Many artists only complete 1 album in 5 years, rather than Prince's 1 a year!

But if Prince had done the same, what would that fantasy album look like?

Here's the game:

Choose 10 tracks, plus a bonus track.

(I think you should include at least 2 ballads/slow numbers.)

Choose 3 singles from that list of 10, and then 3 new tracks as B-sides to those singles (1 per single)

Game On!

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3121

Lolita

Te Amo Corazón
Black Sweat

Incense And Candles

Love

Satisfied

Fury

The Word

Beautiful, Loved & Blessed

The Dance

Get On The Boat

Planet Earth

Guitar
Somewhere Here On Earth

The One U Wanna C

Future Baby Mama

Mr.Goodnight

All The Midnights In The World

Chelsea Rodgers

Lion Of Judah

Revelation

From The Lotus...

Boom

Crimson And Clover
4ever

Colonized Mind

Feel Good, Feel Better, Feel Wonderful

Love Like Jazz

77 Beverly Park

Wall Of Berlin

$

Dreamer

...Back 2 The Lotus

(There'll Never B) Another Like Me

Chocolate Box

Dance 4 Me

U're Gonna C Me

Here

Valentina

Better With Time

Ol' Skool Company

No More Candy 4 U

Compassion

Beginning Endlessly

Future Soul Song

Sticky Like Glue

Act of God

Lavaux

Walk in Sand

Sea of Everything

Everybody Loves Me

Laydown

My Shortlist so far... not so short surprisingly!:

Te Amo Corazón

Black Sweat

Love

Satisfied

Guitar
Somewhere Here On Earth

The One U Wanna C

From The Lotus...

Colonized Mind

Feel Good, Feel Better, Feel Wonderful

...Back 2 The Lotus

U're Gonna C Me

Here

Valentina

Better With Time

Ol' Skool Company

No More Candy 4 U

Future Soul Song

Sticky Like Glue

Act of God

Lavaux

Sea of Everything

Laydown

includes 4 single releases....

01. Planet Earth

02. Black Sweat (1st single, B-side: The Word)

03. Colonized Mind

04. Future Baby Mama (3rd single, B-side: The One U Wanna C)

05. $

06. Dance 4 Me (2nd single, B-side: Feel Good, Feel Better, Feel Wonderful)

07. Ol' Skool Company

08. Beginning Endlessly

09. Here

10. Lavaux (4th single, B-side: Future Soul Song)

11. Bonus: Laydown

[Edited 7/12/10 15:58pm]

Laydown

Dreamer

Te Amo Corazon

U're Gonna C Me

Colonized Mind

Guitar

Fury(SNL Version)

Love

4Ever

Compassion

Bonus: Black Sweat

Singles: Love, Fury(SNL Version), Laydown

B-sides: 3121, $, Lolita

[Edited 7/12/10 17:38pm]

[Edited 7/12/10 17:45pm]

Last night I made my first Prince Mix Disc in years, and I was only using songs from the past 4 or 5 releases. It breaks your rule of 10 tracks, but it's a solid mix and I wanted to share the order!

Purple Rain't (Prince Gems 2006-2010)

1. Black Sweat

2. Beginning Endlessly

3. Incense and Candles

4. Dance 4 Me

5. Colonized Mind

6. Fury

7. Sticky Like Glue

8. Lolita

9. (There'll Never B) Another Like Me

10. Feel Good, Feel Better, Feel Wonderful

11. Love

12. Laydown

13. Valentina

14. Dreamer

15. Future Baby Mama

i love that everyone is liking the new music

1. Planet Earth

2. Colonized Mind

3. Fury (B-side: Walk in Sand)

4. 4ever

5. Guitar

6. Feel Good, Feel Better, Feel Wonderful

7. Future Soul Song
8. Sticky Like Glue (B-side: Old skool company)

Ol' Skool Company

9. Lavaux (B-side: Beginning Endlessly)
10. Dreamer
Hidden track: Laydown

Too hard! Got down to about 20 and couldn't cut anymore.

These games are always fun but like the old single disc Emancipation threads, it just serves to prove that I'd always rather have the quantity of songs out there rather than Prince's selection for a single disc. We've had some fantastic tracks over the last few years.

It's easier for me to list the songs that I don't listen to very often, if ever:

Lolita

Te Amo Corazón
Black Sweat

Incense And Candles

Love

Satisfied

Beautiful, Loved & Blessed

Somewhere Here On Earth

Future Baby Mama

Mr.Goodnight

Chelsea Rodgers

Lion Of Judah

77 Beverly Park

Chocolate Box

U're Gonna C Me

Here

Better With Time

Sea of Everything

Any ten from these would put it in my bottom 3 Prince albums.

1. 3121

2. Wall Of Berlin

3. Boom

4. Sticky Like Glue
5. No More Candy 4 U

6. Colonized Mind

7. Feel Good, Feel Better, Feel Wonderful

8. Wall Of Berlin

9. Dance 4 Me

10.Here

11.Future Soul Song

Singles:

1.3121

2.Better With Time

1. Sticky Like Glue

2. Ol' Skool Company

1. Future Soul Song

2. Laydown

This I found very hard as would not change ANYTHING about Lotusflower or 20TEN. There is some good stuff on MPLSOUND but 3121 & Planet Earth was easy to sift through, 3121 should have been a single. As a sidenote I really don't care about singles, the last couple of records don't really sound like there is singles on there but I don't care. Almost all Beatles albums had no singles and Radioheads "Kid A" which is awesome IMHO

1. 3121
2. Te Amo Corazón
3. Black Sweat (B-side: Beginning Endlessly)
4. Somewhere Here On Earth
5. The One U Wanna C
6. Chelsea Rodgers
7. Colonized Mind
8. Feel Good, Feel Better, Feel Wonderful (B-side: Act of God)
9. Dreamer
10. Dance 4 Me (B-side: Ol' Skool Company)
11. Bonus: The Word

[Edited 7/13/10 6:23am]

Musicology and 3121 were/are already perfect, but a mix of PF/LF/MPLS/20Ten would be interesting

1.Planet Earth

2.Laydown

3.Dance 4 Me

4.The 1 U Wanna C

5.Feel Good, Feel Better, Feel Wonderful

6.Future Baby Mama

7.Chocolate Box

8.Sticky Like Glue

9.Lavaux

10.Colonized Mind

11.Dreamer

12.Chelsea Rodgers

13.No More Candy 4 U

and even then it would be a "just ok-fine-3 Stars out of 5" album

OK... I think this is it...

From The Lotus...

Love

Satisfied

The One U Wanna C

Feel Good, Feel Better, Feel Wonderful (B-side - Valentina)

Here

Future Soul Song

Sticky Like Glue (B-side - Te Amo Corazón)

Better With Time

Lavaux ( B Side - Act of God)

Bonus Track: Laydown

[Edited 7/13/10 10:09am]