I just realized something tonight while playin' with my *.mp3 files -- there were several years of competing releases by Prince and Warner Bros. I would take the second discography hands down if it weren't for that little compilation that started the whole "cola war" called The Hits/The B-Sides. Anyone else have this little epiphany that I'm trippin' on right now?

Year Warner Bros.

1993 The Hits/The B-Sides (3-Disc)
1994 Come/The Black Album
1995 Purple Medley
1996 Chaos & Disorder/Girl 6
1999 The Vault: Old Friends 4 Sale
2000 Very Best Of Prince

Year NPG Records

1993 Gold Nigga
1994 The Beautiful Experience/1-800-New Funk (Various)
1995 The Gold Experience/Exodus (NPG)
1996 Emancipation (3 Disc)
1997 The Truth/Kamasutra
1998 Crystal Ball (3 Disc)/Newpower Soul (NPG)
1999 Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic/1999: The New Master
2000 The Rainbow Children

What is even more amazing to me, though, is that Prince has managed to create a whole body of work separate from his Warner catalog that is quite strong in it's own right.

kmc said:

Sorry to be picky but "The Gold Experience" was released by Warners

marilyn said

Sure, but wasn't TGE one of the first NPG Records releases? As far as my proposition goes, the majority of the alternate records were released by some studio in conjunction with NPG Records. I seem to have read somewhere that Warners closed Paisley Park Records sometime around the time of The Gold Experience.

The Gold Experience was released via WB...


*sigh*...the first thread that i have had any interest in posting on...




*surfs the net for other things to do will getting paid for work.

Yo crazy orgers... maybe I should of entitled my thread If Prince was Coca Cola would you mix him with Pepsi. Any thoughts on which body of work is more impressive, you know stands on its own merits more.

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