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Soldiers keep on warrin'
World keep on turnin'
Cause it won't be too long
Powers keep on lyin'
While your people keep on dyin'
World keep on turnin'
Cause it won't be too long
I'm so darn glad he let me try it again
Cause my last time on earth I lived a whole world of sin
I'm so glad that I know more than I knew then
Gonna keep on tryin'
'Til I reach the highest ground
Teachers keep on teachin'
Preachers keep on preachin'
World keep on turnin'
Cause it won't be too long
Oh no
Lovers keep on lovin'
Believers keep on believin'
Sleepers just stop sleepin'
Cause it won't be too long
Oh no
I'm so glad that he let me try it again
Cause my last time on earth I lived a whole world of sin
I'm so glad that I know more than I knew then
Gonna keep on tryin'
'Til I reach my highest ground
'Til I reach my highest ground
Oh no
No one's gonna bring me down
Oh no
'Til I reach my highest ground
Don't you let nobody bring you down
God is gonna show you higher ground
He's the only friend you have around
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Go somewhere else with your bullshit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hGSqqhhokE
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I was about to pull my flamethrower out of the closet but then I read the second line of your post.
I do love the RHCP version, but only Mr. Steveland Morris' version gets a 'Godlike' 10.
I feel like Mr. Wonder turned the funky knob up to 11 on this one.
My first thought was Mr Wonder has a funky............? Excuse me while I just go wash my mind out with soap
This is OK, but the Red Hot Chili Peppers' version is soooooooo much better!
Just joking! I kid! Easy 10 on this song.
I was about to pull my flamethrower out of the closet but then I read the second line of your post.
This is OK, but the Red Hot Chili Peppers' version is soooooooo much better!
Just joking! I kid! Easy 10 on this song.
Remember when Chris Daughtry sang this on American Idol and thought it was a RHCP original? good times.
Preachers keep on preachin'
Same four bars, played completely to death.
They couldn't have a better death.
Just joking! I kid! Easy 10 on this song.
Based on that premise, I would reckon that article is flawed.
Agreed. All three had more than only 3 great albums.
And Michigan still proudly claims Mr. Wonder as one of our own. :-)
Your humor is equally matched by your spelling ability. "classroos"?
"classroos" are Joeys and Kangas going to school.
obviously he didnt "see" Covid-19 shutting us down.
hey teachers... get back in the fucking classroos
Your humor is equally matched by your spelling ability. "classroos"?
lizardking is old - just as I am. You see when lots of folks first heard him in the sixties that was his moniker. Not a slam at all just some handle for the showbiz people to show him off. His talent transcended that, thank God, and he got his recognition as a true musical wizard, social warrior and all around decent person.
Oh and I have been rocking out to his music the whole time
lizardking wrote:
.he is aptly named for sure...Long Live RP and Little Stevie Wonder!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I'm guessing you never met him. Little Mikey Bloomberg is appropriate. Little Stevie? Me thinks not. Me thinks your mind is perchance little instead.
kbs wrote:
This comes across as a tad personal - I'm reading it that you are referring to size rather than the 'Wonder', which is what I see lizardking referring to. He was a child prodigy, and a musical genius thereafter.
I have the album "The Jazz Soul of Little Stevie" from 1962.
The back cover notes starts, "Little Stevie Wonder, the eleven year old sightless musical prodigy..."
hey teachers... get back in the fucking classroos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I'm guessing you never met him. Little Mikey Bloomberg is appropriate. Little Stevie? Me thinks not. Me thinks your mind is perchance little instead.
This comes across as a tad personal - I'm reading it that you are referring to size rather than the 'Wonder', which is what I see lizardking referring to. He was a child prodigy, and a musical genius thereafter.
lizardking is old - just as I am. You see when lots of folks first heard him in the sixties that was his moniker. Not a slam at all just some handle for the showbiz people to show him off. His talent transcended that, thank God, and he got his recognition as a true musical wizard, social warrior and all around decent person.
Oh and I have been rocking out to his music the whole time
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I'm guessing you never met him. Little Mikey Bloomberg is appropriate. Little Stevie? Me thinks not. Me thinks your mind is perchance little instead.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Was.
Still is and will be forever
Still is a musical genius. He's not dead yet, and neither am I.
One of the best albums of the past century. Pop, funk, soul, and plenty of dancing!
^--- dancing on Little Stevie Wonder's piano!
Agreed - and that's saying something! This man is a genius.
Was.
Agreed - and that's saying something! This man is a genius.
Based on that premise, I would reckon that article is flawed.
FANTASTIC MUSIC!!! (Be-lated Happy Birthday Proclivities : )
Based on that premise, I would reckon that article is flawed.
And reincarnated, and played to death... then reincarnated, and played to death... and reincarnated, then played to death...
phlattop wrote:
Good to hear. I've always thought it was unfair to hold an absolutely transcendant period of work in an artist's career as the only work to listen to. Stevie's stretch of 5 amazing albums in the early 70s is an artistic peak matched by few (Beatles, Dylan, Miles Davis, Stones) but there are later gems as well (Colors, skeleton in your closet).
When will it be available as an Android app?
I don't think there's any guitar (or bass) on this track. I'm pretty sure it's just drums and (several different) keyboards, all played by Stevie. Kick-ass tune, at any rate.
Wiki agrees with you. I love that Stevie played all the instruments on the track.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher_Ground_(Stevie_Wonder_song)
Yes! RHCP were probably my intro to Stevie. I can't tell you the last time I listened to the Chili Peppers, but I know that I listened to Stevie today, yesterday and the day before!
Thanks for summing up my reaction to RHCP, although their cover of this song is one of their best songs. Stevie still owns this song.
I don't think there's any guitar (or bass) on this track. I'm pretty sure it's just drums and (several different) keyboards, all played by Stevie. Kick-ass tune, at any rate.
"Clavinet"...and Stevie is a master
I don't think there's any guitar (or bass) on this track. I'm pretty sure it's just drums and (several different) keyboards, all played by Stevie. Kick-ass tune, at any rate.
Stevie played the drums on this? I always thought they were under-rated on this track...
How 'bout that lead guitar? Flanger and wah-wah? And it sounds so much like the electronic piano, and there's another guitar in the background whacking away ...
A protest song? I always thought it was about death and rebirth.
I'm so darn glad he let me try it again
Cause my last time on earth I lived a whole world of sin
I don't think there's any guitar (or bass) on this track. I'm pretty sure it's just drums and (several different) keyboards, all played by Stevie. Kick-ass tune, at any rate.
How 'bout that lead guitar? Flanger and wah-wah? And it sounds so much like the electronic piano, and there's another guitar in the background whacking away ...
I don't think there's any guitar (or bass) on this track. I'm pretty sure it's just drums and (several different) keyboards, all played by Stevie. Kick-ass tune, at any rate.
However, please don't neglect his later albums. He turns one out every 10 years or so.
Hotter Than July (mid 80's) was excellent.
Conversation Peace (mid 90's) has some excellent songs - not least the song of the same name, and I'm New and Rain Your Love Down.
And finally A Time 2 Love (mid 2000's) - again, the track of the same name, and Moon Blue, Shelter In The Rain, and more.
Really, he is a really good artist and did NOT, contrary to popular belief, lose his mojo after the early 70's.
Good to hear. I've always thought it was unfair to hold an absolutely transcendant period of work in an artist's career as the only work to listen to. Stevie's stretch of 5 amazing albums in the early 70s is an artistic peak matched by few (Beatles, Dylan, Miles Davis, Stones) but there are later gems as well (Colors, skeleton in your closet).
I'm so darn glad he let me try it again
'Cause my last time on earth I lived a whole world of sin
I'm so glad that I know more than I knew then
Gonna keep on tryin' 'til I reach the highest ground
Geeee Neeee Us.
This album is a masterpiece from start to finish. Transcends Motown, R&B and Rock and Roll. Higher Ground indeed.
That's one big ditto :)
However, please don't neglect his later albums. He turns one out every 10 years or so.
Hotter Than July (mid 80's) was excellent.
Conversation Peace (mid 90's) has some excellent songs - not least the song of the same name, and I'm New and Rain Your Love Down.
And finally A Time 2 Love (mid 2000's) - again, the track of the same name, and Moon Blue, Shelter In The Rain, and more.
Really, he is a really good artist and did NOT, contrary to popular belief, lose his mojo after the early 70's.
I know. But over the years here I have noticed some deliberately mark nothing at all with a 10. I think it is because they have religion in them and can't mark a song equal to their chosen deity.
While others honor their particular Deity by rating nothing less than a 10.
thewiseking wrote:
This album is a masterpiece from start to finish. Transcends Motown, R&B and Rock and Roll. Higher Ground indeed.
This album is a masterpiece from start to finish. Transcends Motown, R&B and Rock and Roll. Higher Ground indeed.
No they don't.
michaelgmitchell wrote:
Stevie's playing at a festival in Quebec July 4 - 14 with the Black Keys, Booker T. Jones and others.
How 'bout that lead guitar? Flanger and wah-wah? And it sounds so much like the electronic piano, and there's another guitar in the background whacking away ...
EXACTLY!
Only 15 SW tracks in the library compared to 123 from The Beatles, 115 from Dylan and 81 for U2 and this has only been played 3 times in the last 30 days. More Stevie please Bill!
I listen a lot. I don't hear a surplus of Stevie. More would be welcome. Songs in the Key of Life is a masterpiece, Who, in your humble opinion, is worthy of more RP playing time?
Everybody in my church loves this song...
I know. But over the years here I have noticed some deliberately mark nothing at all with a 10. I think it is because they have religion in them and can't mark a song equal to their chosen deity.
I heard the RHCP version of this song first and was all "hey yeah" hands over the head and all that. Then I heard this for the first time (probably here) and finally understood a) what it was all about and b) that Stevie Wonder really is talented.
Yes! RHCP were probably my intro to Stevie. I can't tell you the last time I listened to the Chili Peppers, but I know that I listened to Stevie today, yesterday and the day before!
I heard the RHCP version of this song first and was all "hey yeah" hands over the head and all that. Then I heard this for the first time (probably here) and finally understood a) what it was all about and b) that Stevie Wonder really is talented.
scrubbrush wrote:
there's a photo of him with Bette Midler (?) at a holloween party in one of the last few issues of Rolling Stone... he looks healthy...maybe a bit heavy, but happy. I'll tell him you said hi if i ever get to meet him
Those two were actually friends and have worked together, but Stevie plays every instrument on this tune, as far as I know.
there's a photo of him with Bette Midler (?) at a holloween party in one of the last few issues of Rolling Stone... he looks healthy...maybe a bit heavy, but happy. I'll tell him you said hi if i ever get to meet him
Romeo, you must wear out a ton of shoe leather, or perhaps it's barefeet and rotating glitterball?
So you DO know him...
Romeo, you must wear out a ton of shoe leather, or perhaps it's barefeet and rotating glitterball?
This is so correct. What an amazing period of music.
And, it fits with my contention that the best music ever was generally written in the 1973-74 period. Nothing like it since.
Stevie Wonder, The Rolling Stones, Neil Young, Led Zeppelin, Elton John, ZZ Top, Paul Simon....all at their creative peak.
1. | choon | |
A song or any piece of music to which an individual assigns the highest level of merit but most usually an exclaimation upon hearing the song in public. Bohemian Rhapsody! CHOON! | ||
2. | choon | |
homophone of "tune(s)"; "tunes" pronounced in a dutch accent; Popularized by a popular trance composer/DJ Armin Van Buuren; Eyy mate, u check out the latest choon from DJ Tiesto? It's such a good choon, I wanna lick my feet! |
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