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Who actually thinks Stevie Wonder's At The Close Of The Century is the essential Stevie collection? I listened to 3 of the discs today and it doesn't have any filler. In my opinion, At The Close Of A Century is the essential Stevie collection. Anyone agrees or disagrees with me? Check me out and add me on:
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i still like the original musiquarium ones, but then again all the stuff on those discs is the era of stevie that i like. | |
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I don't have the set but have seen it. The best thing would be to have all the individual albums, but failing that this looks like a pretty comprehensive collection.
Ideally you'd have all the individual albums plus soundtracks and the Syreeta albums he produced. I think you probably swap lots of the tracks on the Close Of The Century compilation and still have no filler whatsoever. What an amazing artist Stevie Wonder is, maybe even the best. | |
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The essential collection is his string of '70s albums, along with Hotter Than July. This post not for the wimp contingent. All whiny wusses avert your eyes. | |
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'At The Close Of The Century' is an impressive 4-CD box set and all the hits are included.It also contains a fair amount of key album tracks,including every song from 'Innervisions' except for one,and NINE (!) tracks from 'SITKOL'.So I really can't complain.But it would have been nice to have a few rare unreleased tracks,but I know that Stevie is not interested in releasing that stuff (yet).
I have another Stevie Wonder set called 'Song Review' and it consists of 2 CDs.This set is flawed because the songs are not in chronological order,but it does contain some rare tracks near the end. | |
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Supernova said: The essential collection is his string of '70s albums, along with Hotter Than July. Exactly. I couldn't really get into anything after "Hotter Than July". Andy is a four letter word. | |
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silverchild said: I listened to 3 of the discs today and it doesn't have any filler. In my opinion, At The Close Of A Century is the essential Stevie collection. Anyone agrees or disagrees with me?
but U can take any of the albums from the 70's & there is'nt a filler on any of those.It's so much more than just the hits. /peace Manki | |
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Ndeed...I noticed that, for the price of that box set, you could buy used cd copies of all of Stevie's 70's/early 80's albums, so I guess it just depends... I'm not big on a lot of the stuff that came before or after the 70's/ early 80's, but different strokes, of course... " I've got six things on my mind --you're no longer one of them." - Paddy McAloon, Prefab Sprout | |
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DavidEye said: 'At The Close Of The Century' is an impressive 4-CD box set and all the hits are included.It also contains a fair amount of key album tracks,including every song from 'Innervisions' except for one,and NINE (!) tracks from 'SITKOL'.So I really can't complain.But it would have been nice to have a few rare unreleased tracks,but I know that Stevie is not interested in releasing that stuff (yet).
Agreed!! Plus,if you check the running times for all 4 cds from "At The Close Of A Century", they pretty much max out at 77 minutes plus. There was no room for many more tracks. If Stevie wanted, he could release oodles and oodles of unreleased gems. He has thousands stored away. And when I say thousands, I mean thousands. I have another Stevie Wonder set called 'Song Review' and it consists of 2 CDs.This set is flawed because the songs are not in chronological order,but it does contain some rare tracks near the end. | |
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manki said: but U can take any of the albums from the 70's & there is'nt a filler
on any of those.It's so much more than just the hits. /peace Manki  | |
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I had that set but I gave it away. To me, there seemed to be almost whole albums on a couple of the disks. Plus, some of the stuff I consider some of Stevie's best weren't on there. I would have loved to have seen I Love U Too Much or Village Ghetto Land on there. | |
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I personally wish that Song In The Key Of Life and Innervisions could be part of Universal's Deluxe Edition series. I'm dying to hear what could've been on SITKOL. I heard that he recorded a If It's Magic "piano" version. Check me out and add me on:
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silverchild said: I personally wish that Song In The Key Of Life and Innervisions could be part of Universal's Deluxe Edition series. I'm dying to hear what could've been on SITKOL. I heard that he recorded a If It's Magic "piano" version.
oh yes,U can hear that piano version in the background on the "Songs in the key of life" DVD. I just wish he could release the unreleased tracks. /peace Manki | |
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silverchild said: I personally wish that Song In The Key Of Life and Innervisions could be part of Universal's Deluxe Edition series. I'm dying to hear what could've been on SITKOL. I heard that he recorded a If It's Magic "piano" version.
Yeah, that would be fantastic! The remastered versions of the albums sound great though, and they seem to be qute cheap (can pick them up for £5 here in the UK). I've got the remastered version of Innervisions, and I'm considering replacing the older CDs of the other albums. (It's just that when I think about doing that I feel like a sad audiophile.....!)  "Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced." - James Baldwin | |
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manki said: I just wish he could release the unreleased tracks.
/peace Manki That's really all I'm praying for. | |
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Its a great collection, but its better to have the albums.... "...all you need ...is justa touch...of mojo hand....." | |
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deebee said: silverchild said: I personally wish that Song In The Key Of Life and Innervisions could be part of Universal's Deluxe Edition series. I'm dying to hear what could've been on SITKOL. I heard that he recorded a If It's Magic "piano" version.
Yeah, that would be fantastic! The remastered versions of the albums sound great though, and they seem to be qute cheap (can pick them up for £5 here in the UK). I've got the remastered version of Innervisions, and I'm considering replacing the older CDs of the other albums. (It's just that when I think about doing that I feel like a sad audiophile.....!) I have all of 6 of his remastered albums from 2000. It would just be nice to have SITKOL and Innervisions on Deluxe Edition like the others. And SITKOL could be expanded into 3 discs. Check me out and add me on:
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If you ask me, every album from Signed Sealed to Hotter Than July is a must have (the ones before and after that frame are still good, but not as essential). I did rip the At The close of a Century though because it had a good overview of much of his 60s career, since I don't have much interest in having all of those albums in their entirety (and many of them are just too hard to find). | |
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He's a god.
The 70's out put as mentioned are a must have but there are some nice gems on some of his 80's stuff. He went way pop cheese synth but there's Love Light In Flight, Weakness, Skeletons, Go Home, and more that are not bad in retrospect. I want that Close of The Centruy soon even though I've been had Musiquarium | |
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DiamondGirl said: He's a god.
The 70's out put as mentioned are a must have but there are some nice gems on some of his 80's stuff. He went way pop cheese synth but there's Love Light In Flight, Weakness, Skeletons, Go Home, and more that are not bad in retrospect. I want that Close of The Centruy soon even though I've been had Musiquarium Get it.... Check me out and add me on:
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