Prickly Thorn, But Sweetly Worn review

Prickly Thorn, But Sweetly Worn = A+
Wow! I love this song. Travelling up to Detroit recently I was listening to several Detroit-based artists. One was the White Stripes and their CD Icky Thump. I got to song six, and got cold chills. The beat and Meg's drumming really moves me on this track. Jack's delivery of the lyrics reminds me of Gordon Lightfoot's on The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Prickly Thorn is a Scottish influeced tune complete with bagpipes, which for many seems to be either love or hate. In this tune they don't bother me. Frankly I can understand why people don't like them.
Anyway, I'm in love with this song. About a minute in Meg adds another drum, and that's when I got cold chills.

I Just Called to Say I Love You review

Stevie Wonder's I Just Called to Say I Love You is a song that I didn't much care for when it was first released in 1984. When I bought his Number 1's CD I was surprised to see it on there, because I didn't think it had reached number one. In any case, listening to it today I was touched. It moved me, finally. I don't really know why, but it did.

Here's what sombody wrote about it on Wikipedia.
The midtempo ballad expresses how simply calling someone to tell them you love them can make even the most unremarkable day of your life magical. It is one of Wonder's most simplistic, jingly and sentimental songs, and, with its quintessentially mid-80s synthesizers and drum machines, is a far cry from his more organic and experimental 1970s material. For those reasons it was savaged by critics upon its release. However, the public were seduced by its simple charms, making it one of Wonder's most successful singles to date.
Fair enough. I like many of his other songs better, but it is damn catchy.
I think what I like more than anything is how he lyrically weaves all the months and seasons together.