Just for fun...

What do you think to this as an alternative 'Best Of', featuring all the B-Sides, along with album tracks and some 'rarities'. Bearing in mind this is a realistic" compilation, so can't feature demos and stuff that Warners don't actully have at their disposal.

I think it should run chronologically too. We haven't had an official Prince compilation yet that runs in the order the tracks were released. I always think this is great for comps, especially for people who are new to the artist, and want to see the progression and development of their work.

It should represent Prince as an albums artist as well as featuring all the extra 'official' tracks not included on major releases (Then it might actually SELL, right??!)

What do you think of this?

DISC ONE (1978 - 1982)

1. For You
2. I’m Yours
3. Soft And Wet
4. Bambi
5. Sexy Dancer (Disco mix)
6. When U Were Mine
7. Sister
8. Gotta Stop Messing About
9. DMSR
10. Horny Toad
11. Irresistable Bitch

DISC TWO (1984 - 1985)

1. Let’s Go Crazy (Dance Mix)
2. God
3. 17 Days
4. Darling Nikki
5. Erotic City
6. The Beautiful Ones
7. Condition Of The Heart
8. Power Fantastic
9. Hello
10. Around The World In A Day
11. She’s Always In My Hair
12. Girl

DISC THREE (1986 - 1987)

1. Christopher Tracy’s Parade
2. Kiss (12” version)
3. Love Or $
4. Alexa De Paris
5. New Position
6. The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker
7. La La La He He He
8. It’s Gonna Be A Beautiful Night
9. It
10. Shockadelica
11. Housequake (7 Minutes Mo’quake)

DISC FOUR (1988 - 1989)

1. Eye No
2. This Is Not Music (This Is A Trip)
3. Escape
4. I Wish U Heaven (Pts. 1, II, III)
5. Anna Stesia
6. The Future (Remix)
7. Electric Chair (Remix)
8. 200 Balloons
9. Vicki Waiting
10. Feel U Up
11. I Love U In Me
12. Sex

DISC FIVE (1990 - 1992)

1. Loveleft, Loveright
2. Get Off (1990 version)
3. Thieves In The House Dub
4. Gett Off (Extended version)
5. Violet The Organ Grinder
6. Horny Pony
7. Cream (NPG Remix)
8. My Name Is Prince (Club Mix)
9. The Morning Papers
10. Sexy MF (12” Remix)
11. Blue Light
12. The Continental
13. 3 Chains O Gold

DISC SIX (1993 - 1996)
1. Pope
2. Pink Kashmere
3. Peach
4. Come
5. Papa
6. Endorphinmachine
7. Rock N Roll Is Alive
8. Shy
9. 319
10. Dinner With Delores
11. I Like It There
12. Had U


Hands up anyone who wouldn't listen to Disc 6???!!!

Quite good

But I'd put some live material. In fact I would have done a live retrospective.

Sophianestesia said:

Would love to - but difficult with precious little available. If it was a post-Warners, a different story! Now I think about it, maybe I should have at least included stuff from The Undertaker / Sacrifice of Victor films.

Good thought!

I love seeing other people's collections. This is one of the better ones! I have a compilation I've been working on for years. Currently it's 30 discs.

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I like any order...

djdaffy1227 said:

Why not just listen to all his discs in order? Isn't that like 30 discs? Meh. I don't understand why you would want to pick and choose... it's not like we have limited space. Just listen to it all on shuffle - guaranteed good times.

really diggn that cd/music that came with the 21 nights book.. want more of that kinda stuff.

billymeade said:

12 discs of singles, 6 discs of b-sides and rarities, 12 discs of alternate mixes. Not the same as all the CD's. In fact, not all of them are even represented since a few didn't have any singles. It includes all officially released remixes and extended versions.
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djdaffy1227 said:

Hmmm. Well, when you get into the 30 disc territory, you might as well just make a bonus disc companion for each album including that stuff.


But I do understand. I used to do this kind of thing all the time. I have liberated myself from it in the last several years.

Then again, I spent a little time putting together a massive 2004-2009 mega-playlist today. I gave up after about 20 minutes of sequencing tracks. I realized I'm totally over that kind of OCD anal retentive re-organizing and was fine with it

Just reading all of the above. Hardly anybody saw the point (a couple of exceptions) and, just I expected, lots of pointless arguing.

It was for FUN.

You lot of have just squeezed all of the fun out of it by complaining, so I guess I'll go back to simply reading your petty arguments on these pages instead of contributing for a change.

Glad to know my bored-lunchtime topic gave you something to squabble childishly about.

clbrooks said:

It dosent even have Adore on it

mzkqueen03 said:

Amazing. Do you ever bother to read the topics you post in? Your list doesn't fit the rules set out by the OP at all.

clbrooks said:

Great job. I would defintely buy this set.But to quibble a bit: There have been two chronological compilation released to date (The Very Best Of and Ultimate).

TwiliteKid said:

Ah, touche! i guess I let them slip my mind - probably because I prefer the Hits / Bsides comps so much. Well spotted!

optimus said:

I tried to avoid album-only tracks that appeared on previous comps (ie. Hits / B-sides)

6 disc anthology?
Why?
And why from 1978 to 1996?
How will the not-so hardcore person look at this set?

clbrooks said:

Yeah but Adore is like "amazing" and the full version wasnt on the hits/b-sides and what about starfish and coffee...that is a song id like 2 hear remastered apart from them 2 minor quibbles uve done a brilliant set

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udo said:

PLEAse Read the post properly!!

It was just an idea for what I might put on an anthology. I DID SAY it was a 'realistic' compilation, based on what Warners could actually put out. They don't own anything after '96.


Hence...

optimus said:

I must admit choosing tracks from the '86 - '88 period was hard. In the end I cut loads of tracks just cos they wouldn't realistically fit on a disc.

clbrooks said:

All Respect To You as I wouldn't even have taken on something like this.

mzkqueen03 said:

housequake!

Quality! Discs 3 and 4 would be done to death on my CD player.