Stevie Wonder - Jungle Fever (1991) Vinyl LP • IMPORT • Soundtrack

Catalog Number: ZL-727500

Record Grading: Excellent (EX), Sleeve Grading: Excellent (EX)

Condition Details:

Import from Spain. Vinyl plays with occasional light-crackles (play-graded). Cover has a few creases near edges; light-scuffing (front/back). Inner-sleeve is original (photos/lyrics/credits); one seam partially split. Spine is easy-to-read with mild-wear. Minor shelf-wear along top/bottom-edge; some wear to corners. Opening is crisp with signs of light use and divots. (Not a cut-out.)

Tracks:

• Fun Day
• Queen In The Black
• These Three Words
• Each Other's Throat
• If She Breaks Your Heart
• Gotta Have You
• Make Sure You're Sure
• Jungle Fever
• I Go Sailing
• Chemical Love
• Lighting Up The Candles

About The Record:

Jungle Fever is a soundtrack album by Stevie Wonder, recorded for the film of the same name. In a positive review, Rolling Stone magazine called Jungle Fever a "welcome return to form" and said that Wonder has not "sounded so freewheeling, confident and engaging" since his 1980 album Hotter Than July. The Chicago Tribune wrote that it is "as direct and consistently tuneful as anything he has done in recent years". Robert Christgau of The Village Voice cited Fun Day and the title track as highlights and referred to Wonder as "a genius even if that's what he's selling". In a retrospective review for AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine cited Jungle Fever as "Wonder's best work in years ... a considerable improvement from his bland late-'80s albums", although he said Wonder can be too sentimental on ballads such as These Three Words. J. D. Considine wrote in The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004) that it is "lightweight but likeable". In his 2000 Consumer Guide book, Christgau gave the album a three-star honorable mention, which indicated "an enjoyable effort consumers attuned to its overriding aesthetic or individual vision may well treasure".