K-Mart has The Ultimate advertised in a newspaper insert for Tuesday's release.

squirrelgrease said:

It should be noted that everyone and their mother's stores had Stevie's "A Time 2 Love" in their ads when it was originally supposed to come out (was that in May or something?).

I called Best Buy today and the sales guy on the phone said that he has them in stock, buy can't put it out till Tuesday.

seanski said:

Hope is alive!

It's a shame, I was looking forward to checking out the remastering.... Even more of a shame now I've heard 3121

i don't really think this info is correct, since i just saw today....the cd will be in stores such as best buy and target on tuesday.

i don't really think this info is correct, since i just saw today....the cd will be in stores such as best buy and target on tuesday.

Black Sweat single and asked where the singles were--the girl said, "We don't sell singles" yet they had Scandalous Sex Suite & NPG Thieves in the Temple maxi singles in the Prince section.
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squirrelgrease said:

It should be noted that everyone and their mother's stores had Stevie's "A Time 2 Love" in their ads when it was originally supposed to come out (was that in May or something?).

You guys aren't going to believe this. Allmusic.com actually gave it 3 stars. Read the review:


The third time around isn't quite a charm for Prince compilations — in fact, 2006's Ultimate Prince falls far short from the promise of its title. Although Ultimate Prince was touted upon its release as being the first double-disc Prince hits collection (what does that make 1993's Hits 1 and Hits 2, then?), that claim is a little misleading, since this hardly serves up two discs of hit singles: instead, the second disc is devoted to 12" mixes and extended dance mixes issued on CD maxi-singles. There is certainly a market for these mixes — they have not been compiled on CD, so hardcore fans have been awaiting their reissue, not just for the sake of completism, but because the mixes were often very good — but tacking them onto another hits disc doesn't serve anybody's needs, since it forces the dedicated to once again purchase the familiar hits, and anybody who just wanted the hits heard on the radio will not be happy with having "Let's Go Crazy," "Little Red Corvette," "Pop Life," "Raspberry Beret," "Kiss," "U Got the Look," "Thieves in the Temple," and "Cream" all here in different mixes. Of course, the first disc of hits is not executed particularly well, either. Most of the 17 songs on the first disc are single edits, but there are a few exceptions to the rule, as "Controversy," "Purple Rain," "Alphabet St," "7," and "Gett Off" are all presented in their original full-length album incarnations — and even if "Controversy" and "Purple Rain" benefit from the unedited treatment (which is not necessarily the case with "Alphabet St.," which is one time Prince's song got better on a single edit), it's hard to see why those were included uncut when "1999" and "When Doves Cry" fade out rather abruptly. Then there's the problem of omissions, an issue that will always come up when an artist as great and prolific as Prince gets his work condensed to compilation, but there are some big oversights here, among them "I Feel for You," "Dirty Mind," "Let's Pretend We're Married," "Take Me with U," "Mountains," "If I Was Your Girlfriend," "Batdance" (definitely not his best single, but a chart-topper in 1989), and "Sexy MF," plus the B-side "Erotic City," which would have been an ideal inclusion on the 12" mix disc but is regrettably absent. So, Ultimate Prince is a bit of a mess — granted, it's a listenable mess, since any Prince song from 1979-1992 is at the very least worth hearing and often is nothing less than brilliant (plus, the remastered sound is very good, better than the original CDs in nearly every case). But for listeners who just want the hits, they'll be better served by 1993's Hits discs or 2001's The Very Best of Prince, which may have their share of oversights or flaws, but both are better samplers of his best work than this muddled, intermittently enjoyable, hodgepodge.

There are two things I agree with: Ultimate Prince is very misleading and what's actually wrong with The Hits/The B-Sides boxset? I mean, yes it would've been great to hear the 12" versions of certain songs on Ultimate Prince, but now that it's unavailable, I guess I'll stand kind of disappointed...

jone70 said:

maybe they were in the BB wherhouses since they came out BACK when they did sell singles?

EMPLOYEES at Best Buy are the Worst.

I have a copy right in my hands at this minute ! I got it in the mail yesterday.

No, I didn't buy it. A few years ago, I won a contest from Rhino Records, and the prize is that I get every CD they release. Usually, I get them about 1-3 weeks before the actual release date .

So if this is oficially cancelled, or re-released with a different track listing, I have an instant collectors item on my hands .

I think I'll listen to it right now ....

SlamGlam said:

I stopped into the BB this evening and now they have the Te Amo Corazon single but no Black Sweat!! I asked about Black Sweat and the girl said, "We don't have singles." and I said, "Yes you do. By the same artist, from the same upcoming album." Her excuse then was, "We don't know what they're going to send us." Best Buy is the Worst.


And I made her check for Ultimate Prince, too...it's in their computer system but they have 0 in stock...and no release date. I asked if they weren't maybe sitting in the back room somewhere and she said no.

i went to another best buy thinking there was no way in hell they would have any left..i found 5 more copies..guess they didnt pull their copies either..

pld71 said:

Wait....Best Buy had it in stock? How much was it last week? Damn! I gotta get it!

VinnyM27 said:

You are so lucky.

altavista said:

Why are they lucky? Looks like they are selfish and greedy to me. By snapping up all the copies they are only denying other people the opportunity to buy them at retail price.