Stevie Wonder for Progressive Motown

Dean wrote: Easy Money wrote: This sort of ties in with what I said about Wonder above. When SD was being debated I made it a point to listen to a lot of SD records. Keep in mind I don't like SD and I consider their vocals to be annoying, but after listening to a lot of their music I decided I wouldn't have proposed them for PA, but I am fine with them being here. At least two of their albums, as I recall, are very progressive. Their other albums all show some effort in that direction. But would those two very progressive albums, and the ones that show some effort in that direction, nudge them towards JR/F? In the past you have said that you thought it did. Easy Money wrote: My point of course being how many people spouting opinions on Wonder have actually listened to his music outside of his radio 'hits'. It's a fair question, but not one that should bother any subgenre team who does evaluate an artist as we are seldom swayed by "hit singles". Personnaly I have listened to Innervisions and Songs In The Key Of Life, plus a few other tracks posted here and on YouTube. Knowing "Happy Borthday", "Ebony & Ivory" and "Superstition" doesn't affect the evaluation.

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^ anyone of the subgenre team members using that approach would last about 5 minutes before being caught out. Since 99.9% of the artists we evaluate no one has heard of it is impossible to form an opinion without actually listening to a representative sample of their music. Of course it's easier to make a knee-jerk snap judgement on those 0.1% of artists that everyone has heard of, but it we would not do that simply because we have a bit more integrity than that.