middle of an extraordinary run of albums Stevie did in the 70's, all of which are required listening. Music of My Mind (1972), Talking Book (1972), Fulfillingness' First Finale (1974) and Songs in the Key of Life (1975) you need to put on your must hear list.
What came bursting from this man after getting his creative freedom was just phenomenal. The writing, the singing, the playing and the volume of output are hard to comprehend. What a gift he has and is.
I've listened to this song at least a few hundred times, but listening it to it now (while you were reacting) made me realize how outrageously incredible that double harmonica solo was/is. This Innervisions album is Stevie's best, and is an unquestionable masterpiece.
Oh, this is such a classic piece of work by the great Stevie Wonder. We were all so into this album in high school. Do not… DO NOT miss He’s Mistra Know It All. My favorite. Not having heard this song in such a long time… wow! With more musically mature ears, this song is incredible. The jazz licks and dual harmonicas (all played by Stevie). Crazy good and you might say, ‘that’s how you end a great album’.
Beyond the beyond! Stevie Wonder to me is Bowie/Miles Davis/Dylan/Chopin/Sly Stone/Billy Holiday and Nina Simone rolled into one big ball of love and joy and soul and enlightenment and wonder and magic. I was lucky to see him a few years ago in Toronto performing Songs In The Key Of Life in its entirety. Was a 4 hour show with encores. The many 1,000s of us that were lucky to be there had lumps in our throats and tears on our faces the entire night. I'll never be the same. So blessed!!
Love this tune. It's a great example of why jazz musicians love playing Stevie Wonder's music. A grooving bass line, strong melody, and fantastic harmonic changes.
Stevie Wonder's harmonica playing is unmistakeable! 'Innversions' is the third in a remarkable run of classic albums as Stevie took full artistic control of his music for the first time - 'Music Of My Mind', 'Talking Book', 'Innerversions', 'Fulfillingness' First Finale' and 'Songs In The Key of Life'.
Stevie was ahead of everyone else. He was the first artist to use synthesizers in a purely musical way (on his album "Music of My Mind" in 1970). Sure, he had some hits, but during the early 70s, he was an Artist with a capital "A".
The harmonica in this song is just fantastic. I believe he's playing drums in this too. He played most of the instruments on this album. So phenomenal. He's one of my all time favorites
Iconic musician. The chord progressions in this song are insane! On top of that, he makes it palatable to a larger audience. If that’s not genius then I don’t know what is! 🎹
Looking back - I now realize how nonchalant I was reacting to Stevie Wonder’s brilliance. I just expected him to (continuously) be one of the most innovative artists in modern music. But damn…I’m now certain I didn’t give him enough credit. Innervisions is an exceptional compilation. But “Songs In The Key Of Life” is quintessential Stevie Wonder.
All of Stevie's 70's output has great moments, but Innervisions sits on top for me. JP, if you don't do the whole album, you got to give Livin' For The City a spin.
Innervisions was my first Stevie Wonder album and remains a favorite to this day (right up there with Bridge Over Troubled Water; Crime of the Century; Hard Days Night; Chicago V; Tales From Topographic Oceans; American Garage; Can't Buy a Thrill; etc.). As has been mentioned, Stevie was on fire in the 70s. In both '74 and '75 he took home Grammys in several major categories, including best album. When Paul Simon accepted the award for best album for Still Crazy After All These Years in 1976 he had this to say: "Well, I'm very happy to win this. I want to thank Phil Ramone, who co-produced this with me. And Phoebe Snow who sang along with me on the album. And Art Garfunkel who sang with me on "My Little Town." And most of all I'd like to thank Stevie Wonder, who didn't make an album this year." (Bytheway, Phoebe Snow is someone you need to listen to. I mean, seriously, you just gotta...) My favorites on Innervision are Livin' for the City (album version!), which is not just a great song, but an important song; Golden Lady, a lovely and lively little love song; and Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing, only one of the happiest songs ever -- just try not to move to the groove... Carry on, friend! This is fun!
I played this album yesterday, the vinyl is great but the sleeve is battered, will I buy it again? You bet! It's a stand out album by a genius, every home should own one (or two). Great idea for Sunday JP!
Stevie Wonder is one of my All-Time favorite Music artist along with Paul McCartney who also plays a variety of instruments on his albums!!!! Stevie is a Genius!!!!
Can you believe this was Stevie Wonder's 16th album? Indeed....Stevie plays 95% of the instruments on several of his albums. Innervisions is one of my favorite albums of his. His Journey Through The Secret Life of Plants was one of the first two albums I bought with my own money ( together with the original Star Wars soundtrack ). The albums he made between 1972 and 1981 are all really good ( most of them are brilliant ). Lots of great tracks before 1972. A few good tracks after 1981 ( my opinion ).
The bass line is to die for. The music is uplifting but it’s about drug use, much like Steely Dan who wrote about the seemier side of life in such catchy tunes. That fact that he played every instrument still amazes me. A true musical savant. Will we ever see another like him? With so much reliance on computers and digital music making, not sure we will. Great song for a Sunday Justin.
The Wesley Snipes movie Passenger 57 - one of those rare movies that whenever I catch it on cable I hang in there during the closing credits because they play an abridged version of this fantastic track
Nice vocal, Justin! This is such a great song, and perfectly recorded. It sounds as good today as it did in 1973. “Innervisions” and “Songs In The Key Of Life” are his best albums. This one is soul-jazz-funk-rock fusion, and were thankfully not meant to be only for commercial consumption, although it had some radio hits and crossed over from soul into rock radio. “Songs In The Key Of Life” has a lot of styles and has some stellar gems on it. I love some of his early pop hits from the 1960s too. Once he got into the “I Just Called To Say I Love You” slick 80s commercial vibe he lost his harder edge and I kind of lost interest, but of course he’s always good. He’s a genius.
You must listen to his first break from the Motown machine LPs called MUSIC OF MY MIND & TALKING BOOK before Innervisions as well. Both released in the 1972 (the epic peak year of creativity in music) Stevie was on the level of all the pure great icons of their own genres LIKE YES, JONI, ZAPPA, Mahavishnu... and he continued throughout the 70s with groundbreaking masterpieces. As a Black kid I grew up listening to artist who were often not accepted yet in to the mainstream. CROSSOVER was a term that meant Black artist who made it in White society or when Whites got turned in the music they were ignoring. Talking Book's Superstition did it for Stevie yet the rest album is also BRILLIANT!
Evening Justin. Dave from a very sodden London (Here Comes The Flood... again!). This album and Songs in the Key of Life are fantastic and are often on my CD player. Amazingly talented fella, and his music covers so much ground and reaches so many people. Thanks to you, I'm just through season 1 of The Expanse. Terrific - you could say it's a belter! Season 2 scheduled for after the Olympics (talking of which, I mentioned a while back that Muse's Prelude/Survival was the official theme to London 2012 - just saying!).
My goodness. Finally getting to some Stevie! No mere words can describe how awesome that man is. Hope you go with the whole album! I was reading the other day where Jack White said he doesn’t trust anyone who doesn’t like Zeppelin. I agree with him and feel the same way about Stevie.
This guy was extremely talented, from such an early age. A child prodigy no less. 3 seconds of some of his songs are better then, some people’s whole output.
Too High is about drug abuse, one of the few times Wonder dealt with the subject. While the songs on Innervisions are largely in the genres of soul and funk, "Too High" has a definite ring of jazz fusion to it. Perhaps garnishing the arrangement like a sprig of parsley, even a hint of Bebop. The song is driven home starkly with its menacing Moog bass, sinister distorted chorus vocals, nightmarishly surreal lyrics, piercing scat singing, shrill harmonica solo, frequent jazzy harmonic dissonances, a bleak Fender Rhodes interlude close to the end just after the woman dies, and its glacial a capella coda.
@@itchyvinyl I agree with you about Songs In The Key Of Life which is certainly nice but not completely successful on the whole, because for me this double album contains some songs that serve as filler and I also find that many tracks are really too long for what they are when they could have been shortened (such as "Isn't She Lovely" which I prefer the single version). I prefer stevie Wonder's albums from Music Of My Mind to Fulfillingness' First Finale included.
Just a footnote to this song, but I was an extra in a film, and when I say extra I mean I was on set for 3 weeks in which I did some minor stunt work and appearing in several shots so it was an encompassing experience, AND filmed in Sanford, Florida not far from you, and when I went to my first viewing of it this song ended the closing credits and I thought, Oh, that's perfect! Can you guess the movi9?
@@JustJP PASSENGER 57 about a group of terrorists on an airplane and Wesley Snipes as an airline security specialist so TOO HIGH was a perfect song choice for that movie.
Noice. Just when I needed it. This album is my start point for Stevie, then I go forward and backwards from it. Albums, Music Of My Mind, Talking Book, Innervisions, Fulfillingness’s First Finale, Songs In The Key Of Life, and and the often left out, The Secret Life Of Plants. Never leave out TSLOP, imo. I could listen to all these albums, one after the other, and I think I will. Peace and Icarus Music
@@markspooner1224 I thought it was Chevrolet, ha! I had a ‘64 Impala so… I know, duh. We were young, with albums that usually had no lyrics. We made them up.
"Innervisions" has an enticing atmosphere of mystery and spirituality, even on the songs with a more straightforward social or political message, that Stevie Wonder seems to have tried and recreate many times both before and after.
Very good mellow jazz fusion. Keyboards were smoking, drumming was lit, bass was on fire. Ps, Too high? No such thing:) Speaking of smooth jazz...maybe a return to Donald Fagen's Nightfly (you've only done one song and it is my least favorite song (musically) on the album).
Stevie Wonder is an Artist with a capital A. No one can reach his musical achievements in pop/R&B. One musician with a similiar voice is Finnish keyboard player Jukka Gustavson. His keyboard style resembles another Stevie, Steve Winwood but is more prog/jazz-orientated. One good song to listen to Jukka is Losing Hold by his former band Wigwam. There's also Pekka Pohjola on bass. Great piece.
Stevie's greatest achievement. Yes, I know that a lot of people prefer Songs in the Key of Average, but they're all wrong. Innervisions, unlike all of his other albums, doesn't contain a wasted moment or a nanosecond of filler. If he'd never written anything else, this album would be enough to make him a living legend.
PS- this is about as harmonically adventurous as Stevie got …the section that sounds ‘out of tune’ actually isn’t out of tune, but is using (I think) a whole tone scale, ‘in tune’ but dissonant.
It's tough. There's just a super large category that includes the music that's 'OK.' There's so much music in that category - one can't have a collection of all those songs/albums. This song isn't particularly memorable. It isn't bad. Not really good either. How can we own or collect all the songs that would fall into this category? We can't. So if you're of same wavelength as me - though SW is considered a pop music icon/genius I usually collect songs by him randomly and not listen to him via album. Too much 'OK' music and not enough great music. Remember as a prog guy SW doesn't hit enough sweet spots to continually interest me musically. He does however have the 25 songs that I do love and want to hear from time to time.
I have to admit this jazzy song is not one of my favorite Stevie tracks. "Higher Ground" is more my speed. "Superstition" rules. "Living for the City" is timeless. More Stevie please. Let the music play.
Not hugely au fait with SW myself, largely just his classics. And he's usually 'up there' but i didn't like this much at all. The main melody, a little discordant. Didn't like the doo-wop style backing vocals, and what was with that cymbal! Was that a mix error, the unusually pronounced cymbal (in my left ear) i found very distracting. There was a decent break in the middle, but not enough to redeem this track. I expected a lot better.
@@adamlumani So you heard the cymbal in your right ear :) Imagine my surprise, i've never heard a bum note from him before, but this i just couldn't get on board with.
@@adamlumani I only got them on the left, but my headphones aren't the best. They did sound over the top to me though. Maybe you're more of a cymbal lover than me :)
Everything you dislike about this song, is what I happen to like about it, not to mention that ridiculously insane drum groove throughout the entire song. When this album came out, it was like unwrapping a gift that kept on giving. His classics are fantastic but it's these somewhat lesser known cuts that really thrill me.
"Innervisions" definitely one of the best albums of the seventies. The whole album is brilliant.
Truly excellent.
One of the best of all time, really.
@@versatilejams Yes, during our lifetime so far.
Dueling harmonica solos, both by him. And all the other instruments… Genius.
"Songs in the Key of Life" is an amazing album as well.
This album comes in the middle of an extraordinary run of albums Stevie did in the 70's, all of which are required listening. Music of My Mind (1972), Talking Book (1972), Fulfillingness' First Finale (1974) and Songs in the Key of Life (1975) you need to put on your must hear list.
All genius albums that are absolutely essential
Songs in the Key of Life was released in 1976. And it's a bloated mess.
Innervisions is lean, mean and diamond clean.
@@SpaceCattttt i couldn't agree more
@@timcardona9962 I couldn’t disagree less.
@@lynnarthur_stillkickin2024 lol
What came bursting from this man after getting his creative freedom was just phenomenal. The writing, the singing, the playing and the volume of output are hard to comprehend. What a gift he has and is.
I Would Strongly Suggest At Least Listening To The Whole Album,, Even If You Don't React To It All..Simply Put,, It's An Absolute Must Hear Album.
Stevie Wonders drumming on this is so intricate.. Killer track
That drum and bass...just wow!! The epitome of perfection. One of my favorite songs. So glad you checked it out!
Brilliant rhythms. Love the double harmonica rifts. He was 23 when this was released. Supernatural talent.
Stevie is a genius. I would describe this as funk fusion.
My favorite Stevie album! And yes, perfect Sunday morning music 🧡
I've listened to this song at least a few hundred times, but listening it to it now (while you were reacting) made me realize how outrageously incredible that double harmonica solo was/is. This Innervisions album is Stevie's best, and is an unquestionable masterpiece.
Oh, this is such a classic piece of work by the great Stevie Wonder. We were all so into this album in high school. Do not… DO NOT miss He’s Mistra Know It All. My favorite. Not having heard this song in such a long time… wow! With more musically mature ears, this song is incredible. The jazz licks and dual harmonicas (all played by Stevie). Crazy good and you might say, ‘that’s how you end a great album’.
The whole album is great, I like ‘Higher Ground’ and ‘Jesus Children of America’
Beyond the beyond! Stevie Wonder to me is Bowie/Miles Davis/Dylan/Chopin/Sly Stone/Billy Holiday and Nina Simone rolled into one big ball of love and joy and soul and enlightenment and wonder and magic. I was lucky to see him a few years ago in Toronto performing Songs In The Key Of Life in its entirety. Was a 4 hour show with encores. The many 1,000s of us that were lucky to be there had lumps in our throats and tears on our faces the entire night. I'll never be the same. So blessed!!
Love this tune. It's a great example of why jazz musicians love playing Stevie Wonder's music. A grooving bass line, strong melody, and fantastic harmonic changes.
Stevie Wonder's harmonica playing is unmistakeable! 'Innversions' is the third in a remarkable run of classic albums as Stevie took full artistic control of his music for the first time - 'Music Of My Mind', 'Talking Book', 'Innerversions', 'Fulfillingness' First Finale' and 'Songs In The Key of Life'.
Stevie who😆. I love this song.killer groove.
It IS a great opener- and it leads RIGHT into my FAVE Stevie song:
“Visions” - please check it out!
That's exactly what I have to go play after I listen to this... especially the Live version
Stevie was ahead of everyone else. He was the first artist to use synthesizers in a purely musical way (on his album "Music of My Mind" in 1970). Sure, he had some hits, but during the early 70s, he was an Artist with a capital "A".
The harmonica in this song is just fantastic. I believe he's playing drums in this too. He played most of the instruments on this album. So phenomenal. He's one of my all time favorites
I can't listen to this song without listening to the rest of the album. Such a great album!
Iconic musician. The chord progressions in this song are insane!
On top of that, he makes it palatable to a larger audience. If that’s
not genius then I don’t know what is! 🎹
Looking back - I now realize how nonchalant I was reacting to Stevie Wonder’s brilliance. I just expected him to (continuously) be one of the most innovative artists in modern music. But damn…I’m now certain I didn’t give him enough credit. Innervisions is an exceptional compilation. But “Songs In The Key Of Life” is quintessential Stevie Wonder.
All of Stevie's 70's output has great moments, but Innervisions sits on top for me. JP, if you don't do the whole album, you got to give Livin' For The City a spin.
I enjoy you so much because you do the homework. You truly love music. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you David :D
In my top ten albums of all time. Brilliant stuff. The song Visions is an absolute masterpiece.
Innervisions was my first Stevie Wonder album and remains a favorite to this day (right up there with Bridge Over Troubled Water; Crime of the Century; Hard Days Night; Chicago V; Tales From Topographic Oceans; American Garage; Can't Buy a Thrill; etc.).
As has been mentioned, Stevie was on fire in the 70s. In both '74 and '75 he took home Grammys in several major categories, including best album. When Paul Simon accepted the award for best album for Still Crazy After All These Years in 1976 he had this to say: "Well, I'm very happy to win this. I want to thank Phil Ramone, who co-produced this with me. And Phoebe Snow who sang along with me on the album. And Art Garfunkel who sang with me on "My Little Town." And most of all I'd like to thank Stevie Wonder, who didn't make an album this year." (Bytheway, Phoebe Snow is someone you need to listen to. I mean, seriously, you just gotta...)
My favorites on Innervision are Livin' for the City (album version!), which is not just a great song, but an important song; Golden Lady, a lovely and lively little love song; and Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing, only one of the happiest songs ever -- just try not to move to the groove...
Carry on, friend! This is fun!
Innervisions and Music of My Mind are my two favorite Stevie Wonder albums and “Too High” balances really well between jazz, funk and a lot of soul.
Yes!! Innervisions is one of my favorite albums ever!!! So good, every song is incredible, so innovative yet commercial, Stevie’s deadly combination
I played this album yesterday, the vinyl is great but the sleeve is battered, will I buy it again? You bet! It's a stand out album by a genius, every home should own one (or two). Great idea for Sunday JP!
Hells yeah, pretty sure I still have mine with one skip… maybe I need another too/two.
Stevie Wonder is one of my All-Time favorite Music artist along with Paul McCartney who also plays a variety of instruments on his albums!!!! Stevie is a Genius!!!!
This album is ABSOLUTELLY WONDERFULL!!
"Songs,in the Key of Life" is arguably the greatest album ever made.
stevie on most of the instruments here
Check out Stevie live in 1974 with a full band! He is playing everything on this song!
The runs that he can do amazing🔥🔥🔥
This is the album that made me a fan of Stevie Wonder, Side A is flawless
PLEASE do the whole album. It is one of my all time favorites and you will not be disappointed.
You gave the best analogy. Thanks
Dueling harmonicas.....Unbelievable!
Can you believe this was Stevie Wonder's 16th album? Indeed....Stevie plays 95% of the instruments on several of his albums. Innervisions is one of my favorite albums of his. His Journey Through The Secret Life of Plants was one of the first two albums I bought with my own money ( together with the original Star Wars soundtrack ). The albums he made between 1972 and 1981 are all really good ( most of them are brilliant ). Lots of great tracks before 1972. A few good tracks after 1981 ( my opinion ).
Inner visions! Can’t say enough about it
The bass line is to die for. The music is uplifting but it’s about drug use, much like Steely Dan who wrote about the seemier side of life in such catchy tunes. That fact that he played every instrument still amazes me. A true musical savant. Will we ever see another like him? With so much reliance on computers and digital music making, not sure we will. Great song for a Sunday Justin.
The Wesley Snipes movie Passenger 57 - one of those rare movies that whenever I catch it on cable I hang in there during the closing credits because they play an abridged version of this fantastic track
Nice vocal, Justin! This is such a great song, and perfectly recorded. It sounds as good today as it did in 1973. “Innervisions” and “Songs In The Key Of Life” are his best albums. This one is soul-jazz-funk-rock fusion, and were thankfully not meant to be only for commercial consumption, although it had some radio hits and crossed over from soul into rock radio. “Songs In The Key Of Life” has a lot of styles and has some stellar gems on it. I love some of his early pop hits from the 1960s too. Once he got into the “I Just Called To Say I Love You” slick 80s commercial vibe he lost his harder edge and I kind of lost interest, but of course he’s always good. He’s a genius.
Talking Book and Innervisions. Back to back masterpieces.
And then the best of all... Songs In The Key of Life!
@@justsomejusstsome8994 While I recognize its merits, it’s not close to my favorite Stevie album. It’s way down the list for me.
I'm certainly in a better mood now. Not that I wasn't ok, but Stevie Wonder always lifts my mood and I love your videos. Thanks!
Glad to hear Eric :) Hope you're having a great one
You must listen to his first break from the Motown machine LPs called MUSIC OF MY MIND & TALKING BOOK before Innervisions as well. Both released in the 1972 (the epic peak year of creativity in music) Stevie was on the level of all the pure great icons of their own genres LIKE YES, JONI, ZAPPA, Mahavishnu... and he continued throughout the 70s with groundbreaking masterpieces. As a Black kid I grew up listening to artist who were often not accepted yet in to the mainstream. CROSSOVER was a term that meant Black artist who made it in White society or when Whites got turned in the music they were ignoring. Talking Book's Superstition did it for Stevie yet the rest album is also BRILLIANT!
'Songs in the Key of Life' is my favorite Stevie Wonder album.
Great track and great album! One of the best ever!
Great reaction / discussion
Smoooooooth. Steve put out some great muse in that time period. Enjoyed it.
My favorite Stevie album! Every song is just incredible, so glad you’re reviewing it.
And Stevie are playing all the instruments as well I think.
Evening Justin. Dave from a very sodden London (Here Comes The Flood... again!). This album and Songs in the Key of Life are fantastic and are often on my CD player. Amazingly talented fella, and his music covers so much ground and reaches so many people.
Thanks to you, I'm just through season 1 of The Expanse. Terrific - you could say it's a belter! Season 2 scheduled for after the Olympics (talking of which, I mentioned a while back that Muse's Prelude/Survival was the official theme to London 2012 - just saying!).
My goodness. Finally getting to some Stevie! No mere words can describe how awesome that man is. Hope you go with the whole album! I was reading the other day where Jack White said he doesn’t trust anyone who doesn’t like Zeppelin. I agree with him and feel the same way about Stevie.
This guy was extremely talented, from such an early age. A child prodigy no less. 3 seconds of some of his songs are better then, some people’s whole output.
Great album, great song, great channel. Blessings to all your endeavors my friend.
Ty YAMS!
amazing album
Brilliant and rare use of whole tone chords
This album is a masterpiece....you should do the whole thing!! By the way, anyone also think this song directly influenced ‘Thriller’?
I love this man. Talking Book changed music.
Too High is about drug abuse, one of the few times Wonder dealt with the subject. While the songs on Innervisions are largely in the genres of soul and funk, "Too High" has a definite ring of jazz fusion to it. Perhaps garnishing the arrangement like a sprig of parsley, even a hint of Bebop. The song is driven home starkly with its menacing Moog bass, sinister distorted chorus vocals, nightmarishly surreal lyrics, piercing scat singing, shrill harmonica solo, frequent jazzy harmonic dissonances, a bleak Fender Rhodes interlude close to the end just after the woman dies, and its glacial a capella coda.
nice track, not my usual cup of tea, but worth the listen. Thx.
Yaeh! Loved this album when I was a kid. Glad you got to it. I think most people prefer 'Songs in the key of life'. I like this album.
Key Of Life isn’t as funky/soulful. It’s not one of my favorites, although I recognize its merits.
@@itchyvinyl I agree with you about Songs In The Key Of Life which is certainly nice but not completely successful on the whole, because for me this double album contains some songs that serve as filler and I also find that many tracks are really too long for what they are when they could have been shortened (such as "Isn't She Lovely" which I prefer the single version). I prefer stevie Wonder's albums from Music Of My Mind to Fulfillingness' First Finale included.
You can tell he and Jeff Beck were great friends
Just a footnote to this song, but I was an extra in a film, and when I say extra I mean I was on set for 3 weeks in which I did some minor stunt work and appearing in several shots so it was an encompassing experience, AND filmed in Sanford, Florida not far from you, and when I went to my first viewing of it this song ended the closing credits and I thought, Oh, that's perfect! Can you guess the movi9?
Nice! Gotta admit, I have no idea lol
@@JustJP PASSENGER 57 about a group of terrorists on an airplane and Wesley Snipes as an airline security specialist so TOO HIGH was a perfect song choice for that movie.
Noice. Just when I needed it. This album is my start point for Stevie, then I go forward and backwards from it. Albums, Music Of My Mind, Talking Book, Innervisions, Fulfillingness’s First Finale, Songs In The Key Of Life, and and the often left out, The Secret Life Of Plants. Never leave out TSLOP, imo.
I could listen to all these albums, one after the other, and I think I will.
Peace and Icarus Music
All great, aren't we lucky to have all that? Todo está bien chévere.
@@markspooner1224
I thought it was Chevrolet, ha! I had a ‘64 Impala so… I know, duh. We were young, with albums that usually had no lyrics. We made them up.
"Innervisions" has an enticing atmosphere of mystery and spirituality, even on the songs with a more straightforward social or political message, that Stevie Wonder seems to have tried and recreate many times both before and after.
Everybody owes it to themselves to listen to Talking Book and Innervisions.
*Contusion is a great instrumental from "Songs in the key of life" , i want to see what you think if it*
Sir Duke is the song of his you need to hear. One of the best ever.
Great song! add Master Blaster 2 your list, it deserves!
Jah man!
Please react to Mistra Know It All. One of my all time favorite songs. Actually just do all of Inner Visions. It’s that good.
Very good mellow jazz fusion. Keyboards were smoking, drumming was lit, bass was on fire.
Ps, Too high? No such thing:) Speaking of smooth jazz...maybe a return to Donald Fagen's Nightfly (you've only done one song and it is my least favorite song (musically) on the album).
Check out Amp Fiddler's cover of this song.
Stevie Wonder is an Artist with a capital A. No one can reach his musical achievements in pop/R&B.
One musician with a similiar voice is Finnish keyboard player Jukka Gustavson. His keyboard style resembles another Stevie, Steve Winwood but is more prog/jazz-orientated. One good song to listen to Jukka is Losing Hold by his former band Wigwam. There's also Pekka Pohjola on bass. Great piece.
JP please do the entire Innervisions album.
Most Music Critics View This Album To Be His Best Album At The Absolute Height Of His Career..The Red Hot Chili Peppers Would Cover "Higher Ground".
Stevie's greatest achievement. Yes, I know that a lot of people prefer Songs in the Key of Average, but they're all wrong.
Innervisions, unlike all of his other albums, doesn't contain a wasted moment or a nanosecond of filler.
If he'd never written anything else, this album would be enough to make him a living legend.
PS- this is about as harmonically adventurous as Stevie got …the section that sounds ‘out of tune’ actually isn’t out of tune, but is using
(I think) a whole tone scale, ‘in tune’ but dissonant.
Not bad at all, but who knows what a true bass guitarist would have got out of this. :)
3 songs today: 1)Kate Bush 2)Stevie ............3)Genesis (5 minus 2=0)
It's tough. There's just a super large category that includes the music that's 'OK.' There's so much music in that category - one can't have a collection of all those songs/albums. This song isn't particularly memorable. It isn't bad. Not really good either. How can we own or collect all the songs that would fall into this category? We can't.
So if you're of same wavelength as me - though SW is considered a pop music icon/genius I usually collect songs by him randomly and not listen to him via album. Too much 'OK' music and not enough great music. Remember as a prog guy SW doesn't hit enough sweet spots to continually interest me musically. He does however have the 25 songs that I do love and want to hear from time to time.
Ridiculous chord progressions. Modulations.
I have to admit this jazzy song is not one of my favorite Stevie tracks. "Higher Ground" is more my speed. "Superstition" rules. "Living for the City" is timeless. More Stevie please.
Let the music play.
let the music play, Santana?
@@-davidolivares Let the music play, everything ;-)
It's a good song, though I feel it would have benefited from being turned down a step on the jazz meter.
Not hugely au fait with SW myself, largely just his classics. And he's usually 'up there' but i didn't like this much at all. The main melody, a little discordant. Didn't like the doo-wop style backing vocals, and what was with that cymbal! Was that a mix error, the unusually pronounced cymbal (in my left ear) i found very distracting. There was a decent break in the middle, but not enough to redeem this track. I expected a lot better.
I respect your opinion, but ngl I completely disagree with literally everything u said lmao
@@adamlumani So you heard the cymbal in your right ear :) Imagine my surprise, i've never heard a bum note from him before, but this i just couldn't get on board with.
@@jfergs.3302 The symbols switch from ear to ear and it’s not even bad lmao
@@adamlumani I only got them on the left, but my headphones aren't the best. They did sound over the top to me though. Maybe you're more of a cymbal lover than me :)
Everything you dislike about this song, is what I happen to like about it, not to mention that ridiculously insane drum groove throughout the entire song. When this album came out, it was like unwrapping a gift that kept on giving. His classics are fantastic but it's these somewhat lesser known cuts that really thrill me.