Loefie said:

Did buy it today. When I saw the packaging, I wanted to leave it where it was. But I finally grabbed it. Packaging is an insult IMHO. The "never seen before pictures" also an insult in some way. We know so many pictures of that session and that style too well. The booklet, track info and liner notes not quite close to anything special. Too pitty for a release like this, which is labelled to celebrate the life and art of Prince. That Hero, to me at least, should have deserved a great super-de-lux boxset, with a big book, pictures, name it. But hey, I'm still pleased...... Got an official released Moonbeam Levels now!!

Should of ordred a Jewel Case version from the Europe....I wasnt going to buy it as I hate Digipaks (Cardboard Cases)...but as i walked in to Sainsburys (UK) ...they had it in a hard plastic Jewel case so I bought it....looks far better than the flimsy Digipak.....I HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE DIGIPAKS!!!....they should be illegal!!...however my friend ordered it from amazon.uk and it came in a digipak...he was fumin when he saw my jewel case...so he went to sainsburys and got one

[Edited 12/8/16 4:00am]

TheEnglishGent said:

dance4me3121 said:

Was the track list really approved by Prince? If so I'm surprised he let "Head" be included [Edited 11/29/16 0:53am]

And the unedited Sexy MF. I strongly doubt that Prince approved this particular configuration.

He probably did approve this list...back in 1993 lol.

Could we possibly, for all that is Lovely, get the 12" version of 17 days!?

chaderico02895 said:

Could we possibly, for all that is Lovely, get the 12" version of 17 days!?

?!?

The 12" version is the same as the 7" version and can be found on The Hits / The B-Sides.

Unless of course you are talking about some unreleased extended version?
If so, I would like to know more as there is no mention of such at princevault.

doesnt WB have The Vault volume 2 and 3 ?????

luvsexy4all said:

doesnt WB have The Vault volume 2 and 3 ?????

Why do you keep asking questions that any intelligent person would understand that nobody on here knows?

bluegangsta said:

luvsexy4all said:

doesnt WB have The Vault volume 2 and 3 ?????

Why do you keep asking questions that any intelligent person would understand that nobody on here knows?

so u r intelligent and know EVERYONE on here?

luvsexy4all said:

bluegangsta said:

Why do you keep asking questions that any intelligent person would understand that nobody on here knows?

so u r intelligent and know EVERYONE on here?

I am certainly intelligent enough to spell.

it's helping to raise money to keep the doors of Paisley Park open and to contribute the close to 150,000 million dollar Estate tax. The songs are also enhanced.

[Edited 12/12/16 8:50am]

banishedones666 said:

Source : DrFunkenberry.com

NPG RECORDS & WARNER BROS. RECORDS ANNOUNCE TWO NEW PRINCE RELEASES, BOTH WITH PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED MUSIC FROM THE VAULT

GREATEST HITS COLLECTION PRINCE 4EVER ARRIVES ON NOVEMBER 22

REMASTERED, DELUXE VERSION OF PURPLE RAIN DUE IN EARLY 2017

October 21, 2016 (Burbank, CA) - Today, NPG Records and Warner Bros. Records announced two new Prince releases that will celebrate the iconic artist's music and introduce fans to previously unreleased material from his legendary vault. This will mark the first Prince recordings released since his passing on April 21^st of this year.

Released on November 22^nd in the U.S. and November 25^th around the world, Prince 4Ever will bring together 40 of Prince's best-loved songs, including the blockbuster hits "When Doves Cry," "Let's Go Crazy," "Kiss," "Little Red Corvette," "Purple Rain," "Raspberry Beret," "Sign O' The Times," "Alphabet Street," "Batdance," "Cream," and "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World."

Prince 4Ever includes "Moonbeam Levels" - a previously unreleased song originally recorded in 1982 during the 1999 sessions and later considered for the never released Rave Unto The Joy Fantastic album. Prince 4Ever will also arrive with a 12-page booklet of never-before-seen photos by acclaimed photographer Herb Ritts.

In addition, early next year will see the release of the much-anticipated remastered, deluxe version ofPurple Rain, plans for which were agreed with Prince before he passed away. The remaster of the classic Purple Rain will arrive with a second album of previously unreleased material. More details will be revealed closer to the release date.

The track-listing for Prince 4Ever is as follows:

1. 1999
2. Little Red Corvette
3. When Doves Cry
4. Let's Go Crazy
5. Raspberry Beret
6. I Wanna Be Your Lover
7. Soft and Wet
8. Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad
9. Uptown
10. When You Were Mine
11. Head
12. Gotta Stop (Messin' About)
13. Controversy
14. Let's Work
15. Delirious
16. I Would Die 4 U
17. Take Me With U
18. Paisley Park
19. Pop Life
20. Purple Rain
21. Kiss
22. Sign 'O' The Times
23. Alphabet Street
24. Batdance
25. Thieves In The Temple
26. Cream
27. Mountains
28. Girls & Boys
29. If I Was Your Girlfriend
30. U Got The Look
31. I Could Never Take The Place of Your Man
32. Glam Slam
33. Moonbeam Levels
34. Diamonds and Pearls
35. Gett Off
36. Sexy MF
37. My Name Is Prince
38. 7
39. Peach
40. Nothing Compares 2 U

Prince, 4Ever - No. 80 — Prince’s first posthumous release, the greatest-hits compilation 4Ever, debuts at No. 80 on the Billboard 200. The set marks the late icon’s (he died on April 21) 40th charting album. 4Ever sold 8,000 copies in the week ending Nov. 24, according to Nielsen Music, and earned 9,000 equivalent album units. The album was released off-cycle on Nov. 22 (instead of the normal Friday release of Nov. 18 or Nov. 25), so it arrives on the chart with only two days of sales and consumption activity.

The new 40-song set is especially notable in that it includes a previously unreleased track, “Moonbeam Levels.” The song was originally recorded in 1982 during sessions for the 1999 album.

The other 39 songs on 4Ever span 1978 to 1993 during his time with Warner Bros. Records -- from “Soft and Wet,” his first charting single, to “Nothing Compares 2 U” in 1993. Of Prince’s 30 top 40-charting hit songs on the Billboard Hot 100, 24 of them are represented on the 4Ever compilation. His only top 40 hits absent from the set are “Partyman,” “The Arms of Orion” (both from the Batman soundtrack), “Money Don’t Matter 2 Night,” “The Most Beautiful Girl in the World,” “LetItGo” and “I Hate U.”

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Interestingly, 4Ever sports the first appearance of Prince’s Hot 100 No. 1 hit “Batdance” on any of his hits compilations. Though he released a number of greatest-hits albums since “Batdance” led the list in 1989, the track was absent from all of those albums (including The Hits/The B-Sides, The Very Best of Prince andUltimate).

Since Prince died on April 21, his catalog of albums have sold 2.6 million in the U.S. Further, after his passing, his albums were so popular, that on the May 14-dated chart, he had a record 19 concurrently charting titles on the list.

I like Moonbeam Levels but I still have the old bootleg and I still think that one song is just not enough for me to get this "hits" collection. And all the rest are the same songs I already have and many of the songs are just the radio edits. Not full length. I'm looking foward to the Purple Rain Deluxe with the CD of unreleased songs. That will be something really special to honor Prince's talent for both the purple hippies and the curious.

Is there anything more annoying than fading out a song just as the guitar solo kicks in, when you know the original has plenty of time left on the clock? Or a much beloved song having the word "ass" censored while the next song is the (mercifully) uncensored version of Sexy MF?

Whoever put this collection together really didn't give much of a shit about the music.