the first eleven songs are for me the most exciting routes that have ever been recorded. there is really everything. each song sparkles and shines, at the same time he trembles almost before emergency. because you can hear every bar: the music had to be done, otherwise it would have torn the artist, perhaps the SOGAT uniiversum. then allow the urgency but after noticeably. still resound the pieces immaculately beautiful, but they seem less immediate, less necessary, less compelling with the exception of "AS". Some of them are almost a little cute (like "Joy Inside My Tears", "i am singing", "if it's magic" or even the enormously famous "Another Star"). a bit has the second part of this collection of songs something of euphony, of niceness, of designerhaftigkeit. bite and hiss the songs and not scratch. nice that they are there. but it had never existed, we would not have missed (- quite in contrast to the first half, these tracks are essential). This is noticeable in the bonus tracks especially clear.
Besides that. Stevie Wonder spreads here a whole musical universe before us. soul, funk, pop, calypso, latin, r & b, jazz, rock, blues - it's impressive and touching. where he not only shows the spectrum of black music, he also handles white influences, as in the pastoral songs like "Village Ghetto Land", where you can the middle Beatles and hear the kinks.
an album that yields up now popular pieces ("Sir Duke", "I wish" and "Is not She Lovely" are rightly the biggest hits. that no one can leave you indifferent. which is sampled without end. and not ways but all paved highways. without this album no Michael Jackson, no prince, but not Lenny Kravitz or Ben Harper.
five stars, because of the historical significance, despite slight signs of wear part of the magical power in the second.
