there's enough material left to put together 1 more album. since he
spread most of it out over 2 discs though the material that is left
can be considered a bit weak i guess.

but why didn't he just throw one or two "new" songs in there and
release 3 albums, which would include all the npgmc songs from a
particula era (thus excluding the old stuff like "mad" and "splash").

you could say that:


01. cybersingle

02. van gogh

03. madrid 2 chicago

04. breathe

05. when will we b paid?

06. emanstrumental

07. my medallion

08. purple house

09. jukebox with a heartbeat

10. one song
those would make up a nice enough album. i'm tempted to put them together
in a floder and just give it a name so that i can include those songs in
my prince official releases folder instead of having to filed them as the
"non album songs"

so where would u put glass cutter?

"Van Gogh" and "My Medallion" are good songs, the rest.... ?

L4OATheOriginal said:

glass cutter wasn't released until 2002 or perhaps even later,
i can't remember.

if i could include glass cutter, that would mean songs like:

magnificent, silver tongue and united states of division would
also be possible inclusions. but that's too far ahead of the
material i'm including here. just like "funky design" and "mad"
are too 'old' to include here imo.

i've been racking my brain but i truly can't think of any other
songs released during this period of time.

perhaps "habibi", which was smack in the middle of this period
but i hate that 'thing', don't even consider it a song.

thedance said:

i know. although "when will we b paid?" is probably his best cover ever.
that song is absolute perfection. it outshines most things 1999-2000.

You forget that the HIGH album was released a song or two at a time. Why not configure that first, then compile everything else during NPGMC days and make the other two. You'd be able to eek out enough crap for another two albums after that I think.

ernestsewell said:

anywho, i thought it was agreed upon by now that high was never finalized
and never even came to the stage of test pressings or tracklists. so what
would have to be included? i know the rumored tracklists but those have
since been proven to be fakes.

i was a member of all the npgmc incarnations so i know that these songs
were all released semi at the same time, or at least they were all put
to tape during 1 or 2 sessions spanning from late 99 till mid 2000 iirc.

in essence, all that material could be piled up on 2 long albums but it's
been separated by prince onto the two released album, which range from a
very respectable ok (chocolate invasion) to laughable (slaughterhouse).

so the logical step would be to make 1 more album, an album that would be
even more patchy and mediocre than "slaughterhouse"

IstenSzek said:

why wouldn't you include "splash" and "mad" and "funky design" ? they were released in one of the NPGMC editions of 2001 with all the other songs you mentioned.
you could also create a "live" album with all the live tracks he released back then. like "letitgo", "we gon' make it funky" and "vicki waiting". could also be a fine album.
one song wasn't even released in 2001. it was available at the love4oneanother website, and never during the NPGMC period. the same would count for "purple house". the live version was available on the rave dvd in 2000 and the studio version was available on the jimi hendrickx tribute cd.
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tomds said:

Ditch "Make it funky" and put in the live cut of "Return of the Bump Squad" instead. THAT is a hot trio of songs.

IstenSzek said:

I thought the songs from HIGH were pretty much known, but the track list is what was kept quiet by Prince after the fact, solely due to people compiling and bootlegging it out. I don't know if a true track list ever emerged or not for HIGH. I've seen a few incarnations of it here and there.

tomds said:

splash, mad and funky design respectively 14 and 6 years older than
any of the other songs released through the npgmc. that's why it's
not a logical thing to include them.

if i was to make an album of 1986 era tracks i would include songs
like Power Fantastic from HitsBsides and all the old song on the
Crystal Ball compilation album.

but i wouldn't use "days of wild" for that compilation simply because
that song was released together with all that 1985/1986 material on
the crystal ball set.

just like the black album ended up being released in 1994 but it's
still a 1987 album. so it fits in more with the sign o the times era
than it does with the come/gold era.

"purple house" was, i think recorded in 1999, same goes for One Song.
so that's only a 1 year gap.

the gap being even smaller if you include songs like CyberSingle, as
they were released at the very beginning of the 1st npgmc as a free
download single irrc.


aaaaanyway, i didn't make this thread to defend my songchoices or
to belittle other people's ideas. i just wanted to know if anyone
can remember any other songs from this era, either on compilations
outside of the npgmc. like colaborations or soundtrack songs etc so
perhaps something more could be included on a tracklist like this