While I was at work tonight, I was thinking about the list I had put here the other day and decided, "Eh, why not make another one? Hell, why not focus on his output, just for the fun of it?" Here's what I came up with, including output with the NPG between 1994-1999

1) Endorphinmachine
2) What's My Name
3) Dinner With Delores
4) Pretty Man
5) Acknowledge Me
6) Rock & Roll Is Alive! (And It Lives In Minneapolis)

7) Dolphin
8) Somebody's Somebody (Live Studio Mix)
9) Come On - credited to NPG
10) Strange But True
11) The Most Beautiful Girl in the World (Single Version)
12) Love Sign - featuring Nona Gaye
13) The One - credited to NPG

14) The Love We Make

15) Saviour

16) Into The Light/I Will - Both songs as one track because its my list and I can do whatever I want The songs work better together anyway.
17) Gold

And then the disc has a bunch of blank tracks until we get to a hidden track.

49) Wasted Kisses

Overall, I dunno, I think this would be a pretty good best of Prince for his days. There are a lot of songs I cut that I really didn't want to, stuff like Eye Hate U, Get Wild, Count the Days, Days of Wild, and Goodbye to name a few. I did kinda cheat with Wasted Kisses by making it a hidden track, but I thought it was fitting that the track sneak into the list the same way it snuck onto NPS.

1. When Doves Cry

2. Do Me Baby

3. When You were Mine

4. Uptown

5. I Wanna Be Your Lover

6. If I Was Your Girlfriend

7. We Can Funk

8. Anna Stesia

9. Kiss

10. Condition of the Heart

11. Purple Rain

12. Soul Sanctuary

13. Endorphinmachine

14. Little Red Corvette

15. The Question of you.

16. Count the Days

17. Shy

This was near impossible. So many great Prince songs to choose from. It would be easy to do separate lists for best 17 singles and best 17 album cuts.

1) Controversy

2) Computer Blue (hallway speech version)

3) Erotic City (extended remix)

4) Kiss (Extended version)

5) Anotherloverholenyohead (extended version)

6) Let's Work (extended version)

7) Irresitable Bitch

8) Automatic

9) When Doves Cry

10) Pop Life (special remix)

11) Paisley Park (extended version)

12) She's Always In My Hair (extended version)

13) Anna Stesia

14) Something in the Water Does Not Compute (1984 birthday rehearsal concert version)

15) Purple Rain

16) Neon Rendezvous (1984 birthday rehearsal concert version)

17) 17 Days

[Edited 5/21/16 1:19am]

When Doves Cry

Sign O the Times

If I was your girlfriend

Joy in repetition

The Question of U

Musicology

The One

Purple Rain

Let’s go Crazy

Gold

The ballad of Dorothy Parker

Sometimes it snows in April

Mountains

The Beautiful Ones

Controversy

Alphabet Street

Anna Stesia

1. Anotherloverholenyohead

2. D.M.S.R.

3. 1999

4. Anna Stesia

5. Pop Life (Extended US Version)

6. Purple Rain

7. Controversy

8. Erotic City (1984 Birthday Show Version)

9. The Most Beautiful Girl in the World

10. I Would Die 4 U (Extended Version)

11. Baby I'm A Star

12. Old Friends 4 Sale

13. Dead On It

14. Sign O The Times

15. Box of Chocolates

16. There'll Never B (Another Like Me)

17. Way Back Home

paraded said:

There's nothing any compilation can do to equal the sequencing of '1999-LRC-Delirious-Let's Pretend-DMSR...etc'

This is soooo true!!! Well said!!!

Scarfo said:

1) Controversy

2) Computer Blue (hallway speech version)

3) Erotic City (extended remix)

4) Kiss (Extended version)

5) Anotherloverholenyohead (extended version)

6) Let's Work (extended version)

7) Irresitable Bitch

8) Automatic

9) When Doves Cry

10) Pop Life (special remix)

11) Paisley Park (extended version)

12) She's Always In My Hair (extended version)

13) Anna Stesia

14) Something in the Water Does Not Compute (1984 birthday rehearsal concert version)

15) Purple Rain

16) Neon Rendezvous (1984 birthday rehearsal concert version)

17) 17 Days

[Edited 5/21/16 1:19am]

All of these lists are dope, but yours takes the cake, 15 minutes of Computer Blue, women are not butterflies and all of that, wow. You would need a big CD though, so I may cut the 4 minutes of guitar feedback at the end of.

She's always in my hair extended is really great too, and of course Annastesia, and 17 Days as the end jam. Wow inspired stuff. I mean I think a whole bunch of people would buy it, even though they have it all.

1. Crystal Ball

2. Erotic City

3. I Wanna Be Your Lover

4. Uptown

5. She Loves Me 4 Me

6. The Ballard Of Dorothy Parker

7. Black Sweat

8. Rockhard In A Funky Place

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

10. Pop Life

11. We Can Funk

12. Joy In Repetition

13. If I Was Your Girlfriend

14. Extralovable

15. Power Fantastic

16. Way Back Home

17. Adore

There's just too many to fit in a 17 songs max limit but this would be some of my picks:

Orgasm

Zannalee 1993 version

I'm Yours

Bambie

Sister Live 1988 tour version

Head

Annie Christian

Free

Purple Rain

Computer Blue long version

Let's Go Crazy

Temptation

Sign O the Times Live 1987 version

Bob George

Endorphinmachine

Dolphin

The Same December

If there were no legal issues, and with the 80 minutes constraint, the VBO should have looked like that in 2001 :

1. IWBYL

2. 1999

3. Little red corvette

4. When Doves cry

5. Let's go crazy

6. PURPLE RAIN

7. Raspberry Beret (exit I would die 4 U)

8. Kiss

9. SOTT

10. U got the look

11. Alphabet street

12. Batdance

13. Thieves in the temple

14. Cream

15 gett off

16. Diamonds and pearls

17.Money don't matter

18. TMBGITW

Adorecream said:

Scarfo said:

1) Controversy

2) Computer Blue (hallway speech version)

3) Erotic City (extended remix)

4) Kiss (Extended version)

5) Anotherloverholenyohead (extended version)

6) Let's Work (extended version)

7) Irresitable Bitch

8) Automatic

9) When Doves Cry

10) Pop Life (special remix)

11) Paisley Park (extended version)

12) She's Always In My Hair (extended version)

13) Anna Stesia

14) Something in the Water Does Not Compute (1984 birthday rehearsal concert version)

15) Purple Rain

16) Neon Rendezvous (1984 birthday rehearsal concert version)

17) 17 Days

[Edited 5/21/16 1:19am]

All of these lists are dope, but yours takes the cake, 15 minutes of Computer Blue, women are not butterflies and all of that, wow. You would need a big CD though, so I may cut the 4 minutes of guitar feedback at the end of.

She's always in my hair extended is really great too, and of course Annastesia, and 17 Days as the end jam. Wow inspired stuff. I mean I think a whole bunch of people would buy it, even though they have it all.

Aww thanx! These are the jamz I always played by Prince. These are the cutz that always kept me coming back 4 more. ^_^ Truth be told I wanted 2 add "Hide the Bone", but I just couldn't take any of these songs off my list to add it. lol. My hope is us the fans will get an box set with crisp and clear remastered versions of these jams. Sadly I don't know how long that will take with all the legal issues going on with the Prince estate.

[Edited 5/23/16 23:06pm]

1. Purple Music

2. Electric Chair

3. Wonderful Ass

4. Let's Work

5. Sometimes it Snows in April

6. Adore

7. Dirty Mind

8. Alphabet Street

9. Controversy

10. Sexy MF

11. Computer Blue

12. When Doves Cry

13. The Cross

14. Mountains

15. Extra Loveable

16. Black Sweat
17. The Ladder

These are my favs at the moment

[Edited 5/24/16 0:28am]

Something like this (chronologically):

1. Uptown
2. Lisa
3. Controversy
4. 1999
5. Something in the Water (Does Not Compute)
6. All the Critics Love U in New York
7. Moonbeam Levels
8. Chocolate
9. Computer Blue
10. Neon Telephone
11. Mountains
12. Crystal Ball
13. Sign o' the Times
14. The Cross
15. Anna Stesia
16. Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic
17. Peach

I'm not someone who only likes his stuff from 1980-1988, but that obviously is my favorite time period for him.

Jeez, I'm not sure I could ever attempt to answer this question, it would take days & the guilt over leaving out amazing songs would bother me too much