I'm not bothered about For You or Xpectation... but I wanna know if I have every RELEASED Prince album? Knowing that there's released stuff out there that I hadn't heard is a blasphemous thought.

Prince
Dirty Mind
Controversy
1999
Purple Rain
Around The World In A Day
Parade
Sign O The Times
Lovesexy
Batman
Graffitti Bridge
Diamonds & Pearls
Symbol
Come
The B Sides
The Gold Experience
Exodus
Chaos & Disorder
Emancipation
Crystal Ball
New Power Soul
The Vault
Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic
Rave In2 The Joy Fantastic
High (not released, I know)
The Rainbow Children
One Nite Alone Piano & Vocal
One Nite Alone Live
N.E.W.S.
Musicology

I'd add Girl 6 & The Truth.

Also add The Black Album

Also u could add the beautiful experience, slaughterhouse and the choc invasion

The Beautiful Experience is more an E.P than an album.

Mind you.....if he has included 'High', and excluded 'For You' - I guess anything could be shoved on the list

I don't understand why you are not bothered about "For You". It's an essential album for any Prince collection. Not only that, but it's a superb little album in its own right.

How about Minneapolis Genius? Surely that counts?

C-NOTE, Xpectation !

Kamasutra !

madhouse 8 & madhouse 16

The Hits...

Try to find this excellent boot of official 12 inches / B-sides / promo's (in excellent remastered quality, it even exceeds the quality of the released cd-albums)

12" Archive v2.0 (6cdr)
SaTim Records Catalog # T2001 A-B-C-D-E-F

Disc 1:
Just Another Sucker (Dance Mix), If You Feel Like Dancin' (Dance Version), If You Feel Like Dancin' (Radio Edit), Just As Long As We're Together (Disco Mix), Soft And Wet (Disco Mix), Sexy Dancer (Long Version), Gotta Stop (Messin' About), Let's Work (Dance Remix Long Version), How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?, Little Red Corvette (Dance Mix), Horny Toad, Irresistible Bitch

Disc 2:
17 Days, Let's Go Crazy (Special Dance Mix), Erotic City (Make Love Not War...), God (Instrumental), God (Vocal), I Would Die 4 U (Extended), Another Lonely Christmas

Disc 3:
Paisley Park (Remix), Raspberry Beret (New Mix), She's Always In My Hair (New Mix), Pop Life (Extended Version), Pop Life (Fresh Dance Mix), Hello, Hello (Fresh Dance Mix), America (Extended), Girl (Extended)

Disc 4:
Kiss (Extended), Love Or $ (Extended), Mountains (Extended), Alexa de Paris (Extended), Anotherloverholenyohead (Extended), La, La, La, He, He, Hee (Highly Explosive Mix), Shockadelica (Extended), U Got The Look (Long Look), Housequake (7 Minute Mo' Quake)

Disc 5:
Hot Thing (Extended Remix), Hot Thing (Dub), Alphabet Street (This Is Not Music.....), Glam Slam (Remix), Escape (Free Yo Mind...), I Wish U Heaven (Parts 1,2,3), Scarlet Pussy, Scarlet Pussy (Extended), Feel U Up (Long Stroke), If I Love U 2Nite

Disc 6:
Gett Off (Damn Near 10 Minutes) Gett Off (Thrust Mix), Gett Off (Rosie's Dub), 7 (After 6 Long Version), Pope (Remix), Pink Cashmere (Remix), The Most Beautiful Girl In The World (Beautiful Extended Club Mix), Beautiful Beats, The Most Beautiful Girl In The World (Brian's Mix), Face Down (A Capella), Face Down (Instrumental Money Mix), Face Down (X-Tended Rap Money Mix), The Greatest Romance Ever Sold (Jason Nevin's Romance Beats)

DarrenMawbey said:

I second that emotion. "For You" is a great little set of songs. If for no other reason you should have it as his first, polished work (as opposed to the 94 East stuff which was recorded before "For You").

stu241273 said:

Technically not a Prince album

if you include that then you'll have to add in load of "associated artists" purely becuase he played on the albums.

misty2k said:

Amen. I third this.

stu241273 said:

it doesn't.

And of course Gold Nigga!!!!

DarrenMawbey said:

co-sign, co-sign, co-sign.

FOR YOU is a must. Go right now and buy the damn thing. Classic album. I love this album. The genius of the first song predicts all the greatness that was too come. CAN I GET A WITNESS!



Miguel

The Scandalous Sex Suite

stu241273 said:

No way, a couple tracks with guitar work don't qualify before the scores of protege albums.

As for For You - pass it up and it's your loss, in years to come Prince and For You will become very cherished indeed, I guarantee it.

Once one has all the albums released under his own name(s), it's time to start digging into the albums released under other artists names, because (to me) the albums he did for the likes of Sheila E., The Family, Madhouse, Jill Jones, The Time, etc, etc are as essentially Prince albums as Purple Rain or Sign O' The Times.

You can see a comprehensive list of Prince releases in this thread:

http://www.prince.org/msg/7/116565


Just search (Ctrl+F) for "Prince & Produced - Officially released albums"


» NouveauDance
[Edited 12/21/04 8:50am]

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

wit-neeeeess!!! but yeah, for you is actually a bit of a must-have. not havin this joint is like havin a peanut butter sammich without the bread.

ThataintFunky said:

Been looking for this. To no avail... (ahem)sigh... I'm such a loser... a loser with an extensive collection of our hero's output. Maybe someday my life will be made whole by having in my mits 12" Archive v2.0... :another plaintive and well rehearsed sigh:...

Just before anyone asks these:

ThataintFunky said:

.... are 94 East tracks.


And these:

ThataintFunky said:

.... are slightly different mixes (not remixes) of the album versions of both tracks.


» NouveauDance
[Edited 12/21/04 8:50am]

MattyJam said:

Also get the 12 Inch versions of;

Purple rain /B- Side - God (instrumental)
Let's go crazy /B- Side - Erotic City (extended)
Mountains / B-Side - Alexa de Paris (extended)
Kiss / B-Side - Love Or Money (extended)
and I wish u heaven / B-Side - Scarlet Pussy (extended)

In fact you should buy all the 12 inches he ever released , but particularly
those above , imo

(if they're not available anywhere try Kazaa or DC++)
[Edited 12/21/04 9:35am]

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

agree totally for you is a great album and I am floored every time I hear the opening track

Days Of Wild
The War

Thirdeye said:

I wish he would do more songs where he harmonizes with himself with 7 or 8 different voices. Love that. The only time he's done that again was on 7, another favorite. The sound his voice makes is just incredible.

Miguel

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

Prince multi-tracks a lot of vocals - like 7 - you can hear that he's singing the same line in a different register - as opposed to say lots of other acts who just fill out a vocal line by doubling up the original vocal recording.

Think of Adore.

Guess you'll have to count The Slaughterhouse and The Chocolate Invasion as officially released albums, too.