Looking for a good Stevie Wonder CD

I was able to get a pristine copy of "Songs" off Betterrecords.com, vintage/no bar code, original price and shrinkwrap, for $50.00. Love it.

Mike-You just ordered the "big 3". All amazing. Some will say "Songs in the Key of Life" is essential too. I think not.

Thank you all for your suggestions. I've ordered Innervisions, Fulfillingness' First Finale and Talking Book from Amazon. I'm not sure that the copy of FFF that I ordered is the 24 bit remaster, I guess I'll just cross my fingers and hope for the best.

thanks again,
mike

"Talking Book" is outstanding.

saw stevie at the rubber bowl with the stones...one of the great shows for sure.

Songs in the Key of Life.

the '24 bit remastered' CD of fulfillingness' first finale is actually an improvement over the LP (which has a bizarre, intense muting of the high frequencies).

Stevie the Wonder man!! Been listening to Stevie my whole life. What's striking to me is the realization that if he were a new artist starting out today, he probably wouldn't get very far. I think the same could be said for so many of the greats. For instance, Ella or Aretha probably couldn't get past the auditions at American Idol! Such is the state of the taste of the american public these days! But I digress....While SW's classic output is stunning, his latest work is outstanding also. His last record, 'A Time 2 Love', if released back in the day, would've been considered a classic, but today, it barely raised a blip on the radar. Great tunes, beautifully recorded, my guess is you could find it at a discount in any used CD shop. "Sigh"....such is the mindset of the American music-buying public in 2009!

the re-issue of innervisions on cd sounds great....not just the mofi version.

Why don't you just get a vinyl version and copy it yourself to CD format? I find that CDs produced this way sound very much like the original LPs (and it even gives you the chance to get rid of some of the clicks and pops.)

For me, much of the difference between LP and CD sound lies more in conscious decisions made by the recording engineer and producer than the format itself.

The conversion process is not terribly difficult once you sort things out and there are some excellent primers on the subject if you search around.