	Track	Duration	Listeners
1	You Are The Sunshine Of My Life	2:58	178,533
2	Maybe Your Baby	6:51	34,892
3	You And I	4:38	30,195
4	Tuesday Heartbreak	3:02	31,455
5	You've Got It Bad Girl	4:59	29,099
6	Superstition	4:06	415,510
7	Big Brother	3:34	30,668
8	Blame It On The Sun	3:26	30,473
9	Lookin' For Another Pure Love	4:44	15,608
10	I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever)	4:50	46,014

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About this album

Universal Music Division Def Jam Recordings France (2005) Released: 6 Jun 2005 10 tracks (43:08)

After releasing two “head” records during 1970-71, Stevie Wonder expanded his compositional palate with 1972’s Talking Book to include societal ills as well as tender love songs, and so recorded the first smash album of his career. What had been hinted at on the intriguing project Music of My Mind was here focused into a laser beam of tight songwriting, warm electronic arrangements, and ebullient performances — altogether the most realistic vision of musical personality ever put to wax, beginning with a disarmingly simple love song, “You Are the Sunshine of My Life” (but of course, it’s only the composition that’s simple). Stevie’s not always singing a tender ballad here — in fact, he flits from contentment to mistrust to promise to heartbreak within the course of the first four songs — but he never fails to render each song in the most vivid colors. In stark contrast to his early songs, which were clever but often relied on the Motown template of romantic metaphor, with Talking Book it became clear Stevie Wonder was beginning to speak his mind and use personal history for material (just as Marvin Gaye had with the social protest of 1971’s What’s Going On). The lyrics became less convoluted, while the emotional power gained in intensity. “You and I” and the glorious closer “I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever)” subtly illustrate that the conception of love can be stronger than the reality, while “Tuesday Heartbreak” speaks simply but powerfully: “I wanna be with you when the nighttime comes / I wanna be with you till the daytime comes.

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cjkisaragi wrote:
November 2011

The 3rd best Stevie Wonder album

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roiboi wrote:
October 2011

absolutely amazing!

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hotterthanjuly wrote:
August 2011

As far as I'm concerned, this will always be the greatest album ever recorded.

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RaquelTogepi wrote:
July 2011

353 plays in your library

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mrshankly_ wrote:
June 2011

am I dead? why does this sound better than..everything? if I'm not I'll kill myself for sleeping through his set at Bonnaroo last year. Or be fair and just blame it on that Tennesse sun.

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gsm007g wrote:
March 2011

1972...Music was A lot more different.....all it was ....was music....Now it's...well thank God for....Two Words: Stevie Wonder....that's It!

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ChatTypeman wrote:
December 2010

This was always like Stevie's Pet Sounds to me.

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waxear wrote:
October 2010

Why, oh why isn't modern music produced like this?

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earstoit wrote:
June 2010

yummy

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daniel_martman wrote:
June 2010

food for your soul

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Jayneymo wrote:
April 2010

Talking book and innervisions - 2 earliest albums I carried around (still do)

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Marxism1 wrote:
November 2009

<3

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vyntage1 wrote:
November 2009

"Well, the many sounds that meet our ears, the sights our eyes behold... Will open up our merging hearts and feed our empty souls....." Pure poetry. 'I Believe in you Stevie'.

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fmaratz wrote:
October 2009

Talking Book, Innervisions and Fulfillingness' First Finale are definitely Stevie's masterpieces and three of the best records in the entire history of pop music. Yes, they are THAT good. And they had an -immense- impact on everything that came after in pop, rock, soul and r&b music.

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GazGod wrote:
September 2009

♥

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kentsetsambo wrote:
July 2009

Talking Book is the best,I love it Stevie!!!!!!!!

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hotterthanjuly wrote:
March 2009

I don't think Stevie made an album BETTER than this one. He made albums certainly up to the level of Talking Book, but when an album is absolutely flawless as this one, there is no way it can be surpassed. That's why I hold Talking Book as Stevie's greatest work.

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vyntage1 wrote:
March 2009

Although 'Songs In The Key of Life' is the greatest record in the history of music songs, Stevie's music has greater meaning if you've heard 'Music of My Mind', 'Talking Book', 'Innervisions', & 'Fulfillingness' First Finale' before it. Each album has ingredients of it's own that add up to 'S.in the K.O.L.' 'Innervisions' is spiritual. And 'Talking Book' has 'Maybe Your Baby'.

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CircusParanoia wrote:
March 2009

If you like Stevie Wonder you might like our new cd too! Check it out @ http://www.last.fm/music/Circus+Paranoia FUNK!

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hdantas wrote:
March 2009

Fantastic!

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