Stevie Wonder

[Langdale Wolf]

Who are these people? And why do they know nothing about the growth of popular music over the last fifty years?

And if Wonder isn't a worthy headliner, who exactly is?

He was number 15 on Rolling Stone magazines greatest artists of all time. Of the 14 bands / acts above him, 10 no longer exist or are dead or have retired.

[sifi]

Well, quite. I don't profess to know much of his stuff (I'm working on that in readiness) but I do know he's a musical legend. I know a lot more about him now than I did 2 weeks ago - and am loving it.

[Langdale Wolf]

Even this baffles me. His big five albums of the early 70s are required listening if you are to have any claims to know anything about music.

Standards of education - paf. I don't know.

So what have you got through? My favourite is still FFF.

[Tugger2k]

Even this baffles me. His big five albums of the early 70s are required listening if you are to have any claims to know anything about music.

Standards of education - paf. I don't know.

So what have you got through? My favourite is still FFF.

[sifi]

which 5 are you refering to, cos i would count 6 classics of the 70's

and even tho in the eighties and a step down in quality (hardly surprising) id say 'hotter than july' is pretty much required listening too

Edited February 4, 2010 by sifimaster

[ampersand]

because the votes say that a huge proportion of people don't think him deserving of a headline slot.

[Langdale Wolf]

Sorry Wolf- glad you are correcting this madness now. But I wouldn't have been able to look you fully in the eye properly knowing you didn't know SW.

[ampersand]

Even this baffles me. His big five albums of the early 70s are required listening if you are to have any claims to know anything about music.

Standards of education - paf. I don't know.

So what have you got through? My favourite is still FFF.

[Langdale Wolf]

yup. this is the guy who constantly slags my musical taste. yet he is touching 30 and has only just started to get into stevie wonder.

what a square

[angelofharlem]

I will see him if there is nothing else on I want to see..but he is not really my thing at all and I would prefer that he played Sunday afternoon.

[Tugger2k]

Mind - Book - FFF - Innervisions - Life.

That's what was on the curriculum where I was brought up

It's like not knowing "Sounds of Silence", or "Exile on Maine Street" or "The Beatles" or "Blonde on Blonde" or "Electric Ladyland" or "Hunky Dory" or "Sticky Fingers" or "Bridge over Troubled Waters" or "Pet Sounds" or "What's going on?" or "London Calling" or "Astral Weeks" or "Blue".

edit "Or Music from the big pink!"

Sorry Wolf- glad you are correcting this madness now. But I wouldn't have been able to look you fully in the eye properly knowing you didn't know SW.

[sifi]

good post! id have thrown 'Where I'm Coming From' in there as well, not as acomplished as the others but massivly important.

[The Nal]

because the votes say that a huge proportion of people don't think him deserving of a headline slot.

[Langdale Wolf]

4-5 ballads/slow numbers in a row and people may get bored.

[Tugger2k]

My issue isnt if hes worthy of headlining, hes Stevie Wonder!!, but Im more than a little concerned if that sort of music can withstand a headlining Pyramid slot. A lot of slow and sometimes quiet soul songs in a big open field with 80,000+ people, a lot of whom wont know a lot of the songs. 4-5 ballads/slow numbers in a row and people may get bored.

[The Nal]

i get that, but heres the set list from his last 'major' show

i cant really see the part where the set slows down and from track 11 onwards apart from tracks 17 and 24 it just doesnt stop

[sammysundae]

doesn't seem like a festival closer to me. i respect him and everything, but i probably wouldn't watch him on the sunday night. should swap with U2 imo. then i can watch stevie wonder, and still not U2.