No need to start throwing darts, but 's output wasn't, ummm, how do you say, great. I mean he could prolly have a "best of", but on the real, you can't call it a hits collection, can you?

I'm tryna think how to best fill out one cd worth of material. I know alot of you already have a comp you made and may think this blasphemous, but let's keep it real folks.

The Most Beautiful Girl In The World (prolly 's biggest song)
The Greatest Romance Ever Sold
One Of Us (cover)
Betcha By Golly Wow (cover)
P Control (decent club hit)
Gold (I still don't get it )
Come On (credited to NPG)
The One (see above)
Somebody's Somebody (that's my song)
Dinner With Delores (eh)
The Holy River (don't think many folks outside the "Fam" know what this is)
1999:The New Master (sorry, couldn't resist)

... that's only 12 songs. I'm SURE there are more, but you get the point.

Would you buy a comp?
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I think his output during the was pretty darn great. It all just depends on what you like.

It couldn't be a "Greatest Hits" collection necessarily, and I wouldn't approach it from that POV, but it could be a 'retrospective of the era'... There's plenty of music to pick from.

jtfolden said:

am I missing sum'n in my list?

AvramsDad said:

sure you are.

It could be done, but I don't think it's necessary.

paisley16 said:

Well, there are penty of Prince comps that aren't necessary, but I was wondering if there are other songs I can't remember and/or there's an interest.

AvramsDad said:

•Dolphin•Shy•Billy Jack Bitch•I Hate U•
The Truth•Don't Play Me•Circle Of Amour
Chaos And Disorder•I Like It There

of course, I'd buy it

paisley16 said:

can't believe I forgot "I Hate U". and "Shhh" for that matter

from 1995-2001?

P. Control
The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
I Hate U
Gold
Chaos And Disorder
I Like It There
Dinner With Delores
Somebody's Somebody
The Holy River
Jam o' The Year
One of Us
Circle of Amour
Comeback
Until You're In My Arms Again
Come On
The One
Wasted Kisses
Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic
The Greatest Romance Ever Sold
Hot Wit U
Prettyman
Beautiful Strange

bboy87 said:

Sex in the Summer
Joint 2 Joint
Mad Sex
Like Funky Music
Endorphin Machine
etc., etc.....

This era is loaded with great music....just call it a "best of" instead of a "greatest hits" and it's all good.

However, I would NEVER buy any "greatest hits" or "best of" from any era unless it had some unique tracks to offer. Just "remastered" rehash of the same old mixes is not good enough.

.....

Of course he could!

Especially compared to half these other 'artists' and 3-hit wonders who release 15 track Best Ofs, 7 of which are remixes.

I wouldn't buy something like that if it only had alread released songs.

1.Shhh
2.Baby Knows
3.Holy River
4.Right Back Here In My Arms
5.Dinner With Delores
6.The Most Beautifull Girl In THe World
7.Betcha By Golly Wow!
8.Space
9.When U Love Somebody
10.Letitgo
11.I Hate U
12.I Like It There
13.My Computer
14.Come On
15.The Greatest Romance
16.Gold

wow... good question.

Based on what I've heard, I can only come up with the following:


TMBGITW
Dolphin
Gold
Shh
Come
Letitgo
TGRES
Eye Hate U
Acknowledge Me (Ive only heard it once, but I liked it)

give me more time, though. I only own 2 albums of

But here's a question, would this include material from the album ?

I can't compare the material and say its better or worse than Prince's material from past & present... it's just different.

Come, Space and Letitgo are mentioned, but are 'Prince' songs.

While maybe not as great as a Prince collection would be, it's easy to make a pretty amazing collection of 0(+> songs. How about this?

01- The most beautiful girl in the world
02- Dolphin
03- I hate U
04- Gold
(The Gold Experience)

05- Dinner with Delores
06- Same December
07- Into the light
08- I will
(Chaos & Disorder)

09- Jam of the year
10- Sex in the summer
11- Soul sanctuary
12- The holy river

13- Face down
14- Sleep around
15- My computer
16- One of us
(Emancipation)

17- The Truth
18- 3rd Eye
19- Comeback
20- Welcome 2 the dawn
(The Truth)

21- New Power Soul
22- Come on
23- The One
24- Wasted Kisses
(New Power Soul)

25- Love sign
26- Calhoun square
27- Days of wild
28- Goodbye
(Crystal ball)

29- The greatest romance ever sold
30- The sun, the moon and stars
31- Baby knows
32- Wherever u go, whatever u do
(Rave un2 the joy fantastic)

Definitely not bad I would say.

DreamyPopRoyalty said:

Thanks. I thought so.

But to answer yer other question, no, that wouldn't include the symbol album. Nice try. It IS different.

Tremolina said:

I guess you can lock this thread now.

AvramsDad said:

It brings up an interesting point, though... How would Prince look at the album... Did he have any idea he would adopt that name while producing the album, I wonder. The "7" video seems an important factor with him killing off several different versions of himself.

jtfolden said:

When becomes a part of my growing collection, I'll definitely give that plenty of thought.

Although "Come" as a whole didn't jump out at me, bits and pieces did. The title track itself is plain innovative and "out there". And the instrumentals that were used in the album were unlike anything I've heard before... therein lies another mystery I'll have to solve.

DreamyPopRoyalty said:

That's where the comment I'd made previously - about it being more experimental and edgy - comes in to play. Combine that with the more personal POV of most of the songs and it becomes a rather intimate, almost private, album that really needs time to be appreciated.

It makes it a rather effective end to his time as "Prince" on the WB label, too... because everything after that certainly trends toward a more open and commercial sound during the era.

No, everybody wants to sell what's already been sold!