TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
3.4091
Stevie Wonder Album Rankings
1
Sadly, Stevie Wonder's pop culture reputation centers around his final mega-hit "I Just Called to Say I Love You," so new Wonder recruits who choose to delve into the singer's unparalleled '70s output
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2
At twenty-two, an age when most men don't even own twenty-two pairs of clean underwear, the prodigious Stevie Wonder had already released twenty-two albums.
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3
Now that I'm firmly ensconsed on the wrong side of forty - and, truthfully, starting to enjoy it - it seems I'm noticing more and more how important little pieces of history can get shoved aside by ci
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4
After the righteous anger and occasional despair of the socially motivatedInnervisions, Stevie Wonder returned with a relationship record:Fulfillingness' First Finale.
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5
Originally released as two LPs with a bonus seven-inch EP, Stevie Wonder's 106-minute 1976 opus,Songs in the Key of Life, is the crowning achievement of Seventies pop's grand aspirations.
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6
With a new contract from Motown in his hand, Stevie Wonder releasedMusic of My Mind, his first truly unified record and, with the exception of a single part on two songs, the work of a one-man-band.
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7
One month before he turned 21, Stevie Wonder releasedWhere I'm Coming From, the most distinctive record of his young career, and one that looked forward -- in its breadth of material as well as its fu
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8
When you're putting together a 21-song collection of a major artist who's had more than 40 Top 40 hits, inevitably there's going to be a lot of good stuff left out.
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9
It would be hard to underestimate the influential legacy of Stevie Wonder, a 1989 inductee into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
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10
Released in 1982, the double-albumOriginal Musiquarium Isummarizes Stevie Wonder's classic period of the '70s, concentrating primarily on the hits, but adding a few album tracks to hint at the depth o
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11
Track listing: 1) Part Time Lover; 2) I Love You Too Much; 3) Whereabouts; 4) Stranger On The Shore Of Love; 5) Never In Your Sun; 6) Spiritual Walkers; 7) Land Of La La; 8) Go Home; 9) Overjoyed ; 10
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12
The melodies don't falter, and Wonder's unexpectedly and perhaps unfortunately influential vocal attack is as mellifluous as ever.
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13
A Time 2 Love is both a solid comeback and a welcome return to form by one of pops most significant voices.
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14
Track listing: 1) Earth's Creation; 2) The First Garden; 3) Voyage To India; 4) Same Old Story; 5) Venus' Flytrap And The Bug; 6) Ai No Sono; 7) Seasons; 8) Power Flower; 9) Send One Your Love (music)
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Rather than rushing out an album in the spring of 1968, when "Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day" (Number 9 Pop, Number One R&B) hit, Motown waited, through the modest summer success of "You Met Your Match" (N
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16
This album was rushed out to capitalize on the success of the title song, which was Wonder's biggest pop hit since "Fingertips, Pt. 2," and would not be bettered until "Superstition" in 1972.
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17
The obligatory Stevie Wonder Christmas album is par for the course, with standards like "The Little Drummer Boy" coming off better than the new songs written for the project.
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18
Stevie Wonder was beginning to rebel against the Motown hit factory mentality in the early '70s.
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19
Following the relative commercial failure of Conversation Peace, Stevie Wonder rushed out this double-disc live album drawn from an international tour during which he was backed by different symphony
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26
A weird collection of grown-up love songs for a fifteen year-old boy to record, this is the least successful entry in the post- Uptight Wonder sweepstakes.
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28
In the two years between Uptight and For Once In MyLife , Motown rushed out as much Stevie Wonder as they could.
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31
One of his lighter early albums containing the famous title song and "Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday" plus an odd moment as Wonder covers the Doors with "Light My Fire.
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41
Stevie Wonder shocked fans by taking only two years to release his next new non-soundtrack studio album, Characters.
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45
Stevie Wonder's 1968 album For Once in My Life (which contained three big hits) is paired with Uptight, an album from two years earlier.
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47
The release of Down to Earth/I Was Made to Love Her documents a transitional phase for Stevie Wonder.
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53
A picture on cover of this 4-CD box set depicts the artist early in his career, when he was "'Little' Stevie Wonder, the 12-year-old genius," and it tells you everything you need to know about this so
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