Very, very pleased to see such broad support for that one.
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Monday, 10 October 2011 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
"My Cherie Amour" is not Wonder cheese. It's Wonderful.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 October 2011 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
Great song! Also the first one of my list to place.
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 10 October 2011 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
You had "Sunshine" on your ballot, too.
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Monday, 10 October 2011 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
Ah yes, you are right.
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 10 October 2011 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
17. WE CAN WORK IT OUT (Signed, Sealed & Delivered, 1970) -- 231 points, 12 votes, 1 #1 vote
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAItd_elNJ8
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Monday, 10 October 2011 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
CREEPIN in a BEAST of a song.
― Ravaging Rick Rude (a hoy hoy), Monday, 10 October 2011 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
If you don't like "Creepin'" you don't like things that are silky and sexy.
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Monday, 10 October 2011 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
If someone doesn't like Creepin, well, I just don't think I'd like that person.
― Ravaging Rick Rude (a hoy hoy), Monday, 10 October 2011 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
Pleased that WCWIO made it. One of the great Beatles Band covers.
― Jeff W, Monday, 10 October 2011 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
always lol when stevie sings lyrics about seeing things. such a great cover; that funky distorted guitar!
― Ravaging Rick Rude (a hoy hoy), Monday, 10 October 2011 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
16. SUPERWOMAN (WHERE WERE YOU WHEN I NEEDED YOU) (Music Of My Mind, 1972) -- 247 points, 13 votes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2lNf2WHxeI
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Monday, 10 October 2011 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
I think I already mentioned this on some thread or another, but I regard the change from "Superwoman" into "Where Were You, et al" to be one of the greatest modulations in his entire songbook.
oof, we're up to #16 already => a whole bunch of tracks I thought would easily make the Top 40 apparently won't.
― Jeff W, Monday, 10 October 2011 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
Superwoman at first seems not that great but with like every second it hypnotises you a little bit more. It becomes such a perfect moment that you kind of zone out.
Kinda worrying my #1 won't make it. It is a p prominant album cut but there are so many big name singles still to come that i dunno...
― Ravaging Rick Rude (a hoy hoy), Monday, 10 October 2011 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
Need to take a lunch break. Remaining 5 in a little bit.
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Monday, 10 October 2011 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
Also, I'll say it again. Some of the songs that fell outside of the top 40, much less top 20, really surprised me.
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Monday, 10 October 2011 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
one song i am intrigued to see its overall ranking is happy birthday. i dont suppose it is anywhere near the top 15 but i kinda thought it would make the top 40
― Ravaging Rick Rude (a hoy hoy), Monday, 10 October 2011 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
The last four songs were all on my ballot so I'm not too worried about the rest of the top 20. I only have big doubts for my number 2.
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 10 October 2011 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
And I think we still have a lot of 60s singles to look forward to.
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 10 October 2011 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
Uptight and....?
― Ravaging Rick Rude (a hoy hoy), Monday, 10 October 2011 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
You serious? 'Shoo-be-doo-be-doo-da-day', 'Signed, Sealed, Delivered', 'If You Really Love Me', 'I Was Made to Love Her'... The list goes on and on.
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 10 October 2011 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
... and on, indeed.
15. I WAS MADE TO LOVE HER (I Was Made To Love Her, 1967) -- 254 points, 15 votes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pYux5-d1Es
Nutso bassline.
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Monday, 10 October 2011 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
ok yeah
― Ravaging Rick Rude (a hoy hoy), Monday, 10 October 2011 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
you mean "Yeah ... yeah ... yeah!"
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Monday, 10 October 2011 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
The bass on that is my first (or maybe second, after "Bernadette") pick for what to play for people who don't know who James Jamerson was, or what he did, or why he was a genius.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Monday, 10 October 2011 18:33 (twelve years ago) link
14. IF YOU REALLY LOVE ME (Where I'm Coming From, 1971) -- 268 points, 13 votes, 2 #1 votes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIFVh_5cfmw
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Monday, 10 October 2011 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
Which is, despite '71 release, IMO the last great hurrah for '60s Stevie.
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Monday, 10 October 2011 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
13. I BELIEVE (WHEN I FALL IN LOVE IT WILL BE FOREVER) (Talking Book, 1972) -- 274 points, 15 votes, 1 #1 vote
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls68jEnN7Ik
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Monday, 10 October 2011 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
guess it's not fair to say anything is too low on this list, but Tears of a Clown and Do I Do really are
― gospodin simmel, Monday, 10 October 2011 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
yay I Believe is my #1. I love that bit before the end chorus when it seems like the band is going to another verse and Stevie is like, naw I believe still! More chorus! And then in the end when Stevie goes all Super Saiyan....!
― Ravaging Rick Rude (a hoy hoy), Monday, 10 October 2011 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
High Fidelity did good by including it in the soundtrack.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 October 2011 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
Sometimes I wonder how much that movie is responsible for my generation's veneration of that particular ballad. It's never been my favorite, I regret to say, but maybe it'll click for me.
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Monday, 10 October 2011 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
12. YOU HAVEN'T DONE NOTHIN' (Fulfillingness' First Finale, 1974) -- 278 points, 17 votes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DclVLRhlX3g
Oh man I love watching Andy Williams bopping to the intro of this one.
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Monday, 10 October 2011 19:12 (twelve years ago) link
Frears chose wisely though. I remember how shocked I was in the theatre (I had one of those "Yeah!") moments. It'd be churlish of me to wish he'd picked "Maybe Your Baby" instead.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 October 2011 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
And wrapping up for today:
11. HE'S MISSTRA KNOW IT ALL (Innervisions, 1973) -- 317 points, 13 votes, 2 #1 votes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AajR5MjMK4
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Monday, 10 October 2011 19:21 (twelve years ago) link
Hats off to the other Stevie Wonder fan with the impeccable taste to rank this first.
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 10 October 2011 20:02 (twelve years ago) link
i have a feeling it was my #2 maybe
― Ravaging Rick Rude (a hoy hoy), Monday, 10 October 2011 20:08 (twelve years ago) link
Is "You Haven't Done Nothin'" Stevie's most openly political song?
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Monday, 10 October 2011 20:15 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe the most directly aimed at an individual. "Big Brother" seems a lot more overall political.
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Monday, 10 October 2011 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
Hey, kornrulez, that was yours truly--I see I am in fine company myself!
― Iago Galdston, Monday, 10 October 2011 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
Yes! It should have been everybody's favorite.
But when you say they're voting wrong, they tell you they know they're voting right.
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 10 October 2011 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
Still hoping "You Will Know" will place
― Everything else is secondary (Lee626), Monday, 10 October 2011 21:19 (twelve years ago) link
If you haven't heard the bootleg of SW at the Rainbow Room, NYC in 1973, it's unsurprisingly incrediblehttp://bootlegsfrombucklberry.blogspot.com/2009/03/stevie-wonder-new-york-1973.html
― Iago Galdston, Monday, 10 October 2011 21:27 (twelve years ago) link
...Sir Duke... I've had the tune stuck in my head forever, but never actually found out what it was until this poll (I'd been 99% sure it was Stevie, I'd just never pinned it down before).
Ditto, but for Master Blaster
― Mister Potato shares Manchester United’s commitment to (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Monday, 10 October 2011 22:05 (twelve years ago) link
11. HE'S MISSTRA KNOW IT ALL (Innervisions, 1973) -- 317 points, 13 votes, 2 #1 votes12. YOU HAVEN'T DONE NOTHIN' (Fulfillingness' First Finale, 1974) -- 278 points, 17 votes13. I BELIEVE (WHEN I FALL IN LOVE IT WILL BE FOREVER) (Talking Book, 1972) -- 274 points, 15 votes, 1 #1 vote14. IF YOU REALLY LOVE ME (Where I'm Coming From, 1971) -- 268 points, 13 votes, 2 #1 votes15. I WAS MADE TO LOVE HER (I Was Made To Love Her, 1967) -- 254 points, 15 votes16. SUPERWOMAN (WHERE WERE YOU WHEN I NEEDED YOU) (Music Of My Mind, 1972) -- 247 points, 13 votes17. WE CAN WORK IT OUT (Signed, Sealed & Delivered, 1970) -- 231 points, 12 votes, 1 #1 vote18. CREEPIN' (Fulfillingness' First Finale, 1974) -- 225 points, 14 votes19. MY CHERIE AMOUR (My Cherie Amour, 1968) -- 221 points, 11 votes20. THE TEARS OF A CLOWN (Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Make It Happen, 1967) -- 216 points, 10 votes21. BOOGIE ON REGGAE WOMAN (Fulfillingness' First Finale, 1974) -- 204 points, 13 votes22. VISIONS (Innervisions, 1973) -- 204 points, 9 votes23. DO I DO (Original Musiquarium, 1982) -- 190 points, 10 votes, 1 #1 vote24. ANOTHER STAR (Songs in the Key of Life, 1976) -- 185 points, 7 votes25. MASTER BLASTER (JAMMIN') (Hotter Than July, 1980) -- 181 points, 8 votes26. HEAVEN IS 10 ZILLION LIGHT YEARS AWAY (Fulfillingness' First Finale, 1974) -- 174 points, 9 votes, 1 #1 vote27. YOU ARE THE SUNSHINE OF MY LIFE (Talking Book, 1972) -- 170 points, 11 votes28. TOO HIGH (Innervisions, 1973) -- 167 points, 14 votes29. LOVE'S IN NEED OF LOVE TODAY (Songs in the Key of Life, 1976) -- 155 points, 7 votes, 1 #1 vote30. JESUS CHILDREN OF AMERICA (Innervisions, 1973) -- 148 points, 9 votes31. LOVE HAVING YOU AROUND (Music of My Mind, 1972) -- 140 points, 7 votes32. BIG BROTHER (Talking Book, 1972) -- 140 points, 6 votes33. IT'S A SHAME (The Spinners, 2nd Time Around, 1970) -- 137 points, 6 votes34. PASTTIME PARADISE (Songs in the Key of Life, 1976) -- 135 points, 9 votes35. (tie) UNTIL YOU COME BACK TO ME (Aretha Franklin, Let Me in Your Life, 1973) -- 131 points, 7 votes35. (tie) BLAME IT ON THE SUN (Talking Book,, 1972) -- 131 points, 7 votes37. SUMMER SOFT (Songs in the Key of Life, 1976) -- 128 points, 9 votes, 1 #1 vote38. FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE (For Once in My Life, 1968) -- 111 points, 9 votes39. ALL IN LOVE IS FAIR (Innervisions, 1973) -- 103 points, 7 votes40. ORDINARY PAIN (Songs in the Key of Life, 1976) -- 100 points, 8 votes
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Monday, 10 October 2011 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Monday, October 10, 2011 4:15 PM (2 hours ago) Book
"Skeletons" too.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 October 2011 22:23 (twelve years ago) link
"It's Wrong (Apartheid)""Livin' for the City""Higher Ground"
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 October 2011 22:24 (twelve years ago) link
Also, "Happy Birthday" and "Cash in Your Face."
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Monday, 10 October 2011 22:33 (twelve years ago) link
Also: I'm gay, so every love song is political.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 October 2011 22:46 (twelve years ago) link