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It's fascinating to me how much of Stevie's work sounds like they hit "Record", messed around in the studio all day, and picked out the best hour-ish and Boom album is made.
It's kinda what happened. Stevie, totally bound up by how little of his own stuff Motown was letting him do, met a coupla synth gurus from Canada and pretty much wouldnt leave their lab. They started tape as the Wonder doodled with this & that, started to run all the songs he had in his head that HitCity wouldnt let him record, and the Canucks ended up producers of a five-album run unprecedented in music history.
The only beef I had with the work Lynne did with Petty was it seemed to saturate the airwaves at the time. Lynne has a distinct sound to his producing work and the Petty stuff plus the Wilbury's stuff was too much at once.
There was a great short film in PBS in the 70's starring Isaac Hayes as the soldier. Have to find that somewhere
Depending on whether you count Journey Through The Secret Life Of Plants - which I submit as the weirdest release ever by a superstar at the top of his/her/their game (& a great dope record, by the way) - Stevie's run went 9 or 10 albums in a row.
39. "Space Oddity" - David Bowie
I was 11 when this countdown (hah!) happened, but I can remember not liking this record at all. I think it was the mannered singing Bowie did. I wanted everyone to sing "American" like Mark Farner
murica. I loved 'em both. 
Now I ain't heard that song since it was big, but when it was big I heard it a million trillion times. I'm listening to it this morning and it was the first time I realized that the lady singing the song was the one who killed Andy.Uruk-Hai said:
