I often see the discussion on which are the best tracks on Emancipation. I am curious about what people think are the best tracks on Crystal Ball. Apologies if this has been done before.

Anyway for me:

1. Crucial

2. Interactive

3. Last Heart

4. The Ride

5. Days of Wild

6. Dream Factory

7. Crystal Ball

8. Love Sign

9. She Gave Her Angels

10. Ripopgodizippa

Ok my try:

1. Days Of Wild
2: Crystal Ball
3. Acknowledge Me
4. Hide The Bone
5. Last Heart
6. Calhoun Square
7. Crucial
8. Interactive
9. Moviestar
10. Sexual Suicide

+
11. 18 & Over
12. Goodbye
13. What's My Name

I disike Ripofdazipper and the Love Sign Remix and those Come-remixes are bad as well,

the remixes are all = a waste of space on this cd-boxset... imho..

My favourite tracks:

1. Good Love

2. Interactive

3. Crystal BaLL

4. Acknowledge Me

5. She Gave Her Angels

6. Movie Star

7. Dream Factory

8. Last Heart

9. Ripopgodazippa

10. Calhoun Square

11. Strays Of The World.

The remixes are horrible

Crystal Ball

Acknowledge Me

Ripopgodazippa

Interactive

Da Bang

Calhoun Square

What's My Name
Days Of Wild
Poom Poom

She Gave Her Angels
18 & Over

^^ I forgot about Good Love.... ooops.... amazing song. I agree..

crystal ball

dream factory

ripgodazippa

da bang

poompoom

calhon square

crucial

strays 'o the world

last heart

goodbye

thedance said:

^^ I forgot about Good Love.... ooops.... amazing song. I agree..

It seems like everybody is forgetting Good Love

About Good Love. I love Good Love, and Moviestar too. But I'm not in love with the Crystal Ball versions of those songs.

lombard said:

thedance said:

^^ I forgot about Good Love.... ooops.... amazing song. I agree..

It seems like everybody is forgetting Good Love

I remembered it, it sits narrowly outside my top tracks.

Well, for me is easy......

- Crystal Ball

- Dream Factory

- Moviestar

- Crucial

- An Honest Man

- Sexual Suicide

- Good Love

- Last Heart

- Make Your Mama Happy

Add "18 and Over" or "Hide The Bone" to reach 10.

fabriziovenerandi said:

About Good Love. I love Good Love, and Moviestar too. But I'm not in love with the Crystal Ball versions of those songs.

I agree with you. They are edited, and not in a strong way.

Anyway, even if not full versions, the two tunes are better than the rest.

And this apply also to "Crucial".

I'm absolutely in love with the two full lenght versions and every time I listen to the CB version I cringe when it is coming to the end with the atrocious fading into AHM.... but what a masterpiece!

Moviestar... was one of my favorite outtake in Chocolat Box. But when I hear the CB version... well, I loved the camillesque version of the bootleg and I can not feel the same love for the slower original version. My fault.

Good Love IMHO is in a wrong place in tracklist. After the long long cloreen b. skin, another pattern of drums... the long cloreen eats good love.

lombard said:

fabriziovenerandi said:

Good Love IMHO is in a wrong place in tracklist. After the long long cloreen b. skin, another pattern of drums... the long cloreen eats good love.

"Cloreen Baconskin" to me is a waste of time.

Maybe 5 minutes to include in the collection something original and revelating, but 13 minutes and over is something I can't go through.

On a side note, I take note that we're talking of "the best 10 tracks on Crystal Ball".

I don't think the quality of a track can change according to where it is put on the tracklist.

I agree with you and others that the tracklist is a mess, but the quality of a "Good Love" in my book don't suffer being placed after the tour-de-force "Cloreen".

BoraBora said:

fabriziovenerandi said:

Good Love IMHO is in a wrong place in tracklist. After the long long cloreen b. skin, another pattern of drums... the long cloreen eats good love.

"Cloreen Baconskin" to me is a waste of time.

Maybe 5 minutes to include in the collection something original and revelating, but 13 minutes and over is something I can't go through.

Completely agree, utter waste of space. Something to listen to once as a curiosity on a bootleg maybe, but not on a proper release.

Any list that doesn't START with Crystal Ball is automatically discredited. So....what OTHER criteria should we suggest....

TheEnglishGent said:

BoraBora said:

"Cloreen Baconskin" to me is a waste of time.

Maybe 5 minutes to include in the collection something original and revelating, but 13 minutes and over is something I can't go through.

Completely agree, utter waste of space. Something to listen to once as a curiosity on a bootleg maybe, but not on a proper release.

Strangely, that is one of the tracks I have lstened to the most on the album. I appreciate him putting a true bootleg type track on his fake "bootleg".

Crystall Ball

Dream Factory

Love Sign

Last Heart

So Dark

Movie Star

What's My Name

Good Love

Get Loose

It counts The Truth album?

214 said:

Crystall Ball

Dream Factory

Love Sign

Last Heart

So Dark

Movie Star

What's My Name

Good Love

Get Loose

It counts The Truth album?

no, we are not counting the truth album

by the way ...Is My Violent Heart by NIN a rip off of Whats My Name????

Crystal Ball

Dream Factory

Ripopgodazippa

Sexual Suicide

Last Heart

Cloreen Bacon Skin

Calhoun Square

What's My Name

Good Love

Crucial

1. Crystal Ball(epic)

2. Da Bang(his best screams...ever!)

3. So Dark

4. Good Love

5. Sexual Suicide

6. Crucial

7. Last Heart

8. Goodbye(love this one to death)

9. Dream Factory

10. MovieStar

BoraBora said:

Maybe 5 minutes to include in the collection something original and revelating, but 13 minutes and over is something I can't go through.

On a side note, I take note that we're talking of "the best 10 tracks on Crystal Ball".

I don't think the quality of a track can change according to where it is put on the tracklist.

I agree with you and others that the tracklist is a mess, but the quality of a "Good Love" in my book don't suffer being placed after the tour-de-force "Cloreen".

Well, I think Cloreen is a great track for a prince lover, but it kills the other tracks on cd. But I love it.

It is true what you said about the "best 10". Buy I usually listen the tracks follwing the Prince tracklist. So the good love appeal is less strong whe I hear it.

(btw, I forgot, my 11 track is Sexual Suicide).

Too much for one disc... Maybe my favorite release of the 90s...

1. Crystal Ball (arguably Prince's best song ever)

2. Da Bang

3. She Gave Her Angels

4. Goodbye

5. What's My Name

6. Sexual Suicide

7. Good Love

8. Make Your Mama Happy

9. Dream Factory

10. The Ride

irreverence said:

Too much for one disc... Maybe my favorite release of the 90s...

1. Crystal Ball (arguably Prince's best song ever)

2. Da Bang

3. She Gave Her Angels

4. Goodbye

5. What's My Name

6. Sexual Suicide

7. Good Love

8. Make Your Mama Happy

9. Dream Factory

10. The Ride

You know, for a long time I thought the same about the song Crystal Ball. Sometimes, I still do.

With that said, this is a good thread. Made me go dig out (literally, dig out) my copy of this last night to play "Da Bang" since I didn't recall it at all yet it got so many props in this thread. My 1st thought- "how did I miss this one?!?!?" Yes, that song truly bangs- pun intended.

From there, I rediscovered disc 2. Didn't care for too many songs on it initially, but there wasn't much that I didn't like when I listened again last night. Even though it was a cd of "bootlegs", the whole joint has aged nicely and is worth playing every now and then for some good music.

NorthC said:

lombard said:

It seems like everybody is forgetting Good Love

I didn't forget it, but you can only have 10 tracks in a top 10. So I'll put it # 1 in my Favourite Tracks on the Bright Lights Big City Soundtrack!

irreverence said:

1. Crystal Ball (arguably Prince's best song ever)

I have to agree. What made Crystal Ball so amazing was the song Crystal Ball itself. An incredible true collaboration between Prince and Clare Fischer of EPIC proportions. Per Nielsen said that Prince felt it was the most important thing he'd ever done.

.

No less than 9 of the tracks are irreplaceable must have's, including:

2. Movie Star

3. Dream Factory

4. Make Your Mama Happy

5. Cloreen Baconskin

6. Last Heart

7. Goodbye

8. Sexual Suicide

9. An Honest Man (though I much prefer the movie version)

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And lots of very good others like 2morrow, Strays Of The World, Hide The Bone, What's My Name, etc.

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I love Good Love (definuitely in the top 10 on the album) but it was already a released song on Bright Lights, Big City, so I have a hard time counting it as any major part of Crystal Ball.

CoolMF said:

irreverence said:

Too much for one disc... Maybe my favorite release of the 90s...

1. Crystal Ball (arguably Prince's best song ever)

2. Da Bang

3. She Gave Her Angels

4. Goodbye

5. What's My Name

6. Sexual Suicide

7. Good Love

8. Make Your Mama Happy

9. Dream Factory

10. The Ride

You know, for a long time I thought the same about the song Crystal Ball. Sometimes, I still do.

With that said, this is a good thread. Made me go dig out (literally, dig out) my copy of this last night to play "Da Bang" since I didn't recall it at all yet it got so many props in this thread. My 1st thought- "how did I miss this one?!?!?" Yes, that song truly bangs- pun intended.

From there, I rediscovered disc 2. Didn't care for too many songs on it initially, but there wasn't much that I didn't like when I listened again last night. Even though it was a cd of "bootlegs", the whole joint has aged nicely and is worth playing every now and then for some good music.

It HAS aged nicely!