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At The Close Of a Century (Stevie Wonder)
® & © 1999 Motown Records
This remarkable collection (4 CD boxset, 70 songs) contains most of his familiar classics, focusing on material from the 70s. Stevie at his funkiest can rival any singer-songwriter of any era.
At The Close Of a Century (Stevie Wonder)
Track Listing
Disc 1
1.  Fingertips
2.  Uptight (Everything's alright)
3.  Nothing's too good for my baby
4.  Blowin' in the wind
5.  Place in the Sun
6.  Hey love
7.  I was made to love her
8.  Until You Come Back To Me (That's What I'm Gonna D
9.  I'm Wondering
10.  Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day
11.  You met your match
12.  For once in my life
13.  I don't know why
14.  My Cherie Amour
15.  Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday
16.  Never had a dream come true
17.  Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours)
18.  Heaven help us all
19.  We can work it out
20.  If You Really Love Me
21.  Never Dreamed You'd Leave in Summer
22.  Superwoman (Where Were You When I Needed You)
23.  I Love Every Little Thing About You

Disc 2
24.  Superstition
25.  You Are the Sunshine of My Life
26.  You and I (We Can Conquer The World)
27.  I Believe (When I Fall in Love it Will Be Forever)
28.  Too High
29.  Visions
30.  Living for the City
31.  Golden Lady
32.  Higher Ground
33.  All in Love is Fair
34.  Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing
35.  He's Misstra Know-It-All
36.  You Haven't Done Nothin'
37.  Heaven is 10 Zillion Light Years Away
38.  Too Shy to Say
39.  Boogie on Reggae Woman
40.  Creepin'

Disc 3
41.  Sir Duke
42.  I Wish
43.  Knocks Me Off My Feet
44.  Pastime paradise
45.  Isn't She Lovely
46.  Ngiculela - Es Una Historia/I Am Singing
47.  If It's Magic
48.  As
49.  Another Star
50.  Send one your love
51.  All I Do
52.  Rocket Love
53.  I Ain't Gonna Stand for
54.  Master Blaster (Jammin')
55.  Lately
56.  Happy Birthday

Disc 4
57.  That Girl
58.  Ribbon In The Sky
59.  Do I Do
60.  Love Light in Flight
61.  I Just Called to Say I Love You
62.  Overjoyed
63.  Part-time lover
64.  Go Home
65.  You Will Know
66.  Skeletons
67.  Gotta Have You
68.  These three words
69.  For Your Love
70.  How Come, How Long

Album Review
At the Close of a Century may seem a rather portentous title for a box set, even one showcasing the work of such a formidable writer-performer as Stevie Wonder.

Consider, though, that these discs appear a few months before Wonder's 50th birthday and that he's already spent 36 years making records; he has more right than most to get a little highfalutin when invoking temporal milestones.

Despite various retrospectives over the years, Close is the first to cover the arc of Wonder's entire career. By the end of the first disc we've heard his early Motown hits and watched him develop into the masterful artist who'd go on to stack up landmark album after landmark album in the '70s. (Aretha Franklin's Wonder-penned hit "Until You Come Back to Me" is here in a rare version by the composer.)

The string of LPs from Talking Book (1972) to Hotter Than July (1980) provides gem after gem on the two middle CDs--with all of 1973's Innervisions save one cut represented--while post-"Master Blaster" winners such as "That Girl" and "Overjoyed" are the meat of the final disc. Add a smart booklet of essays, photos, and a discography, and this handsome package starts to look like a sharp addition to the collections of even hard-core Stevie buffs.

--Rickey Wright



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