I'd love to make a CD of the best-of Prince in the post-WB era (Meaning, the era in which he produced music where he controlled his own masters right away, so everything from TGE to AOA minus his overlapping, protracted Warners output). What's a best-of CD you'd construct (80min)? It can be non-chronological, but I'd love to have the tracklist...thanks!

The Hits 1: (1978-1985)

1. "Soft and Wet" – 3:03
2. "I Wanna Be Your Lover" – 2:58 (single edit)
3. "I Feel for You" – 3:25
4. "Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?" – 3:48
5. "Uptown" – 4:09 (single edit)
6. "Dirty Mind" – 3:49 (single edit)
7. "Head" – 4:43
8. "When You Were Mine" – 3:43
9. "Controversy" – 3:35 (single edit)
10. "Do Me, Baby" – 3:57 (single edit)
11. "1999" – 3:37 (single edit)
12. "Little Red Corvette" – 4:56
13. "Delirious" – 2:39 (single edit)
14. "When Doves Cry" – 3:48 (single edit)
15. "Let's Go Crazy" – 4:39
16. "I Would Die 4 U" – 2:57 (single edit)
17. "Purple Rain" – 8:40
18. "Raspberry Beret" – 3:32
19. "Pop Life" – 3:42



The Hits 2: (1985-1992)

1. "Nothing Compares 2 U" – 4:58 (live)
2. "Kiss" – 3:46 (single edit)
3. "Mountains" - 3:58
4. "Girls And Boys" - 5:29
5. "Anotherloverholenyohead" - 3:58
6. "Sign "☮" the Times" – 3:43 (single edit)
7. "U Got the Look" – 3:47
8. "If I Was Your Girlfriend" – 3:46 (single edit)
9. "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man" – 3:40 (single edit)
10. "Adore" – 4:41
11. "Alphabet St." – 5:39
12. "I Wish U Heaven" 2:43
13. "Glam Slam" 3:28 (single edit)
14. "Thieves in the Temple" – 3:20
15. "Gett Off" – 4:30
16. "Cream" – 4:13
17. "Diamonds and Pearls" – 4:20 (single edit)
18. "Sexy MF" – 5:26
19. "My Name Is Prince" - 4:05 (7" edit)
20. "7" – 5:09



Outtakes: Pink Cashmere, Peach & Pope





The Hits 3: (1994-2001)

1. The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
2. Letitgo
3. Space
4. Love Sign (Prince with Nona Gaye)
5. Get Wild
6. I Hate U (Album version)
7. Dolphin
8. Gold (Album version)
9. Dinner With Delores
10. Betcha By Golly Wow
11. The Holy River
12. Somebody's Somebody
13. The One
14. Come On
15. The Greatest Romance Ever Sold
16. The Work part 1
17. She Loves Me 4 Me


The Hits 4: (2004-2014)

1. Musicology
2. Call My Name
3. Cinnamon Girl
4. A Million Days
5. Te Amo Corazon
6. Black Sweat
7. Fury
8. Song Of The Heart
9. Guitar
10. The One U Wanna C
11. Future Baby Mama
12. Somewhere Here On Earth
13. Dreamer
14. Crimson & Clover
15. Dance 4 Me
16. Future Soul Song
17. Screw Driver
18. Clouds
19. Breakfast Can Wait
20. The Breakdown

Okay, I tried to pick not only my favorite post WB songs but ones that fit together. It was harder than I expected. I had to leave out a lot of great songs.

Disk 1

3121

Beginning Endlessly

Somebody's Somebody (livestudio mix)

Boom

Hot Summer

Glasscutter

Colonized Mind

Feel Good, Feel Better, Feel Wonderful

Te Amo Corazon

Wall of Berlin

$

When I Lay My Hands on U

Guitar

A Million Days

Pfunk

Beautiful Strange

Disk 2

In a Large Room with No Light (2009)

Clouds

Future Soul Song

Black Sweat

Here

Breakfast Can Wait

In This Bed I Scream

Joint 2 Joint

Time

Come On

Breakdown

Fury

The Word

Don't Play Me

Reflection

Ol' Skool Company

I'd just throw on LotusFlow3r

thedance said:

The Hits 1: (1978-1985)

1. "Soft and Wet" – 3:03
2. "I Wanna Be Your Lover" – 2:58 (single edit)
3. "I Feel for You" – 3:25
4. "Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?" – 3:48
5. "Uptown" – 4:09 (single edit)
6. "Dirty Mind" – 3:49 (single edit)
7. "Head" – 4:43
8. "When You Were Mine" – 3:43
9. "Controversy" – 3:35 (single edit)
10. "Do Me, Baby" – 3:57 (single edit)
11. "1999" – 3:37 (single edit)
12. "Little Red Corvette" – 4:56
13. "Delirious" – 2:39 (single edit)
14. "When Doves Cry" – 3:48 (single edit)
15. "Let's Go Crazy" – 4:39
16. "I Would Die 4 U" – 2:57 (single edit)
17. "Purple Rain" – 8:40
18. "Raspberry Beret" – 3:32
19. "Pop Life" – 3:42



The Hits 2: (1985-1992)

1. "Nothing Compares 2 U" – 4:58 (live)
2. "Kiss" – 3:46 (single edit)
3. "Mountains" - 3:58
4. "Girls And Boys" - 5:29
5. "Anotherloverholenyohead" - 3:58
6. "Sign "☮" the Times" – 3:43 (single edit)
7. "U Got the Look" – 3:47
8. "If I Was Your Girlfriend" – 3:46 (single edit)
9. "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man" – 3:40 (single edit)
10. "Adore" – 4:41
11. "Alphabet St." – 5:39
12. "I Wish U Heaven" 2:43
13. "Glam Slam" 3:28 (single edit)
14. "Thieves in the Temple" – 3:20
15. "Gett Off" – 4:30
16. "Cream" – 4:13
17. "Diamonds and Pearls" – 4:20 (single edit)
18. "Sexy MF" – 5:26
19. "My Name Is Prince" - 4:05 (7" edit)
20. "7" – 5:09



Outtakes: Pink Cashmere, Peach & Pope





The Hits 3: (1994-2001)

1. The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
2. Letitgo
3. Space
4. Love Sign (Prince with Nona Gaye)
5. Get Wild
6. I Hate U (Album version)
7. Dolphin
8. Gold (Album version)
9. Dinner With Delores
10. Betcha By Golly Wow
11. The Holy River
12. Somebody's Somebody
13. The One
14. Come On
15. The Greatest Romance Ever Sold
16. The Work part 1
17. She Loves Me 4 Me


The Hits 4: (2004-2014)

1. Musicology
2. Call My Name
3. Cinnamon Girl
4. A Million Days
5. Te Amo Corazon
6. Black Sweat
7. Fury
8. Song Of The Heart
9. Guitar
10. The One U Wanna C
11. Future Baby Mama
12. Somewhere Here On Earth
13. Dreamer
14. Crimson & Clover
15. Dance 4 Me
16. Future Soul Song
17. Screw Driver
18. Clouds
19. Breakfast Can Wait
20. The Breakdown

The Hits 3 compilation would've been absolutely perfect IF u added Pheremone.

The albums released between 2011 and 2013.

paraded said:

I'd love to make a CD of the best-of Prince in the post-WB era (Meaning, the era in which he produced music where he controlled his own masters right away, so everything from TGE to AOA minus his overlapping, protracted Warners output). What's a best-of CD you'd construct (80min)? It can be non-chronological, but I'd love to have the tracklist...thanks!

The masters to TGE belonged to WB, not , though it is not clear who owned TMBGITW since it was first copyrighted (p) by NPG Records then once more by WB.

I have no idea what u're trying to do (for whom? for what?) so I can't help with a tracklist, sorry

For a relatively complete list of post 1996 singles, check the singles section of Princevault.com.