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Thread started 06/26/12 4:02pm

Nivivrus

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Best Of O(+> Album... What would you put on it?

So I was reading about unreleased Prince projects a day ago and I stumbled on a plan Prince had to release an album called "The Very Best Of prince" after Warner Bros released The Very Best Of Prince. After I read that I asked myself, what exactly would be on that album if it was made? So I made my own personal list of tracks for it to have on my iPod. What would you have on it?

Endorphine Machine

Acknowledge Me

Jam Of The Year

Love Sign

Dinner With Delores

Come On

Emancipation

Baby Knows (Live)

Rock and Roll Is Alive (And It Lives In Minneapolis)

Comeback

The One

Wasted Kisses

(I Like) Funky Music

Somebody's Somebody

Dreaming About U

Undisputed (Rave In2 The Joy Fantastic Version)

Beautiful Strange

Eye Love U, But Eye Don't Trust U Anymore

Get Your Groove On

The Most Beautiful Girl In The World

Billy Jack Bitch

In This Bed I Scream

I could have kept going but if I did, then this list would have A LOT more ballads than anything else. That's what the name change came down to for me, a lot of great ballads razz

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Reply #1 posted 06/26/12 8:01pm

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Endorphine Machine,

Beautiful Strange..no doubt

and Days of Wild studio version and it will never happen!

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Reply #2 posted 06/26/12 8:13pm

trax

I actually have one of these I play in my car regularily. My track listing is

Interactive

Endorphine Machine

Shhh

Dolphin

One of Us

In This Bed I Scream

Chaos and Disorder

I Like it There

The Same December

Zannalee

The Most Beautiful Girl

319

Baby Knows

So Far So Pleased

Rock and roll is Alive

Shy

Eye Hate U

Gold

I would have Days of Wild Studio version if we had a great quality copy but its just too low, ruins the flow of the cd with the low sound

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Reply #3 posted 06/26/12 8:29pm

imago

SIDE A:

Endorphin Machine

Now

319

Dolphin

Billy Jack Bitch

The Most Beautiful Girl in the World

Interactive

Gold

SIDE B:

Jam of The Year

Pretty Man

The Greatest Romance Ever Sold

The Digital Garden

The One

The Holy River

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Reply #4 posted 06/26/12 9:14pm

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This is a project that I definitely think should happen! It'd be cool for die-hards and nice for the general public if it was marketed correctly, which would be tricky but not impossible.

Tracklist -- tracks 16 & 17 are key

1. Endorphine Machine

2. The Most Beautiful Girl In The World

3. Shhh

4. Eye Hate U

5. Love Sign (Shock G. mix)

6. Dinner With Delores

7. The Holy River

8. Somebody's Somebody

9. In This Bed I Scream

10. Emancipation

11. The Truth

12. Comeback

13. Eye Love U, But Eye Don't Trust U Anymore

14. The Greatest Romance Ever Sold

15. Beautiful Strange

16. Bonus Track #1 -- Something unreleased I've never heard before

17. Bonus Track #2 -- Something unreleased I've never heard before

If we expand it to NPG/Prince songs from that era, it might have to go to 2 CDs and add in a few more symbol tracks.

Prince:

Old Friends 4 Sale

When the Lights Go Down

NPG:

Get Wild

The Exodus Has Begun

The One (remix)

Come On

"Love & honesty, peace & harmony"
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Reply #5 posted 06/26/12 10:22pm

Nivivrus

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SuperFurryAnimal said:

it will never happen!

Yeah, chances are it isn't happening. I'm pretty sure Prince just announced it (note this was back when The Very Best of Prince came out in like 2002) as a way of snubbing Warner Bros. But it got me curious as to what people liked in terms of prince material. That means every track after Come until like Rave In2 The Joy Fantastic. It just intruiged me since a lot of people I know always say that Prince's music became crap after the name change but I always felt that it wasn't that bad. Sure it wasn't good compared to the old stuff, but I don't like to compare things so the 90's material never bothered me.

On a side note, I wanna add Face Down to that list I made. It's such a 'bad' rap that I can't help but love it.

Trax said:

I would have Days of Wild Studio version if we had a great quality copy but its just too low, ruins the flow of the cd with the low sound

I'm pretty sure "Work It 2.0" had a studio version of Days of Wild in pretty good quality and was pretty good volume wise. But the problem with it is it seems almost unfinished, Prince is just kinda saying the lyrics without any voice inflection and the signiture almost sound in the chorus (you know the one) is buried in the mix. I actually like the live version in Crystal Ball though, so I just shortened it on Sony Vegas one day and keep an edit of it for private use ^^

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Reply #6 posted 06/27/12 4:45am

Adorecream

My Best of

1. Most Beautiful girl in the world (Always start it off with a hit, original 1994 release version)

2. Eye Hate U

3. Dinner With Delores

4. Come on

5. The greatest Romance ever sold

6. Endorphinmachine

7. Dolphin

8. Lovesign

9. 18 and over

10. Chaos and Disorder

11. The Holy River

12. Betcha by Golly wow

13. Sex in the Summer

14. The One

15. Gold

16. Shh!!

17. Animal Kingdom

18. Interactive

19. Don't Play Me

20. Days of Wild

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Reply #7 posted 06/27/12 8:17am

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Best of prince (with a few "Prince" "NPG" and "Tora Tora" songs, all post 1993)..:

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 edit 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

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Reply #8 posted 06/28/12 4:26am

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The Very Best Of prince was supposed to contain rerecording of pre-1993 hits, it was basically a fuck you to WB not a best of of post WB years.

This being said, on such a project I'd put the post-1993 Prince/prince singles (including a few promos and cyber-singles), no more no less, with possible inclusion of some "New Power Generation" songs (?).

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Reply #9 posted 06/28/12 5:26am

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controversy99 said:

This is a project that I definitely think should happen! It'd be cool for die-hards and nice for the general public if it was marketed correctly, which would be tricky but not impossible.



Tracklist -- tracks 16 & 17 are key


1. Endorphine Machine


2. The Most Beautiful Girl In The World


3. Shhh


4. Eye Hate U


5. Love Sign (Shock G. mix)


6. Dinner With Delores


7. The Holy River


8. Somebody's Somebody


9. In This Bed I Scream


10. Emancipation


11. The Truth


12. Comeback


13. Eye Love U, But Eye Don't Trust U Anymore


14. The Greatest Romance Ever Sold


15. Beautiful Strange


16. Bonus Track #1 -- Something unreleased I've never heard before


17. Bonus Track #2 -- Something unreleased I've never heard before



If we expand it to NPG/Prince songs from that era, it might have to go to 2 CDs and add in a few more symbol tracks.



Prince:


Old Friends 4 Sale


When the Lights Go Down



NPG:


Get Wild


The Exodus Has Begun


The One (remix)


Come On




To the NPG tracks, I would definitely add "Count the Days" and "Return of the Bump Squad." Although, technically those might be Tora Tora tracks.
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Reply #10 posted 06/28/12 12:29pm

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The most beautiful girl....

Dolphin

Dinner with Dolores

Come on

Somebody´s somebody

I hate u

Love sign

Slave

The Holy river (Edit:less vocals, at 2:47 guitar!)

Gold

Billy Jack Bitch (one of his best ever!!)

New world

My Computer

So far so pleased

The love we make

The one (edit!)

Sleep around

The greatest romance

Man O´war

Wherever U go

Had U

Great music BUT...it got much better with 1+1+1=3, She loves me 4 me and Musicology and the rest of that decade lol

[Edited 6/28/12 12:30pm]

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Reply #11 posted 06/29/12 4:07pm

pureTsexy

The entire Gold Experience album
And a hand full of others between that and Rave.
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Reply #12 posted 06/29/12 4:19pm

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Damn this was a hard list to make...can it be 3CDs lol

Love 2 the 9s

The Morning Papers

7

Space

Letitgo

Endorphinmachine

Shhh

Eye Hate U

Gold

The Good Life

Dinner with Delores

Jam of the Year

In This Bed I Scream

The Holy River

Sleep Around

Baby Knows

So Far, So Pleased

Last December




RIP 1958-2016 Prince broken RIP 1947-2016 David Bowie

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Reply #13 posted 06/29/12 7:48pm

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I've already made a 3 CD thing similiar and know this isn't the best of just prince but:

The Hits 3:

The Most Beautiful Girl In The World

Somebody's Somebody (Edit)

Dreamer (Edit)

I Hate U (Edit)

Dance 4 Me (Edit)

Beautiful, Loved & Blessed (Edit)

P Control (Edit)

From The Lotus....

Future Baby Mama

Call My Name

North (Edit)

The Greatest Romance Ever Sold (Edit)

Dinner With Delores

Endorphinmachine (Original Version)

Space

Fury

One Nite Alone....

The Hits 4:

Satisfied

Te Amo Corazon

Strange Relationship (One Nite Alone....Live Version)

Letitgo (Edit)

The Work Pt. 1 (Edit)

Musicology (Edit)

The Holy River (Edit)

U Make My Sun Shine (Edit)

The Song Of The Heart (Edit)

Betcha By Golly Wow

The One (Edit)

Cinnamon Girl

Future Soul Song

Black Sweat

Guitar

Come (Edit)

Purple Medley (Edit)

Gold

B-Sides 2 (Work in progress)

Sexy Mutha

Unreleased Song Or Another B-Side

Kirk J's B-Side Remix (Edit)

Loveleft, Loveright (Edit)

Underneath The Cream

Brand New Orleans (Edit)

When Will We Be Paid? (Edit)

Love Or Money (Edit)

Sex (Edit)

2 Whom It May Concern (Edit)

Unreleased Song Or Another B-Side

God (Instrumental) (Edit)

Get Off (Edit)

Unreleased Song Or Another B-Side

United States Of Division (Edit)

Alexa De Paris (Edit)

Horny Pony (Edit)

Magnificent (Edit)

The Lubricated Lady (Edit)

Rock N' Roll Is Alive! (And It Lives In Minneapolis)

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