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The Definitive Collection Stevie Wonder In a career spanning four decades Steveland Judkins Morris has been many things: child star, funk hero, political chronicler, the saviour of Motown Records and depressingly, the instigator of the painfully schmaltzy R&B ballad. Thankfully, this exhaustive "Best Of...", timed to commemorate the 40th anniversary of his first appearance as Little Stevie Wonder, focuses mainly on the 1966-1980 glory years...    Read More >>

Songs In The Key Of Life Stevie Wonder Songs in the Key of Life was the highest high-point of Stevie Wonder's career. More sprawling than Innervisions and Talking Book, this 2 LP-plus-EP was also less of a consistent stunner than either of those masterworks. That Songs retains an enormous amount of visionary relevance, though, is demonstrated not only in Coolio's borrowing of "Pastime Paradise" as a template for...    Read More >>

The Complete Motown No. 1's Various Artists Oh to be a miniature person and walk these hallowed halls of the clapboard villa that became Hitsville and home of the timeless Motown! Listen closely and you can almost hear the sharp stillettos of Diane Ross as she crosses the snakepit recording studio to sing STOP IN THE NAME OF LOVE. It's the sound of a marching Motown on the heady road to success. What a collection of Motown hits! Too many to...    Read More >>

What's Going On Marvin Gaye Sly & The Family Stone might have psychedelicised soul music, but Marvin Gaye personalised it. Although the powers-that-were Motown didn't even want to release the record, the unexpected success of What's Going On, issued in 1971, inspired Stevie Wonder, Curtis Mayfield, and just about every other black artist on the planet to take greater responsibility for their music and its meaning....    Read More >>

Motown Chartbusters Volume 3 Various Artists This album has, in our house, the code name "Every Home Should Have One". This is the quintessential Motown album - a steal at this price!!!    Read More >>

Now That's What I Call Xmas Various Artists I was all set to buy this CD but on reading the reviews and realising Wham or Mariah Carey aren't amongst the tracks; no can do! Have to add that the thought of having to listen to cover versions by unknowns is off putting too - Missed opportunity.    Read More >>

Innervisions Stevie Wonder One of Stevie Wonder's best albums, and the one where his more fanciful, free-form moments gel perfectly with his knack for irresistible pop singles. 1973's Innervisions swings between delicate and airy ballads, Latin-influenced rhythms (the hit "Don't Worry 'Bout a Thing"), and his own synth-heavy versions of gut-bucket soul (the determined spiritual questing of "Higher Ground"). The striking...    Read More >>

The Very Best Of Marvin Gaye Marvin Gaye The Very Best of Marvin Gaye pulls together the usual hits from "I'll Be Doggone" to "Grapevine", "What's Going On" to "Let's Get It On" to "Sexual Healing"--all musts for any R&B or pop fan--but this two-CD set also offers treats for the Marvin connoisseur. Foremost are the previously unreleased "Where Are We Going?" which marries Nixon-era (and beyond) social concerns to a lilting groove that...    Read More >>

The Ultimate Collection: The Temptations The Temptations A brave effort at cramming one disc full of Temptations classics, The Ultimate Collection nevertheless makes a couple of puzzling choices. Why, for instance, include "Error of Our Ways", a very minor mid-1990s hit, and ignore "Beauty Is Only Skin Deep" or "I Could Never Love Another (After Loving You)", both number ones from their classic period? Still, for the price, it's hard to argue with....    Read More >>

Tamla Motown Connoisseurs Various Artists It has taken the intense rivalry between the UK's Northern soul DJ's to introduce Motown's lesser-known tracks and artists to a truly obsessive audience. Now, with Tamla Motown Connoisseurs, esteemed northern jock Richard Searling has compiled a phenomenal collection spotlighting some of these obscure and previously unreleased gems. During the 60s and early-70s, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye,...    Read More >>