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Posted by: yury_usa on 12-03-2006, 20:51 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by: yury_usa on 12-03-2006, 20:51 |
Review Released in August 1973 'Innervisions' was to spend over 80 weeks on the chart becoming one of Stevie's best sellers at that time. Its themes are very, very simple. Life is tough but it's also beautiful. Things can seem lost and yet be redeemed with a bit of love and friendship from other humans. There are also themes of inner strength and a sense of striving to be better than other people credit you for. 'Too High' opens the album and it's slick. A groove-laden funk fest with some cool time changes and almost horizontally laid back vocal delivery. (maybe coz the theme is centred around dope??!) This track flows into 'Visions'. A cool track that's a nice polar opposite to the opener. From here we get locked into a 7-minute 'Living for The City'. If you don't know this track you will as soon as you play it. It's one of Wonder's best-known tracks and on 'Innervisions' it comes with the full attack on the new guy in town. The theme is of the poison of the big city. Stevie recollects with such descriptiveness of the downfall of a guy with hopes and dreams. Musically it's solid and powerfully delivered. 'Golden Lady' ushers in a nice sense of balance after the bombast of the previous track. It's again slick and polished. Maybe it's one of the weaker tracks here but it's still a pleasure to listen to. 'Higher Ground' follows and it's perfect. I can't think of a better slice of funk. This track is truly timeless. It's been covered many times (not least by the Chilli Peppers who frankly murdered it) but never bettered. It's genius. Nuff said. 'Jesus Children Of America' sounds as though its going to be a corny track but it's quite the opposite. Almost gospel-like in its funk drenched power it is simply wonderful. Again everything sounds tight with some true 'in-the-pocket' grooves. The pace is taken down nicely with 'All In Love Is Fair'. A beautiful track with some heart-breakingly-immense vocals. Not only could this guy play he could sing like an angel when required. 'Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing' follows. Again, another easily recognised Stevie classic. It's offset with some bonkers Latin percussion and is drenched in wonderful vocal harmonies. An incredibly uplifting track. It will make you feel better if you're day is a bad one! Finally this monumental album closes with my favourite track of Stevie's. 'He's Misstra-Know-It-All' is a true work of genius. A lovely, mellow introduction leads into some groove-laden sections before seeing us home with a wonderfully drawn out fadeout. This track makes me smile, it makes me feel good and that's the timeless beauty of this track and indeed the whole album. |
Posted by: yury_usa on 12-03-2006, 20:54 |
А вот, камрады, топ 100 альбомов по версии журнала "Rolling Stone"! 1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles 2. Pet Sounds, The Beach Boys 3. Revolver, The Beatles 4. Highway 61 Revisited, Bob Dylan 5. Rubber Soul, The Beatles 6. What's Going On, Marvin Gaye 7. Exile on Main Street, The Rolling Stones 8. London Calling, The Clash 9. Blonde on Blonde, Bob Dylan 10. The Beatles ("The White Album"), The Beatles 11. The Sun Sessions, Elvis Presley 12. Kind of Blue, Miles Davis 13. Velvet Underground and Nico, The Velvet Underground 14. Abbey Road, The Beatles 15. Are You Experienced?, The Jimi Hendrix Experience 16. Blood on the Tracks, Bob Dylan 17. Nevermind, Nirvana 18. Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen 19. Astral Weeks, Van Morrison 20. Thriller, Michael Jackson 21. The Great Twenty-Eight, Chuck Berry 22. Plastic Ono Band, John Lennon 23. Innervisions, Stevie Wonder 24. Live at the Apollo (1963), James Brown 25. Rumours, Fleetwood Mac 26. The Joshua Tree, U2 27. King of the Delta Blues Singers, Vol. 1, Robert Johnson 28. Who's Next, The Who 29. Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin 30. Blue, Joni Mitchell 31. Bringing It All Back Home, Bob Dylan 32. Let It Bleed, The Rolling Stones 33. Ramones, Ramones 34. Music From Big Pink, The Band 35. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, David Bowie 36. Tapestry, Carole King 37. Hotel California, The Eagles 38. The Anthology, 1947 - 1972, Muddy Waters 39. Please Please Me, The Beatles 40. Forever Changes, Love 41. Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, The Sex Pistols 42. The Doors, The Doors 43. The Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd 44. Horses, Patti Smith 45. The Band, The Band 46. Legend, Bob Marley and the Wailers 47. A Love Supreme, John Coltrane 48. It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Public Enemy 49. At Fillmore East, The Allman Brothers Band 50. Here's Little Richard, Little Richard 51. Bridge Over Troubled Waters, Simon and Garfunkel 52. Greatest Hits, Al Green 53. The Birth of Soul: The Complete Atlantic Rhythm and Blues Recordings, 1952 - 1959, Ray Charles 54. Electric Ladyland, The Jimi Hendrix Experience 55. Elvis Presley, Elvis Presley 56. Songs in the Key of Life, Stevie Wonder 57. Beggars Banquet, The Rolling Stones 58. Trout Mask Replica, Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band 59. Meet the Beatles, The Beatles 60. Greatest Hits, Sly and the Family Stone 61. Appetite for Destruction, Guns n' Roses 62. Achtung Baby, U2 63. Sticky Fingers, The Rolling Stones 64. Phil Spector, Back to Mono (1958 - 1969), Various Artists 65. Moondance, Van Morrison 66. Led Zeppelin IV, Led Zeppelin 67. The Stranger, Billy Joel 68. Off the Wall, Michael Jackson 69. Superfly, Curtis Mayfield 70. Physical Graffiti, Led Zeppelin 71. After the Gold Rush, Neil Young 72. Purple Rain, Prince 73. Back in Black, AC/DC 74. Otis Blue, Otis Redding 75. Led Zeppelin II, Led Zeppelin 76. Imagine, John Lennon 77. The Clash, The Clash 78. Harvest, Neil Young 79. Star Time, James Brown 80. Odessey and Oracle, The Zombies 81. Graceland, Paul Simon 82. Axis: Bold as Love, The Jimi Hendrix Experience 83. I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You, Aretha Franklin 84. Lady Soul, Aretha Franklin 85. Born in the U.S.A., Bruce Springsteen 86. Let It Be, The Beatles 87. The Wall, Pink Floyd 88. At Folsom Prison, Johnny Cash 89. Dusty in Memphis, Dusty Springfield 90. Talking Book, Stevie Wonder 91. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Elton John 92. 20 Golden Greats, Buddy Holly 93. Sign 'o' the Times, Prince 94. Bitches Brew, Miles Davis 95. Green River, Creedence Clearwater Revival 96. Tommy, The Who 97. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan 98. This Year's Model, Elvis Costello 99. There's a Riot Goin' On, Sly and the Family Stone 100. In the Wee Small Hours, Frank Sinatra |
Posted by: Zemlynin on 13-03-2006, 02:01 |
пробуем. |
Posted by: yury_usa on 13-03-2006, 02:12 |
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