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Stevie Wonder, Stevie Wonder's Journey Through 'The Secret Life of Plants' (1979) - From '72 to '76, Stevie Wonder was the most important (and deified) recording artist on the planet. His run of Grammy-sweeping, art-elevating LP's held a streak of five consecutive works that hit the artistic motherlode with the sweeping Songs in the Key of Life (1976). So you could imagine the confused faces of fans who picked up Journey Through "The Secret Life of Plants."No you won't find the transcendent boogie of "Sir Duke," the seething consciousness of "Pastime Paradise" or the delicate beauty of "If It's Magic." This is a fully conceptual, partly instrumental experiment that, for lack of a better word, was quite out there. Stevie had enough good-will capital to pull off such a dramatic turn. But he still threw his followers a bone with the gorgeo...
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