In the booklet for the Hits/b-sides cd it says "...and our wildest imaginations couldn't conjure up what a collection like this might contain in another 15 years"

I'm sure they could.

So what would this collection contain? Don't forget the obligatory exclusive tracks for each cd.

disque said:

CD 1
1.The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
2.Letitgo
3.Space
4.Love Sign (with Nona Gaye)
5,Get Wild
6.The Good Life
7,I Hate U
8.Dolphin
9.Gold
10.Dinner With Delores
11.Betcha By Golly Wow
12.The Holy River
13.Somebody's Somebody
14.The One
15.Come On
16.The Greatest Romance Ever Sold
17.Hot Wit U
18,U Make My Sun Shine
19.The Work prt 1
20.She Loves Me 4 M


CD II
1,Musicology
2.Call My Name
3.Cinnamon Girl
4.A Million Days
5,SST
6,Te Amo Corazon
7,Black Sweat
8.Fury
9,Song Of The Heart
10.Guitar
11.The One U Wanna C
12.Future Baby Mama
13,Somewhere Here On Earth
14.Chocolate Box
15.Crimson & Clover
16.Dance 4 Me
17.Better with time
18.Cause And Effect.
19.NEW SONG
20,NEW SONG
[Edited 3/28/10 18:05pm]

^ Excellent list! right out of my mouth

Only problem: there's only time on each cd for 17 tracks:



CD 1
1.The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
2.Letitgo
3.Space
4.Love Sign (with Nona Gaye)
5,Get Wild
6.I Hate U (Album version)
7,Dolphin
8.Gold (Album version)
9.Dinner With Delores
10.Betcha By Golly Wow
11.The Holy River
12.Somebody's Somebody
13.The One
14.Come On
15.The Greatest Romance Ever Sold
16.The Work prt 1
17.She Loves Me 4 Me


CD II
1,Musicology
2.Call My Name
3.Cinnamon Girl
4.A Million Days
5,Te Amo Corazon
6,Black Sweat
7,Fury
8.Song Of The Heart
9,Guitar
10.The One U Wanna C
11.Future Baby Mama
12.Somewhere Here On Earth
13,Chocolate Box
14.Crimson & Clover
15.Dance 4 Me
16.NEW SONG
17.NEW SONG

Out takes:

The Good Life,
Hot Wit U,
U Make My Sunshine,
SST,
Better With Time
Cause & Effect


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[Edited 3/28/10 19:12pm]

Hits?

thedance said:

you're worried about limited time available on the discs and you're putting covers on there?

and 4 songs from Planet Earth?

^ hmm let me see your choices then, errant


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thedance said:

I gave up that game years ago. You can only go through so many 100-disc spindles of CD-R's working on a single project before you lose your sanity. . but if I had 2 discs worth of space to cover the last 17 years worth of material, I wouldn't be putting "Betcha By Golly Wow" on there

TMBGIW
Pheromone
Space
Acknowledge Me
Dolphin
Days Of Wild
Gold
P Control
I Rock Therefore I Am
Dig U Better Dead
Somebodys Somebody
Friend, Lover, Sister, Mother/Wife
The Love We Make

aslong as they were on it...id be fine

Hits???


CD 1 - The Most Beautiful Girl in the World

CD 2 - Beautiful (Remix)

thedance said:

Well we could edit the songs... Anyway with 17 songs it would look like this
CD 1
1.The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
2.Letitgo
3.Love Sign (with Nona Gaye)
4,Get Wild
5.The Good Life
6,I Hate U
7.Dolphin
8.Gold
9.Dinner With Delores
10.Betcha By Golly Wow
11.The Holy River
12.The One
13.Come On
14.The Greatest Romance Ever Sold
15,U Make My Sun Shine
16.The Work prt 1
17.She Loves Me 4 M


CD II
1,Musicology
2.Call My Name
3.Cinnamon Girl
4.A Million Days
5,SST
6,Te Amo Corazon
7,Black Sweat
8.Fury
9,Song Of The Heart
10.Guitar
11.Future Baby Mama
12.Chocolate Box
13.Crimson & Clover
14.Better with time
15.Cause And Effect.
16.NEW SONG
17,NEW SONG

Last December was number 1 in japan wasn't it?

so that should go on there.

what about Cybersingle?

One Song?

Supercute?
[Edited 3/29/10 12:51pm]

Unfortuantely, I feel like the Hits 2 should only be one disc, not two

The original Hits Cds had 18 tracks each.


CD 1

1.Letitgo
2.Space
3.Love Sign
4.The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
5,I Hate U
6.Gold
7,Get Wild
8.Count The Days
9.Don't Talk 2 Strangers
10.Dinner With Delores
11.Betcha By Golly Wow
12.The Holy River
13.Somebody's Somebody
14.Friend, Lover, Sister, Mother, Wife
15.Face Down
16.The One
17.Come On
16.The Greatest Romance Ever Sold
17.Baby Knows

18.Unreleased Track / Single

CD II

1,Last December
2.The Work
3.She Loves Me 4 Me
4,Musicology
5.Call My Name
6.Cinnamon Girl
7. SST
8, Black Sweat
9. Fury
10.Beautiful, Loved, and Blessed
11,Song Of The Heart
12.Guitar
13.Future Baby Mama
14,Somewhere Here On Earth
15.Chocolate Box
16.Dreamer
17.Dance 4 Me

18. Unreleased Track / Single

What about the "Batman" tracks (Partyman & Batdance)?

SquirrelMeat said:

Yea..my thoughts exactly.

If there was a "Collection" there could be a lot of songs.

If there was another "next"volume of hits it could only include TMBGITW.

The problem is sorting out the whole WB/Symbol thing.

If it was to be a WB collection then would there even be any tracks on it?

if it did, then it would only cover the Come/Gold/Chaos/Vault albums (2 of them were obligations). unless they dug back into his catalog, maybe add the Batman hits and some of the better albums tracks that have become 'hits' over time like Adore for instance?

or the non WB era which was spread over different labels, can the songs from these labels be compiled? has Prince got sole control of these (you'd hope so), but something tells me that EMI/Sony/Arista/Columbia would say otherwise.

and then what would constitute a 'hit' from this era of internet downloads and free giveaways etc?

there are the obvious songs that many have listed - but it's all very objective, in opposite to the original hits collection which i think was largely based on chart success of each given song (except for the new songs).

what i would imagine is Prince may opt to release a hits compilation of re-recorded songs that cover his whole career. or wait 20 years until he has the rights to everything.

or WB decides to release a comp that covers a certain genre e.g. love songs, rock songs, funk.

.....

What about a WB collection of rock songs?

Prince Rocks! a mixture of well known and obscure guitar tracks.

Endorphinmachine
Bambi
Cream
Let's Go Crazy
I Like It There
Shhh
The Question of U
Joy In Repetition
I'm yours
Purple Rain
Anna Stesia
My Love Is Forever
Paisley Park (!2" Version)
Darling Nikki
The Cross
The Morning Papers
Baby I'm A Star



.....

Musicology
Dance 4 Me
Fury
Feel Better Feel Good Feel Wonderfull
Somewhere Here On Earth
Call My Name
Black Sweat
Guitar
Cinnamon Girl
PFunk
Chelsea Rogers
Te Amo Corazon
There'll Never B Another Like Me
Turn Me Loose