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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: Motown
Salesrank: 5232
Released: March 21, 2000 |
| Our Price: $5.34 |
| Used Price: $5.44 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Music of My Mind Track Listing:
1. Love Having You Around
2. Superwoman (Where Were You When I Needed You)
3. I Love Everylittle Thing About You
4. Sweet Little Girl
5. Happier Than The Morning Sun
6. Girl Blue
7. Seems So Long
8. Keep On Running
9. Evil
Editorial Review:
Stevie Wonder was getting his fusion of soul, rock, and various other styles together when Music of My Mind appeared in early 1972. A bit shapeless compared with Talking Book, the masterpiece he'd release by the end of the year, this disc nonetheless finds the then-21-year-old self-assuredly deploying an array of synthesized textures and natural voices: check out the drawl lurking around the edges of "Sweet Little Girl." Not an essential album, but an entertaining one--and one that, in retrospect, carried enormous implications for the future of American music. --Rickey Wright
Music of My Mind Reviews:
All of the 5-star ratings are correct 
2009-10-02 - I have held this recording in the highest regard ever since it came out in 197x. A few months ago, I loaded this on my alarm clock, and my wife and I have been waking up to it and listening to it daily since then. Every single day we say..." What a fantastic recording." i.e,. After 100's of recent listenings, Music of my Mind seems even more complex and beautiful than what I envisioned way back when. The songwriting, performances, and arrangements are all top-notch...raw, exciting, musical, and sincere. Simply: great, timeless music. If I could rate it 6-stars, I would.
A True Gem
2009-09-28 - This is Stevie Wonder moving from the strict "Motown Sound" releases enforced by Barry Gordy to true Creative Freedom. He had finally got his demands met from Gordy and this was the product of the hard fought victory. It's hard to believe that a 21 year old wrote these songs. "Superwoman (Where were you when i needed you)" & "Evil" are two of the most powerful on the record. "I Love every little thing about you" & "Love having you around" are great & more upbeat & "Sweet Little Girl" is Stevie truly being set free and allowed to shine and have fun. Great Record and prelude to things to come.
Music of his mind
2009-07-18 - It is no secret that Stevie is a genius. Its a shame he has watered down his music into stuff that just pays bills now. He has grown old and fat just like his music. This album was when he was young lean and mean. He was dealing with Berry's doubts about his music and wanted to do something different. Although blind, Stevie used to listen to movies and musicals especially one done by Rodgers and Hammerstein.He also was intrigued by the Beatles and the Stones. He later would open for the Stones. He longed to bring out the side of himself that these guys helped to create. With almost a million dollars (9.3 million in our time)he went ahead and did this album. It seems he just placed a cathode in his brain and poured out this stuff. It changed mine and many others lives. Stevie observed the way Marvin Gaye approached music and decided to do the same. I can hear the conflict going on inside a young 21 year old man dealing with war, sex, love, fame, marriage, and religion. You can almost live it with him as he is influenced by his ever loving mother, his new fiance, and his chip he had on his shoulder for Berry.
My favorite song is "love everything about you". You can tell he was dealing with the relationship he had with Syreeta and how others were telling him to break up with her due to her older nagging ways. I had the chance to meet Stevie back in the seventies and noticed how Syreeta was getting frustrated with his exploding stardom. Women from all over were trying to get a piec of him and he loved it. He told me father that he loved him some P...y! I wish Stevie was less interested in making babies and singing his pop tunes and that he would do us a favor and sing some of the other songs he so richly wrote. Evil is a great tune and his voice is prime in it. I love the mixing of the tracks as well. I wtruly wish someone would sit him down and play the five fab albums he wrote and let him hear the pure innocence he had at that time.
lovely melodies and arrangements
2009-05-25 -
This is a very excellent Stevie Wonder album, one of his best in my opinion.
a super album
2009-05-05 - What's amazing is that, not only can Stevie Wonder perform music without being able to see, but he can perform music *and* have the ability to write highly enjoyable music while being extremely consistent with his albums.
Another amazing thing about the guy is how he can take pop writing, throw in some funk, great rhythms, melodic vocal melodies and an ability to be original and stand apart from all the other musicians out there, lay all these wonderful ideas down on record, and you have yourself an incredibly talented musician.
Stevie Wonder is just that- very very talented. As far as Music of My Mind goes, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised at the quality of the music he created for this album, and will admire all the high points (which there are many high points). I think you'll be surprised when you recognize "Superwoman". I know I've heard that song somewhere before. It almost takes my breath away with its beauty and spiritual dreamy feel. What a classic.
The rest of the album is similar. It was once said despite being blind Stevie can see more than most people who have perfect vision, and I have to agree with that. Great album.
