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Where to start with Stevie Wonder
Start with Living For The City — Innervisions, 1973. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 16 Stevie Wonder tracks in Zubissou Sounds — a listening room of 15,847 tracks placed one at a time by hand, not an algorithm.
This page is not a discography and not a ranking. It describes exactly one thing: the 16 Stevie Wonder tracks that one person put in one room, and where they sit relative to each other. The starting point above is chosen by a rule you can check — of the 16 tracks, it is the one nearest the average position on the four knobs the room runs on, and where two sit equally close the one on a named record wins. Nothing here calls any record better than any other.
The collection leans hard on one record: 9 of the 16 tracks come from Innervisions alone.
The tracks are filed across 4 genres, most often soul, motown and classic soul, so the room does not treat this as a single-shelf artist.
The head/body knob swings 61 points across these tracks, the widest of the four — it is the axis this artist actually travels along in this room.
Three ways in
The one track, if you only play one
Living For The City — Innervisions, 1973. Of the 16 Stevie Wonder tracks here, this one sits closest to the average of all of them across the four knobs the room runs on. It is the least surprising thing in the collection, which is exactly what an entry point should be.
If you want the cerebral end
Rocket Love — Hotter Than July, 1980. The lowest head/body reading of any Stevie Wonder track in the room (34 out of 100). This is as far towards cerebral as the collection goes.
If you want the groove end
I Wish — Songs In The Key Of Life, 1976. The highest head/body reading here, at 95 out of 100 — a 61-point swing across the collection towards groove.
Where Stevie Wonder sits in the room
Zubissou Sounds does not have playlists or genres you click. It has knobs. Every track carries a position on each one, set by hand when the track was added, and you find music by setting the room to a state rather than by searching for a name. These are Stevie Wonder's average coordinates and the range they cover.
All four run 0–100. They are placed by a person, not derived from audio analysis or from any streaming service's feature data.
What is here, record by record
| Album | Year | Tracks |
|---|---|---|
| Innervisions | 1973 | 9 |
| Talking Book | 1972 | 2 |
| Music of My Mind | — | 1 |
| Hotter Than July | 1980 | 1 |
| Journey Through The Secret Life Of Plants | 1979 | 1 |
| The Definitive Collection (Deluxe Edition) | 2002 | 1 |
| Songs In The Key Of Life | 1976 | 1 |
Every Stevie Wonder track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday Heartbreak | Talking Book | 1972 |
| You've Got It Bad Girl | Talking Book | 1972 |
| All In Love Is Fair | Innervisions | 1973 |
| Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing | Innervisions | 1973 |
| Golden Lady | Innervisions | 1973 |
| He's Misstra Know-It-All | Innervisions | 1973 |
| Higher Ground | Innervisions | 1973 |
| Jesus Children Of America | Innervisions | 1973 |
| Living For The City | Innervisions | 1973 |
| Too High | Innervisions | 1973 |
| Visions | Innervisions | 1973 |
| I Wish | Songs In The Key Of Life | 1976 |
| Race Babbling | Journey Through The Secret Life Of Plants | 1979 |
| Rocket Love | Hotter Than July | 1980 |
| Part-Time Lover | The Definitive Collection (Deluxe Edition) | 2002 |
| I Love Having You Around | Music of My Mind | — |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to Stevie Wonder's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with Sly & The Family Stone — soul, 11 tracks
- Where to start with Shuggie Otis — soul, 18 tracks
- Where to start with Gil Scott-Heron — soul, 18 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists Stevie Wonder as a solo artist, from Saginaw, the United States and born in 1950. Its contributors tag the artist soul, funk, contemporary r&b, rhythm & blues and pop. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many Stevie Wonder tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 16, across 7 albums. 15 of them carry a date, running from 1972 to 2002. That is the whole of what this room holds — it is one person's collection, not a discography.
Is this a best-of, or a ranking?
No. Nothing here is ranked and no track is called better than another. The starting point is picked by arithmetic — the track closest to the centre of all the others on four measured axes — and the rule is printed above so you can disagree with it.
Where do the knob numbers come from?
They are set by hand, one track at a time, by the person who added the track. They are not audio analysis and not a Spotify feature. Mood, energy, density and the head/body balance each run 0 to 100. All 16 of these tracks have been read individually — nothing on this page is running on a default.
Can I listen to these here?
Not yet from this page. Zubissou Sounds is in private beta — the room itself plays through Spotify, and 16 of these 16 tracks are matched to a Spotify ID and ready to play the moment you are in. The waitlist form is at the bottom of this page.