So...just finished my "basic" 80s Prince playlist...no bootlegs, no unreleased stuff...just a pretty thorough mix of his 80s output, and there's still a bit that I left out! I call it "The 80s Revolution", it flows REALLY well, working on "The New Power 90s" next. Just thought I would share...To break them up into CDs...

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DISC ONE

-Purple Rain

-Raspberry Beret (Extended)

-Anotherloverholenyohead (Extended)

-Free

-God (Instrumental)

-Scarlet Pussy (Extended)

-Let's Pretend We're Married

-Private Joy

-Dirty Mind

-Erotic City (Extended)

-When Doves Cry

-Strange Relationship

-How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?

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DISC TWO

-She's Always In My Hair (Extended)

-Feel U Up (Extended)

-Irresistible Bitch

-Pop Life

-Paisley Park

-17 Days

-Mountains

-Do U Lie?

-I Could Never Take The Place of Your Man

-Joy in Repetition

-Starfish and Coffee

-Rockhard in a Funky Place

-Eight (Madhouse)

-Scandalous

-Computer Blue

-Darling Nikki

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DISC THREE

-DMSR

-Susannah's Pajamas (The Family)

-Girls and Boys

-Life Can Be So Nice

-The Beautiful Ones

-Automatic

-The Ballad of Dorothy Parker

-Lady Cab Driver

-All the Critics Love U in New York

-Uptown

-Head

-I Feel For You

-U Got the Look

-If I Was Your Girlfriend

-Kiss

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DISC FOUR

-Shockadelica (Extended)

-I Wanna Be Your Lover

-Let's Work (Extended)

-Do Me Baby (edited down to 5 min)

-Sixteen (Madhouse)

-Love or Money (Extended)

-Delirious

-I Would Die 4 U

-Baby I'm a Star

-Girl (Extended)

-Six (Madhouse)

-Another Lonely Christmas

-Condition of the Heart

-Sexy Dancer

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DISC FIVE

-Let's Go Crazy (Extended)

-Hello (Extended)

-Good Love

-Alexa de Paris (Extended)

-Controversy

-When You Were Mine

-Superfunkycalifragisexy

-Housequake

-1999

-Little Red Corvette

-Sometimes it Snows in April

-It's Gonna Be a Beautiful Night

-Adore

Interesting that you start with Purple Rain. What's your thinking? Get it out the way and open the door to everything else? I like how you follow its sombre outro with the playful intro of the extended Raspberry Beret.

There seems to be something a bit dirty about going from God to Scarlet Pussy. And then something really filthy about following that with Let's Pretend We're Married. In fact, things all get a bit steamy in that second third.

Running from ICNTTPOYM to Joy in Repetition feels right. Are you using the slow build up intro without the party chatter? I wish we could get that in pristine quality.

Disc 3 looks a bit left-field. I'll have to give it a listen. It actually includes some of my all-time favourite cuts.

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[Edited 5/17/16 1:35am]

airth said:

Interesting that you start with Purple Rain. What's your thinking? Get it out the way and open the door to everything else? I like how you follow its sombre outro with the playful intro of the extended Raspberry Beret.

There seems to be something a bit dirty about going from God to Scarlet Pussy. And then something really filthy about following that with Let's Pretend We're Married. In fact, things all get a bit steamy in that second third.

Running from ICNTTPOYM to Joy in Repetition feels right. Are you using the slow build up intro without the party chatter? I wish we could get that in pristine quality.

Disc 3 looks a bit left-field. I'll have to give it a listen. It actually includes some of my all-time favourite cuts.

I started out just making a playlist for a friend (non-Prince fan who only knew the Prince songs played on the radio); I figured I'd give her two that she knew (Purple Rain, Raspberry Beret), then I took her thru everything else. Disc One and Two were for her, as an example of how versatile the man was. I will admit that not as much effort went into the other three sets, but again...showing versatility.

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Joy in Repetition is the Graffitti Bridge version, but I used my old CD burner program to blend it seamlessly from ICNTTPOYM.

[Edited 5/14/16 13:15pm]

Interesting, but why that order?