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| | STEVIE WONDER / TALKING BOOK |
 | | Those six remarkable albums--the latter a double disc of tremendous proportions, filled with funk anthems and sweet ballads that is in many ways a culmination--really are of a single piece, a grandly radical, artistic, political statement of pain and anger and joy uttered during a difficult time for the world and for American fls especially. |
 | | It is such a goofy song, with its neo-bossa-nova beat, its bar mitzvah organ, its pah-pah-pah-pah background vocals, but it is also irresistible. |
 | | Then we immediately get a kick-ass funk bass line on "Maybe Your Baby," an ominous, paranoid, driving song whose massive groove sets the stage for "Superstition." That song, by now a classic-rock cliche is, in the context of the album, one of the best songs in the set, ust in sheer terms of production alone. |
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