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The Hits 3 (1993):

01. My Name Is Prince (4:05)
02. I Wish U Heaven (2:43)
03. Paisley Park (4:41)
04. Let's Work (3:57)
05. Girls & Boys (5:30)
06. Bambi (4:22)
07. Anotherloverholenyohead (3:58)
08. New Power Generation (3:39)
09. The Future (3:30)
10. Glam Slam (3:28)
11. Partyman (3:11)
12. Just As Long As We're Together (3:25)
13. Let's Pretend We're Married (3:40)
14. America (3:40)
15. Mountains (3:58)
16. The Morning Papers (3:57)
17. Insatiable (4:01)
18. Money Don't Matter 2Nite (4:12)
19. Scandalous (4:12)
20. Batdance (4:06)

"So many hits - so little time"...

Imagine this THIRD disc with HITS was released back in 1993,

What do you think??

I just can't believe hits like Girls & Boys, Anotherlover.., Batdance, Glam Slam etc.
haven't been released on any of Prince's HITS compilations...



Those songs are too good to be forgotten..
[Edited 5/22/09 14:54pm]
[Edited 7/15/09 19:21pm]

The Batman-tracks were ommitted because of legal problems.
So if we had this third disc, we would miss the great B-Sides disc...

Would've been great imo

thedance said:

Double CD singles released to accompany The Hits release:

CD1:
1. Controversy
2. The Future
3. Glam Slam
4. D.M.S.R.

CD2:
1. Controversy
2. Anotherloverholenyohead
3. Paisley Park
4. New Power Generation



CD1:
1. Peach
2. Mountains
3. Partyman
4. Money Don't Matter 2Nite

CD2:
1. Peach
2. I Wish U Heaven
3. Girls & Boys
4. My Name Is Prince

He's good...

langebleu said:

Impressive grouping

langebleu said:

yeah, I alays sort of considered these as the phantom 3rd disc of hits. "The Hits' b-sides," if you will.

langebleu said:

Thanks to Langebleu,

I forgot about those singles:

The Future
Money Don't Matter 2Nite,



The Hits 3 (1993),

now 20 tracks:


01. My Name Is Prince (4:05)
02. I Wish U Heaven (2:43)
03. Paisley Park (4:41)
04. Let's Work (3:57)
05. Girls & Boys (5:30)
06. Bambi (4:22)
07. Anotherloverholenyohead (3:58)
08. New Power Generation (3:39)
09. The Future (3:30)
10. Glam Slam (3:28)
11. Partyman (3:11)
12. Just As Long As We're Together (3:25)
13. Let's Pretend We're Married (3:40)
14. America (3:40)
15. Mountains (3:58)
16. The Morning Papers (3:57)
17. Insatiable (4:01)
18. Money Don't Matter 2Nite (4:12)
19. Scandalous (4:12)
20. Batdance (4:06)


Most of these are "single edits" like The Hits 1 & 2.
[Edited 5/23/09 0:54am]

I think it would have been unlikely this would have been released because it would have taken all the best tracks from most of his albums, negating the need for people to buy his back catalogue.
B-sides was a good idea as most people did not have them.

thedance said:

the problem is most of those songs were not hits

langebleu said:

I have the Peach set

Didn't know about the Controversy set until now. My, you learn something new every day on Prince.org.

[/quote]
Double CD singles released to accompany The Hits release:

CD1:
1. Controversy
2. The Future
3. Glam Slam
4. D.M.S.R.

CD2:
1. Controversy
2. Anotherloverholenyohead
3. Paisley Park
4. New Power Generation



CD1:
1. Peach
2. Mountains
3. Partyman
4. Money Don't Matter 2Nite

CD2:
1. Peach
2. I Wish U Heaven
3. Girls & Boys
4. My Name Is Prince[/quote]

I used those hits from this list that's not on the album and turned in2 a bonus disc. This would have been interesting 2 hear. Plus, I wonder: what one or 2 previously unreleased cuts would he had used on this disc?

scififilmnerd said:

These guys have the Controversy CD-Single #2 as well as other official stuff: http://www.mattscdsingles...e_361.html

thedance said:

I like it, would have been good.

TheFreakerFantastic said:

u are right about this I am glad he put his B-sides on the 3rd disc. I do have 4 or 5 of them on 45's but it is nice to have them on 1 disc.

TheFreakerFantastic said:

I still think People would buy the back catalogue, because The Hits included the edited single versions, people would still want to have the full versions from the original albums

Sophianestesia said:

this with -20 tracks- would have been even better




The Hits 3 (1993),



01. My Name Is Prince (4:05)
02. I Wish U Heaven (2:43)
03. Paisley Park (4:41)
04. Let's Work (3:57)
05. Girls & Boys (5:30)
06. Bambi (4:22)
07. Anotherloverholenyohead (3:58)
08. New Power Generation (3:39)
09. The Future (3:30)
10. Glam Slam (3:28)
11. Partyman (3:11)
12. Just As Long As We're Together (3:25)
13. Let's Pretend We're Married (3:40)
14. America (3:40)
15. Mountains (3:58)
16. The Morning Papers (3:57)
17. Insatiable (4:01)
18. Money Don't Matter 2Nite (4:12)
19. Scandalous (4:12)
20. Batdance (4:06)


[Edited 5/24/09 3:47am]
[Edited 5/24/09 3:53am]

squirrelgrease said:

Thanks!

I ordered Controversy CD2, Pink Cashmere b/w Soft And Wet and the 5-inch Erotic City, Let's Go Crazy and When Doves Cry singles, because the 3-inches are annoying me.

I also ordered Wendy & Lisa: Are You My Baby and Satisfaction while I was at it, plus some Aerosmith and Marilyn Manson-singles, not to mention Janet Jackson: Miss You Much b/w You Need Me which I have been looking for for a long time so I can get rid of the 12".

Now, if I don't get all these singles, I will hold you personally responsible.

Holy Shit.

Mountains and Insatiable weren't on the compilation?

TheFreakerFantastic said:

You could say the same about anyone's greatest hits sets.Although, IMO, there's no way that Prince's best material is represented by any of his best of's. Prince is one pop act who I've always thought had a pretty wide gap between the surface stuff that the general audience know and everything else.

scififilmnerd said:

Good score! Their prices have really become very reasonable. I had my eye on those Wendy and Lisa discs, too. I've bought many CD-Singles from them in the past and had no problems.

What a coincidence! I have been working on my own version of "The Hits 3" this week with a different track listing -- but I also started with "My Name Is Prince" and ended with "Batdance"!

The tracks on my collection are largely the same but I went a little bit deeper into the catalogue, including the edits of "Housequake," "Automatic," and "Let's Pretend We're Married" along with the LP versions of "Partyup" and "Sexy Dancer." (Some of those were not "hits," but neither were "Head" and "I Feel For You" on the original set.)

I also tried to remain true to the "2 new songs per disc" standard on "The Hits / The B-Sides" by including "Good Love" and "Just My Imagination (live)" along the way. I will post my full track listing when I get home.

I am having a lot of trouble locating the edit of "Scandalous"! Was it ever released on CD apart from the promo CD?

The hits were fine as it was. At the time I had no other Prince LPs or cassettes (yes I was still collecting those formats I even have Dr Dre's Chronic on LP lol) than Diamonds And Pearls, Symbol and Beautiful Experience (I consider that one as a maxi-single). I was shocked to discover how different was his music in the 80s and I was pleasantly surprised to discover all those missing hits when buying his 80s albums later on. A complete compilation would have spoiled all the fun of that.

I was surprised to see that " or $" didn't make the B-Sides disc. That song was way funky and I know a lot of us loved it.

Here's my personal playlist for "The Hits 3":

My Name Is Prince (edit)
Sexy Dancer
Partyman (edit)
Let's Work (edit)
Hot Thing
I Wish U Heaven
Partyup
Housequake (Edit)
Mountains
Take Me With U
Money Don't Matter 2 Night
Automatic (edit)
Glam Slam (edit)
Just My Imagination (live)
Let's Pretend We're Married (edit)
Good Love
Girls & Boys (edit)
Batdance
[Edited 4/17/17 6:19am]