Dang it Bill! I need to go to bed. This ain't helpin'! Needs no more groovin'. The Groovy Police are leaving this one alone.

I put the socially conscious soul music of Stevie, Marvin, Curtis, et al, on par with Dylan and the folkies of the sixties. Maybe the silver lining of the mess we're in now will be someone will craft something to put it all in perspective.

Jeff Beck-like guitar groove with Stevie Wonder's incredible rythmic vocals.

Comes with me on the desert island.

 kaybee wrote: 


And the feet...  we be dancing...  love this song...

 dmax wrote: 
Stevie Wonder, The Rolling Stones, Neil Young, Led Zeppelin, Elton John, ZZ Top, Paul Simon....all at their creative peak.

Wak, wak, wakkedy-wak - mute. Kudos to yer man Wonder for all his good stuff, but this sound irritated the feck out of me in the 70s and still does now. Back in 5 after a dose of modern dub...

FYI.

1.	choon
	A song or any piece of music to which an individual assigns the highest level of merit but most usually an exclaimation upon hearing the song in public. Bohemian Rhapsody! CHOON!
2.	choon
	homophone of "tune(s)"; "tunes" pronounced in a dutch accent; Popularized by a popular trance composer/DJ Armin Van Buuren; Eyy mate, u check out the latest choon from DJ Tiesto? It's such a good choon, I wanna lick my feet!

Props to urbandictionary.com.

 Jelani wrote: 
No silly. He's blind because he uses his eyes to SHOOT giant stone laser beams. Please try to keep up.

Actually it's because the hospital gave him oxygen when he was a baby. Weird huh?

Van Morrison > Focus > Ramones > Stevie Wonder?
Great set for a Friday morning.

Well, according to the album cover, now I know why he's blind; a big stony looking poker came out of the sky and poked him in the eye.(s)
I never knew that. 

Yup! Precisely what I presumed -> Upper nineTz on this one. Such a great sound. 

An all-time great. I used to work for a medical ultrasound company, and I put together a band to play for a company celebration.  I named us the "Ultrasonic Assault", and we played this song, though we played the Red Hot Chili Peppers version.  It was loud and fast.  So much fun.

ETA: Bill followed this with a RHCP song!  But it's a bad one ("Hey Oh").

 lemmoth wrote: 
This is so correct. What an amazing period of music.

And, it fits with my contention that the best music ever was generally written in the 1973-74 period. Nothing like it since. 

Sooo cool. Check the credits.He plays all the instruments.

 bluefrog wrote: 
Maybe you are too young, or if not, thought the Grammy's and TV variety shows in the 70's were bogus, or hated top 40 radio or who knows why.

But now that you are on to Stevie, you should do your best to sample from the great albums he but out at his early 70's peak, which for me - others may differ, are the four in a row - Talking Book, Innervisions, Fullfillingess First Finale and Songs in the Key of Life.

Somehow I've missed out on Stevi Wonder.  I'm not really sure how that happened.

He's Awesome.

awesome song

 Tippster wrote: 
What, not the Ellen McIlwaine version?  (which I confess I only know of cuz Fatboy Slim sampled it)

I love RHCP's version, too.

 GuiltyFeat wrote: 
F'rreal.

 dmax wrote: 
... chuckle ...

Giant choon.

 PeeBee wrote: 
Ha! I was there and the vibe was great. When I got home I had to dig into my hard drive to see what I had and get some Stevie on my playlists. 

okay,stevie is a genius and all but enough already with the 30 year old stevie wonder songs.  RP is truly a gift of electic music but enough already.

 vandal wrote: 
...though it would seem a shame to rate this as a "9" just because he happened to have an "11" song...

 scrubbrush wrote: 
Funny - my ringtone is the bass line intro to "I Wish".  He sure does make for good ringtones.

I have to say I really took Stevie Wonder for granted when this album was getting heavy play back in the 70s.  I have more appreciation for him when I hear it now.  Genius.

 romeotuma wrote: 
And the body, mind and soul!!!