Stevie Wonder – Definitive Collection (2002)

Disc 1:

01. For Once in My Life
02. Love's In Need Of Love Today
03. You Will Know
04. Superwoman (Where Were You When I Needed You).
05. It's You
06. I Love Everylittle Thing About You
07. Rocket Love
08. Moon Blue
09. Taboo To Love.
10. Whereabouts
11. Ngiculela-Es Una Historia-I Am.
12. I Just Called To Say I Love You.
13. With Each Beat Of My Heart.
14. Girl Blue.
15. My Girl.
16. Send One Your Love

Disc 2:

01  As.
02. Master Blaster (Jammin').
03. Isn't She Lovely.
04. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life.
05. All In Love Is Fair.
06. Knocks Me Off My Feet.
07. Power Flower.
08. Ribbon In The Sky.
09. Pastime Paradise.
10. Lookin' For Another Pure Love.
11. Overjoyed.
12. I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever).
13. Ordinary Pain.
14. For Your Love.
15. Hey Love.
16. How Will I Know (Ft. Aisha Morris)

Stevie Wonder 	Harmonica, Keyboards, Piano, Vocals 
Gloria Barley 	Vocals (Background)
Malcolm Cecil 	Moog Synthesizer, Programming
Jim Gilstrap 	Vocals (Background)
Berry Gordy, Jr. 	Producer
Lani Groves 	Vocals (Background)
The Jackson 5 	Guest Artist
Robert Margouleff 	Moog Synthesizer, Programming
Paul Riser 	String Arrangements 

When you're putting together a 21-song collection of a major artist who's had more than 40 Top 40 hits, inevitably there's going to be a lot of good stuff left out. Stevie Wonder's long and varied career (not over when this anthology appeared) really needs more than one disc to even adequately summarize the highlights. But this single-disc comp does squeeze in most of his best-known songs, from 1963's "Fingertips, Pt. 2" to the mid-'80s number one hits "Part-Time Lover" and "I Just Called to Say I Love You." Along the way there's "Uptight (Everything's Alright)," "I Was Made to Love Her," "For Once in My Life," "My Cherie Amour," "You Are the Sunshine of My Life," "Superstition," "Higher Ground," "Living for the City," "You Haven't Done Nothin'," "Boogie on Reggae Woman," "I Wish," "Sir Duke," and more. There is a sharp decline in quality following "Masterblaster (Jammin')," but at least that only lasts five songs. Of course, there's a lot missing too: "A Place in the Sun," "Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day," "If You Really Love Me," and "Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing," to pick only some obvious candidates. Why exactly the 1967 single "Hey Love" (a Top Ten R&B single that barely made the pop charts) is included is a mystery, though at least it breaks up the predictability. For casual fans it's a decent career-spanning overview, though, and even the most casual fan will sense the musical genius and enormous artistic growth that shines through most of the selections. ---Richie Unterberger, AllMusic Review

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