3 + 3 > 5, ergo The Isleys were more talented than the Jacksons, QED.
On “The Highways of My Life” brother-in-law Chris Jasper is immortal on piano and ARP synthesizer. Wikipedia says Stevie Wonder was making Innervisions down the hall at the Record Plant at the same time and both worked with visionary synth engineers Robert Margouleff and Malcolm Cecil! Soul/R&B ruled 1973 (Court and Spark came out January 1974).