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It was okay.
Smooth and funky in parts, but I don't think it warrants a place in the 1001. He has better albums and they are in the list.
Not my favorite Stevie Wonder album, but still OK. A bit too slow, but it had it's moments.
Me aburrió, prefiero otros de Stevie
There are some decent songs on the album. No killers and not the strongest Stevie album I've listened to.
Pretty easy listening. Nothing too special
Boring and slow
Having taken one (1) astrophysics course in graduate school, I am completely qualified to make the following assessment: If we estimate a zillion as being equal to 10^33 and take our reference point to heaven as the center of the universe, it is located ~10^24 light years away from the edge of the known universe. Assuming the rate of cosmic expansion holds constant at 67.4 km/s/megaparsec and taking the edge as a static point (not an extended unit of length that will expand itself), this implies that it will make contact with heaven in (10^12 ly)*(9.46*10^12 km/ly)*(67.4 km/s)^(-1)= half a million billion years (4.45*10^14 centuries).
Has some great funky moments but for most of it is quite “meh”
Boogie On Regae & You Have…..were great hits the other songs were okay but Stevie has so many more amazing songs
Om nån tvivlade så visar Stevie vilken otrolig spännvidd han har här. Funk, pop, ballad, jazz, till och med barockmusikinslag - han behärskar konsten att göra tråkiga låtar i nästan alla genrer.
2/5 nothing much.
not for me
One track was stand out and although I like some Stevie Wonder this was underwhelming so sadly high 2*
it's fine
This is Stevie Wonder's seventeenth album of progressive soul music. The album won Grammy Awards for Best Male Pop Vocal, Best Male Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance (for "Boogie On Reggae Woman"), and Album of the Year in 1974. It was a beautiful, but short album. I enjoyed listening to it, but it's not my type of music.
I don’t mine Stevie Wonder at all, but this album is just boring from start to finish
Good album… remember the oldies
mhhh not for me
Jedinica iz principa. // Bila bi dvica i to tanja jer mi ovaj album nije samo dosadan nego me i aktivno iritirao.
Wonder Bread.
The album passed me by without me feeling the need to look down and think what’s this track- apart from ‘you haven’t done nothing’ which i checked the title out for the pure reason of thinking… is this not the same song different vocals as one of his other songs! Apart from that the best thing on the album was the saxophone coming in during the last track which already sounded ‘ok!’ Best track- ‘please don’t go’ Worst track- could have been a few but ‘heaven is 10 zillion light years away’ grated me near the start. Another disappointing listen on this 1001 journey. 1.5/10
Stevie Wonder Things I don't really need, or enjoy, in songs. Track 1 - Bom diddly bom Track 2 - Cookie Monster backing vocals Track 3 - Farty funk that is a pale imitation of the farty funk on the infinitely better previous album Track 4 - A song about dreams that sends me to sleep Track 5 - A song with The Jackson 5 that then barely features The Jackson 5 whilst also being another pale imitation of a better song from theast album Track 6 - Soporific rubbish with a chorus and coda that exists of the words "bye" and "oh" repeated ad nauseum. Track 7 - Bloody hell, a proper song I can't object to. I mean, it is a miserable one but, you know, it'll do. Track 8 - No one needs a talking drum or cuica or whatever is squeaking its way through a song. Normal drums are good though. Stevie always played drums with quite a swagger. Track 9 - No complaints. Best Track - last one Worst track - bye bye bye bye bye bye bye 1.5/10 Realise all my track numbers are out cos the real track 3 totally passed me by without me noticing which says it all. Shuffle the rest down one.
it made me anxious
I always thought I was a Stevie Wonder fan… but this album proves I am only a fan of maybe 4 Stevie wonder songs. This would not be an album I would pick again.
I was hoping to get something a bit more soulful and a bit less god-bothering. No problem if that's your bag but it detracts from it for me. Accomplished for sure but just a bit distracting and frankly a bit bland overall. No idea where this album sits in the Stevie Wonder catalogue but it's bargain bin from my perspective.
Not my favorite album, but I could listen to it if needed.
Not a fan of harpsichords and crooners.
I can't listen past Heaven is 10 Zillion Light Years Away because he's singing about God and saving our evil souls. Fuck off.
Nah, not for me. Bit simple/boring I think
This is a joke right? He sings like people who used to get made fun of on American Idol, he's got the unbearably sappy/dumb lyrics (please see Heaven is a Zillion Lightyears Away for a double whammy) and his only appeal is that he's blind. Somebody had to say it. If I used the fucking autotune iPod app from 2008 or whatever to stumble through horrible vocal runs and smiled behind dark sunglasses, would you let me on the list? Pretty please? A truly miserable experience and completely valueless as a record. Please repackage this with somebody else's face slapped on the front and say his name is Cobert "The Budgie" Trunkler. Something tells me it won't be as easy to wince through this warbling, sloppy, and cringe-inducing slab of pure high octane corn syrup. Emphasis on CORN(y). 0 HIGHLIGHTS: Cramped seats at a midseason Roller Hockey International game in 32 degree weather. Celsius in case any of "you" are in the room with us.
Love Stevie, but not this one
Do not enjoy
Easy listening music for old people
👎🏻
1/5
Never liked him.
15th album with group. I’m a proud Stevie Wonder hater. He wasn’t innovative or good, and he wouldn’t be remembered if he wasn’t blind. I think being blind makes him an interesting character which in turn made everyone think his music was good. Good Songs - Smile Please and Heaven Is 10 Zillion Light Years Away. Bad Songs - Too Shy to Say, Boogie on Reggae Women, Creepin’, You Haven’t Done Nothin’, It Ain’t No Use, They Won’t Go When I Go, Bird of Beauty, and Please Don’t Go.
this was honestly so boring
Not my style
Hab's nicht geschafft...
Didn't get much out of this Stevie entry. I can understand why he has a following and is a cultural icon but this album doesn't seem to belong on the list. I enjoyed Boogie On Reggae Woman but otherwise this album came up mostly empty. Nice to see a shout out to the Jackson 5 thrown in I guess. I'd relegate Fulfillingness off the list since we already have 3 other Stevie Wonder albums on here. 1.18 stars
Not my cup of team. Music and flow were not natural to me.
Too many ballads.
Not my taste
First song: boring Second song: fun Third song: boring Fourth song: fun Fifth: bad Sixth: ok. To summarize I didn't enjoy it too much 😔 I'm being somewhat harsh with my scores but since there's no .5 this is just wjat kinda happened
sorry i just dont like stevie wonder
meh
1. zmile - 1.5 2. heaven - 1 3. zhy - 2 4. boogin - 1 5. creeping - 1 6. nothing - 1.5 7. uze - 1 8. go - 2 9. bird - 1 10. pleaze - 1
Not listened
Stevie Wonder is definitely in the top 10 most overrated artists. Boring, dated sounding.
I like SW, but couldn't get into this.
Stevie wonder is too pop in the 60s- and just turns into total schlock in the 70s. His classic period is utterly repulsive to me. I’m sure this is a minority opinion, but the songwriting, the textures, the vocals- none of it does a thing for me. Compares well to modern pop music perhaps, but that’s not saying much.
NO ToT idk what it is but I've never grimaced at an album harder in my life
1 star
Surprisingly, it seems I just don't like Stevie Wonder...
Wow! I like Stevie Wonder...but that was awful!
Not my tast
No
Also Shite
I know it's good, but here's where I commit henceforth to rate things based on how much I enjoy them and not how good I think they are in any technical sense or by cultural importance. And this album had zero bangers. Boogie On just never let loose like I wanted it to, but I enjoyed the bass picking. You Haven't Done Nothin was still the far side of riled but on the scale we were working in the even muted feeling was nice. They won't go had like a great two minutes and then I was waiting for it to end. I'm not sure what the best circumstances are to listen to an entire album this down tempo and mild, but I never reached that state today.
He's talented but this album didnt do much for me
He's a good musician, song-writer. Only thing is, I'm just not into his music. Tried again with this album to no avail. 1/5
I did not like this. Stuff like this reminds me of when my mom would try to force me to listen to music like this. I don’t love this type of music, there are exceptions. But this is not one of them.
Well that settles it, I am not a Stevie Wonder fan. This is the second album I’ve had of his on this list and again it did nothing for me. Some of the more upbeat tunes are kind of fun, like Boogie On, but even that one I got bored of after 45 seconds. Most of his songs on this album are slow ballads and they are capital B BORING!
Irgendwie mag ich Stevies Musik nicht.
Wow I just really don’t like Stevie Wonder.
Dröger progressive Soul. Mitreißend sieht anders aus.
Couldn't do it....Kept wanting to skip.
Easy listening but not for me. 1/5
That shit was horrible.
not a fan
Didn’t care for this one
Only really liked one song - Boogie on a Reggae Woman Nothing else really took my interest.
Siis taitavaa lajissaan, mutta kammottavan siirappista ja tylsää. Ilahdutti vain: espanja.
Latteuksia. Myös karmeuksia: tikuttava funkbasso siellä, jazzahtavan höpsöttelevä sointuvaihdos täällä.
1,5 Warum ist das auf der Liste?Langweiliger Kuschelsoul. Total cheesy, too much. Verstehe nicht warum bei der total cleanen Produktion der Gesang oft vierteltönig zu tief ist, Postproduktion konnten sie doch?
I'm three tracks into this record, and surprised at how dull it is. Thank god for track 4 the more familiar and funky \"Boogie on Reggae Woman\", this has all of the traits I associate with SW. \"Creepin\", is a return of the dull MOR soul music I find to bland to connect with. \"You Haven't Done Nothin\" is a highlight, and \"They Won't Go When I Go\" is one of the best slow tracks on the record. CONTROVERSIAL - George Michael's version is better.....sorry I know there will be plenty who will be offended by this comment but it is. the last few tracks I skipped over, this really didn't work for me.
Not to my taste
stevie wonders whole back catalogue has about 5 good songs in it. some of those are so huge they are almost as large as SHACK, but the rest is so terrible they are best represented by a malnourished foetal painted swiss cretin.
Meh, not his best album by any stretch.