| Music of My Mind | 
 enlarge | Artist: Stevie Wonder
Label: Motown
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 200659
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 737463031424
EAN: 0737463031424
ASIN: B000001A6F
Release Date: October 25, 1990
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Condition: w-cd has scuffs, case has slight wear.
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| Tracks:
| • | Love Having You Around - Stevie Wonder, Wright, Syreeta | | • | Superwoman (Where Were You When I Needed You) | | • | I Love Every Little Thing About You | | • | Sweet Little Girl | | • | Happier Than the Morning Sun | | • | Girl Blue | | • | Seems So Long | | • | Keep on Running | | • | Evil |
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 A brilliant album November 25, 1999
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought this CD at the same time as I bought "Songs in the Key of Life", "Innervisions" and "Talking Book", and therefor, I just listened to it once or so as I thought the other albums were so brilliant. But for the last month, this has been the only album that I've played in my CD. With songs like the brilliant opener "Love Having You Around", "Superwoman", "Girl Blue", "Evil" and "I Love every little thing about you" (listen to the amazing drums on the last chorus of that one!) this is an album that nobody can afford to miss. The main reason for this is also one of his best songs ever "Happier than the morning sun". I can just listen to this song time after time, and always feel as happy. Compared to the other of his "Power albums" I'd say that this is one of the top 3. It's better and more complete than "Talking Book" in my view, It doesn't quite match up to the best parts of "Innervisions" or "Songs in the Key of Life" but this is still a must have album. You just have to give it some time, because you probably won't like it much the first few times you listen to it.
 Aptly named November 24, 1999
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Here begins the great period of maturity and creativity in Wonder's career. It's sometimes said that the payoff of this album came with the ones that followed (Innervisions, Talking Book, FFF, Songs in the Key of Life, et al), but that attitude does a terrible disservice to this record, which is not only highly enjoyable in its own right, but also more intimate than its successors. It also has about it a greater sense of adventurousness and experimentalism. You can really sense an artist coming into his own, with longer works, more personal songwriting, innovative song structures, and fresh arrangements, all of which forego the rules of pop/R&B in order to expand them and create new ones. The title definitely fits: this does feel like the music of a bold new artist's mind ... and his heart ... and his soul ...
THE MIND THATS A WONDER-FUL PLACE TO BE January 26, 2000
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Though often ignored when discussing his classic albums,MOMM is where Stevie Wonder's genius start to blossom.It is important for two reasons.First it established Stevie as a musical force to be reckoned with and finally shed the "Little Stevie Wonder" image for good.Second,it pioneered the use of synthesizers as a musical instrument and not a machine to create unearthly sounds.Credit should be given to Malcolm Cecil & Robert Margouleff(two synth wizards who recorded as Tonto's Expanding Head Band) for guiding Stevie in his new musical direction.Love Having You Around takes the clavinet-based funk he recorded on Do Yourself A Favor(from Where I'm Coming From) and expand on it.Superwoman(Where were you when I needed you)is an amazing recording where the first half of the song,he sounds troubled about his woman,then the second half he feels let down by her.The arrangement is also something to behold.Keep on Running is a funk tour-de-force,and Happier Than The Morning Sun & Seem So Long deserve praise.If I have any gripes about this album,is that it help usher in a new era in electronic music,where today,many synth based music sounds artificial & inhuman.Maybe this album should be required listening for up & coming producers and/or musician on the warmth and life that Stevie eminated from his Synths,including Stevie Wonder these days
What else is there? October 16, 1999
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
What more could someone do after producing a masterwork like this? The man went into this album with a soundscape in his head and produced some music that cannot be touched by anyone in history. Love Having You Around is pretty much the best opening track you could ask for on a record. After hearing this song, you simply cannot turn it off without finding out what other joys lie within. So then you're met with the likes of Superwoman (Where Were You When I Needed You), Happier Than The Morning Sun, and Keep On Running. Listening to this record gives me an unreal amount of energy, and brings a smile to my face so big I probably look like I'm in pain. Just the opposite, though. This record is just unstoppable.
The first of Stevie's masterpieces of the 1970's November 19, 1999
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
"Music Of My Mind" was considered to be the album that brought Stevie to maturity. Writing & performing the album mostly by himself, the songs here do showcase the beginning of the many wonderful "power" albums Stevie would record throughout the 70's. On this album Stevie debuts the strange synthesizer sounds that he would later be credited with pioneering (alongside David Bowie, although Stevie's use of synthesizers was clearly more focused than Bowie's). From the joyous, rocking opener "Love Having You Around" to the closing piano ballad "Evil", Stevie delivers a beautiful collection of songs. The standout track is "Superwoman" a sprawling, 8-minute soul epic about a relationship gone wrong that Stevie details with both sadness & sweetness. It features one of the most gorgeous bridges in music, and it consists solely of one synthesizer, drowning from one sound to another. The most amusing bit about this album is at the time of its release it was widely acknowledged that Stevie was taking himself to a higher level (just as other funk & soul artists were starting to emerge as well), little did they know of the masterpieces he would record between 1972 and 1976. In hindsight, "Music Of My Mind" is more rough around the edges than later efforts, but it is still a beautiful album you could never tire of.
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