FULFILLINGNESS' FIRST FINALE
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FULFILLINGNESS' FIRST FINALE
Fulfillingness' First Finale is a 1974 album by Stevie Wonder; widely considered one of the albums from his "classic period". Released on July 22, 1974 on the Tamla label, it is Wonder's nineteenth album overall, and seventeenth studio album. According to Billboard magazine, it was Wonder's first studio album to top the Pop Albums chart where it remained for two weeks, while it was his third album to top the R&B/Black Albums chart where it spent nine non-consecutive weeks.-wWkipedia
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Aphoristic Album Reviews
It’s his most subtle work from his early 1970s peak, but Fulfillingness’ First Finale is Stevie’s Wonder’s finest album.
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Starling
Nearly all of the songs are good, though there's a decided lack of intensity as Wonder concentrates on more melancholy, balladic material
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The Austin Chronicle
an excellent bookend to the three previous releases; it jumps and rocks with the same passion and sweetness
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Don Ignacio's Music Reviews
the music is in top-form, and the album is highly recommendable
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OO Cities
stands tall as an extremely impressive work in its own right
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Robert Christgau
What made Wonder's last two albums so gorgeous was the carefree indecorum of the ballads, which broke the rules with supremely indulgent self-confidence and only became more beautiful as a result. But this time the slow ones are less carefree than aimless.
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Only Solitaire
you have ruminations on life in general, pleads for an optimistic approach to life, God-oriented conversation, and even the love ballads themselves have more to do with lost love than newly found one.
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John McFerrin Music Reviews
This album is much more one for serious fans than for casual fans, with lots of songs that one would more easily categorize as deep cuts than as hits, but it's a fantastic deep cuts album, and an essential addition to his catalogue.
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Wilson & Alroy's Record Reviews
This is amazingly focused in tone, plaintive and downbeat
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Rolling Stone
1974 - The album aims at relaxed enjoyment; it’s not something to get hot and bothered about.
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All Music
The songs and arrangements are the warmest since Talking Book, and Stevie positively caresses his vocals on this set, encompassing the vagaries of love
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Jazz Music Archives
2004 - Every one of these ten tracks will forever shine like golden sunlight.
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Blog Critics
2011 - another stunning release from the fertile mind of Stevie Wonder. It remains one of his career defining albums
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Daily Vault
2004 - he certainly disappoint here
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1001albumism10years
2017 - I’d say he was head & shoulders above the competition but to borrow a distance measurement unit from FFF, Stevie was probably closer to 10 Zillion Light Years ahead of the pack.
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Somewhere Else!
2017 - A soul-pop genius at his peak.
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Medium
2017 - It’s a fragmented trove, easily accessible. A sign of inimitable talent to have songs like They Won’t Go When I Go, Creepin’ & Please Don’t Go loitering in the back catalogue…on a single album.
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