Militant said:

UPDATE : Steve Parke did the artwork

The cover is the best thing about this "anthology".

djThunderfunk said:

dustoff said:

Tracklist:

1. Emancipation

2. Black Sweat

3. P. Control

4. Crucial

5. The Love We Make

6. Eye Hate U

7. The Greatest Romance Ever Sold

8. Eye Love U, But Eye Don't Trust U Anymore

9. Gold

10. Guitar

11. Dream Factory

12. The Work Pt. 1

13. Call My Name

14. Strays of the World

15. Shhh

16. Dreamer

17. Chaos and Disorder

18. Endorphinmachine

19. Musicology

20. Northside

21. When Eye Lay My Hands on U

22. Beautiful Strange

23. Future Soul Song

24. Empty Room (Live)

25. 3rd Eye

26. U're Gonna C Me

27. Dinner with Delores

28. Ol' Skool Company

29. 4ever

30. West

31. Xpedition

32. Muse 2 the Pharaoh

33. Somewhere Here on Earth

34. U Make My Sun Shine

35. 1+1+1 is 3

36. Chelsea Rogers

37. We March

WTFuck is this?!? All I see is a random playlist, not a proper "anthology".

I'm interpreting it as a playlist to introduce casual fans and the curious to the 1995-2010 body of work that's just been added. I don't however, think it is considered enough to be manufactured as a physical release.

trickster said:

YEAHHHH!

fantastic start in a new day - crystal ball alone ist great ... the Antholog is great

new cover for the truth

thanks

New cover for The Truth? Anybody able to post?

djThunderfunk said:

trickster said:

YEAHHHH!

fantastic start in a new day - crystal ball alone ist great ... the Antholog is great

new cover for the truth

thanks

New cover for The Truth? Anybody able to post?

OperatingThetan said:

djThunderfunk said:

WTFuck is this?!? All I see is a random playlist, not a proper "anthology".

I'm interpreting it as a playlist to introduce casual fans and the curious to the 1995-2010 body of work that's just been added. I don't however, think it is considered enough to be manufactured as a physical release.

I'd agree…this isn't anything more special than what you could get by shuffling a folder of songs from this time period. But, for a casual listener, it's a bit of hand-holding through a 15-year period that might introduce someone to a "deep cut."

The artwork by Parke is stellar.

PurpleMedley122 said:

So after all this, the albums that still remain exclusive to TIDAL are: The Hit n Run albums (also on Apple Music) Newpower Soul Exodus 1-800 New Funk Girl 6 Karmasutra Singles: The War Black Sweat (Live) Little Red Corvette/Dirty Mind When Will We B Paid? Joy in Repetition (Live) If Eye Could Get Ur Attention

Still missing from all streaming sites: The Black Album (was on TIDAL, but recently removed) and Goldnigga

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Also still missing are The Undertaker and the two officially released Madhouse albums, I see absolutely no reason why they shouldn't be considered as parts of his core catalog.

MIRvmn said:

jaawwnn said:

The Gold Experience is on Spotify and Apple Music and probably Google play if people look properly. It's there, it just missing TMBGITW.

[Edited 8/17/18 4:57am]

Yes it's on Spotify but it's still not on Google play

edit: Oh yeah, so it isn't, but the individual tracks are available on the anthology.

alandail said:

jaawwnn said:

I don't necessarily disagree but have you always typed like Trump tweets or did I just never notice it before?

The Gold Experience is on Spotify and Apple Music and probably Google play if people look properly. It's there, it just missing TMBGITW.

Why is it missing TMBGITW?

Why indeed. I don't know. My guess is it's either to do with that Italian court case or something to do with it being an independent release originally, maybe the song was licenced for release on the Gold Experience originally and so not part of the rights to the Gold Experience? Why are Newpower Soul and Exodus not released? And to a lesser extent Child of the Sun and Elixer? Clearly there's still years of rights stuff to get sorted.

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djThunderfunk said:

trickster said:

YEAHHHH!

fantastic start in a new day - crystal ball alone ist great ... the Antholog is great

new cover for the truth

thanks

New cover for The Truth? Anybody able to post?

I'd like to know where that came from. An alternative cover art sanctionned by Prince or more nonsense by the estate? Maybe if someone is in touch with Steve Parke you could ask him (I'd assume he was behind this artwork?).

Kares said:

PurpleMedley122 said:

So after all this, the albums that still remain exclusive to TIDAL are: The Hit n Run albums (also on Apple Music) Newpower Soul Exodus 1-800 New Funk Girl 6 Karmasutra Singles: The War Black Sweat (Live) Little Red Corvette/Dirty Mind When Will We B Paid? Joy in Repetition (Live) If Eye Could Get Ur Attention

Still missing from all streaming sites: The Black Album (was on TIDAL, but recently removed) and Goldnigga

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Also still missing are The Undertaker and the two officially released Madhouse albums, I see absolutely no reason why they shouldn't be considered as parts of his core catalog.

The Undertaker was never released as an album, just the video.

The Madhouse albums weren't released under his name, hence they aren't part of his "core catalog".

databank said:

djThunderfunk said:

New cover for The Truth? Anybody able to post?

I'd like to know where that came from. An alternative cover art sanctionned by Prince or more nonsense by the estate? Maybe if someone is in touch with Steve Parke you could ask him (I'd assume he was behind this artwork?).

How is a vastly improved versoin of the art we've seen for years "nonsense"?

And does it really matter if Prince approved it at this point?

Great to see that the albums accessible on streaming services, but the anthology tracklist is a bit all over the place and neglects a lot of his best post-90s material. Still, it's something, though I'm not sure if I was a casual listener that it would encourage me to delve deeper into his post Warners music, especially starting off with Emancipation, closely followed by P. Control.

Be great if they put up The Dawn 4.1, a) because it's a great listen and b) just to wind up databank.

TwiliteKid said:

Kares said:

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Also still missing are The Undertaker and the two officially released Madhouse albums, I see absolutely no reason why they shouldn't be considered as parts of his core catalog.

The Undertaker was never released as an album, just the video.

The Madhouse albums weren't released under his name, hence they aren't part of his "core catalog".

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The Undertaker was meant to be released by Prince himself, he was just blocked from doing so at the time, so I see no reason why it couldn't be released by the Estate now.

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The "NPG-albums" weren't released under his name either, neither was Kamasutra, so that logic isn't working either. Regardless of the official artist credit, these are all Prince-albums.

Kares said:

TwiliteKid said:

The Undertaker was never released as an album, just the video.

The Madhouse albums weren't released under his name, hence they aren't part of his "core catalog".

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The Undertaker was meant to be released by Prince himself, he was just blocked from doing so at the time, so I see no reason why it couldn't be released by the Estate now.

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The "NPG-albums" weren't released under his name either, neither was Kamasutra, so that logic isn't working either. Regardless of the official artist credit, these are all Prince-albums.

The Undertaker was not released therefore it's not part of a re-release of his released catalogue. His intentions 25 years ago are neither here nor there.

The two NPG albums aren't on streaming yet and neither is Kamasutra .

I do agree that they all should be released though.

[Edited 8/17/18 8:08am]

jaawwnn said:

Kares said:

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The Undertaker was meant to be released by Prince himself, he was just blocked from doing so at the time, so I see no reason why it couldn't be released by the Estate now.

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The "NPG-albums" weren't released under his name either, neither was Kamasutra, so that logic isn't working either. Regardless of the official artist credit, these are all Prince-albums.

The Undertaker was not released therefore it's not part of a re-release of his released catalogue. His intentions 25 years ago are neither here nor there.

The two NPG albums aren't on streaming yet and neither is Kamasutra.

I do agree that they all should be released though.

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There were 3 NPG albums and 2 of them as well as Kamasutra are on Tidal.

Kares said:

jaawwnn said:

The Undertaker was not released therefore it's not part of a re-release of his released catalogue. His intentions 25 years ago are neither here nor there.

The two NPG albums aren't on streaming yet and neither is Kamasutra.

I do agree that they all should be released though.

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There were 3 NPG albums and 2 of them as well as Kamasutra are on Tidal.

Yah, Tidal isn't anything to do with this release, this is about a streaming service that people actually use. Or to put it another way, Tidal had their own deals with Prince when he was alive.

Kares said:

jaawwnn said:

The Undertaker was not released therefore it's not part of a re-release of his released catalogue. His intentions 25 years ago are neither here nor there.

The two NPG albums aren't on streaming yet and neither is Kamasutra.

I do agree that they all should be released though.

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There were 3 NPG albums and 2 of them as well as Kamasutra are on Tidal.

And all three were added on Tidal under the name's Prince choose to use for their release. They may well end up on other services now that Sony is in charge - but they are clearly (and wisely) focussing on the stuff that is name is on to start.

[Edited 8/17/18 8:09am]

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jaawwnn said:

Kares said:

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There were 3 NPG albums and 2 of them as well as Kamasutra are on Tidal.

Yah, Tidal isn't anything to do with this release, this is about a streaming service that people actually use. Or to put it another way, Tidal had their own deals with Prince when he was alive.

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...I'm aware Tidal doesn't have anything to do with this release, but thank you...
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However, originally I was responding to this post:

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Kares said:

PurpleMedley122 said:

So after all this, the albums that still remain exclusive to TIDAL are: The Hit n Run albums (also on Apple Music) Newpower Soul Exodus 1-800 New Funk Girl 6 Karmasutra Singles: The War Black Sweat (Live) Little Red Corvette/Dirty Mind When Will We B Paid? Joy in Repetition (Live) If Eye Could Get Ur Attention

Still missing from all streaming sites: The Black Album (was on TIDAL, but recently removed) and Goldnigga

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Also still missing are The Undertaker and the two officially released Madhouse albums, I see absolutely no reason why they shouldn't be considered as parts of his core catalog.

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Silvertongue7 said:

rnb said:

Kares said:

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Also still missing are The Undertaker and the two officially released Madhouse albums, I see absolutely no reason why they shouldn't be considered as parts of his core catalog.

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Edit: oh I getcha now, I was a bit slow there. I think the releases on Tidal were about as consistent as Prince was about these things. I'd imagine it was just Josh or someone sending files over to Tidal without anyone checking their release history.

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I'm glad they included the underated MaStErPiece....

Where are Hit N Run Phase 1 and 2???????

Phase 2 is my favorite album from the 00s and 10s

lastdecember said:

Silvertongue7 said:

Strange that they haven’t included at least the Gold Experience versión of The Most Beautiful Girl In The World. Cool track list though.

There is a legal battle over the song.

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And the Italian composers claim they've taken action immediately upon hearing Prince's song, so that must've been early 1994, I wonder if their claim was the real reason behind the delay in releasing The Gold Experience, as Prince was publicly blaiming WB for not releasing the album.
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jaawwnn said:

Despite this weird ass Anthology tracklist, I'm enjoying listening to it IMMENSELY!

Jup, I like Anthology. Ofcourse, we could have picked other songs, in a better sequence, ladila, but for newcomers this is an eye opener.

TKO said:

Where are Hit N Run Phase 1 and 2???????

Phase 2 is my favorite album from the 00s and 10s

Phase 2 is on Apple Music.

Phase 1 & 2 are on Tidal.

Not sure about other services.

TKO said:

Listening to Anthology out of curiosity…

The end of The Work Pt. 1 includes what I'd consider the segue into or the beginning of "Everywhere" with the slowed-down-voice narration. Should've ended the song before that…really weird flow into "Call My Name" with that segue present.

I understand that the way TRC is tracked, that spoken word portion is in fact part of the end of The Work Pt. 1, but on the album, the flow is fine. As a single track on Anthology, it should've been handled differently IMHO.