OK, let's go!
― Iago Galdston, Monday, 10 October 2011 13:53 (twelve years ago) link
25. MASTER BLASTER (JAMMIN') (Hotter Than July, 1980) -- 181 points, 8 votes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv_wZQJYlo0
I am the Blaster Master― Mickey (modestmickey), Sunday, February 6, 2005 9:10 PM (6 years ago)
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Monday, 10 October 2011 14:06 (twelve years ago) link
24. ANOTHER STAR (Songs in the Key of Life, 1976) -- 185 points, 7 votes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9KKBvWTdMQ
Wanted to dig up the clip of this song's appearance in an episode of Quantum Leap. Sam played a Chippendale's dancer who became infatuated with a deaf girl dancer after he observed her running through some moves to this song. Hit a lot of my buttons, you know?
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Monday, 10 October 2011 14:24 (twelve years ago) link
I bet.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 October 2011 14:28 (twelve years ago) link
(Also, was a top 5 placer on my ballot.)
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Monday, 10 October 2011 14:33 (twelve years ago) link
23. DO I DO (Original Musiquarium, 1982) -- 190 points, 10 votes, 1 #1 vote
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQEBZfG5SaY
I question the sanity of any voter who didn't include "Do I Do" in the top thirty.― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), via email ballot
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Monday, 10 October 2011 14:42 (twelve years ago) link
"Do I Do" was really the only song that ever replaced "Summer Soft" atop my list of all-time favorite Stevie joints for any extended period of time.
It seems his "September," his most purest expression of volatile joy.
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Monday, 10 October 2011 14:43 (twelve years ago) link
The best scene in Michael Chabon's Mysteries of Pittsburgh unfolds in the novel's first third: our hero dances with a girl "to that summer's Stevie Wonder hit...something about chocolate kisses."
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 October 2011 14:44 (twelve years ago) link
that "September" analogy is spot-on.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 October 2011 14:45 (twelve years ago) link
I don't think I paid attention to OM - I thought it was just a comp?
― Ravaging Rick Rude (a hoy hoy), Monday, 10 October 2011 14:52 (twelve years ago) link
With two fantastic and two okay new songs.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 October 2011 14:55 (twelve years ago) link
oh, i guess i should check that out then :D still having new stevie to listen to after listening to like 40 hours of music = good times
― Ravaging Rick Rude (a hoy hoy), Monday, 10 October 2011 14:58 (twelve years ago) link
Eh, what - Master Blaster only #25?!
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 10 October 2011 14:59 (twelve years ago) link
im kinda glad mb(j) didn't come higher, even if i <3 it
― Ravaging Rick Rude (a hoy hoy), Monday, 10 October 2011 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
22. VISIONS (Innervisions, 1973) -- 204 points, 9 votes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aya94fiCCs8
I love love love the interplay of guitars in "Visions", it is a total trip. The bass is stellar, too.― m bison, Thursday, July 12, 2007 8:44 PM (4 years ago)
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Monday, 10 October 2011 15:04 (twelve years ago) link
wonder if all of innervisions will make it
― Ravaging Rick Rude (a hoy hoy), Monday, 10 October 2011 15:05 (twelve years ago) link
Those acoustic guitars are soooo gorgeous!
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 10 October 2011 15:08 (twelve years ago) link
So, 'As' is regarded better than 'Another Star'? Hm.
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 10 October 2011 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
21. BOOGIE ON REGGAE WOMAN (Fulfillingness' First Finale, 1974) -- 204 points, 13 votes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tCeAZ1nQjk
"Boogie On Reggae Woman" may be the most This Song Is About Fucking song ever recorded by someone other than Prince.― Digable James Cobo, Tuesday, October 29, 2002 3:09 AM (8 years ago)
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Monday, 10 October 2011 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
o_O at that vid
― Ravaging Rick Rude (a hoy hoy), Monday, 10 October 2011 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
Boogie on Striped Pants
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 October 2011 15:37 (twelve years ago) link
the song is about as fun as stevie got
― Ravaging Rick Rude (a hoy hoy), Monday, 10 October 2011 15:37 (twelve years ago) link
Boogie on Maggie Thatcher
― Ravaging Rick Rude (a hoy hoy), Monday, 10 October 2011 15:38 (twelve years ago) link
Boogie on Random Butts
20. THE TEARS OF A CLOWN (Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Make It Happen, 1967) -- 216 points, 10 votes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zww7FQILQec
the consolations of oldies radioAll I'm saying is if I hear "Tears of a Clown" one more time it's gonna get nasty.― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, March 11, 2004 1:28 PM (7 years ago)
All I'm saying is if I hear "Tears of a Clown" one more time it's gonna get nasty.― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, March 11, 2004 1:28 PM (7 years ago)
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Monday, 10 October 2011 15:51 (twelve years ago) link
Doh! Totally forgot that one!
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 10 October 2011 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
Gotta say, for awhile, this was trending into the top 10.
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Monday, 10 October 2011 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
jam. forgot to vote for it tho. only voted for one song where stevie wasn't the lead voice on it, and i bet i'm the only person to do so (busta's been through the storm).
― Ravaging Rick Rude (a hoy hoy), Monday, 10 October 2011 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
Can neither confirm nor deny.
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Monday, 10 October 2011 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
19. MY CHERIE AMOUR (My Cherie Amour, 1968) -- 221 points, 11 votes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI3tCJ1qbu8
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Monday, 10 October 2011 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
Why does Eddie get top billing and capitalisation?
― Mark G, Monday, 10 October 2011 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
That's a surprise.
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 10 October 2011 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
That it placed so low or so high or at all?
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Monday, 10 October 2011 16:40 (twelve years ago) link
So high; I figured most of you would find it too... cheesy?(I really like it BTW, although I didn't think I voted for it.)
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 10 October 2011 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
there's clearly no lack of appreciation for Wonder Cheese in these results, I'd say I hate at least a third of the things that have placed so far
― unorthodox economic revenge (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 10 October 2011 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
eh maybe more like a quarter
― unorthodox economic revenge (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 10 October 2011 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
18. CREEPIN' (Fulfillingness' First Finale, 1974) -- 225 points, 14 votes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gkqGCnK-nw
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Monday, 10 October 2011 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
No cheese there imo.
dope song
― unorthodox economic revenge (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 10 October 2011 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
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