Stevie Wonder Music:

Songs in the Key of Life Track Listing:
Disc 1:
1. Love's in Need of Love Today
2. Have a Talk with God
3. Village Ghetto Land
4. Contusion
5. Sir Duke
6. I Wish
7. Knocks Me off My Feet
8. Pastime Paradise
9. Summer Soft
10. Ordinary Pain

Disc 2:
1. Isn't She Lovely
2. Joy Inside My Tears
3. Black Man
4. Ngiculela -- Es Una Historia -- I Am Singing
5. If It's Magic
6. As
7. Another Star
8. Saturn
9. Ebony Eyes
10. All Day Sucker
11. Easy Goin' Evening (My Mama's Call)

Editorial Review:
Japanese only SHM pressing. The SHM-CD [Super High Material CD] format features enhanced audio quality through the use of a special polycarbonate plastic. Using a process developed by JVC and Universal Music Japan discovered through the joint companies' research into LCD display manufacturing SHM-CDs feature improved transparency on the data side of the disc allowing for more accurate reading of CD data by the CD player laser head. SHM-CD format CDs are fully compatible with standard CD players. Universal. 2009.

Description of Songs in the Key of Life:
One of the first albums to debut at No. 1 in Billboard, Songs in the Key of Life was the highest high-point of Stevie Wonder's career. More sprawling than Innervisions and Talking Book, this 2 LP-plus-EP was also less of a consistent stunner than either of those masterworks. That Songs retains an enormous amount of visionary relevance, though, is demonstrated not only in Coolio's borrowing of "Pastime Paradise" as a template for "Gangsta's Paradise," but in the cold-as-ice synthesized string quartet of "Village Ghetto Land." This is Stevie, so naturally that cut's anger is balanced by the ultra-buoyant "I Wish," "Sir Duke," and "Another Star." --Rickey Wright

Songs in the Key of Life Reviews:
Music Review
2009-12-08 - I enjoy listening to anything Stevie Wonder sings and I love Songs in the Key of Life. Its great music and I am happy to be an owner of the CD.

Timeless Classic
2009-12-06 - SITKOL never gets old and out of date. I love this album because it celebrates love, live, its original, the melody of the music is as beautiful as Stevie's voice and it makes you feel GOOD! It also gives notice of social and political hypocrisies that exist even now and i think that kind of thing is missing nowadays in mainstream music. If you have a voice you should try to make a difference in the world.

The greatest album from one of the greatest entertainers of all time
2009-11-17 - This album is a rarity. I cannot think of another double disc album that has no filler whatsoever. Also, "Love's in Need Of Love Today" is one of Stevie's best opening tracks. The opening line "Good morn or evening friends, here's your friendly announcer.." perfectly sets up the entire album. Other standout tracks include "Have a Talk With God", "Sir Duke", "Pastime Paradise", "Ngiculela", "If it's Magic", "I Wish", "Isn't She Lovely". Do you notice how many songs I have listed? The whole album is not only filled with standout tracks, but they are perfectly sequenced and blend in with each other exquisitely. If you like Stevie Wonder but don't have any of his albums, this is the one to start with. Then, pick up "Music Of My Mind", "Innervisions", "Talking Book", "In Square Circle". and "A Time To Love". These albums represent the best of the best.

Songs, keys, and true life, too
2009-11-04 - It's no surprise that Elton John thinks this is the greatest album ever recorded. Stevie Wonder and Elton John are made from the same mold (how's that for equality?), both talented pop artists whose greatest talent is making their music seem holier than it is. The different between them is that E.J. is a decent pop artist and S.W. is a truly gifted pop artist: John's grand double-album opus, "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road," is up and down and mostly intriguing for its flaws; Wonder's grand double-album opus is the real deal, all highs that never let up, and it comes with an E.P., too. I'm not sure what Elton's after, if anything. Stevie just wants everyone to get along and to see the beauty in the world, a statement he can make without the need to acknowledge its irony. Nevertheless, "Black Man," on which Stevie gets a little angry, is the most exciting song and sounds like the sincerest to me--but not by much. On an album full of songs built around melody, that's something. And since the President has named it his favorite record, add "patriotism" to its list of merits.

An Album for a Generation!
2009-09-28 - I love this Double LP for so many reasons, but one of the most relevant is that each song reminds me of periods of my life as i was growing up. It seems Stevie was taking all of us on a trip down memory lane with him and i found myself being familar with each of the stops along the way. One of the Greatest Compliments i've heard concerning this album was from Elton John.

He stated that this was the greatest album of all time and even to this day whenever & wherever he travels, "Songs in the Key of Life" travels with him. This album took about 3 years for Stevie to make and it was time well spent. He touches just about every different genre of music in popular music.

The lyrics are thought provoking, the music compositions are wonderfully crafted & the vocal arrangements are other worldly. There are many highlights from the standards "Sir Duke", "I Wish", "Summer Soft" & "Isn't She Lovely" to the lyrical masterpieces like "Village Ghetto Land", "Ordinary Pain", "If It's Magic" & the song that was a gift from the universe, the epic "As".

This album was yet another statement by Stevie that he along with the likes of Curtis Mayfield, Maurice White, Marvin Gaye, Sam Cooke, Bob Marley, etc. was a musical Avatar of the highest order. He's songs were really unlike anything else and you would hear them played in the public schools (by teachers & students alike!) to movie theatres, parks, parties, radio and even in church's!

He Truly is a Genius in every since of the word and this was his hallmark album, the one everyone would know him by the world over!