...which tracks would you choose and why? (You can choose outtakes, too.)

Remember, you have to narrow it down to ONE CD's worth of music.

And that is actually difficult. I have tried to narrow it down myself, but there's just too many bloody good songs. So what do I do? Why. I turn to my fellow orgers. What's THE best of Prince And The Revolution?

The Purple Rain album







Seriously I guess there'd be, let's say 12 songs


Let's Go Crazy
She's Always In My Hair
Raspberry Beret
Girls and Boys
Erotic City
1999
17 Days
Pop Life
Mountains
Love or Money
Sometimes It Snows In April
Purple Rain

From albums literally labelled "Prince & the Revolution"? And not counting 1999, even though it's scrawled on the cover? Okay:

The obligatory:

Let's Go Crazy
When Doves Cry
Take Me With U
Purple Rain (7" edit, we've all heard the full version)
I Would Die 4 U
Raspberry Beret
Pop Life
Kiss
Mountains

The not-so-obligatory:

Computer Blue
Condition of the Heart
Paisley Park
Girls & Boys
Alexa de Paris
Love or Money
She's Always In My Hair


Will that fit? I dunno.

Hmm...

1. Lets Go Crazy (extended Version)
2. 17 Days
3. Girls & Boys
4. The Ladder
5. Anotherloverholenyohead
6. She's Always In your hair
7. Kiss
8. Pop Life (Extended Version)
9. The Beautiful Ones
10. Splash
11. Computer Blue
12. Love Or Money (Extended Version)

1 Another Lonely Christmas
2 Sometimes It snows in april
3 The beautiful ones
4 She's always in my hair
5 Erotic city
6 When doves cry
7 Girls and boys
8 Let's Go Crazy
9 Darling Nikki
10 Kiss
11 Purple rain
12 I would die 4 u

this is hard!!

lets see...

computer blue long
old friends 4 sale
venus de milo
wonderful ass
mountains
sometimes it snows in april
temptation
condition of the heart
darling nikki uncut
the laddy
around the world in a day
america
others here w/us
heaven
i wonder u
tamborine
love or $

thats probly more than 80mins, but owell

01. Venus De Milo
02. Let's Go Crazy
03. I Would Die 4 U
04. Baby I'm A Star
05. Erotic City
06. Girls & Boys
07. Anotherloverholenyohead
08. The Beautiful Ones
09. When Doves Cry
10. Paisley Park
11. Mountains
12. Pop Life
13. Take Me With U
14. Raspberry Beret
15. Kiss
16. She's Always In My Hair
17. Purple Rain
18. Alexa De Paris

[Edited 4/25/05 0:20am]

From the ones that officially labeled "Prince and The Revolution".....

Let's Go Crazy
Temptation
17 Days
When Doves Cry
Erotic City
She's Always In My Hair
I Would Die 4 U
Baby I'm A Star
Hello
Computer Blue
Darling Nikki
The Beautiful Ones
Purple Rain
God

All good suggestions, and, yes, it IS hard Moonwalkbjbrain.

But I never really was TOO fond of Raspberry Beret. Paisley Park is more me.

Anyways, I guess the best way to do this is to count which songs make the most appearences in all your goodie-goodie tracklists, so keep 'em coming.

Hmmmm...

Computer Blue (extended version)
Mountains
Possessed
Let's Go Crazy
17 Days
Darlin' Nikki
Kiss
When Doves Cry
Tamborine
Erotic City
New POsition
I would Die 4 U
Temptation
P R
Beautiful Ones
Life Can B So Nice
ATWIAD
[Edited 4/26/05 19:38pm]

vainandy said:

WHAT? none from 1999? It says Prince and the Revolution right there on the cover! No Revolution collection would be complete without one or two jams from that album. Dayammmm!

Yeah, I saw "and the Revolution" written backwards in the football. I was going by the title on the label on the record and the side of the album that says "Prince".

If "1999" counts, that entire album could be a "Best of Prince and The Revolution" all by itself because it's my favorite Prince album of all time.

Hello
Mountains
4 The Tears In Your Eyes
Alexa De Paris
When Doves Cry
The Ladder
New Position
Computer Blue (extended)
Kiss
The Beautiful Ones
I Would Die 4 U
She's Always In My Hair
Take Me With U
God
Let's Go Crazy
America
Purple Rain
Pop Life (extended)

i would put

1999
little red corvette
when doves cry
I would die 4 U
computer blue
Purple rain
raspbeery beret
Kiss
Mountains
baby im a star
Let's Pretend We're Married
America
Anotherloverholenyohead
Take Me With U
Delirious

I see a lot of Mountains...

But also 17 Days.