Higher Ground - Stevie Wonder | College Students' FIRST TIME REACTION! 

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Absolutely do Sly and the Family Stone!

I was hoping for "Isn't She Lovely" but this one has such a great groove to it! Red Hot Chili Peppers did a remake of it which is pretty good but you can't beat Stevie! Please check out Bachman Turner Overdrive "Let It Ride" & for fun you should check out The Fifth Dimension "Age of Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" 🙂 Peace!! ✌

1) For your next Stevie Wonder, try "As" or "Pastime Paradise". Or anything else from his classic period; there are no bad songs. 2) Yes yes yes to Sly & the Family Stone

More R&B and soul! Sly & The Family Stone! Aretha! Otis Redding! Temptations! Diana Ross & the Supremes!

I remember that! Priceless.🤣

Three best album Grammys in four years for Stevie. If he'd split Songs in the Key of Life into two albums and released one of them a year earlier, he'd have been four-for-four (not that I think anything should be changed about Songs in the Key of Life).

Yes! I remember one year in the 1970's. Stevie received several nominations. He couldn't attend, so he asked Mayor Coleman Young of Detroit to attend and accept for him if he won. Well, Stevie kept winning one award after another. Finally, Mayor Young said "I haven't been this busy since the election."

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I did not know that.

@@Entertainzor I remember that. Lol

That's a great one!

Long version!

His most epic tune ever.

Anything from talking book

Absolutely!! ❤️

Yes, yes, and again yes. It's such an amazing song, and shows yet another amazing side of Stevie's talent.

@@FellunB Yeah, that's the track off this album for me

Brilliant!

If You Want Me To Stay!

Or "Thank You Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin."

Definitely some Sly - If you want me to stay, family affair, really anything!

Thank You (Fallettin Me...), Dance to the Music, Everyday People, all are bangers.

@@armadillotoe also underdog

*Sniff!*

How do blind learn piano

Yeah, Sir Duke is MORE of a banger than this. You can feel it all over :)

He also wrote "Isn't She Lovely", "I Just Called to Say I Love You" and an entire album about PLANTS. There's no forgiving that...

"Livin' For The City" for sure!

Boogie On, Reggae Woman is a great one, too!

I wish has a great groove.You two might know the groove of you know Will Smith's Wild Wild West.

Indeed, the Chili's rock this tune to the moon. They also speak to Stevie during the tune, which shows mad respect.

Their version was the first time I heard the song. I didn't realize it was a cover for years

@@McBeth. Plus, you have Stevie Ray Vaughn's cover of this-which is also amazing! I heard Stevie Wonder's first, then SRV and then RHCP. Honestly, the 3 songs might be the best original /cover versions combined that I have ever heard.

I prefer the RHCP version, as the tempo is much faster and Flea's base is amazing.

@@jeffk2526 SRV covered Superstition.

I mean, he didn't. Like he did for one or two songs in the 70s but everything else had an immense list of musicians who played on it

@@natalielastname1022i know for a fact he plays multiple instruments in more than a couple of his songs. He's got videos of him doing it lol

Yup!

@Edward Hoppe ....and "Outta Space"(my personal favorite BP song). Also "Nothing From Nothing", and "My Soul Is a Witness".

I had the 45 record back in the day. Side A was "Will it Go Round in Circles" - Side B was "Space Race". Can't forget t mention Billy's extensive work with the Rolling Stones.

@@delphi-moochymaker62 ...and his cover of The Beatles "Get Back". Didn't he play keys on some Beatles tunes also? I too had a BP 45. Mine was "Nothing From Nothing" w/ B side "My Soul Is a Witness"

Good call, though I'd go with "Nothing From Nothing".

Four speakers and the sound goes around the room

@@kathymonteith81 I've seen headphones with two drivers per ear, front and back giving a quad type effect.

And some chest-thumping bass.

With the windows rattling and the neighbors dancing!

That kid with the hair rocking out at the top of the stairs when Stevie performed on Sesame Street is the greatest thing ever caught on camera.

I remember that episode. Stevie played the drums and sang Superstition

Best Sesame street ever. Also - Grace slick did the jazz number counting... Jim Henson knew what was up!!!

As important as The Beatles,and i'm a Brit.

That bass line is Stevie doing magic on a Moog synth.

Yep, that's an absolute banger. I think these guys would rate that higher than this song.

Nathan Watts is an incredible bass player.

The best ever!

Agreed. Boogie On. Damn too many great songs.

Yes to the three songs you mentioned. I’d also through in Living For the City. Still timely.

And boogie on reggae woman.

@@michaellynch5254 Just added it, then I read your comment. Like minds

@Frankincensed Although I agree with your comment, I gave you thumbs up because I'm a bigger fan of FZ than Stevie, and I dig your profile name w/pic.

@@djhrecordhound4391 well, with Zappa, i say best composer all time. He's in a category all by himself.

Gotta have that popcorn on those drums!!!! ;-)

@Bryan Spann ...and "Sex Machine".

Soooo many James Brown songs...

@Bryan Spann - they should do something from his Boston show the day after MLK died or Please, Please, Please from the T.A.M.I. show. Total classic. Take care and stay safe 😷

Agreed....Guaranteed "S"

Totally agree, this and Superstition are the best "clavinet-popped" hit tunes out there.

@@djhrecordhound4391 besides “up on cripple creek” by the band

His very first hit song. Rock history, what a treasure 🪙

Yes, Reggae Woman! So good!

More like years...I have almost 50 and still rocking his stuff on a thumb drive in my Car...:)...Stevie is life..

Pretty well every record Stevie made after puberty was self-produced, then he'd hire musicians to play live.

but not as good as this version.

@@69zenos1 I don't know, Frusciante did this song such serious justice he might have actually elevated it a step.

@@Guy_de_Loimbard John Frusciante is literally a guitar God in my eyes, he was just a baby when they did this cover & has gotten better with each album. Hard to improve on perfection but he has !!!

Came here to say this.

@@Guy_de_Loimbard their version is good but the original is usually better. I mean, it is clean and not all mucked up with. Newer bands tend to feel that they have to fill every empty hole with something.

I was a slightly bigger girl, 20 years old, and it still gives me chills too !!

same age; same sentiments.

Better than that...he wrote AND recorded it in 3 hours. That's unreal!

D. totally unreal!

@@j.d.9010 Sometimes a song just comes pouring out of someone. Brian Wilson said he wrote "Caroline, no" in about the same amount of time it takes us to listen to it. Incredible. Also, interesting to note that as he was a blind child, Stevie's school counselors suggested basket weaving for him as a profession, thinking there was little else he'd be able to do. Amazing. But then no more amazing than the fact that Decca records auditioned the Beatles in 1962 and rejected them.

@@maryk446 Thankyou. Very cool.

The full Fingertips track is a banger.

Great beginning!

Yes! The long version.

Yes, yes, yes! The bass and horn section are insane.

YESSSSS

Makes me smile everytime..

“Too High” - great call

"Golden Lady"!!!!!

Master blaster!

I remember!

Stevie's first hit was a song called "Fingertips, Part 2" - it was a live song he did in 1963 when he was 12 years old and billed as "Little Stevie Wonder.

The guitar's phasing being mostly in the higher frequencies is really cool and fitting for the song itself.

Yep yep yep!!

Ernie Isley is a god

What about the guitar in "Voyage to Atlantis" though! (Both are great!)

@@Skeezer66 gorgeous. I must have listened to this last week about five times in a row. That guitar literally takes your soul away.

Both bangers

Oh, yeah - haven't heard My Cherie Amour in forever. Will remedy that immediately!

An unprecedented run of masterpieces for Stevie in the 70s.

Stevie Wonder and Steve Winwood are like, musical identical twins, lol!!

@John Severson "Isn't She Lovely" has a great harmonica ending. The radio version cuts out most of it, though.

Excellent

We don't care about RHCP.

@@ATalkingBadger mother’s milk is a great album.

@@ATalkingBadger speak for yourself, Chilis have the best guitar combo Flea & Frusciante, they did a great cover, so "who cares" ? Some of us do so don't speak for everyone 🙄

@@Northerngirl15 Agreed, bought the CP’s CD when it was just released- Love their take on it!

@@BK-sb6ro they're my favorite band, hands down, most original, never get tired of the Chilis !

dittos

...and Curtis Mayfield!

And Ohio Players big influence on the Chilis!! Love some funk 👍

They need to react to at least one Jeff Healey.

@rexvisitor44 I remember buying Jeff Healey's cover of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" on cassette. I had never seen a single released on cassette til then. Don't know what happened to it though. I loved that song. I probably wore it out.

I saw Jose Feliciano live years age. He played 'Orange Blossom Special' and 'Purple Haze' - BACK TO BACK!

Yep, although Stevie also pays homage to other 40s artists in Sir Duke.

I love Sir Duke because it's one of the most fun songs EVER (it even feels like it speeds up a little as it gets going because you're just rocking along with the band). Stevie uses this song to pay tribute to all of these artists, many of whom were trailblazers and all of the musicians he mentions (in order: Count Basie, Glenn Miller, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald) are phenomenal. It's also something old school poets and storytellers did, as a way of putting themselves among the ranks of the greats (like Dante making Virgil a character/guide for the narrator of The Divine Comedy). Love the swagger, love the instrumentals, Stevie's voice is always amazing, and the song is fantastic.