Hi, This will probably sound somewhat OCD'ish but I decided this year to listen to /watch every single Prince track/video/book/magazine cutting (showing my age) Peach and Black podcast etc that I own. I then worked out how long this would take and with the time I have available to do it each week it seems I am going to struggle to do it within one year !

The interesting thing I am finding is that it feels like a weird journey, where as you know you are only passing by each work once you try to take it all in and find some parts of the journey just coincide beautifully with your current mood and you feel lifted by them while others are more 'challenging' but still you get something from each work.

Sorry for rambling, have been a 'lurker' for eight and half years!

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Every once in a while, I'll do this with Prince's official releases while on a road trip. The two that stand out for me are "For You" to the "Black Album" and "Gold Experience" to "Musicology".

Good binges!!!

brookinz said:

Every once in a while, I'll do this with Prince's official releases while on a road trip. The two that stand out for me are "For You" to the "Black Album" and "Gold Experience" to "Musicology".

Good binges!!!

I totally get where you are coming from. By revisiting these releases I am really appreciating his earlier work (a little benefit of the 'pause' in recent album releases). The Gold Experience just has so much amazing energy to this day. Sounds a cool thing to do on a road trip!

When I first joined the org, I was a new Prince fan -- this was back in February 2006. At the time, I only owned Purple Rain and Sign "O" the Times. Getting physical copies of albums released twenty-thirty years in the past is difficult enough where I live, let alone when you're only fifteen years old and have no job. An .orger was nice enough to offer mp3 discs of Prince music, and he actually sent all of Prince's official releases and most of the tracks from NPGMC era. I received them in April of that year, and I began to listen to the albums that I was most interested in. It wasn't until school was out that I actually listened to everything he had sent back-to-back; from For You to 3121, which was his most recent release at the time. It was the greatest thing ever to be discovering his music for the first time ever! Anyway, it took me thirty-two days to listen to everything and I enjoyed every second of it. I probably wouldn't be such a huge admirer of Prince's music if he hadn't sent all of the music. I am very much of a collectionist, so I probably would have moved mountains to get all of his stuff, though it has been until this past year that I finished college and began to work that I have been able to order stuff from all over the world and complete most of what is affordable and attainable.

Wow, that's long-winded.

I used to do the whole journey about once a year until I started getting more stuff. Now, if I sat in one spot and played everything I have back-to-back in one sitting it would take a couple years to get to the end.

Weeks and months now. My bootlegs are all over the place, so first official albums would take 2 days assuming they were on constantly and I was doing nothing else. Bootlegs a month at least. But I would get bored with it and want to listen to someone else like Madonna.

How about a list of every song that you have? Not songs that are known to exist but ones that you actually have in your collection? We need a thread for this so we can take inventory on what we have and what we need.