on a scale of 1(lowest) to 10(highest), rate my compilation. This took basically all of yesterday. I'm doing this just to prove how dope Prince is to my friends who arent up to speed. 7 Discs total. Every disc is just under 80 minutes too.
Tracklists are not in order. That's going to take a lot more time, havent done that yet. Feel free to suggest additions!

Disc 1:
I Wanna Be Your Lover
Theives In The Temple
Get Off
Glass Cutter(I know, but I like it)
200 Balloons
Do me Baby
My Name Is Prince(muerto mix)
Bob George(simply for the "dont you know I'll kill you right now?" line)
Partyman
Lovesexy
Controversy
Peach
Starfish and Coffee
Musicology
The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
Sexuality
Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic
Gold

Disc 2:

Pink Cashmere
1999
When Doves Cry
Diamonds and Pearls
Money Dont matter Tonight
Escape
Gotta Stop(messin around)
17 Days
Electric Chair
Soft and Wet
Da Bang
Somebody's Somebody
It
I will
Call My Name
Cinnamon Girl
Shy
Loose
Computer Blue

Disc 3:
I feel for you
I would die 4 U
Kiss
Dirty mind
Head
The Future
When I will lay my hands on you
Nothing compares 2 U
Betcha by golly wow
Slave
One kiss at a time
Sexy MF
Graffiti Bridge
The Marrying Kind
P Control
Tamborine
Tangerine
Strange but true
Letitgo

Disc 4:

I'm yours
Let's go crazy
Sign o the times
7 (acoustic)
How come you dont call me anymore
Trust
High
Anna Stesia
Don't play me
Face down
Hot Thing
Damn u
Can't stop this feeling I got
If Eye was the man in ur life
319
I hate U
Around the world in a day
Mountains
Anotherloverholenyohead

Disc 5:

Little Red Corvette
Purple Rain
U got the look
Girl
She's always in my hair
When 2 R in Love
Why you wanna treat me so bad
Adore
The other side of the pillow
Courtin time
New world
The continental
Daddy Pop
A million days
Life o the party
New position
Life can be so nice
Darling Nikky
America

Disc 6:

Pop life
When you were mine
Dance with the devil
Erotic city
Irresistable bitch
What's my name(intro)
Superfunkycalifragisexy
When will we get paid
Interactive
Emancipation
Chaos and Disorder
Blue light
7
Strollin
Delirious
Something in the water(does not compute)
The Greatest Romance ever sold
Free

Disc 7:

Uptown
Raspberry Beret
Alphabet st.
Cream
Lisa
What's my name
Crucial
Soul Sanctuary
The Cross
The morning papers
Thunder
Shhh
Let's pretend we're married
Paisley Park
Let's work
Undisputed

this took forever, going through all my Prince cd's and nitpicking through them.
[Edited 7/13/05 17:01pm]

So your friends don't like Prince so you decide to overwhelm the fuck out of them. Trust me one disc is plenty as an introduction and they can ask for more if they like what they hear.

Well after just glancing over, it looks aight. I mean how can you call a 7-disc set a best of? He has so much good shit. You just can't cut many songs out of too many of the albums made in the 70s-80s. That's basically a library. Specially when you consider that some P albums had like 7-11 songs hehe. Of course there are plenty of great choices in there though!

lovemachine said:

a lady friend of mine who isnt familiar with The Man said "give me all you got" as far as his best shit. Sooooo that's what I did.

jamaicanbob said:

Yeah, there are tons of good songs, the man is a genius, I guess I could call it, my "Personal Compilation of Prince Songs".

ehhhh.....life o the party ....that was voted one of the worst prince songs ever on here....and i would have to agree.

A 7CD set is not a 'best of', it's a great big box set.

A 'best of' ought to be preferably 1CD, or possibly 2
(even 3 is pushing it)

LOL! @ The comments so far, dang right, this isn't a best of it's a boxset

I find the track order most bizarre. 200 Balloons sitting next to Do Me, Baby.

Great job! They will be getting a much needed dose of P into their ears and souls! I love the collection. I wish I could get a copy of Glass Cutter. I'm going to probably give in and download it from Prince's NPG store in a few days. I have a question though. Why not just copy every song on the Batman soundtrack? I mean that is the BEST soundtrack EVER made. (Not counting Purple Rain - they are probably tied.) (Sorry but it is true.)
[Edited 7/13/05 12:01pm]

lovemachine said:

Agreed.

MetroArea said:

The tracklistings are not in order. I didnt have time to do that. They are in a different order on the cd's. Didnt know I was going to get shitted on so much
[Edited 7/13/05 17:01pm]

GodzHand said:

Hey dude, we don't mean to offend you... it's jut that a 7 DISC BOXSET!! will overwelm a newbie... just give him ONE disc!

GoldenGlove said:

A lady friend of mine not very familiar with Prince asked me to quote "give me all you got" in terms of his best material. I made this thread to see if I left out any key songs and to get feedback on how good of a box set it is.

GodzHand said:

...
dont give her life o the party ...everything else looks fine

You can leave off so much right there. My first edit
leaves me with these songs. Of which you could leave
off another half dozen at least.

The point is to showcase his talent and versatility.
People already know his big hits, so you don't have
to include too many of those.

The rest has to be kept simple and orderly. Don't be
putting too much obscure bad quality or overlong and
whininig songs on there, they'll only get on peoples
tits if they're not hardcore fans.

Keep it at two discs max. That's a nice way to make
the songs flow into one another nicely spread out on
two seperate discs.

I Wanna Be Your Lover
Thieves In The Temple
Gett Off
17 Days
Da Bang
Computer Blue
When I lay my hands on you
Sign o the times
Anna Stesia
Don't play me
Mountains
She's always in my hair
When 2 R in Love
Adore
When you were mine
Erotic city
Irresistable bitch

Those all seem good choices. Some tread the same kind
of ground so they could be left off.

A few songs I would include myself, would be amongst
others:

Pearls Before The Swine
Avalanche
My Computer
Dolphin
Good Life (Big City Rmx)
Gamillah
Space
Don't Play Me
Come On
Da Bang
Mellow/1+1+1 is 3
Reflection
When I Lay My Hands on U


You know, nice and breezy, nothing too deep
or difficult, but catchy and nicely crafted
at the same time.

If people fall in love with those songs they
will be more willing to give some others a
try. That's how I got most of my pals hooked
back in the day (well, 1995 lol).

possibly those on a disc of newer material
together with 1 disc of older material.
that way you can make the songs fit better
together instead of having songs from 2004
coming right after a 1983 track, that does
not work imo.


[Edited 7/15/05 6:25am]

No, No, No !

Here is the best possible tracklisting for a newbie IMO

1. (make the first song simillar to what they would normally listen too... e.g. if it's rap, then maybe My Name Is Prince or P#### Control.

2. Little Red Corvette (hugely popular with none fans)

3. 1999 (Same as 2)

4. (another huge hit)

5. (Something of a totally different music style to the rest)

6. Purple Rain

7. Get Off

8. Musicology (to prove that Prince is still going)

9. Erotic City (must have funk!)

10. (Huge hit)

11. (Something to there taste)

12. (same as 11)

13. (A ballad such as Adore)

14. Same as 13

15. Alphabet St.

16. (Huge hit)

17. (Same as 11)

Newbie's needs to start with complete alubms not some bad compeltions of what u and me think.

hypno said:

I made that 7 disc set for my car, so i dont have to bring all my cd's in the ride, at the same time, I'm trying to expose some of my close-minded friends to Prince.

And if you do, Prince is simply not for them

(and they suck!)

GoldenGlove said:

Like the Very Best of? Hell no!

doctamario said:

Hell YES!... if you want to convert someone into a fan you are better off giving them

#1 All the KEY hits
#2 Songs that appeal to their personal taste

!

GoldenGlove said:

Well, I think the person who made this post is trying to prove Prince's musical genius, and that could convert them, but I'm not sure he said that's what he's trying to do.
On any note, I'm pretty sure they've heard those songs anyway.