A young co-worker (about 19 or 20 yrs old) recently bought the Warner Bros' "Best Of Prince" CD, and told me that she's starting to dig him.

I want to convert her into a bonafide Prince fanatic.

If you could compile your own "Best Of Prince" CD with tracks that weren't released but perhaps you feel they should've...what would they be???

My initial picks look somehting like this;

- DMSR
- 17 Days
- She's Always In My Hair
- Forever In My Life
- It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Night
- The Cross
- 5 Women
- I Wanna Melt With U
- The Question Of U
- Right Back Here In My Arms
- Dolphin

Any suggestions?

Remember...she's a "fan-in-training" so I'm holding off on the weird stuff that only hardcore fans can appreciate. She needs to be gently weaned into that phase still.

ALSO - does anyone have any tips as to how single tracks can be recorded off the Lovesexy CD?

Give her SOTT purple rain and 1999, if she doesn't like prince after that, she'll never like him.

I don't like Dolphin, but I do love 17 Days and I Wanna Melt With U. I'm also starting to really dig Strange Relationship. (Dunno if that was released...)

When you asked about recording single tracks off of Lovesexy - are you talking about ripping the song off of the CD, then burning it onto another (to include it into a mix of other MP3s?) The best ripper I've found is cdex. You can get it from download.com. It's really easy to use and FREE! I hope this helps.

Funny you should ask this because I was just thinking of a compilation to make for a friend of mine. Like VBOP, it would be in chronological order, but it would not be hits, or at least not intentionally, although occasionally a hit would pop up on the set. The songs intentions would be to show his versatility, and evolution, and to try to best represent him in the year the song was released. I would release one song from each year he's been around, and it would be a 24 track compilation, on 1 or 2 CDs.
The track listing would list both the year and the song title, like this.

Whaddya think? Keep in mind, it's designed to appeal to new fans, show his musical changes, and not really be a hit album, although occasionally a hit comes into play.

1978- Crazy You
1979- Why You Wanna...
1980- Head
1981- Let's Work
1982- Little Red Corvette
1984- When Doves Cry
1985- Around the World in a Day (I'm pretty sure this is the one I would pick)
1986- Do U Lie
1987- Ballad of Dorothy Parker (This year was quite hard to choose)
1988- Dance On
1989- Vicki Waiting
1990- Joy in Repetition
1991- Money Don't Matter Tonight
1992- Damn U
1993- Peach
1994- Space
1995- P Control
1996- The Ride
1997- Other Side of the Pillow
1998- Wasted Kisses
1999- Strange But True
2000- I dunno
2001- Supercute
2002- To be announced

PurpleJedi said:

I used "SoundEdit" to do this very thing.
It's a Macintosh App. although they might make it for Wintel machines.

Fun…Here’s mine

*Jam of the year
Fathers song
*Acknowledge me
*Rebirth of the flesh
Crystal ball
*In a large room with no light
*Moonbeam levels
Forever in my life
Strange relationship
Melody cool
*It’s gonna be a beautiful night
Supercute
*When I lay my hands on you
High
Girl O my dreams
Can’t stop this feeling I got
*We can funk
*God is alive

Wait a second, they won’t all fit on 1 CD will they. Damn. I need to think harder about this.
These all should have been singles (Except Fathers song, that’s more like a segue)

*Very best ones

Excellent!!

I'll definitely used the chronological order idea. Some tracks were listed that I forgot about (there's so many 2 choose from U know).

I'll look 4 the Cdex and/or SoundEdit and see if I can accomplish this elusive task.

Thanks!!!