1972’s Music Of My Mind represents the full flowering of the man who would come to dominate the 1970s, and provides a blueprint for Michael Jackson, Beck, Outkast, Kanye and literally too many other future crucial artists to mention. Having thoroughly mastered an utterly idiosyncratic moog-driven sound and veering with casual ease from hard funk to soul-tinged psychedelia, Wonder brings the entirety of his gifts to bear on his first full-fledged masterpiece. The superb, unapologetically horny opener “Love Having You Around” sets the table, while the gleefully raunchy “Sweet Little Thing” — featuring a spoken word digression which might make Prince himself blush — serves the meal. In between we have the crushing breakup ballads “Superwoman (Where Were You When I Needed You)” and the doubting “Seems So Long,” songs notable not so much for their anger as their hard earned bitterness. Here we have Stevie Wonder, sophisticated beyond his age, offering up scorn in response to his loss of innocence. What follows from here would blow the music industry wide open.