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What's Your Playlist for Prince Newbie's? After lots of time away from the catalog--I'm having an amazing time on Spotify digging in deep. My wife said to me--so, you're just going to be playing Prince all the time now, huh? Yep!
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This is sort of impossible to answer without knowing what other music the person listens to. We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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You are so right. I could have made a dance mix. A ballads mix. A rock mix. A funk mix. etc. etc. I tried to cover a lot of different bases in my mix. | |
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Soft and Wet Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad Let's Work Controversy D.M.S.R. Computer Blue Erotica City Pop Life The Ladder Mountains Strange Relationship Forever In My Life I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man Anna Stesia Electric Chair Scandalous Joy In Repetition Thieves in the Temple Money Don't Matter 2 Night It's a hurtful place, the world, in and of itself. We don't need to add to it. We all need one another. ~ PRN | |
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You can't make a playlist for newbie without the classics like 1999, LRC,WDC,Purple Rain,LGC,SOTT,Kiss,IWDFY,7 and Rasperry Beret. | |
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Bambi When You Were Mine Head Sexuality Let's Work Jack You Off Little Red Corvette Delirious Let's Pretend We're Married D.M.S.R. Lady Cab Driver Let's Go Crazy The Beautiful Ones Darling Nikki When Doves Cry Purple Rain Pop Life The Ladder Girls & Boys Kiss Anotherloverholenyohead All of the SOTT double Album Alphabet St. Anna Stesia When 2 R In Love Electric Chair New Power Generation The Question of U Joy In Repetition Thieves In The Temple Cream Money Don't Matter 2 Night Insatiable Live 4 Love I Wanna Melt With U Sweet Baby Damn U Horny Toad Feel U Up I Love U In Me She's Always In My Hair How Come You Don't Call Me Anymore Le Grind The entire Come album except for Loose and Orgasm Black MFs in the House Johnny The Good Life The Exodus Has Begun The entire The Gold Experience album except for TMBGIW, Dolphin and Gold Zannalee I Rock, Therefore I am Somebody's Somebody Joint 2 Joint The Holy River Friend, Lover, Sister Mother/Wife My Computer Cloreen Bacon Skin Day's of Wild The Ride Get Loose The Truth Don't Play Me 3rd Eye Mad Sex Wasted Kisses Baby Knows Prettyman Five Women When the Lights Go Down There Is Lonely Old Friends 4 Sale Sarah 1+1+1 is 3 Deconstruction Family Name
[Edited 2/17/17 20:42pm] "I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters," Donald Trump | |
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This is an awesome thread, thank you! As a newbie (< 1 yr ) I have not listened to 17 Days Tamborine New Position
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Thank you!!! I didn't know these existed:
Black MFs in the House Johnny The Good Life The Exodus Has Begun I Rock, Therefore I am Somebody's Somebody Joint 2 Joint My Computer Cloreen Bacon Skin The Ride Get Loose The Truth Don't Play Me Mad Sex Five Women When the Lights Go Down There Is Lonely Sarah Deconstruction Family Name
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I'ev always found it easier to turn folks on to Prince with his 80s output, then try to introduce them to his 90s/00s output. I've been burning and giving this CD away for years, almost exactly 1h20min... ------ She's Always in my Hair (Extended) Feel U Up (Extended) Irresistible Bitch Pop Life 17 Days When Doves Cry Strange Relationship How Come U Dont Call Me Anymore Kiss Susannah's Pajamas Girls and Boys Housequake The Beautiful Ones Shockadelica (Extended) Starfish and Coffee Rockhard in a Funky Place Make it so, Number One... | |
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Wow, I listened almost non-stop the first few months, it'll probabably take me a few years to catch up with some of you here I'll check out Susannah's Pajamas and Rockhard in a Funky Place Thank you!
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It completely depends whom you're making the playlist for. I would make entirely different playlists depending on different people's musical tastes... A COMPREHENSIVE PRINCE DISCOGRAPHY (work in progress ^^): https://sites.google.com/...scography/ |
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Soft and Wet Bambi Feel For You When You Were Mine Uptown/Head/Sister Do Me Baby Sexuality Something in the Water Lady Cab Driver Beautiful Ones Darling Nikki Condition of The Heart Paisley Park Sometimes It Snows Mountains ALL OF SOTT When 2 R In Love Positivity Electric Chair
Gives a good insight to the rocker/funkster/balladeer/prodigy that he was, without choosing big hits that the average person would know. Still discovering his 90s material so I can't have any say on that. | |
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Couldn't answer that as others have said it depends on what the person likes. I certainly wouldn't include any of the pop hits they've listened to a million times. And which do not not really touch on Prince as an artist. I would say to have them explore on their own. | |
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I call it ChangesOnePrince | |
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214 said: You can't make a playlist for newbie without the classics like 1999, LRC,WDC,Purple Rain,LGC,SOTT,Kiss,IWDFY,7 and Rasperry Beret. The OP asked for non-hits. It's a hurtful place, the world, in and of itself. We don't need to add to it. We all need one another. ~ PRN | |
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sonshine said: 214 said: You can't make a playlist for newbie without the classics like 1999, LRC,WDC,Purple Rain,LGC,SOTT,Kiss,IWDFY,7 and Rasperry Beret. The OP asked for non-hits. Oh yeah. He also asked "what's your playlist for Prince newbies". I wouldn't givea newbie non hits tbh | |
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Dear Mr. Man Underneath The Cream Sexmesexmenot Vavoom S & M Grove Daisy Chain Fury The Word Crimson And Clover (cover) Colonized Mind (ripoff) (There'll Never B) Another Like Me Dance 4 Me Valentina Breakfast Can Wait 1,000 O's & X's
Irrisistible Bitch Do Yourself a Favor Lust U Always We Can Funk (1983 version)
[Edited 2/18/17 14:54pm] "I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters," Donald Trump | |
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As others said, it depends on the person. I've put a few of my friends on to Prince. They knew almost nothing about him except Dave chapelle and Purple Rain (although my generation generally respects P as an American icon & legend regardless). What really resonated with my friends (who mostly fuck with contemp R&B and alternative hip hop) was P from the 90s. Light up a few spliffs and play Joy in Repetition, Money Don't Matter 2 Night, Days of Wild, maybe even a little bit of Bob George and Superfunky, 7, Sexy MF, Good Life, Space, The Flow, and of course some 80s gems like Something in the Water, 17 Days, and the original OF4S. "Wow bro I thought Prince had only guitar music and shit. His music's trippy!" Maybe  do, just not like did before  | |
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CharismaDove said: As others said, it depends on the person. I've put a few of my friends on to Prince. They knew almost nothing about him except Dave chapelle and Purple Rain (although my generation generally respects P as an American icon & legend regardless). What really resonated with my friends (who mostly fuck with contemp R&B and alternative hip hop) was P from the 90s. Light up a few spliffs and play Joy in Repetition, Money Don't Matter 2 Night, Days of Wild, maybe even a little bit of Bob George and Superfunky, 7, Sexy MF, Good Life, Space, The Flow, and of course some 80s gems like Something in the Water, 17 Days, and the original OF4S. "Wow bro I thought Prince had only guitar music and shit. His music's trippy!" Exactly. Prince is not one thing. Prince is so different in even in its own eras. I personally think these type of "lists" will turn people off to Prince than vice versa. And doubly so any list originating from prince.org. | |
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QueenofCardboard said:
Well.. I actually think if playlists are created and curated into the different types of music, that would be more effective and educational. I think if any artist needed curated lists is Prince. The Beatles have a lot of different curated lists on the different types of Beatles music, but Prince more than almost anyone, has some of the most far ranging sounds. From the soft jazzy stuff, the pop, the R&B, the funk, rock, psychedelic, ballads, the electronic, the acoustic, the experimental, live, the side acts, the music for others, the hodgepodge homogenous stuff, the quirky, on and on. I'm sure someone has already created curated lists like that on Spotify for him by now, so for a newbie, I think I would just say to them to just explore and let them know how vast his breadth as an artist is beforehand so they know what to expect and not pigeonhole him. Send them to the more stylistically curated lists than to simplify him into his pop hits. I think those top hits list only marginilizes him and turns a bigger audience away. [Edited 2/21/17 8:00am] | |
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Hey! I really appreciate what everyone has shared! There's definitely some overlap with my original list and some cool variations. Some deep songs! I look forward to the day when I can catch up with the post-1995 work which I don't know as well. So much more Prince to discover! (Both released and yet-to-be-released) | |
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Just give them 4ever or the Hits/B-sides. | |
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This could work in my case:
Chapter 1:
1. Crazy You 2. Bambi 3. When You Were Mine 4. Let's Work 5. D.M.S.R. 6. Conditions of the heart 7. I would DIe 4 U 8. Raspeberry barret 9. Mountains 10. If I was Your girlfriend 11. I could Never take a Place of your man 12. I wish U Heaven 13. Annastesia 14. Joy in Repetition 15. Daddy Pop
Chapter 2:
16. The Sacrifice Of Victor 17. Damn U 18. Come 19. In This Bad I Scream 20. Come on (remix) 21. Days of Wild 22. The Everlasting Now 23. Supercute 24. Call My 25.Black Sweat 26. U're Gonna C Me 27. Future Soul Song 28. This Could B Us 29. Stare 30. 1000 x's & o's | |
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As a bit of an addendum here this review of the re-release of ChangesoneBowie is worth a read.
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. Probably overwhelming for a new listener. | |
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