The Crystal Ball set released in 1997 only included 8 tracks out of 30 from the period when the Crystal Ball project was originally in production.

Other tracks from the project / period were subsequently released as b-sides with Power Fantastic also included on the B-Sides Album, some were redone for the Graffiti Bridge Album and one track included on the Black Album.

This is my interpretation on putting the Crystal Ball project together by gathering all the existing officially released tracks from the period (no bootleg material).

CD ONE
Dream Factory
Play in the Sunshine
Housequake
The Ballad of Dorthy Parker
It
Starfish and Coffee
Slow Love
Hot Thing
Sexual Suicide

Crystal Ball
Power Fantastic
Last Heart
Make Your Mama Happy
Movie Star
Feel U Up
Shockadelica
Good Love

CD TWO
U Got the Look
If I Was Your Girlfriend
Rock Hard in a Funky Place
Can't Stop This Feeling I Got
We Can Funk
Joy In Repetition
Strange Relationship
I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man

Sign O' the Times
La, La, La, He, He, He
Forever In My Life
The Cross
Crucial
It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Night
Adore

A nice 2CD, I might do some re-giggling myself, take off Make Your Mama Happy, and add the unreleased tracks like All My Dreams, Witness, Train etc (none of which were intended for CB, but just going by your list, which collects songs from the era, not necessarily for Crystal Ball).

Staying with officially released material, you could add 'Visions', the piano intro to DF by Lisa Coleman, which was officially released on a 3" bonus CD that came with the Wendy & Lisa album, Eroica. I think it sounds nice before Power Fantastic.

BTW, just adding original tracklists for the relevant projects to compare/contrast:

Dream Factory July 18th 1986
Last Album sequence made before it was shelved:

Side 1:
01. Visions
02. Dream Factory
03. Train
04. Ballad Of Dorothy Parker
05. It
Side 2:
06. Strange Relationship
07. Starfish & Coffee
08. Slow Love
09. Interlude
10. I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man
Side 3:
11. Sign O The Times
12. A Place In Heaven
13. Crystal Ball
Side 4:
14. The Cross
15. Last Heart
16. Witness 4 The Prosecution
17. Movie Star
18. All My Dreams

Camille November 5th 1986
Album sequenced:

Side 1:
01. Rebirth Of The Flesh
02. Housequake
03. Strange Relationship
04. Feel U Up
Side 2:
05. Shockadelica
06. Good Love
07. If I Was Your Girlfreind
08. Rockhard In A Funky Place

Crystal Ball November 30th 1986
Album Sequenced:

Side 1:
01. Rebirth Of The Flesh
02. Play In The Sunshine
03. Housequake
04. Ballad Of Dorothy parker
Side 2:
05. It
06. Starfish & Coffee
07. Slow Love
08. Hot Thing
Side 3:
09. Crystal Ball
10. If I Was Your Girlfriend
11. Rockhard In A Funky Place
Side 4:
12. The Ball
13. Joy In Repitition
14. Strange Relationship
15. I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man
Side 5:
16. Shockadelica
17. Good Love
18. Forever In My Life
19. Sign O The Times
Side 6:
20. The Cross
21. Adore
22. It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Night

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


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[Edited 2/7/05 3:54am]