...for the The Vault CD?

I've always thought this was Prince's strangest, weakest release. Whilst it's not the worst selection of songs from The Vault, it's also nothing near his best. Where did the pride in his art go? It's all rather half-hearted, and he appears entirely disinterested to me. In retrospect, I think he should have simply GROWN UP and pulled together a much better effort. A truly classic selection from The Vault would have been the perfect sign off to the record company he had grown to despise. It would almost be like saying, here's what I used to do in my private time...

DISC 1
Purple Music #2
Extra Loveable
Computer Blue (Sunset Sound 'hallway speech' version) #2
Electric Intercourse
Possessed
G Spot (Prince vocal) #1
Feel U Up
Irresistible Bitch
Something In The Water (Does Not Compute) [demo]
Do Yourself A Favour
All Day, All Night
The Dance Electric

DISC 2
Joy In Repitition #1
In A Large Room With No Light
Crucial #1
Splash
Wonderful Ass
Neon Telephone
Movie Star
Data Bank #1
Girl O My Dreams #1
Can't Stop This Feeling I Got #1
We Can Funk #1
Witness 4 The Prosecution (unfinished Dream Factory version) #1
Rebirth Of The Flesh
The Question Of U instrumental (orchestral parts 'one' and 'two' joined together as a single track)
Empty Room #2
Old Friends 4 Sale #1 (segued into...)
All My Dreams

DISC 3
Crystal Ball #1
The Line
God Is Alive
The Voice
Love...Thy Will Be Done
The Grand Progression
I Can't Love U Anymore
I Hear Your Voice
Open Book
Moonbeam Levels
Miss You
Leaving For New York
Desire
Power Fantastic (instrumental intro plus officially released track joined together)

Anji said:

Okay, I'll bite ...first, I think that Prince's tossoffs were great for the Vault. Whether the tracks were "re-worked" or some of his old stuff, I don't think that Warner's ever got a clue to his genius. Yes, Prince can be pompous at times when it comes to his music, but I think that the selections above only demonstrated that it was over with Warner's. Why should he give his best stuff to them? They had already lost faith in him, so why should he bother to generate anything new for them?

That would have been a great disc. Add "Heaven" and "Turn It Up" and it would be almost perfect.

Anji said:

I thought that was part of the reasoning behind The Black Album.

We known Prince doesn't like to go back on himself (at least not admittiting as much to himself).

Come on, Prince has always been about NOW, what's happening NOW - His only archive release, Crystal Ball, kind of reflects that, it is very heavy on the period (yet ofcourse acknowledging his majority of fan's desire for material for his pre-1987 work).

Prince has showed no sign of being capable as a human being of accepting his past, and enjoyiong it for what it was.