Stevie Wonder – Songs In The Key Of Life (2LP Vinyl + Bonus 7″ Record) Japanese Pressing
Motown Records (1976 / This Pressing 1981)
$75.00
Scarce Actual 1976 Japanese First Pressing In Top Condition ~ With Bonus 4-Track 7″ Single! High Quality Audiophile Vinyl, Gatefold Cover Includes 24-Page Lyric Booklet, Plus Japanese Insert. Full-Length Masterpiece Featuring “Sir Duke”, “Village Ghetto Land”, “Isn’t She Lovely” & Many Other Great Songs.
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Scarce Actual 1976 Japanese First Pressing In Top Condition ~ With Bonus 4-Track 7″ Single! High Quality Audiophile Vinyl, Gatefold Cover Includes 24-Page Lyric Booklet, Plus Japanese Insert.
A Full-Length Masterpiece From Stevie Wonder, ‘Songs In The Key Of Life’ Includes “Sir Duke”, “Knocks Me Off My Feet”, “Village Ghetto Land”, “Isn’t She Lovely” & Many Other Great Songs.
Condition – Vinyl: NEAR MINT! Sounds soooo good!!
Condition – Cover: EXCELLENT! Line of fading on spine.
Japanese vinyl pressings are highly sought after by audiophiles and collectors, due to their premium sound quality and beautifully presented packaging. The sonic quality of Japanese records is regarded as the best in the world. No wonder all the original Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab records were pressed in Japan! The covers are printed on better quality heavy stock paper too. Near Mint condition original Japanese pressings are becoming scarcer ~ and therefore more collectable and valuable every year.
Side 1:
Love’s In Need Of Love Today
Have A Talk With God
Village Ghetto Land
Contusion
Sir Duke
Side 2:
I Wish
Knocks Me Off My Feet
Pastime Paradise
Summer Soft
Ordinary Pain
Side 3:
Isn’t She Lovely
Joy Inside My Tears
Black Man
Side 4:
Ngiculela – Es Una Historia – I Am Singing
If It’s Magic
As
Another Star
Side 5:
Saturn
Ebony Eyes
Side 6:
All Day Sucker
Easy Goin’ Evening (My Mama’s Call)
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Ambitious, wide-ranging arrangements and some of the best performances of Wonder's career! Songs in the Key of Life was Stevie Wonder's longest, most ambitious collection of songs, a two-LP (plus accompanying EP) set that -- just as the title promised -- touched on nearly every issue under the sun, and did it all with ambitious (even for him), wide-ranging arrangements and some of the best performances of Wonder's career. The opening "Love's in Need of Love Today" and "Have a Talk with God" are curiously subdued, but Stevie soon kicks into gear with "Village Ghetto Land," a fierce exposé of ghetto neglect set to a satirical Baroque synthesizer. Hot on its heels comes the torrid fusion jam "Contusion," a big, brassy hit tribute to the recently departed Duke Ellington in "Sir Duke," and (another hit, this one a Grammy winner as well) the bumping poem to his childhood, "I Wish." Though they didn't necessarily appear in order, Songs in the Key of Life contains nearly a full album on love and relationships, along with another full album on issues social and spiritual. Fans of the love album Talking Book can marvel that he sets the bar even higher here, with brilliant material like the tenderly cathartic and gloriously redemptive "Joy Inside My Tears," the two-part, smooth-and-rough "Ordinary Pain," the bitterly ironic "All Day Sucker," or another classic heartbreaker, "Summer Soft." Those inclined toward Stevie Wonder the social-issues artist had quite a few songs to focus on as well: "Black Man" was a Bicentennial school lesson on remembering the vastly different people who helped build America; "Pastime Paradise" examined the plight of those who live in the past and have little hope for the future; "Village Ghetto Land" brought listeners to a nightmare of urban wasteland; and "Saturn" found Stevie questioning his kinship with the rest of humanity and amusingly imagining paradise as a residency on a distant planet. If all this sounds overwhelming, it is; Stevie Wonder had talent to spare during the mid-'70s, and instead of letting the reserve trickle out during the rest of the decade, he let it all go with one massive burst.