It seems that with the proliferation of hits packages of "Prince" music, that there should be a great package of music as well. Prince was for a good seven years. It should probably be a "Very Best of" opposed to "the Greatest Hits", because the good music he had out during this time was stunted by the name change and the overt attention to the WB fight thereby suffering from lack of radio play and chart impact.

However, there is still a great deal of music under all that press and hoopla. So the list should be stuff released under the name . So stuff like COME, or The Vault wouldn't count, because they're credited to Prince. Even stuff on Crystal Ball that was recorded under PRINCE times wouldn't count, so "Acknowledge Me" would, but "Dream Factory" would not. It'd be a great two CD set, perhaps with a bonus third EP with some misc tracks (much like The B-sides was to The Hits, sold only in the set). Not sure how all this times out in the course of 1 or 2 CDs, but here's my list:

P Control
Endorphinmachine
Betcha By Golly Wow!
The Holy River
Jam of the Year
Face Down
Chaos and Disorder
Dinner with Delores
Love Sign
The Return Of The Bump Squad
Get Wild
The Exodus Has Begun
The Love We Make
One Kiss At A Time
Saviour
Sleep Around
Acknowledge Me
Shhh!
Interactive
The Good Life
Until U're In My Arms Again
The One
So Far, So Pleased
Baby Knows
Man O War
Days of Wild
The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
Rock N Roll Is Alive (And It Lives In Minneapolis)
I Hate U
Gold

Thoughts?
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Made a boo boo, I hit reply instead of edit. haha

Move along, nothing to see here.

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ernestsewell said:

I've compiled many "Hits" CD's over the years. One is similar to the Hits/B-Sides from 1993, with songs from 1994-2007:

Disc 1:

The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
Letitgo
Cinnamon Girl
Fury
Shhh
Extraordinary
Dolphin
Guitar
Lolita
I Hate U
Family Name
One Nite Alone...
A Case Of U
The Holy River
Baby Knows
Gold
The One
Prettyman

Disc 2:

Musicology
Come On
Endorphinmachine
Dinner With Delores
Space
Te Amo Corazon
The Truth
Betcha By Golly Wow!
U Make My Sun Shine
Call My Name
Black Sweat
The One U Wanna C
Get Wild
The Work Pt. 1
The Greatest Romance Ever Sold (Jason Nevins Remix)
Days Of Wild
The Ride
Last December

Disc 3 (B-Sides etc.):

Rock And Roll Is Alive!
When Will We B Paid?
NYC Live (Jam Of The Year/Face Down)
United States Of Divison
Dear Mr. Man (Live Webster Hall)
Somebody's Somebody (Livestudio Mix)
East
Xpand
1999 The New Master
Purple Medley
Kirk J's B Sides Remix


Some tracks i would include now (like S.S.T/Brand New Orleans or Song Of The Heart) i couldn't get back then, so i would slightly altered this set nowadays (plus some tracks Lotusflow3r/MPLSoUND)...

PANDURITO said:

That's what I get for cutting and pasting, trying to correct errors. doesn't translate well. haha

xtraloveable said:

My bad, I meant music, not just a new Prince compilation. I meant a new compilation.

Greatest Hits 1 CD:

1. The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
2. Love Sign (Original 1-800-New-Funk version)
3. Letitgo
4. Dolphin
5. Acknowledge Me
6. I Hate U
7. The Holy River
8. The One
9. Betcha By Golly Wow!
10. Come On
11. Dinner With Delores
12. Space
13. Get Wild
14. Count The Days
15. The Truth
16. The Greatest Romance Ever Sold
17. Days Of Wild (Studio version)
18. Gold

these were all singles 1994-1999,
except Dolphin, Acknowledge Me & Days Of Wild,

(Inspired by the list from Xtraloveable,
but without any Prince songs 2001-2009)
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ernestsewell said:[quote]
The Love We Make


Thoughts?

This is an amazing song. The best song on Emancipation and maybe his best as ... I think its a shame it is not recognized for what a great song it is. Seems like it was last song Prince wrote that was grounding in some real emotion which make it easy for us to relate too. Its a shame about the source material (the death of Wendy's brother) but Prince sure wrote a great song about him.

^ that's true about The Love We Make, a very beautiful song - only a shame there's no guitar solo at the end

thedance said:

ernestsewell doesn't count the COME tracks, so Letitgo & Space should be replaced...maybe with Face Down & Man'o'War (Promo-Singles)

^ really and I don't agree,


I know these 2 songs are credited to "Prince", still they are from the era 1993-1999

Letitgo and Space are too great to be missed, imo..

btw.... there's a few NPG tracks too - on the list.
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thedance said:

Good list, and "Days of Wild" was a single, given out at the 2002 Celebration. So it could be that version (which was from a Montreal concert), or the CB version either one. You'd have to nix "letitgo" and "space" since it was a Prince credit, not .

There should be a Hits 3/4 covering from 1992-present.

thedance said:

Exodus and NPS were released while was in effect, so they'd count. I'm not sure you could fill a disk of Very Best with just those three CDs, so you'd have to include them on the Very Best Of.

^ It's allowed to include NPG tracks, but not the 1994 tracks from Come?

In the Beautiful Experience tv-special some songs from Come were credited as songs afaik,

I'm talking about Come, Pheromone, Race, Loose!, Papa,

Imo..... the Come songs would fit very well on a hits compilation...

but I see we can't agree on this, lol...

The Very Best Of

P Control
Shhh
The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
I Hate U
I Like It There
The Same December
Jam Of The Year
Sex In The Summer
Saviour
Face Down
The Love We Make
Acknowledge Me
The Truth
The Other Side Of The Pillow
So Far, So Pleased
Baby Knows
I Love U, But I Don't Trust U Anymore
Wherever U Go, Whatever U Do