STEVIE WONDER "TOO HIGH" (reaction)
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- čas přidán 18. 04. 2021
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Stevie's cautionary tale about drugs. The genius of Stevie is the groove, the relevancy, the arrangement, the musicianship, and that voice. America's greatest modern music maker in the R&R era.
Genius is an understatement!
Stevie has lots of great albums, but this one is his masterpiece.
Seems like it!
Kind of feel the same. Even though the ‘vision’ is deep, production wasn’t as heavy as Songs in Key, like more organic. To be hittin like this, back THEN? It’s like 50 yrs ago. 😳
There just aren't enough words to describe how hip this song is...and that's Stevie on every instrument lol!
Great insights on the harmonica solos too!
Stevie Wonder and the Stevie Wonder band!!
Songs and albums like this are why at the 1976 Grammy Awards Paul Simon, who won Album of the Year for "Still Crazy After All These Years," thanked Stevie Wonder during is acceptance speech for not making an album that year! (1975 lol ) That was the gap between Fulfillingness' First Finale and Songs in the Key of Life.
What a legend
This song is a masterpiece, this whole albums great. Note how on this tune here there's no bass guitar, but actually keyboard bass, played by Stevie himself. If I am not mistaken he played all the instrument on this cut, drums, keys, keyboard bass, all the vocals.
Will never not be impressed by Stevie
Dueling Harmonicas....Incredible!
This is one of those songs I like to hear with other people and watch them hear it.
Absolutley
this is my favorite-produced album. rip to malcolm cecil, one of the co-producers who passed away recently
Such a great album. RIP Malcolm
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this was a cool little documentary about malcolm and robert. it's easy to forget how much the contributions of other artists contributed to stevie's development, especially since he uses all his influences in the most genius way
This is one of my favorite Stevie songs, for it's musical evocation of being high, and for it's pity observation of selfish hedonism's sad end:
"Well did you hear the news about the girl today
She passed away
What did her friends say
They said "She's too high, too high... can't stay around here anyway""
Boom! Thanks for your witty company.
Great album. Golden Lady is one of my favs off of that. Jeez forgot Living For The City is on this album as well as Higher Ground . Enjoy
We're loving this album! Thanks Eileen!
@@SightAfterDark you are having some great experiences. I highly recommend going off album just to.wstch the live performance of Stevie performing Fragile with Sting. Even Sting throws his hands up cuz Stevie is just so incredible
Golden Lady always gives me shivers!
It's nice to see you guys not following what everyone else doing 👍I appreciate it
We appreciate you Melvin!
Love this album! Stevie plays all the instruments in it too! This song is actually an anti-drug song if u really listen to the lyrics. Talks about how the girl passed away cuz she was too high and stuff like that. Not a bad song in this album and really his whole 70s catalog lol
Still amazing to us that he was doing all of this back in the 70s!
@@SightAfterDark Stevie was a genuine pioneer. If I recall correctly Talking Book and Who's Next (Baba O'Rielly) were released the same year, and the first albums using synthesizers--back when they were racks of panels that filled a room, and were configured with patch cords, like an old operator's board.
Peace! :)
Maybe not as hyper-ambitious like “Keys of Life” is but as a collection, hard to top. “Talking Book” too.
Eighth grade, I had this 8-track. Love Stevie!
Drums - that's Stevie.
Amazing!
Great song. So cool. The rest of the album is outstanding.
Yes it is!
Stevie Wonder is playing every instrument in this song. Everything except the background vocals is him.
Such a genius
Stevie Wonder is a Music God.
This is a fact.The first record I bought with my own money was Stevie’s Uptight.
From that moment,I got everything he ever did,that run of albums,Music of my Mind,Talking Book,Innervisions and Songs in the Key of Life,were solid gold masterpieces.
Didn’t care too much for his late 80’s onwards stuff,but his genius is timeless.
Everyone knows and loves at least one Stevie Wonder song.
Paul McCartney called him “The Boss”
Stevie is truly a master. Thanks for watching Cockney!
Perfect Sunday morning groove
You said it Heather!
Masterpiece of an amazing album. I look forward to seeing you guys do the whole thing. This is the first Stevie album I ever bought back in 1973. And I got everyone since. Legit genius.
Genius is an understatement!
Yeah guys! One advantage to being really old is to have had the two GREATEST songwriters in pop-music history ("Steely Dan" & Stevie Wonder!) just ramping up to incredible careers during my musically-formative period in early 70's! And imagine 50 years later being able to see "you kids" validate what we were feeling way back then, that TRUE musical talent's TIMELESS. Fifty years from now, how many of today's "artists" do you think will stand the test of time as well?
We're such huge fans of 70's music. Were glad we've been able to experience more of it because of this channel! Thanks for watching Ron!
@@SightAfterDark Right on! Why not add something unique, because you’re both musicians, you guys should be learning to play some of these chord changes & melody lines to lots of these great classic tunes, singing too. Your fans would love to see that process along with your review!
The harmonica is like vocal extension for Stevie, in a different voice, & here it’s like improv counterpoint. Brilliant! Also, Stevie & Marvin Gaye with the multi-tracking of themselves, was really subtly groundbreaking, & was done so smooth, especially in Marvin’s case….I just don’t recall it being pointed out & discussed. It’s like we just heard the music bein so good, & felt, ‘well, this is just how they do’. Genius many ways. The 70’s was an amazing intense time for directions in music. Parallel to this was large groups with horns, rock progression, jazz rock fusion, & here come disco, & there it go. 😂 Funny, I was expecting to hear Visions right after this, cause another technique wit Stevie, is that he had zero space between tracks, as if he wanted you to experience the whole album in one sitting, like a journey. Cool reaction! 👍
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks and thanks for sharing!
One of my favorite albums by Stevie.
Its a great one!
I love this song for 2 reasons. 1) It is a great song! The space Dan talked about in the production between instruments does give a sense a being in a high airy place to me, but the bass groove is the down to Earth leveler in some kind of Wonder way, and 2) I was in a movie in which this song closed the film in a perfect way. I was an extra for the most part although I had two lines of dialogue that were cut, darn it, and did two stunt shots believe it or not that I should have asked extra pay for, but I was having too good a time to think about it.
Thats awesome! Do you mind if we ask the name of the movie?
Passenger 57
I have one very clear shot and a few not very clear shots as a police officer.
Such a great album, glad y’all are doing a reaction on it! 😀❤️
We're glad that you're glad! Thanks for watching Pedro!
Too High is about drug abuse, one of the few times Wonder dealt with the subject. While the songs on Innervisions are largely in the genres of soul and funk, "Too High" has a definite ring of jazz fusion to it. Perhaps garnishing the arrangement like a sprig of parsley, even a hint of Bebop. The song is driven home starkly with its menacing Moog bass, sinister distorted chorus vocals, nightmarishly surreal lyrics, piercing scat singing, shrill harmonica solo, frequent jazzy harmonic dissonances, a bleak Fender Rhodes interlude close to the end just after the woman dies, and its glacial a capella coda.
I had never heard this song before. I listened to this while I was cooking> translate > distracted. Then I heard your fabulous comments, and said to myself, well with my lack of focus I mentally missed all of that stuff that was brought up. I decided: better come back later and watch this again. So I just have. Thank you. And I'll go back a bit one more time for the harmonica.
We're glad you enjoyed our analysis Shelia! Its a great song :)
Stevie is a master of the Hohner 280/64 Chromonica Harmonica. Not your average harmonica. Chromatic harmonicas are more complex and have multiple octave capabilities.
We know nothing about harmonicas, but this makes us respect Stevie even more!
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From theharmonicacompany.com/harmonica-player-stevie-wonder/
“Style and Harmonica Choice
From a playing perspective, Stevie overwhelmingly favours the chromatic harmonica. Unlike the more ubiquitous diatonic harmonica, commonly used for folk music and the blues, the chromatic harmonica has a full range of notes, by dint of more holes (up to 16, rather than 10) and a slide, which raises the pitch of each hole by a semitone. The primary downside of the chromatic harp is the additional difficulty in learning to play it. Circular breathing, as commonly practised by classical wind instrument players, is a necessary skill, due to the chromatic harmonica generally requiring a greater amount of air to produce its wider range of notes.
Wonder’s use of the chromatic harp is quite distinctive. Harmonica artist, Randy Singer has noted that Stevie manipulates the slide forcibly, whilst using a significant amount of vibrato to achieve a shifting effect. This is mixed with a fluttering effect from his use of the tongue to achieve his trademark sound.”
the synthesizer was named T.O.N.T.O. (it even had its own album released.....)
😎!!!!!!
Fantastic musical artistic expression by Stevie Wonder. To be blind and be high...there are no visual cues or references for your mind to draw upon when your imagination is fired up. Practically everything is built upon emotions, smell, tactile, hearing and presence sense (your own and that of others as well the feel of the area you are in). At least thats how I imagine not that I actually know...even just closing my eyes for 10 or 20 min its not nearly the same as being literally blind and taking in the world...because my brain, sense of reality and perceptions haven't been "wired" that way.
Can't even understand how impressive he is
Pretty sure Stevie played all the instruments on this album (or almost all).
Amazing
They've heard it before.
We have now!
I've been trying to get someone to do the deep cut bitches crystal-by Emerson lake and Palmer but no one wants to bite 🤷🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️😁
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You should consider doing this entire album. It doesn't have the volume of tracks as the "Songs in the Key of Life " but this prior album is considered by some ( like me) just as good ....
We are doing the whole album! We’ll be putting out a new video everyday, so be sure to check them out!
@@SightAfterDark sweet
Talking Book is also full of masterpiece level songs.
Correct, Talking Book is another masterpiece!
@@jml-rj5re Great album though its kinda "lite" and not as intense as Innervisions. Also nobody gives FFF any credit, which is like Talking Book and Innervisions combined
Can you please react to Bluezone song called Jackie
Please
We'll see what we can do Kevin
Awesome can't wait 😊
Hey Kevin, I looked up that song. Big left turn after listening to this Stevie Wonder tune! Banging 80s synth bass and Lisa Stansfield. Needed a palate cleanser first I think. It rocks though.