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Stevie Wonder — You Haven't Done Nothin'
Album: Fulfillingness' First Finale
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Released: 1974
Length: 3:20
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We are amazed but not amused
By all the things you say that you'll do
Though much concerned but not involved
With decisions that are made by you

But we are sick and tired of hearing your song
Telling how you are gonna change right from wrong
'Cause if you really want to hear our views
You haven't done nothin'

It's not too cool to be ridiculed
But you brought this upon yourself
The world is tired of pacifiers
We want the truth and nothing else, yeah

And we are sick and tired of hearing your song
Telling how you are gonna change right from wrong
'Cause if you really want to hear our views
You haven't done nothin'

Jackson 5 join along with me, say
Doo doo wop, doo doo wop
Doo doo wop, doo doo wop
Doo doo wop, doo doo wop

We would not care to wake up to the nightmare
That's becoming real life
But when misled who knows a person's mind
Can turn as cold as ice, mm hmm

Why do you keep on making us hear your song
Telling us how you are changing right from wrong
'Cause if you really want to hear our views
You haven't done nothin'
Yeah, nothin'

Say
Doo doo wop, doo doo wop
Doo doo wop, doo doo wop
Doo doo wop, doo doo wop
Doo doo wop, doo doo wop

Sing it loud for the people
Doo doo wop, doo doo wop
Doo doo wop, doo doo wop
Doo doo wop, doo doo wop
Doo doo wop, doo doo wop
Comments (191)add comment
From Wikipedia: "The song was one of his angriest political statements and was aimed directly at President Richard Nixon, who resigned two days after the record's release."

The power of Stevie's music!
Posted 2 weeks ago by jkamm14    [ Reply ]
Posted 1 month ago by KPC1    [ Reply ]
Fantastic tune, one of my all-time favorites. Today, we really need this kind of song writing to call out the orange stain crime boss guy.
Posted 4 months ago by Zep    [ Reply ]
Can't beat a bit of Steevie...
Posted 4 months ago by linnex-    [ Reply ]
This is the old school version of "your thoughts and prayers do squat".
Posted 8 months ago by TC1    [ Reply ]
 On_The_Beach wrote:

Yep, that's the guy who kicked Lyin' Loser Donnie's fat ass.
Thanks for posting.


blue or red, don't matter. they haven't done anything but blow gas and kill people.
Posted 9 months ago by BsGarden    [ Reply ]
Assuming Peter Gabriels ‘games without frontiers’ into this song is meant as a social political statement, I applaud.
Posted 10 months ago by ddbz    [ Reply ]
 jacopo777 wrote:

Do we have to be subject to political opinions at this beautiful radio station?

Honestly, it really does show the true idiots here.




Next thing you know, musical artists will be writing songs about politics and stuff.
Posted 10 months ago by TurtleMan    [ Reply ]
 ivoryjacket88 wrote:


You people have nothing better to do than take a totally innocuous song and politicize it. American politics to boot, eh?

Your stunning lack of cultural awareness is duly noted.
Posted 10 months ago by TurtleMan    [ Reply ]
2023 and they’ve still done nuthin’.  Except maybe made it worse. Lookin’ at you, MAGAts.
Posted 10 months ago by TurtleMan    [ Reply ]
Stevie could sure write grooves that make middle aged white men wish they could dance.
Posted 1 year ago by MilidelEubanks    [ Reply ]
Team Biden's song
Posted 1 year ago by bmosbarg    [ Reply ]
 Sweet_Virginia wrote:

Stevie helped put the F into funk!




I Agree completely!  GREAT TUNE!!  Thanx RP!   
Posted 1 year ago by joejennings    [ Reply ]
Stevie helped put the F into funk!
Posted 1 year ago by Sweet_Virginia    [ Reply ]
 jacopo777 wrote:
Do we have to be subject to political opinions at this beautiful radio station?

Honestly, it really does show the true idiots here.
 
Hello?
This song is political, in fact it's about a corrupt president, although one who was nowhere near as stupid or corrupt as Trump.
So, of course people are going to make political comments!
Perhaps you should tell Stevie Wonder what an "idiot" he is for writing political songs. Yeesh.
Posted 1 year ago by On_The_Beach    [ Reply ]
 jacopo777 wrote:

Do we have to be subject to political opinions at this beautiful radio station?

Honestly, it really does show the true idiots here.




Couldn't have said it better myself.  Thanks for the comment.

Now, back to the music.  Sir Mixalot sampled this on One time's Got No Case...I will always marry these two songs in my head ;)
Posted 1 year ago by jelgator    [ Reply ]
 On_The_Beach wrote:

Yep, that's the guy who kicked Lyin' Loser Donnie's fat ass.
Thanks for posting.

Do we have to be subject to political opinions at this beautiful radio station?

Honestly, it really does show the true idiots here.


Posted 1 year ago by jacopo777    [ Reply ]
 jmsmy wrote:

Nixon and Trump have a lot in common - but Nixon wasn't an Idiot.



Both of them from the Republican party, interesting kind of breed they grow for presidents... Just saying!
Posted 1 year ago by barullo    [ Reply ]
 ivoryjacket88 wrote:


You people have nothing better to do than take a totally innocuous song and politicize it. American politics to boot, eh?


Except race politics is literally what the song is about. The caucasity of it all.
Posted 1 year ago by plaid    [ Reply ]
 thundrpants wrote:

This song reminds me of Superstition so much I often confuse them until I hear him sing. Same key, similar tempo. Same album perhaps?



Superstition is on a different album (Talking Book)
Posted 1 year ago by phlattop    [ Reply ]
 jmsmy wrote:

Nixon and Trump have a lot in common - but Nixon wasn't an Idiot.



You people have nothing better to do than take a totally innocuous song and politicize it. American politics to boot, eh?
Posted 1 year ago by ivoryjacket88    [ Reply ]
 Hannio wrote:



Love this. Quite possibly the best gif of all time.
Posted 1 year ago by jnhashmi    [ Reply ]
This song reminds me of Superstition so much I often confuse them until I hear him sing. Same key, similar tempo. Same album perhaps?
Posted 2 years ago by thundrpants    [ Reply ]
favorite song on the album: 'heaven is 10 zillion light years away' - kind of religious but a beautiful theme running through it
Posted 2 years ago by xcranky_yankee    [ Reply ]
 tomatotech wrote:
Divorce art from its context and remove the teeth that can bite a again? That's the difference between art and mere diversion.

Ever heard of historical revisionism?
Posted 2 years ago by (former member)    [ Reply ]
Funk the funk, even if nobody remembers, what it meant and still means.
Posted 2 years ago by (former member)    [ Reply ]
 Proclivities wrote:

Must this brilliant tune (from 1974) be soiled by contemporary political rancor?  I guess there's no stopping it.




Divorce art from its context and remove the teeth that can bite a again? That's the difference between art and mere diversion.
Posted 2 years ago by tomatotech    [ Reply ]
 sfyi2001 wrote:

Yep, that's the guy who kicked Lyin' Loser Donnie's fat ass.
Thanks for posting.
Posted 2 years ago by On_The_Beach    [ Reply ]
 sfyi2001 wrote:
 
You posted the wrong old man in the photo, bub. 
Posted 3 years ago by kingart    [ Reply ]
Posted 3 years ago by sfyi2001    [ Reply ]
 rpdevotee wrote:
Yep...This song is about president Nixon...At the risk of being political I think Stevie would have had a few more lines to add if it had been written today
 
It never occurred to me it's about Nixon, but the lyrics are spot on.
I never knew EJ's 'Madman' is about Nixon too - somewhat less linearly than this, but hey that's Bernie.
Posted 3 years ago by cc_rider    [ Reply ]
Stevie's Magnum Opus. A Masterpiece. Every goddamned track
Posted 3 years ago by thewiseking    [ Reply ]
It's like listening to the stems of a song with the drum tracks muted.
Posted 3 years ago by Hippostar    [ Reply ]
Sadly here we are over 4 years later standing on the shit pile mess left behind by that dangerously incompetent man. I clearly recall each disgruntled voter who didn't go to the polls after Bernie got lost in the shuffle saying to me after Trump won, "What's the worst he can do?" Ha. And yet, the worst isn't over, ala Georgia yesterday.  Americans need to be more vigilant then ever I've witnessed in my over 6 decades in this world. lifetime. 

wrote:
"Donald Trump’s executive order to close America's borders to refugees and immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries has been swiftly enforced. The order blocks to the US from citizens from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Libya for 90 days and as well as indefinitely suspending admission of Syrian refugees. . . . People holding so-called green cards, making them legal permanent US residents, are included in the executive action." - theguardian.com
 

Posted 3 years ago by KudaRey    [ Reply ]
 rtrudeau wrote:
You just can't go wrong with early Stevie Wonder. Volume UP.
 
He wrote another song about Tricky Dick: "He's Misstra Know-it-All."
Posted 3 years ago by Zep    [ Reply ]
Gave it a nine because it is stevie wonder
Posted 3 years ago by jp33442    [ Reply ]
 Zep wrote:
I only gave this an '8' ?

click-click-click-'9'

 
and today, a 10.
Posted 5 years ago by Zep    [ Reply ]
I've done a similar side-by-side with photos of Mussolini and Trump. Each one stands before a dictator's best pal, a microphone.  They use a nearly identical hand gesture, an upraised forefinger that implies, "listen to me, you poor peons, I'm saying something important!"  And they have the same goofus rictus facial expression as they proclaim some pre-fabricated nonsense to the crowd. 
80 years apart. Fraternal twins of different mothers. Same poision. 





Posted: Apr 25, 2018 20:38
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 On_The_Beach wrote:
https://storage.recorder.ca/v1/dynamic_resize/sws_path/suns-prod-images/1297896903490_ORIGINAL.jpg?quality=80&size=650x&stmp=1478801528307
  
Yup, same shit, different asshole.  Same stupid smirk.  Same lie, saying that everything is okay.  Same mafia tactics.
Posted 5 years ago by kingart    [ Reply ]
 reindeer wrote:

Yup, same shit, different asshole.  Same stupid smirk.  Same lie, saying that everything is okay.  Same mafia tactics.
 
Amen, brother.
Posted 5 years ago by Greenman    [ Reply ]
 On_The_Beach wrote:
https://storage.recorder.ca/v1/dynamic_resize/sws_path/suns-prod-images/1297896903490_ORIGINAL.jpg?quality=80&size=650x&stmp=1478801528307
 
Yup, same shit, different asshole.  Same stupid smirk.  Same lie, saying that everything is okay.  Same mafia tactics.
Posted 5 years ago by reindeer    [ Reply ]
Yep...This song is about president Nixon...At the risk of being political I think Stevie would have had a few more lines to add if it had been written today
Posted 5 years ago by rpdevotee    [ Reply ]
Posted 5 years ago by On_The_Beach    [ Reply ]
I only gave this an '8' ?

click-click-click-'9'
Posted 6 years ago by Zep    [ Reply ]
Simply masterful...
Posted 6 years ago by jberko    [ Reply ]
 ojibwe wrote:
Appropriate for the "State of the Union" address.

  
It's the theme song for American politics, in general. It stands up well after 44 years, eh?
Posted 6 years ago by cshotton    [ Reply ]
Appropriate for the "State of the Union" address.
Posted 6 years ago by ojibwe    [ Reply ]
 a_genuine_find wrote:
side car

There is something odd about that album cover Bill {#Ask}
 
Some people have waaaay too much free time.
Posted 6 years ago by gmichaelt    [ Reply ]
Wow. More applicable now than then in the USA?

"We are amazed but not amused
By all the things you say that you'll do
Though much concerned but not involved
With decisions that are made by you
But we are sick and tired of hearing your song
Telling how you are gonna change right from wrong
'Cause if you really want to hear our views
You haven't done nothin'"
Posted 6 years ago by dc_zee    [ Reply ]
Wait...wait....WHAT!  1974?!!?  The Jackson 5?!!!!?  Whaaa?  I could'a SWORE this was about today's world....!?  Guess I'll file it under "What's old is new yet one more time?"   Dooo doo wop. 
Posted 6 years ago by Highlowsel    [ Reply ]
 Proclivities wrote:
Must this brilliant tune (from 1974) be soiled by contemporary political rancor?  I guess there's no stopping it.

 
This gets an ultimate funky 10 in this office.  Politically charged stuff like this still needs discussion, sadly.  Until things change, but there's no sign of that anytime soon.
Posted 6 years ago by DaidyBoy    [ Reply ]
Love that clav.
Posted 6 years ago by nutrod42    [ Reply ]
Nixon and Trump have a lot in common - but Nixon wasn't an Idiot.
Posted 6 years ago by jmsmy    [ Reply ]
LOVE THIS
Posted 6 years ago by vanillagorilla    [ Reply ]
 a_genuine_find wrote:
side car
There is something odd about that album cover Bill {#Ask}

 
Hah!  Love that photo.

Album cover fixed.
Posted 6 years ago by William    [ Reply ]
 Proclivities wrote:
Must this brilliant tune (from 1974) be soiled by contemporary political rancor?  I guess there's no stopping it.

 
These lyrics were laid down for just this sort of rancor.  The feelings are the same now as then (perhaps even more scary now).
Posted 7 years ago by GWoop    [ Reply ]
side car
There is something odd about that album cover Bill {#Ask}


Posted 7 years ago by a_genuine_find    [ Reply ]
The new president, President Pervert!
Posted 7 years ago by ojibwe    [ Reply ]
It's not too cool to be ridiculed
But you brought this upon yourself
The world is tired of pacifiers
We want the truth and nothing else

Remarkably timely for the fall of 2016, when we're facing a choice at the ballot box between two corrupt, self-destructive Mussolini wanabees.
Posted 7 years ago by Baby_M    [ Reply ]
Hmmm.  I see what you did there. :)
Posted 7 years ago by DavidFromHouston    [ Reply ]
 chunkymunky wrote:

I remember going to a mate's party in his college room (small).  The room had been completely emptied and filled with a simply infeasible amount of PA kit and any remaining space was filled with sweaty, drunk students (drink under the chin packed)

After 20 mins the hall monitor (post-doc, I think) forced his way into the room, looked at us and the kit for about 20 seconds, shook his head and left.

Words were had the following morning... {#Cheesygrin}   There wasn't a repeat performance that year.

 
{#Bananapiano}{#Cheers}{#Dancingbanana_2}{#Dancingbanana}{#Drummer}{#Bananajam}Sounds like a big time
Posted 7 years ago by bm.deavenport613    [ Reply ]
 oldsaxon wrote:

Pictures or it never happened.
 
I remember going to a mate's party in his college room (small).  The room had been completely emptied and filled with a simply infeasible amount of PA kit and any remaining space was filled with sweaty, drunk students (drink under the chin packed)

After 20 mins the hall monitor (post-doc, I think) forced his way into the room, looked at us and the kit for about 20 seconds, shook his head and left.

Words were had the following morning... {#Cheesygrin}   There wasn't a repeat performance that year.
Posted 7 years ago by chunkymunky    [ Reply ]
Must this brilliant tune (from 1974) be soiled by contemporary political rancor?  I guess there's no stopping it.
Posted 7 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
Actually, these lyrics best apply to the current administration. Although promised, Nothing substantial has been done to improve the lot of those in the Ghetto. The rich have gotten richer and the markets are testing all time highs while race relations are worse than ever, the prisons are bursting at the seams and unemployment for those without education is sky high and worsening. 
If anything this song is/was an argument in favor of BERNIE SANDERS 
Posted 7 years ago by thewiseking    [ Reply ]


The Internet Has Some Theories About Why Trump Kept Sniffing at the DebateBy NYMag.com
Posted 7 years ago by hayduke2    [ Reply ]
 Karmala wrote:


What - no Trump? {#Surprised}

 

Posted 7 years ago by Steely_D    [ Reply ]
The true theme of politics.  Especially now.
Posted 7 years ago by casey1024    [ Reply ]
Yeah, this is a classic. Love it. {#Dancingbanana}
Posted 7 years ago by Schmoogsley    [ Reply ]
Lest us not forget how once upon a time Stevie was funky!
Posted 7 years ago by thewiseking    [ Reply ]
Marry me Susie B?
Posted 7 years ago by Wonderloaf    [ Reply ]
This song can be used as either support of Mr. Trump, or to rip him another one. Depends. Ditto for all the others. 
Posted 7 years ago by kingart    [ Reply ]
Funk on.
Posted 7 years ago by dkwalika    [ Reply ]
 joetekubi wrote:
MORE CLAVINET!!
 
 

 
there was a lot of it back then,
it's real good to hear this today 
.
Bill, play 'Pusherman' by Curtis Mayfield
thanks for the consideration
and everything is sounding so good 
Posted 8 years ago by Skydog    [ Reply ]
 hayduke2 wrote:
Hannio wrote:
 


 

What - no Trump? {#Surprised}
Posted 8 years ago by Karmala    [ Reply ]
Hannio wrote:
 

Posted 8 years ago by hayduke2    [ Reply ]
MORE CLAVINET!!
 
 
Posted 8 years ago by joetekubi    [ Reply ]
Lyrics were true in 1974. 
True today.
Doo doo wop
 
Posted 8 years ago by JanzieNL    [ Reply ]
 Babette55 wrote:
Funkiness rules!

 
If only...{#Bounce}
Posted 8 years ago by jmkate    [ Reply ]
Obama's theme song:)
Posted 8 years ago by maxjboxer    [ Reply ]

Nothing makes me chair dance more than this song.


Posted 8 years ago by daveinnj    [ Reply ]
Stevie Wonder of the '70s = Stevie Genius.  
 
Posted 8 years ago by kingart    [ Reply ]
this is what original looks like
Posted 8 years ago by RabbitEars    [ Reply ]
Funkiness rules!
Posted 8 years ago by Babette55    [ Reply ]
 oldsaxon wrote:
Pictures or it never happened.
 
Oh well. . . it must never have happen then. . . it was before the invention of digital imaging and all my money went on vinyl, booze and other entertainment - not photos. {#Dance}
Posted 9 years ago by SquiddlyDiddly    [ Reply ]
 Poacher wrote:

Ha ha. Played this in my bedroom in the early 80s where I stored my PA which at the time was a pair of enormous reflex bins and separate sequential horns powered by a 500 watt marshal amp and another 500 watt slave. . . the windows rattled. 

Any advance?  

 
Pictures or it never happened.
Posted 9 years ago by oldsaxon    [ Reply ]
 TerryS wrote:

Played this full volume on my Sansui quad system - 4  12" woofers, 5" mid + 3" tweeters 100 watts rms each  in a 20x25 foot living room concrete apartment overlooking Kai Tak airport in '75.

Yeah baby.

 
Ha ha. Played this in my bedroom in the early 80s where I stored my PA which at the time was a pair of enormous reflex bins and separate sequential horns powered by a 500 watt marshal amp and another 500 watt slave. . . the windows rattled. 

Any advance?  
Posted 9 years ago by SquiddlyDiddly    [ Reply ]

Played this full volume on my Sansui quad system - 4  12" woofers, 5" mid + 3" tweeters 100 watts rms each  in a 20x25 foot living room concrete apartment overlooking Kai Tak airport in '75.

Yeah baby.


Posted 9 years ago by TerryS    [ Reply ]
Who said Rock N Roll can't change the world.
Posted 9 years ago by jmsmy    [ Reply ]
When it comes to funk, Stevie was the MAN! {#Dancingbanana}
Posted 9 years ago by musikluvr    [ Reply ]
 Hippostar wrote:


So LowPhreak, you are another pot-smoking hippie left-winger perhaps?
 
I was just a few years too young to be a hippie (two older sisters kind of were though), and haven't smoked pot in decades, but I am probably a bit left of Che or Ghandi. {#Wink}  However, I'm not the one posting that I'm "boycotting" a great artist for no apparently sound reason other than what's seems easy to surmise.

Carry on, numbskulls!
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Posted 9 years ago by LowPhreak    [ Reply ]
During the Nixon administration  -  great music was created
Posted 9 years ago by jmsmy    [ Reply ]
{#Bananajam}Funk overload
Posted 9 years ago by MrsTom    [ Reply ]
Back when Stevie was full of funk. What ever happened to funk?
Posted 9 years ago by idiot_wind    [ Reply ]
I don't believe there has ever been more than 10 to 12 truly godlike artists in "POP" history, but Stevie is surely one of them.
Posted 9 years ago by The_Walrus    [ Reply ]
I'd like to see Mr. Stevie Wonder re-invent his musical legacy with a Roli Seaboard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruz4ST0HlXg#t=16
Posted 10 years ago by MinMan    [ Reply ]
{#Bananasplit}
Posted 10 years ago by musikluvr    [ Reply ]
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Tv56Tnks6KA/SAL4CjhvmHI/AAAAAAAADGQ/2MitDl1yAOs/s400/nixon2.jpg
Posted 10 years ago by On_The_Beach    [ Reply ]
That would be the Jackson 5 in the background singing "Doo Da Wop"
Posted 10 years ago by rpdevotee    [ Reply ]
(where are my green-glitter platform boots?!?)

Mr. Wonder is DA MAN. 
Posted 10 years ago by unclehud    [ Reply ]
 Ballzak wrote:
We would not care to wake up to the nightmare
That's becoming real life
But when misled who knows a person's mind
Can turn as cold as ice, mm hmm
Why do you keep on making us hear your song
Telling us how you are changing right from wrong
'Cause if you really want to hear our views
You haven't done nothin'

nuff said

 
of course but no politics here only music
Posted 10 years ago by paisleydancer66    [ Reply ]
I'm in wonder love.
Posted 10 years ago by paisleydancer66    [ Reply ]
 Hippostar wrote:

So what is the insinuation that all Floridians should in some way be viewed as the same?  Is there a name for people who view entire generalized groups of other people with their preconceived ideas?

LowPhreak, is it possible that inferring the commenter is a "gun-happy, right-wing" "racist", might not be based on facts present here?  I'd be interested to better understand your reasoning, and evidence of this.

 
My apologies Hippostar. It was meant as an off hand, tongue in cheek joke. I, by no means, feel that all of any collective group are the same. Having apologized...please lighten up a bit ok?
Posted 10 years ago by ziakut    [ Reply ]
Two electronic songs/artists that have sampled this song:
The Troublemakers - Electrorloge
Baby Mammoth - USF

In case anyone cares, I guess.  I'm not really a fan of the Troublemakers, but love that song.  Huge fan of Baby Mammoth, but not crazy about that song.  Neither is as good as the original! {#Dance}
Posted 10 years ago by MJdub    [ Reply ]

Posted 10 years ago by RabbitEars    [ Reply ]
We would not care to wake up to the nightmare
That's becoming real life
But when misled who knows a person's mind
Can turn as cold as ice, mm hmm
Why do you keep on making us hear your song
Telling us how you are changing right from wrong
'Cause if you really want to hear our views
You haven't done nothin'

nuff said
Posted 10 years ago by Ballzak    [ Reply ]
 Hippostar wrote:

So what is the insinuation that all Floridians should in some way be viewed as the same?  Is there a name for people who view entire generalized groups of other people with their preconceived ideas?

LowPhreak, is it possible that inferring the commenter is a "gun-happy, right-wing" "racist", might not be based on facts present here?  I'd be interested to better understand your reasoning, and evidence of this.

 

ya'll a bunch a idiots, great music is just that, no mater who dunit.
Posted 10 years ago by oldfart48    [ Reply ]
 LowPhreak wrote:

Why else would someone "boycott Stevie Wonder" in this context? Racism perhaps? Instead of answering to the reason for such idiocy, it's easier to project onto the person asking the question.

Typical response when a position is indefensible.
 

Let's add some context.  Original post to which comment in question was directed:

  ziakut wrote:
Guess Floridians should tune in to RP to hear songs like this by this artist. They ain't gonna hear it any other way.
 
So what is the insinuation that all Floridians should in some way be viewed as the same?  Is there a name for people who view entire generalized groups of other people with their preconceived ideas?

LowPhreak, is it possible that inferring the commenter is a "gun-happy, right-wing" "racist", might not be based on facts present here?  I'd be interested to better understand your reasoning, and evidence of this.
Posted 10 years ago by Hippostar    [ Reply ]
 Hippostar wrote:


So LowPhreak, you are another pot-smoking hippie left-winger perhaps?


Wait, see how stupid knee-jerk comments sound?  

 
Why else would someone "boycott Stevie Wonder" in this context? Racism perhaps? Instead of answering to the reason for such idiocy, it's easier to project onto the person asking the question.

Typical response when a position is indefensible.
Posted 10 years ago by LowPhreak    [ Reply ]
 LowPhreak wrote:

Another gun-happy right-winger perhaps?

 

So LowPhreak, you are another pot-smoking hippie left-winger perhaps?


Wait, see how stupid knee-jerk comments sound?  
Posted 10 years ago by Hippostar    [ Reply ]
 jagdriver wrote:

I'm boycotting Stevie Wonder.

 
Another gun-happy right-winger perhaps?
Posted 10 years ago by LowPhreak    [ Reply ]
 ziakut wrote:
Guess Floridians should tune in to RP to hear songs like this by this artist. They ain't gonna hear it any other way.

 
I'm boycotting Stevie Wonder.
Posted 10 years ago by jagdriver    [ Reply ]
Guess Floridians should tune in to RP to hear songs like this by this artist. They ain't gonna hear it any other way.
Posted 10 years ago by ziakut    [ Reply ]


Stevie Wonder--True master of the Clavinet
Posted 10 years ago by rpdevotee    [ Reply ]
With that much whammy bar action it must be Stevie....or porn

The only thing that drags it off 10 is that it almost promises Superstitious and reminds you in doing so that there are better songs
Posted 10 years ago by Sloggydog    [ Reply ]

Everybody in my churches be dancing...
 
Posted 10 years ago by Lazarus    [ Reply ]
Gets my vote for the Political Song Hall of Fame

And the politics of this particular song certainly resonate with me!
Posted 10 years ago by philbertr    [ Reply ]
 reindeer wrote:
This song was dedicated to Nixon in '74.
Stevie Wonder doesn't share your warped political views, as he voted for Obama.

It was Nixon who invoked the Southern Strategy of using race baiting to win an election.
No one who was living at the time could forget the racism that the Republicans used to win office.
It was sickening then, and it's sickening now when Gingrich calls Spanish "the language of the ghetto",
or when Ron Paul tells people that he would repeal the Civil Rights Act.

So, yes, I agee with Stevie Wonder then as I do now.
Republicans, we're "sick and tired of hearing your song" when you "haven't done nothin" to combat racism and inequality.
Painting Obama with your racist brush only proves the point.
 
Too true, reindeer.
Hard to believe there are still people in the world that would prefer a stooge like Bush to Obama.
(edit Jan 2019: George is lookin' pretty good these days)
Posted 11 years ago by On_The_Beach    [ Reply ]

Prescient, way way ahead of his (its) time in societal messaging and fusing musical styles,

thank you very much DJ for the nostalgic reflection on present. ;)


Posted 11 years ago by kdarwish    [ Reply ]
 rockpommel16 wrote:

This is UNBELIEVABLE! .............smiley,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
 

I was born in '72. I'm trying to imagine what the 70's would have been with today's technology. Hmmm.
Posted 11 years ago by citybiker    [ Reply ]
 shakitten wrote:

This is AWESOME! :)
 
 Hannio wrote:
 
This is UNBELIEVABLE! .............smiley,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Posted 11 years ago by rockpommel16    [ Reply ]
At his peak on this and the albums on either side.  So VERY, VERY funky.
Posted 11 years ago by joelbb    [ Reply ]