my favourite Prince era is Black Album, LoveSexy and Batman. I love the dirty funk, rocking guitars and heavy powerful electric drumbeats....

Ive heard a fair bit of unreleased stuff from early to mid 80s... but non from this later era... was wondering what people would recommend?

Get the Work It 2.0 Volume 3 for the good sound quality.

and get the Work Volume 3 for the more extensive Batman/Madhouse outtakes(This one I love dearly).

I don't think you'll go wrong with both

Most of what was due to be on the original Rave album at that time as well as and including:

The Voice Inside

God Is Alive

Me Touch Myself

The Line (this should have been on Crystal Ball IMO)

Good Judy Girlfriend

Mindbells

The Sex of It (so much fun this track, love it)

Bliss

to name a few

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I think you should get the bootleg "Box o chocolates", it has some of the stuff from this era or roughly from this era.

Alot of the unreleased stuff from this era was released officially later on, like "pink cashmere", "crucial" and so on. Still i recomend box o chocolates which has some amazing tracks.

The Work series 1-5 (from 2001ish) is amazing, so much good stuff on it.

Cookie Jar

Madhouse 24

Mind Bells

Bliss

Good Man

MC Flash tracks

Corporate World tracks

Larabee Studios/NPG Maxi single tracks (Play, My Tree, etc)

Martika tracks

Player

I Wonder

NouveauDance said:

Cookie Jar

Madhouse 24

Mind Bells

Bliss

Good Man

MC Flash tracks

Corporate World tracks

Larabee Studios/NPG Maxi single tracks (Play, My Tree, etc)

Martika tracks

Player

I Wonder

Not wanting to sound pedantic but Player and I Wonder are from from 1991!

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TheFreakerFantastic said:

Not wanting to sound pedantic but Player and I Wonder are from from 1991!

I knew they were on the cusp, but thought I'd add 'em any way!

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Play

Good Man

Grand Progression

We Can Funk (various mixes)

This was right around the time that the quality of his outtakes started to slip a little bit, IMO. They still weren't bad at all, but you could just tell there was "something" missing.

Anyone else agree?

alexnvrmnd777 said:

This was right around the time that the quality of his outtakes started to slip a little bit, IMO. They still weren't bad at all, but you could just tell there was "something" missing.

Anyone else agree?

Definitely. I would go farther than saying that the quality started to slip a little bit. If you compare the outtakes circa 1987-1990 to 1983-1986 there is a pretty big difference in the quality. I probably need to listen to the 1987-1990 era more but there are very few tracks that jump out at me as being great.

rialb said:

alexnvrmnd777 said:

This was right around the time that the quality of his outtakes started to slip a little bit, IMO. They still weren't bad at all, but you could just tell there was "something" missing.

Anyone else agree?

Definitely. I would go farther than saying that the quality started to slip a little bit. If you compare the outtakes circa 1987-1990 to 1983-1986 there is a pretty big difference in the quality. I probably need to listen to the 1987-1990 era more but there are very few tracks that jump out at me as being great.

Its a good job the album material from that era was up to standards

MrLee192 said:

rialb said:

Definitely. I would go farther than saying that the quality started to slip a little bit. If you compare the outtakes circa 1987-1990 to 1983-1986 there is a pretty big difference in the quality. I probably need to listen to the 1987-1990 era more but there are very few tracks that jump out at me as being great.

Its a good job the album material from that era was up to standards

I'm not an expert on unreleased material but there's not much that has surfaced from 1987, is there? Circa 1983-1996 I'm pretty sure that 1987 is the year that the least number of songs have surfaced so maybe there are a ton of great songs from that year in the vault?

Best unreleased track 1987-1990: The Sex Of It.

802 said:

Best unreleased track 1987-1990: The Sex Of It.

Nah. The best one from this period was "Pink Cashmere".

The Line

The Sex Of It

Cookie Jar

God Is Alive

Bliss

Mindbells

Dance With The Devil

Good Man #1

Me Touch Myself

Soul Psychodelicide #1-#4

We Can Funk #4-#7

The unreleased tracks from The Corporate World album

My Pony #1 & #2

The Larrabee Sessions tracks

alexnvrmnd777 said:

802 said:

Best unreleased track 1987-1990: The Sex Of It.

Nah. The best one from this period was "Pink Cashmere".

That track has been released by Prince.