Released October 1972, this was Stevie's first fully self-produced album. He wrote or co-wrote all the songs, and plays most of the instruments on it: keyboards, drums, and harmonica.

You Are the Sunshine of My Life
Maybe Your Baby
You and I (We Can Conquer the World)
Tuesday Heartbreak
You've Got It Bad Girl
Superstition
Big Brother
Blame It on the Sun
Looking for Another Pure Love
I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever)



By that 1972, Stevie Wonder had already spent nearly a decade churning out hits for Motown as Little Stevie. But at age 22 he no longer wanted to follow the Motown formula, a formula designed to produce hit singles rather than innovation. So Wonder struck out on his own. Over the next decade, he experimented with a variety of instruments and developed a sound that we still identify as uniquely his own. He recorded a series of albums that proved he was a master of lush ballads as well as gritty funk...

"The period of "Talking Book" was a period of great explosion in synthesis. It was the first time that you heard a lot of Clavinet. And when you hear that Clavinet intro to "Superstition," what you're hearing is someone who is interacting with an instrument and figuring out how to make it sound like him. No one else plays the Clavinet like Stevie Wonder does. He made it speak."

..."Talking Book" marked the arrival of artist as one-man band in popular music...

Stevie Wonder says "Talking Book" was a turning point, his first real growth as a boy becoming a man. And making all of the artistic decisions himself and relying less on Motown head Berry Gordy for direction, Stevie Wonder proved his independence as an artist.

"Talking Book" crystallized Wonder's talent as a singer, writer and producer. He proved he could write grooves to keep you on the dance floor and, at the same time, make you think about social problems. And on the other side, he could melt your heart.



Stevie, looking back at Talking Book:

"I wanted to just express various many things that I felt—the political point of view that I have, the social point of view that I have, the passions, emotion and love that I felt, compassion, the fun of love that I felt, the whole thing in the beginning with a joyful love, the pain of love."

Nor was it the first Stevie Wonder LP to be billed as being "self-produced"

>Released October 1972, this was Stevie's first fully
>self-produced album. He wrote or co-wrote all the songs, and
>plays most of the instruments on it: keyboards, drums, and
>harmonica.

There were a lot more instrumentalists on this album... sounds like this should be the description for the previous album, Music of My Mind.

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>There were a lot more instrumentalists on this album... sounds
>like this should be the description for the previous album,
>Music of My Mind.

and a turning point in his career because he got it all together with his creativity and also his commerical side. love this album.

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for Music of My Mind, Talking Book and Innervisions. and then they compiled the albums from this pool of songs.

i wanna hear the best of the leftovers. but rumor has it Stevie has made sure i'll never get to hear them. beyond a snippet here and there.

boo.

fuck you.

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"Twilight Zone" theme
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"Night Moves"
"The Situation"
"Superbowl Shuffle"

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If I can figure out all the context clues. I'm just saying.

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I wish that he would release some treats for us music fans...throwaway 70s Stevie joints should be infintely better than some of the music that is being released at the present...

There's a lot of stuff floating around on Youtube, but it only leaves you wanting more.

Looking For Another Pure Love are some of the greatest songs ever

Keep going back to that. It seems so incongrous. Putting the sad subject matter with really up music and the upbeat lyrics with ballad-esque stuff ("I Believe"). "Tuesday Heartbreak" sounds like such a party when it shouldn't.

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