1. Superstition 2. Sir Duke 3. I Wish 4. Masterblaster (Jammin ) 5. Isn t She Lovely 6. I Just Called To Say I Love You 7. Ebony & Ivory 8. As 9. Never Had A Dream Come True 10. I Was Made To Love Her 11. Heaven Help Us All 12. Overjoyed 13. Lately 14. For Your Love 15. If You Really Love Me 16. Higher Ground 17. Do I Do 18. Living For The City 19. Part Time Lover

In a career spanning four decades Steveland Judkins Morris has been many things: child star, funk hero, political chronicler, the saviour of Motown Records and depressingly, the instigator of the painfully schmaltzy R&B ballad. Thankfully, this exhaustive Best Of..., timed to commemorate the 40th anniversary of his first appearance as Little Stevie Wonder, focuses mainly on the 1966-1980 glory years and his transition from incendiary soul man to voice of the 70s. The jackhammer beats, shout-along choruses and wailing harmonica peg Uptight, Signed, Sealed, Delivered and I Was Made To Love Her as three of the finest anthems of the Motown era, and My Cherie Amour as one of its sweetest love songs. But it was when he turned his attention to grinding keyboard grooves and social concerns that Wonder really came into his own. Inspired by ghetto funk and the unrest in 70s America he delivered three staggering albums, Talking Book, Innervisions and Songs in the Key of Life. Those albums highlig...

#Start with this and then buy the back catalogue (2008-11-01) This is probably the best compilation album of Stevie s work and that s great but I urge you all to use this as a taster of his work, there is lots of it and if you buy anything before 1980 you will love it if you like this. Unfortunately he s done nothing of real note after the 1970 s and that was where his key work was done. The trilogy of talking book, innvervisions and Songs in the key of life are treasures to be explored in their won right and you should all do so, personally although songs in the key of life is see...

#Brillant (2008-01-04) Bought this cd a few weeks ago and just can t stop listening to it. Whatever mode i am in, it cheers me up and makes me smile great album really worth getting.

#ESSENTIAL STEVIE WONDER (2006-05-03) Stevie Wonder (born Steveland Judkins Morris) began singing in a choir with his mother and siblings at a very early age at the Whitestone Baptist Church, which lay in his hometown of Saginaw. By the age of 10, Stevie Wonder was a child prodigy. He proved a master on the piano, harmonica and drums and was adept at poetry and song-writing. Stevie was soon recommended by John Glover (who he was extensivley working with at the time) to Ronnie White, then a member of the fantastic, Smokey Robinson And The Miracles, who were signed to Detroits, Tamla M...

#The definitive Steve Wonder htis collection...for now... (2003-11-06) The first collection of Stevie Wonder hits came out in 1968, when he was still a teenager. Of course, as a pre-teen Little Stevie gave Motown its first #1 album. In retrospect 1968 turned out to be a pivotal year in Wonder s career, which began covering Ray Charles songs and whose first hit Fingertips, Part 2 actually came as a pre-teen, because that was the year he finally started writing most of the songs on his album (e. g. , My Cherie Amour). The Wonder years definitively come in the early Seventies when he wa...

#The best Stevie Wonder compilation (2003-10-12) It is easy to be confused by Stevie Wonder compilations. In the nineties, a double CD was released in America titled Song review, while a single CD was released in Britain with the same title and artwork. More recently, a single CD was released in America titled Definitive collection, so (conversely) a double CD was released in Britain with the same title and artwork. This British double CD is much better than the earlier American double CD titled Song review, which had fewer tracks and missed out some important songs. Indeed, this is...

1. Wanna Be Startin Somethin 2. Baby Be Mine 3. Girl Is Mine - Jackson, Michael & Paul McCartney 4. Thriller 5. Beat It 6. Billie Jean 7. Human Nature 8. PYT (Pretty Young Thing) 9. Lady In My Life 10. Voiceover - Price, Vincent 11. Girl Is Mine - Jackson, Michael & Will.I.Am 12. PYT (Pretty Young Thing) - Jackson, Michael & Will.I.Am 13. Wanna Be Startin Somethin - Jackson, Michael & Akon 14. Beat It - Jackson, Michael & Fergie 15. Billie Jean 16. For All Time

Originally released in the US 25 years ago on November 30, 1982 by Epic Records, Thriller, Michael Jackson s sixth solo album and second with producer Quincy Jones, rocketed the former child-star and lead singer for the Jackson 5 into the stratosphere of international super-stardom. Introducing the robot and the moonwalk into the international lexicon of clubland dance moves via the pulsing sounds of Thriller, Michael Jackson revolutionised all aspects of mainstream pop culture--from radio airwaves to the newly emerging art form of music videos--becoming the world s most popular entertainer in the process. The original Thriller spent an astounding 80 consecutive weeks in the American Top 10, 37 of those at No. 1. Seven of the album s original nine tracks became Top 10 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 while individual singles from Thriller reached No. 1 chart positions in the US, the UK, France, Italy, Australia, Denmark, Belgium, South Africa, Spain, Ireland, New Zealand, and Canad...

#thriller wow the remixes rubbish i only got this for the videos!! (2008-08-20) thriller is a classic album but the remixes are pathetic but the dvd and packageing make up for that overall goodbuy!! the dvd love it thriller the video the best video ever!!

#Thriller on vinyl (2008-08-04) if your thinking of getting this on vinyl forget it. . . who ever is responsible should be shot. stick with the cd version which is at least listenable. . .

#WTF???????????? (2008-03-20) Ok, I love the Thriller album, it s an absolute classic, the first 9 songs on this album are worth the purchase alone if you don t already own them . . . BUT . . . the remixes? Yeah, I quite like the girl is mine 2008 and P. Y. T 2008, the Billie Jean remix is ok but Kanye should keep his mouth shut with his yeahs and stuff but the Wanna be startin something mix? WTF is that all about? This is a Michael Jackson album and he only sings one verse on the whole song, is Akon so desperate to make his name that he s got to steal Michael s glory on a Michael J...

#Michael Jackson IS the Thriller... (2008-02-28) 25 years is a long, long time in music. And yet even now, Triller sounds as fresh as it did in 1982. Indeed, it sounds miles ahead of most of the pap clogging up the charts right now. So it s good to see Michael Jackson back, reconnecting with a new generation of fans who deserve to know what real music sounds like, and where 90% of the music they listen to today is influenced from. It s pointless reviewing the albums original material, what can be said about it that hasn t been said before? You know what it s about already. 5 st...

#Thrilling! (2008-02-20) This album was the best thing to come out of the eighties - this WAS the eighties!Okay, so people might be saying what a cop out to revive an old album, but this is probably the best album ever in the history of music. It reminds us why Michael Jackson was such a fantastic performer, and I guarantee you won t be able to stop yourself singing along to tracks like P. Y. T and Beat It. The DVD is excellent too - I d forgotten how good the videos to Beat it and Billie Jean were, and the footage of Michael performing Bille Jean and doing that famous Moonwalk - is g...

1. Love s In Need Of Love Today 2. Have A Talk With God 3. Village Ghetto Land 4. Contusion 5. Sir Duke 6. I Wish 7. Knocks Me Off My Feet 8. Pastime Paradise 9. Summer Soft 10. Ordinary Pain

Songs in the Key of Life was the highest high-point of Stevie Wonder s career. More sprawling than Innervisions and Talking Book, this 2 LP-plus-EP was also less of a consistent stunner than either of those masterworks. That Songs retains an enormous amount of visionary relevance, though, is demonstrated not only in Coolio s borrowing of Pastime Paradise as a template for Gangsta s Paradise, but in the cold-as-ice synthesized string quartet of Village Ghetto Land. This is Stevie, so naturally that cut s anger is balanced by the ultra-buoyant I Wish, Sir Duke, and Another Star. --Rickey Wright

#The peak of perfection. (2008-10-10) Can anybody think of many double albums on which every track is even good let alone a master work? They are very few and far between as the majority of them just go on for far to long with too much filler . And so we come to SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE by MR. Stevland Morris. After the masterpiece which was INNERVISIONS in 1973, Stevie Wonder released this magnum-opus in 1976. Is it as good as INNERVISIONS? The answer is a resounding YES, YES, YES!Up-lifting and beautiful, happy yet melancholy, it doesn t get any better than this. Go and buy it.

#Stevie s Magnum Opus (2008-08-15) I can t add much to what s already been written here. This is an essential album - though I regard all of the following as essential too:Talking BookInnervisionsFulfillingness First FinaleIf you re new to Stevie s work, please don t buy a collection, you ll be missing out on so much!

#an absolute classic stevie wonder youre cool! (2008-07-20) this a fantastic double album all the songs are fab i also recommend the albums music of my mind talking book and innervisions and original musiquarium there fantastic buy this you wont regret it!!

#Wonder ful (2008-01-29) Have the vinyl. Now got the CD and its still timeless. I have many favourites. Love I am singing this sums up stevies life in music. The song writing is 1st class. in my view far better than Lennon/Mccartney ever were. This guy does the lot himself. This album should be in every collection. best selling double album of all time, i believe. Well justified.

#Stevie s Best (2008-01-10) Somehow it seems uncool to rate an artist s most succesful album as their best, but I make no apology for doing so in this case. By 1976, Stevie Wonder had established himself as perhaps the first black artist who could consistantly sell albums in all markets around the world, winning awards, including best album Grammys. It is amazing to think that he had been around for over a decade, but was still only 26 years old. He wrote, sang, played and produced with the maturity of a much older man. My favorite tracks are As which was the third or fourth singl...

1. Maiden Voyage 2. Cantaloupe Island 3. Wiggle Waggle 4. Chameleon 5. St. Louis Blues - Herbie Hancock, Stevie Wonder 6. Chan s Song (Never Said) 7. River - Herbie Hancock, Corinne Bailey Rae 8. Don t Explain 9. All Apologies 10. Watermelon Man 11. Rockit 12. River - Herbie Hancock, Joni Mitchell

1. Court And Spark - Herbie Hancock, Norah Jones 2. Edith And The Kingpin - Herbie Hancock, Tina Turner 3. Both Sides Now - Herbie Hancock 4. River - Herbie Hancock, Corinne Bailey Rae 5. Sweet Bird - Herbie Hancock 6. The Tea Leaf Prophecy (Lay Down Your Arms) - Herbie Hancock, Joni Mitchell 7. Solitude - Herbie Hancock 8. Amelia - Herbie Hancock, Luciana Souza 9. Nefertiti - Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter 10. The Jungle Line - Herbie Hancock, Leonard Cohen

On paper, River sounds like a match made in several versions of heaven. Legendary pianist Herbie Hancock re-imagines Joni Mitchell with his hand-picked, star-studded band--including saxophonist Wayne Shorter--in tow. Luminary guests lend vocals to a song apiece: Norah Jones (Court and Spark), Tina Turner (Edith and the Kingpin), Corinne Bailey Rae (River), Luciana Souza (Amelia), Leonard Cohen (with an unsettlingly sanguine version of The Jungle Line), even Mitchell herself (Tea Leaf Prophecy). In the event, though, a few fundamental elements go awry. Hancock plays with almost saccharine understatement throughout, and even Shorter s seminal Nefertiti and Duke Ellington s Solitude fall into the album s presiding, somnolent surface, though to a lesser degree does the instrumental version of Mitchell s Sweet Bird. But girding, and in some measure, saving, the proceedings, the lyrics here testify to a subtler wisdom guiding Hancock s set list. The mix includes a continuum from intrepid cla...

#Why oh why did you put Cohen in it? (2008-08-11) I agree with all the other reviews on the album , well nearly all . As my title says , why for Gods sake did H. Hancock and co put this has been in on what is a good listening album - but Leonard let me open a vein to Cohen on a Jazz album !!???? He can t sing - never could , never will , and the only reason that I can think of why he s on this album is because he s from Canada . The track is not interesting it s bloody awful and the producers should hang thier heads in shame .

#quite brilliant (2008-07-30) Wonderful playing from a great Herbie line-up (even Shorter gets lyrical) doing great justice to Joni s genius.

#Utter rubbish.. (2008-05-23) I bought this album because I love all things Joni and loved her mingus period and have always been a longstanding Herbie fan. I thought it may be something in that style. How wrong I was. This is the worst kind of Jazz there is. Utterly pointless and usually bears no relation at all to the original song. What s the point of re-doing a song if it s going to have only a 1% similarity or reference to the original? It s a great lesson in how 2 things that you think are great may not be that great together!Move along. Nothing to see here. . .

#Probably not for the casual fan (2008-04-21) I would describe myself as a casual fan of Joni. I like the Tom Scott albums and Shadows and Light with Pat Metheny and Jaco Pastorius. This album, however, is a bit heavier and probably deserves more careful listening and analysis than using it as background music.

#Hancocks fans Rave & Joni Mitchell s fans Let down? (2008-04-15) Not being a Joni listener I can only give my opinion based on the Hancock versions. I have listened to this album so many times and I just love every moment. I ve been lucky enough to see Herbie perform and he manages to bring his fabulous dynamic jazz improv style to this selection of music. The vocalists though famous names pull off some unique songs unlike their mainstream styles. Most notable for me being Tina Turners Edith & the Kingpin it s so layed back but the silky smooth soul just oozes out! Someone who ...