I think Prince should release his "Best Of" album since his emancipation from Warner. There are alot of people who are unfamiliar with some of these great songs that have barely if ever been played on the radio.

I'll start with the obvious; Somewhere Here On Earth and Last December.

I'd say 1994 until present, although that might prove difficult because of the songs signed under Warner.

What songs? Just stick to the singles and even those would be unfamiliar to most.

Letitgo
TMBGITW
Dolphin
Betcha by
Holy river
The truth
Ah crap, we all know the singles!

The problem is that the material from 1996-2000 wasn't Prince. I would make a Prince (2001-now) compilation and a 2nd CD full of the best material.

That one will never see the light of the day, unfortunately and we know why...



3121
Musicology
Call My Name
The Work
Love
Black Sweat
Lolita
She Loves Me 4 Me
Colonized Mind
Crimson And Clover
U Make My Sun Shine
The Word
Te Amo Corazón
Here
The One U Wanna C
Somewhere Here On Earth
Fury
Better With Time
Dance 4 Me
Future Baby Mama
4Ever
Reflection
Guitar
Last December




This would be on my 2001-now compilation

Somebody's Somebody
I Can't Make U Love Me
Style
She gave her angels
Black Sweat
The Dance (from Chocolate Invasion)
Song of the heart
The Morning After
Chocolate Box
Ol' School Company
Musicology
Call my name
The One
Here on earth
Guitar
Somewhere here on earth
Chelsea Rodgers
Hot with U (nasty remix)
High
She loves me 4 me
The Everlasting Now

bonus tracks:
F.U.N.K.
Turn me loose

He's due for two GH packages. One of nothing but material since the last Hits package ended with the start of the name change. And one, in the future, with stuff since he was Prince again. The second Prince package should be "The Hits Vol 2". Whereas the package would just be the one. He has everything from The Gold Experience through Rave Un2, including Exodus and NPS.

This again? We just had this topic not too long ago.

daPrettyman said:

Yeah, we should rather discuss his religion and its effects on his music! Who's with me?

Dave1992 said:

Yeah, cuz THAT has never been covered. LOL

At least it wasn't TheKing662 hijacking someone else's idea 3 weeks later.

daPrettyman said:

Unfortunately some of us are kinda new so we think of things that are boring to you. But some of you have been on here 8 or more years and I am sure there are LOTS of topics that bore that crap out of you at this time. I am sure if I make it to 3 or more years I'll probably spend most of my time in general discussion. Sorry to be redundant.

Deadflow3r said:

Sorry if you took offense to this, but as Ernst stated, we get a lot of the same topic a lot around here. I didn't mean to attack you at all. I just know the mods are pretty strict about duplicate threads.

It wouldn't be worth putting one out because he didn't have any hits.

At a stretch 'Musicology' and 'Black Sweat' could be stuck on the end of any career-encompassing singles collection, but even that's pushing it.

NouveauDance said:

That's why we would rather call it a "Best Of" than a "Greatest Hits".

Best of (initial track list 2 CDs)

Jam Of The Year
Endorphinmachine
Acknowledge Me
Love Sign
Return Of The Bump Squad
Somebody's Somebody
Get Wild
Saviour
Now
Days of Wild
Chaos and Disorder
Face Down
Interactive
Betcha By Golly Wow
Zanalee
Dolphin
Dinner With Delores
The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
The Holy River
One of Us
Baby Knows
Beautiful Strange
The One
The Greatest Romance Ever Sold
Don't Play Me
So Far, So Pleased
The Exodus Has Begun
I Hate U
Gold

NouveauDance said:

Yup. TMBGITW would be the only song to actually make it unto a compilation.

ernestsewell said:

I like it, but you're missing some serious Shhh, Shy, Wasted Kisses, I Like It There, In This Bed Eye Scream and Friend, Lover, Sister, Mother / Wife there!

Deadflow3r said:

What should beon it? About 2 tracks from each of NPGMC, Musicology, 3121 and the restshoukd be silence

Deadflow3r said:

Im not new but d gladly discuss the same topic a million times over than discuss how religion has impacted on andeventually killed almost 30 years of funky Prince albums ( the guy still has it live) and replaced it with a safe, middle of the road, drum machine loving, censor.


Ooops...I think I've just discussed religion

The Gold Experience was 1995 too

The general public wouldn't know (read: wouldn't care) about any of these songs. None of them were really "hits" or got much radio play.

The Most Beautiful Girl In The World is still Prince's top outside-post-Warner release, and that was 1994.

purpledoveuk said:

You'll be going to Org Hell for that. Basically that involves having MzkQueen(?) explain through a loud-hailer the montage of Orger picture threads to you. For ever.

Deadflow3r said:

I´m also new and the search function for threads doesn´t work at all so far for me!

I like the start up date of 1996 Deadflower. Someone mentioned earlier than he `should release from 2001 onwards but that was never going to happen and they knew why ` but I don´t know why. Of the albums since 1996 that I have

Chaos and Disorder (1996) Into the Light, I will
Emancipation (1996) New World, The Human Body, Holy River , Curious child
Crystal Ball (1998) don´t have it
The Truth (1998) don´t have it
The Vault... Old Friends 4 Sale (1999) She spoke to me ,The lights go down
Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic (1999) only have the dvd don´t really know it
The Rainbow Children (2001) no have
N.E.W.S (2003) no have
Musicology (2004) What do you want me to do, Cinnamon girl
3121 (2006) Te amo corazon, Beautiful loved and Blessed
Planet Earth (2007) Future baby Mama, Somewhere here on earth
LOtUSFLOW3R / MPLSoUND (2009) Don´t have it but like Crimson and Clover and Dance for me

Dave1992 said:

Agreed.

Sander said:

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Dave1992 said:

Bingo!! I deffinately picked those words carefully. I don't think that the tunes from 1996 on were allowed to be hits; I love ALOT OF THEM and think there are many people out there who would aswell. Personally IMO, some of his best vocals have been in the last 13 years.

daPrettyman said:

I just looked on all 6 pages of Princ;Music and More and I do not see a thread on releasing a "Best of" CD of songs that were released since he left Warner. True I don't read every single page before starting a thread, does ANYBODY???

I think Prince has released some fantastic work in the last decade or so. I will enjoy this.

In no particular order. Lots of others, but these are primo for me

1) Shhh
2) Eye Hate U
3) Shy
4) The Dance
5) Black Sweat
6) Beautiful Love and Blessed
7) In This Bed I Scream
8) Dreamer
9) Colonized Mind
10) Future Baby Mama
11) Here
12) Pfunk
13) Ol Skool Company
14) Sensual Everafter

No particular order

Sue Me Baby

When I lay my hands on $77

Sorry could'nt resist.

purplecorvette1 said:

Deadflow3r said:

This was brought up not too long ago. I don't think the text was "Best of" but was something like greatest hits 96 to present.

Also, a best of gets mentioned a lot also.

This was the thread I was thinking of where we recently discussed this topic. http://prince.org/msg/7/314850
[Edited 10/2/09 16:25pm]

daPrettyman said:

I pulled it up but I can't see when it was originally posted or what page it's on now. Honestly I doubt if anyone looks much past page 3 to see if a thread has already been started on a particular topic.

Unfortunately what I have observed, so far, is that lets say that you started a thread that was halfway descent and then over the next 2 days a bunch of people posted not so great threads that aren't very well thought out; your thread will sink like a lead ball because no one even knows it's there to comment on. It doesn't matter how lame a topic is, it still gets to be a thread. Truly I think repeating a halfway descent thread idea over again beats a flood of half-baked thread ideas.