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List Price: $13.98 | | Label: Motown
Salesrank: 27324
Released: October 18, 2005 |
| Our Price: $5.37 |
| Used Price: $1.38 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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A Time To Love Track Listing:
1. If Your Love Cannot Be Moved
2. Sweetest Somebody I Know
3. Moon Blue
4. From the Bottom of My Heart
5. Please Don't Hurt My Baby
6. How Will I Know
7. My Love Is On Fire
8. Passionate Raindrops
9. Tell Your Heart I Love You
10. True Love
11. Shelter In the Rain
12. So What The Fuss
13. Can't Imagine Love Without You
14. Positivity
15. A Time To Love
Editorial Review:
Japanese pressing of A Time To Love, which is the 28th studio album from the legendary singer/songwriter, includes the single 'So What The Fuss' and features guest appearances from Kim Burrell, Aisha Morris, India Arie, Prince & En Vogue. This pressing includes a Japanese only bonus track which you download from PC sight with password in the package.The bonus track is limited, and you can access it till Apr, 2006. Motown. 2005.
Description of A Time To Love:
Stevie Wonder took more than ten years to give a studio successor to Conversation Peace but A Time to Love feels fresher than we had any right to expect after such a long wait. For starters, the guests are well picked: They include Bonnie Raitt (playing slide guitar on "Tell Your Heart I Love You"), gospel singer Kim Burrell (on "If Your Heart Cannot Be Moved"), India Arie (on the title track), and Wonder's own daughter, Aisha Morris (whom listeners may remember as the source of her dad's delight in Songs in the Key of Life--"Isn't She Lovely"). Last but not least, Prince plays elegant, minimal funky guitar and En Vogue perform swoony backup vocals on first single "So What the Fuss," a classic pared-down dance number graced with Wonder's trademark socially conscious lyrics. It's on tracks like these--sounding as if they could be from anytime between 1975 and now--that Wonder shows he's still got the golden touch. He remains a sterling melodicist ("Moon Blue" is a killer ballad), and the harmonica intro on "From the Bottom of My Heart" is among the loveliest he's created. Of course a Wonder album wouldn't be complete without saccharine ballads, and he delivers there too ("Passionate Raindrops," "Can't Imagine Love Without You"). Still, this is a solid effort from one of America's premier artists. --Elisabeth Vincentelli
A Time To Love Reviews:
Underrated and Understated 
2008-05-02 - First off, I'll just say it: This is a great album.
Innervisions and Talking Book was 30 years ago, of course this album sounds different. Stevie was 55 at the time, and his maturity shows. That does not make this a bad album. Quite the opposite. The haunting "Moon Blue", the vocally-charged "If Your Love Cannot Be Moved" and the funky "So What The Fuss" are powerful tracks. Stevie also shines on "My Love Is On Fire", a track he initially wrote for Luther Vandross; you can hear the influence.
If you're looking for the rip-roaring funk of the 70's, then look elsewhere. If you're looking for well-crafted music made from one of the greatest singer/songwriters of all time, with a taste of jazz, funk, R&B, pop, and everything in between, this is your album.
Mosaic of background harmonies
2008-04-23 - I really liked the mosaic of background harmonies in the song "My love is on fire". On my first listening of this cd , that is what caught my ear. I like the way the vocals are arranged and there is a specific chord that the singers hit that is great . Just when I thought that there wasn't any more room for background vocals, some "ya ya ya"'s appear periodically. That's what I liked the most! I'm a singer/songriter and I produce my own recordings so I find this kind of production work exciting. Thanks Stevie Wonder and company.
A Time to Love
2007-10-05 - It took Wonder 10 years to release this album. Most bands live and die in that time period. And he was working pretty hard on this one, too. "If Your Love Cannot Be Moved" favorably recalls "Pastime Paradise"; "Sweetest Somebody I Know" is one of his typically brilliant love songs; "Moon Blue" is a dead-on slow jam, as is "My Love is on Fire"; "Please Don't Hurt My Baby" is funky as hell, even if I don't like the last minute of it; "Tell Your Heart I Love You" is fun and nothing else. But I'm gonna be a big jerk here and dish out some criticism. Most notably, there's too much music here. 1:17:48 is barely regulation CD length, and several cuts should've been, um... cut. "From the Bottom of My Heart" is annoyingly perky; "How Will I Know" features his only modestly talented daughter; "True Love" is sappy; "Shelter in the Rain" is overdone. But "So What the Fuss" makes up for all that; funky, with a fun Prince guest spot. "Positivity" is great too. Especially the overdubbed vocals. First-rate album.
STEVIE WONDER IS THE MUSICAL GENIUS! 
2007-07-15 - I HAVE LOVED STEVIE WONDER EVER SINCE I HEARD "SIR DUKE" AND "RIBBON IN THE SKY" AND "OVERJOYED" ON THE RADIO. I NOW HAVE ALMOST ALL OF HIS ALBUMS AND I STILL LISTEN TO THEM OFTEN. YOU WILL NEVER GET BORED LISTENING TO HIM. HE KNOWS HOW TO MAKE HIS MUSIC INTERESTING. HIS VOICE HAS CHANGED OVER THE YEARS AND I THINK HE WAITED TOO LONG TO MAKE ANOTHER ALBUM. THIS ALBUM DOES HAVE SOME GOOD MUSIC ON IT. I WOULD ALSO SUGGEST GETTING "SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE" THAT WAS A VERY FAMOUS ALBUM. ALSO TRY A LOT OF HIS OTHER ALBUMS. YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED. HE USUALLY HAS SO MANY HITS ON EACH ALBUM. IT HAS SO MUCH QUALITY. ITS ACTUALLY HARD TO FIND A SONG THAT YOU DON'T LIKE. HE HAS A REALLY NICE VOICE TOO. I SEE HIM ONCE A YEAR AT THE HOUSE OF TOYS EVENT AND HE IS FANTASTIC. HE CAN PLAY THE KEYBOARDS, THE HARMONICA, THE DRUMS, WRITE SONGS, WRITE MUSIC, AND PERFORM IT. HE HAS BEEN AROUND FOR A VERY LONG TIME. HE IS THE GREATEST IN MY OPINION. HE PUTS ME IN A GREAT MOOD ALL THE TIME. HE HAS STOLEN MY HEART WITH HIS MUSIC AND SINGING. HIS VOICE IS SOOTHING AND HE CAN HIT SOME NICE HIGH NOTES. HE SOUNDS GOOD NO MATTER WHAT NOTES HE HITS THOUGH. HE KNOWS HOW TO CHANGE HIS VOICE AND MAKE IT SOUND DIFFERENT IF HE WANTS TO. HE IS A VERY GOOD PERFORMER.
Not Great Music 
2007-06-28 - I am an avid Stevie Wonder fan, however this is NOT the Stevie Wonder of the '70s. I own Songs in the Key of Life, Innervisions, Talking Book, Journey Through The Secret Life Of Plants, and Little Stevie Wonder on '45s. (missed "For Once In My Life").
His voice is still as great as ever, however the songs on this album range from fair to abysmal.
Save your money and don't buy this one. Stick to classic Stevie!
