Stevie Wonder - The Definitive Collection (UK Edition) (2002)
EAC Rip | FLAC, (TRACKS + CUE), LOG | 2 CD | 1007 MB | Full Scans | RAR 4% Rec | Filesonic/FileServe
Soul | Label: Universal | Year: 2002
EAC Rip | FLAC, (TRACKS + CUE), LOG | 2 CD | 1007 MB | Full Scans | RAR 4% Rec | Filesonic/FileServe
Soul | Label: Universal | Year: 2002
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