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Innervisions |  | Artist: Stevie Wonder
Label: Universal / Island
Category: Music
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Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 2494
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered, Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Running Time: 44 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 157355
UPC: 601215735529
EAN: 0601215735529
ASIN: B00004S363
Release Date: May 1, 2000
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Too High | | • | Visions | | • | Living For The City | | • | Golden Lady | | • | Higher Ground | | • | Jesus Children Of America | | • | All In Love Is Fair | | • | Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing | | • | He's Misstra Know It All |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
One of Stevie Wonder's best albums, and the one where his more fanciful, free-form moments gel perfectly with his knack for irresistible pop singles. 1973's IInnervisions/I swings between delicate and airy ballads, Latin-influenced rhythms (the hit "Don't Worry 'Bout a Thing"), and his own synth-heavy versions of gut-bucket soul (the determined spiritual questing of "Higher Ground"). The striking juxtaposition between "Vision", a barely breathed hope that a world of peace might be upon us, and the great "Living for the City", a funky, pulsing tale of racism, is powerful, haunting, and still all too relevant. I--David Cantwell/I
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Stevie Wonder at his very best April 5, 2005
A. Robinson (England)
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
Stevie Wonder is a musical genius. His voice is superb, his piano playing inspired and his songs unforgettable. Innervisions is the album to start with if you dont know too much about SW. You will hear good things about 'Songs in the key of life' and all those good reviews are perfectly justified, but 'Innervisions' is on a different level. Every song is a masterpiece of soulful, funky music. The melodies are unforgettable! Stevie Wonders strength, apart from his great voice, is his approach to song writing. As a writer he is eclectic; on this particular album, going from the wistful teary eyed ambience of 'Visions' to the hard funk of 'Higher Ground' 'Innervisions' also happens to have my two of my favourite SW songs of all time 'Golden Lady' and 'Living for the city' I bought it on the strength of those two songs and was unexpectadly knocked out by the rest of this great package. Wonder and his band use electronics and acoustics tastefully and expertly side by side to produce that glorious 70's funk sound, synonomous with edgy and more experimental artists, while clevery retaining the commercial edge. This would be high in my chart of 'best albums of all time' Just think, all this praise and anthusiasm from a 'Prog Rock' fan, Innervisions must be good to cut through my cold cynicism reserved for anything that isnt 20 minutes in length, and in 7/4 time.
Hear Stevie Growl......... May 14, 2002
leeboywonder (Bromley)
21 out of 22 found this review helpful
I was introduced to this album , other wise I might have laboured on with my misconception, held by many I feel, that Stevie is only 'Ebony Ivory' schmaltz and some of the other guff he has come out with from the early 1980s onwards. This album and Gaye's 'What's Goin' On' are essential for a variety of reasons: early examples of a black artist taking creative control and venting their anger at the treatment of their fellow man; examples of former child stars finally gaining artistic release from the artistic shackles of the Motown to express themselves fully; and albums that have not dated at all. Mnay people prefer 'Songs In The Key Of Life', but this is the album that best showcases his talents. By the release of this album the Panthers were fading/over as a force, so it must have been a shock for a squeaky clean ex-child star like Wonder to come out with something as acerbic as 'Living For The City'. Listening to Stevie growl over that track, and gently mock in 'He's Misstra Know It All', and you realise that before his winsome duets with McCartney et al here was an artist who was not only a musical genius but who hit his every target with a sarcastic panache. For me. 'Living For The City' is still one of the most coruscating songs about the US black urban experience recorded over the last 30 years- a template for Public Enemy and others to follow.....you won't find many serious artists today who don't respect this guy or do not give this album pride of place......please buy it, and see what you've been missing......it is never out of my hi-fi.
Wonderman Hits Peak Form October 14, 2000
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
This album, next to Marvin Gaye's What's Going On and Al Green's I'm Still In Love With You is the definitive soul album. From the opening synth-filled pungence of Too High to the closing, wonderful growled duh duh duh duh of He's Misstra Know-It-All, Wonder can do no wrong. The obvious highlights are Living For The City and Higher Ground but the detatched elegance of Visions and the thrilling Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing are too great for words. Songs In The Key of Life may get more acclaim and I Just Called To Say I Love You may be his Oscar-winning biggest selling single, but Innervisions is Wonder's definitive statement, a flash of utter genius!
Can we have a six star rating? March 1, 2006
pseudopanax (London)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This album constantly surprises the friends and family to whom I bestow it on birthdays and Christmas. It is familiar to almost all of them but none of them have listened to it in its entirety. It is not hyperbole to say that this is one of the greatest albums ever made: the songs are beautifully crafted individual sonic jewels. The subjects they touch upon love, racism, and political incompetence lose none of their power from the perfection of the performance and production. If you#8217;re not emotionally moved by Livin#8217; for the City, your feet and arms will certainly be moving and if you#8217;re not shattered by the astonishing vocal of All is Fair in Love, well, you must be a tad misanthropic. It#8217;s hard to believe that any contemporary artist could critique as well as love their society as piercingly as Wonder does on this album. This album gets into your soul; there#8217;s no need to skip tracks just listen to it from beginning to end. Absolutely amazing. The remastered album is fabulous. Although none of his other albums scale these heights, Fulfillingness#8217; First Finale, comes closest and is an extraordinary companion piece to Innervsions.
His best October 19, 2006
Andy Edwards (Essex UK)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
While the conventional wisdom has "Songs in the Key of Life" as SWs best album, I found it to be a little long winded, with too many tracks running out of ideas/steam long before their end,
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br /On Inner Visions IMHO, we find him with a collection of songs which hang together beautifully, which is perfectly paced, and without a duff track. The familiar hits need no introduction, and those which never made a single release are as strong.
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br /When this album was released, Stevie was pushing the boundaries , developing the synthesiser sound he had pioneered on Music of my Mind" and "Talking Book", taking Soul music (and music in general in fact) to new places.
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br /If you are in any way a fan of modern R B, you need this album to find out where the sound came from, if you are a fan of Soul or Funk, it is indispensible.
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