POLLTIME PARADISE: ILM Artist Poll #9 Results -- Stevie Wonder

wait Tell Me Something Good didn't place either?! BAH

It would have been top-3 for me if I'd been paying better attention to what he wrote for other artists.

mine

Superstition
Uptight (Everything's Alright)
Higher Ground
Tears Of A Clown, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
We Can Work It Out
You Haven't Done Nothin'
Part-Time Lover
Living For The City
I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever)
I Ain't Gonna Stand For It
Sir Duke
I Was Made to Love Her
Do Yourself A Favor
Isn't She Lovely
Look Around
Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever, Four Tops
Boogie On Reggae Woman
He's Misstra Know It All
Summer Soft
Have A Talk With God
Lately
Ebony & Ivory
You Are the Sunshine of My Life
Heaven Is 10 Zillion Light Years Away
Maybe Your Baby
Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours
Pastime Paradise
Golden Lady
I Just Called to Say I Love You
Love Light In Flight

Rufus' "Tell Me Something Good" has got to be one of the most amazing "given away" songs ever. One of these great songs that sounds like nothing else.

my ballot:

Do I Do
Superstition
Uptight (Everything's Alright)
If You Really Love Me
Sir Duke
My Cherie Amour
Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours
Living For The City
For Once In My Life
Please Don't Go
Fingertips, Part 2
Lately
You Haven't Done Nothin'
Never Had A Dream Come True
Never Dreamed You'd Leave In Summer
Tears of a Clown (Smokey Robinson)
I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever)
Somebody Knows, Somebody Cares
I'm Wondering
Tuesday Heartbreak
Golden Lady
We Can Work It Out
I Call It Pretty Music But The Old People Call It The Blues Pt. 1
Funny How Time Slips Away
Hey Love
I Don't Know Why
Ebony And Ivory
Never Gonna Give You Up (with Raphael Saadiq)
Until You Come Back To Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)
Shoo Be Doo Be Do Da Day

my favorite album:
Talking Book

my least favorite track:
Master Blaster (Jammin')

"Do I Do" was your #1, al???

Consider this love.

Don't Worry 'Bout A Thing
Master Blaster (Jammin')
They Won't Go When I Go
I Was Made To Love Her
Uptight
Superstition
Light My Fire
Another Star
Higher Ground
All In Love Is Fair
Sir Duke
A Fool For You
I Ain't Gonna Stand For It
As
Golden Lady
Living For The City
Give You Love
Black Man
Heaven Is 10 Zillion Light Years
Keep On Running
Something Out Of The Blue
Never Dreamed You'd Leave In Summer
You Are The Sunshine Of My Life
Boogie On Reggae Woman
Creepin'
Nothing's Too Good For My Baby
Sunset
He's Misstra Know-It-All
Summer Soft
We Can Work It Out

Album: Innervisions
rotter: Superwoman

i'm not sure if i want some candy, Alfred, but i'll take the compliment

i assure you all that anything in bold on my ballot that you haven't heard is way more fun to listen to than boring old "As"

01. He's Misstra Know It All
02. Sir Duke
03. Superwoman
04. Uptight
05. Signed Sealed Delivered
06. Golden Lady
07. Don't You Worry Bout a Thing
08. I Wish
09. Superstition
10. My Cherie Amour
11. Creepin'
12. Living for the City
13. Boogie On Reggae Woman
14. Blame It On The Sun
15. Never Dreamed You'd Leave in Summer
16. I'm Goin Left (Syreeta)
17. You Haven't Done Nothin'
18. I Was Made to Love Her
19. Isn't She Lovely
20. Ordinary Pain
21. Don't Know Why I Love You
22. I Believe (When I Fall in Love)
23. Spinnin' and Spinnin' (Syreeta)
24. Joy Inside My Tears
25. Send One Your Love
26. Ribbon in the Sky
27. Please Don't Go
28. All in Love Is Fair
29. Hey Love
30. Jesus Children of America

I am -- honestly -- shocked that "Part Time Lover" didn't place at all.

it's not as widely disliked as "i just called" but it is as widely dismissed

So much the better arrangement though -- the Vandross scatting, the long melody lines.

It's also the randy stepbrother/antithesis of "I Just Called..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epEQhxslprE

Gary Byrd and the GB Experience - "The Crown" (Produced by Stevie Wonder)

I've always though that the overtly Stevie parts of this (roughly 4:22-6:40) belong in his canon.

But, the Gary Byrd "raps" are pretty awful.

anybody make a spotify for this? i mean i've heard most of these anyway but still

http://open.spotify.com/user/ephender/playlist/3s10R5EfPD2hpKojGccxQd

http://sjuonlinenews.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/vault-boy.jpg

No "Fingertips"? Fuck this bullshit poll that I didn't vote in.

WTF I was the only voter for "You Met Your Match." Happy to see 2 other people voted for "All Day Sucker."

ha rev otm, i thought "fingertips" was a lock

xp Aw, Gary Byrd's Are You Ready for Black Power? is great.

I thought Fingertips would be Top 10, easy. So much joy in that record.

My ballot, non Top 50 bolded:

01. Higher Ground
02. Master Blaster (Jammin')
03. Sir Duke
04. I Wish
05. I Love Every Little Thing About You [Stevie / Syreeta]
06. For Once in My Life
07. Superstition
08. Do Like You
09. He's Misstra Know It All
10. Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing
11. Golden Lady
12. Living for the City
13. We Can Work It Out
14. Rocket Love
15. Uptight (Everything's Alright)
16. Happy Birthday
17. You Haven't Done Nothin'
18. I Ain't Gonna Stand For It
19. Pastime Paradise
20. Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours
21. As
22. Black Orchid
23. As If You Read My Mind
24. Summer Soft
25. Too High
26. Isn't She Lovely?
27. Lately
28. Do I Do
29. Happier than the Morning Sun
30. I Can Tell When Christmas Is Near [Smokey Robinson & The Miracles]

So..."If It's Magic" didn't even place.

I'm SO going to the Chicago show.

only if he does Hotter Than July in its entirety.

Maybe for an encore.

I'd vote "Heaven is 10 Zillion Light Years Away" #1 if we redid this. really I'd vote Stevie's drum playing #1, so into that today. do we have a thread just for Wonder as a drummer?

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/wonder_week.html

Slate's Wonder Week, "telling our greatest living musician how much we care."

No arguments here.

that piece on his drumming is o_O

fabulous article

Happy birthday, Stevie!

man, I BELIEVE (WHEN I FALL IN LOVE IT WILL BE FOREVER), you just knock me out

good #1, alfred--one of my fav songs to play on the piano

Happy birthday again!

Ranking those albums.

Talking Book is the one album in the whole classic run that just doesn't connect with me on the same level as the rest.

(Musiquarium has four new songs too.)

That's me and Songs xpost

I garbled that sentence. I was trying to say that two of the new songs were best-ever cuts.

Ah, got it. Yes, "Front Line" is neither fantastic nor a classic.

Inspired by Chris's Hit Parade podcast, and upon realization this hadn't been turned into a Spotify playlist ...

https://open.spotify.com/user/ephender/playlist/5hayJcMGy0BoMFQ517MNen?si=f4THhSknQaO8m93KXiByiA

I rank his pop top tens.

I'm surprised that he had so few of them tbh.