With no new music for a while it's again time to make up our own masterpiece compilations.

These are my picks for a best of 80's, 90's and 2000's CD. I tried to stick to singles or songs with accompanying videos. All are album versions unless otherwise specified.

1980's

1. Controversy

2. 1999

2. Little Red Corvette

4. When Doves Cry

5. Let's Go Crazy (Special Dance Mix)

6. Purple Rain

7. Raspberry Beret

8. A Love Bizarre (Single Edit)

9. Kiss (Extended Version)

10. Girls and Boys

11. Sign 'O' the Times

12. U Got the Look (Long Look)

13. Alphabet St.

1990's

1. Thieves in the Temple (Remix)

2. Gett Off

3. Cream

4. Diamonds and Pearls

5. Sexy MF

6. 7

7. Peach

8. The Most Beautiful Girl in the World (Original Mix)

9. Lovesign

10. Dolphin

11. eye Hate U

12. Gold

13. Empty Room

14. Don't Play Me

15. Come On

2000's

1. The Work, pt. 1

2. Musicology

3. Call My Name

4. Cinnamon Girl

5. Glass Cutter

6. S.S.T.

7. The Song of the Heart

8. Te Amo Corazon

9. Black Sweat

10. Fury

11. Guitar

12. Chelsea Rodgers

13. Somewhere Here on Earth

14. F.U.N.K.

15. Crimson and Clover

16. Chocolate Box

17. Dance 4 Me

*Replaced Rock 'N' Roll is Alive! (and it lives in Minneapolis) with Don't Play Me

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OK, but I have cheated:

Here's a 4 CD version......

The Hits 1:

1. "When Doves Cry" – 3:48 (single edit)
2. "Pop Life" – 3:42
3. "Soft and Wet" – 3:03
4. "I Feel for You" – 3:25
5. "Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?" – 3:48
6. "When You Were Mine" – 3:43
7. "Uptown" – 4:09 (single edit)
8. "Let's Go Crazy" – 4:39
9. "1999" – 3:37 (single edit)
10. "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man" – 3:40 (single edit)
11. "Nothing Compares 2 U" – 4:58 (live) (previously unreleased)
12. "Adore" – 4:41 (live)
13. "Girls And Boys" - 5:29

14. "Alphabet St." – 5:39
15. "Sign "☮" the Times" – 3:43 (single edit)
16. "Thieves in the Temple" – 3:20
17. "Diamonds and Pearls" – 4:20 (single edit)
18. "Scandalous" - 4:12 (7" edit)
19. "7" – 5:09

Outtake: Pink Cashmere

The Hits 2:

1. "Controversy" – 3:35 (single edit)
2. "Dirty Mind" – 3:49 (single edit)
3. "I Wanna Be Your Lover" – 2:58 (single edit)
4. "Head" – 4:43
5. "Do Me, Baby" – 3:57 (single edit)
6. "Delirious" – 2:39 (single edit)
7. "Little Red Corvette" – 4:56
8. "I Would Die 4 U" – 2:57 (single edit)
9. "Raspberry Beret" – 3:32
10. "If I Was Your Girlfriend" – 3:46 (single edit)
11. "Kiss" – 3:46 (single edit)
12. "Peach" – 3:48 (previously unreleased)
13. "U Got the Look" – 3:47
14. "Sexy MF" – 5:26
15. "Gett Off" – 4:30
16. "Cream" – 4:13
17. "Anotherloverholenyohead" - 3:58
18. "My Name Is Prince" - 4:05 (7" edit)
19. "Purple Rain" – 8:40

Outtake: The Pope

The Hits 3:

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 part 1
17. She Loves Me 4 Me


The Hits 4:

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. Dreamer
14. Crimson & Clover
15. Dance 4 Me
16. Beginning Endlessly
17. Sticky Like Glue

18. Future Soul Song

Includes a lot of favourite songs which weren't exactly "hits"...

Greatest Hits type compilation, not all are my favourite tunes.

* = an edited version

+ = extended version [12" version]

Disc 1 [1978-1985]

1. Soft And Wet

2. I Wanna Be Your Lover

3. I Feel For You

4. Uptown

5. Controversy*

6. 1999*

7. Little Red Corvette

8. How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore

9. Let's Go Crazy

10. When Doves Cry

11. Purple Rain

12. I Would Die 4 U

13. Baby I'm A Star

14. Erotic City +

15. She's Always In My Hair

16. Raspberry Beret

Disc 2 [1985-1991]

1. Pop Life

2. Kiss +

3. Anotherloverholenyohead

4. Sign "O" The Times

5. U Got The Look +

6. If I Was Your Girlfriend

7. I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man

8. Adore

9. Alphabet Street*

10. Partyman

11. Thieves In The Temple

12. Cream

13. Gett Off

14. Diamonds and Pearls

15. Money Don't Matter 2 Night

Disc 3 [1992-2009]

1. My Name Is Prince*

2. Sexy MF

3. 7

4. Pink Cashmere

5. Peach

6. The Most Beautiful Girl In The World

7. Hate U

8. Gold*

9. Jam Of The Year
10. The Greatest Romance Ever Sold

11. Musicology

12. Call My Name

13. Black Sweat

14. Crimson and Clover

15. [bonus previously unreleased track]

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[Edited 2/11/11 16:24pm]

I limited myself to 10 songs per decade, which wasn't easy...

1980s

Controversy

Let's Go Crazy

1999

Little Red Corvette

Raspberry Beret

When Doves Cry

Kiss

If I Was Your Girlfriend

Adore

Purple Rain

1990s

Gold

Holy River

Dolphin

Diamonds and Pearls

The Most Beautiful Girl in the World

I Hate U

Insatiable

The Question of U

Joy In Repetition

7

2000s

Fury

Musicology

3121

Black Sweat

Dreamer

Colonized Mind

The Dance

Somewhere Here on Earth

Muse 2 the Pharaoh

Last December

The Hits 1: (1978-1985)

1. "Soft and Wet" – 3:03
2. "I Wanna Be Your Lover" – 2:58 (single edit)
3. "I Feel for You" – 3:25
4. "Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?" – 3:48
5. "Uptown" – 4:09 (single edit)

6. "Dirty Mind" – 3:49 (single edit)
7. "Head" – 4:43
8. "When You Were Mine" – 3:43
9. "Controversy" – 3:35 (single edit)
10. "Do Me, Baby" – 3:57 (single edit)
11. "1999" – 3:37 (single edit)
12. "Little Red Corvette" – 4:56

13. "Delirious" – 2:39 (single edit)

14. "When Doves Cry" – 3:48 (single edit)
15. "Let's Go Crazy" – 4:39
16. "I Would Die 4 U" – 2:57 (single edit)
17. "Purple Rain" – 8:40

18. "Raspberry Beret" – 3:32
19. "Pop Life" – 3:42

The Hits 2: (1985-1992)

1. "Nothing Compares 2 U" – 4:58 (live)

2. "Kiss" – 3:46 (single edit)
3. "Mountains" - 3:58

4. "Girls And Boys" - 5:29

5. "Anotherloverholenyohead" - 3:58
6. "Sign "☮" the Times" – 3:43 (single edit)
7. "U Got the Look" – 3:47
8. "If I Was Your Girlfriend" – 3:46 (single edit)
9. "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man" – 3:40 (single edit)
10. "Adore" – 4:41

11. "Alphabet St." – 5:39
12. "I Wish U Heaven" 2:43

13. "Thieves in the Temple" – 3:20
14. "Gett Off" – 4:30
15. "Cream" – 4:13
16. "Diamonds and Pearls" – 4:20 (single edit)
17. "Sexy MF" – 5:26
18. "My Name Is Prince" - 4:05 (7" edit)
19. "7" – 5:09

Outtake: Pink Cashmere & Peach

The Hits 3: (1994-2001)

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 part 1
17. She Loves Me 4 Me


The Hits 4: (2004-2010)

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. Dreamer
14. Crimson & Clover
15. Dance 4 Me
16. Beginning Endlessly
17. Sticky Like Glue

18. Future Soul Song

No new music for a while?

You just got a new album barely 8 months ago.

TheDigitalGardener said:

No new music for a while?

You just got a new album barely 8 months ago.

20Ten wasn't properly released.

802 said:

TheDigitalGardener said:

No new music for a while?

You just got a new album barely 8 months ago.

20Ten wasn't properly released.

Yes it was.

TheDigitalGardener said:

802 said:

20Ten wasn't properly released.

Yes it was.

Newspaper in Europe only doesn't really count as a proper release. It's not like these people could buy the album a couple of months later in the record shops, or on his website (if he had one)

I'll narrow it down to 15 tracks per decade

1980's

1. She's Always in My Hair

2. When Doves Cry

3. If I Was Your Girlfriend

4. Little Red Corvette

5. Erotic City

6. The Ballad of Dorothy Parker

7. Uptown

8. Computer Blue

9. 1999

10. Controversy

11. Raspberry Beret
12. Mountains
13. Kiss

14. Purple Rain
15. 17 Days

1990's

1. Endorphinmachine

2. 7

3. Joy In Repitition

4. Pink Cashmere

5. Crucial

6. Somebody's Somebody

7. Soul Sanctuary

8. Gold

9. Diamonds and Pearls

10. Blue Light

11. Gett Off

12. Now

13. Love 2 the 9'S

14. The Most Beautiful Girl In The World

15. Nothing Compares 2 U

2000's

1. Black Sweat

2. Love

3. When Eye Lay My Hands on You

4. Musicology

5. Underneath the Cream

6. The Everlasting Now

7. Fury

8. Wall Of Berlin

9. Cinnamon Girl

10. The Greatest Romance Ever Sold

11. High

12. A Million Days

13. The Dance

14. If Eye Was The Man in Your Life

15. Chelsea Rodgers

[Edited 2/11/11 21:31pm]

All of the songs listed are single edits, unless specified otherwise.

Disc 1

Wanna B Ur Lover

Sexy Dancer

Dirty Mind

Uptown

When U Were Mine

Sexuality

Let's Work

1999

Little Red Corvette

Irresistable Bitch

When Doves Cry

17 Days

Let's Go Crazy

Would Die 4 U

Baby 'm a Star

Erotic City

Purple Rain

Disc 2

Raspberry Beret

Pop Life

Kiss

Girls and Boys

Housequake

Nothing Compares 2 U

If Was Ur Girlfriend

Shockedelica

Sign '☮' the Times

U Got the Look

Could Never Take the Place of Ur Man

Adore (Full version)

Alphabet St.

Lovesexy

Glam Slam

Anna Stesia

Wish U Heaven

Disc 3

Thieves in the Temple

Gett Off

Sexy M.F.

My Name is Prince

The Most Beautiful Girl in the World

319

Jam of the Year

Emancipation

Black Sweat

Fury

Guitar

Somewhere Here on Earth

Dreamer

Crimson and Clover

Chocolate Box

Laydown

Should be a singles and 12" collection to supplement the albums.

I'd like to see Prince put out a collection of his personal favorites.

dalsh327 said:

I'd like to see Prince put out a collection of his personal favorites.

Yes, that would be awesome!

He should also write the liner notes

802 said:

TheDigitalGardener said:

Yes it was.

Newspaper in Europe only doesn't really count as a proper release. It's not like these people could buy the album a couple of months later in the record shops, or on his website (if he had one)

Ohhhhh yes it was.

TheDigitalGardener said:

802 said:

Newspaper in Europe only doesn't really count as a proper release. It's not like these people could buy the album a couple of months later in the record shops, or on his website (if he had one)

Ohhhhh yes it was.

If you found it in a shop (online or real life), they are illegal copies. It was a give-away/promo release only.

802 said:

TheDigitalGardener said:

Ohhhhh yes it was.

If you found it in a shop (online or real life), they are illegal copies. It was a give-away/promo release only.

I'm winding you up, you don't have to tell me what sort of release it was i had 15 of the fuckers

Did you manage to get a copy on ebay or somewhere?

hhhhdmt said:

I'll narrow it down to 15 tracks per decade

1980's

1. She's Always in My Hair

2. When Doves Cry

3. If I Was Your Girlfriend

4. Little Red Corvette

5. Erotic City

6. The Ballad of Dorothy Parker

7. Uptown

8. Computer Blue

9. 1999

10. Controversy

11. Raspberry Beret
12. Mountains
13. Kiss

14. Purple Rain
15. 17 Days

1990's

1. Endorphinmachine

2. 7

3. Joy In Repitition

4. Pink Cashmere

5. Crucial

6. Somebody's Somebody

7. Soul Sanctuary

8. Gold

9. Diamonds and Pearls

10. Blue Light

11. Gett Off

12. Now

13. Love 2 the 9'S

14. The Most Beautiful Girl In The World

15. Nothing Compares 2 U

2000's

1. Black Sweat

2. Love

3. When Eye Lay My Hands on You

4. Musicology

5. Underneath the Cream

6. The Everlasting Now

7. Fury

8. Wall Of Berlin

9. Cinnamon Girl

10. The Greatest Romance Ever Sold

11. High

12. A Million Days

13. The Dance

14. If Eye Was The Man in Your Life

15. Chelsea Rodgers

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i like that.

TheDigitalGardener said:

Did you manage to get a copy on ebay or somewhere?

I managed to find a copy at the local music store, surprisingly.