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I was listening to an interview of Alan Parsons and when they were talking about 1973’s Dark Side of the Moon, he mentioned that it was not nominated for the album Grammy and that Stevie Wonder won.

So I listened to Wonder’s Inner Visions and it was clear why it won. It is a much better album. It is a pity Inner Visions is largely forgotten.

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Innervisions is hardly a forgotten record. To claim its better than Dark Side of the Moon is totally subjective and I would argue that its not. Dark Side works as an album while Innervisions feels like a collection of songs. Also, "Visions" as the second song, just sucks the energy out of a listen. They should have tacked that tune onto the end.

Oh no. No way.

Will never, ever be forgotten due to neglect.

Came right in the middle of arguably the greatest song-writing streak ever heard.

(random google hit about it, bound to be plenty of others others) https://firebirdmagazine.com/lists/steviewonder

I love Dark Side, it's great. Stevie on that form was something else and isn't going to be forgotten for a century or two at the minimum as long as civilisation survives to remember one of its high points. Maybe Sylvester Stewart had an influence in it too.

That's a really good take. I wholeheartedly agree that Inner Visions was a "much better" album than Dark Side of the Moon. It's a real pity one is largely forgotten and the other is not, and I wonder why that might be.

Not forgotten at all!

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