Power Fantastic...conceived by Anji, mixed by BorisFishPaw.

01 Crystal Ball ... original version
02 Joy In Repitition ... original version
03 We Can Funk ... original version
04 A Love Bizarre
05 If I Was Your Girlfriend
06 Anna Stesia
07 Power Fantastic
08 The Beautiful Ones
09 Something In The Water (Does Not Compute)
10 Moonbeam Levels
11 I Wish U Heaven ... extended with pt 2
12 All The Critics Love U In New York



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[This message was edited Fri Apr 25 12:05:04 PDT 2003 by Anji]

INSTRUMENTALOVE

Osaka
Tokyo
SensualEverafter
Xosphere
God (inst)
The Rapture
Venus de Milo
Three
Eight
Fourteen
Gamillah
Xhalation
Xcogitate
Xotica
Xogenous
Deconstruction

Very nice. Nearly all of those are favorite Prince songs. What's your concept behind it?

Anji said:

workin on it



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[This message was edited Sat Apr 19 18:33:05 PDT 2003 by CalhounSq]

Nice thread... lemme think on this one.

LOVE IT! It's really unique, but it's got great, landmark songs.

Is this kinda like if you could only have one disc with all your faves on it, what would be included?

TRON said:

The album, Power Fanstastic, is a musical statement testifying to my favourite Prince songs, the ones I keep returning to. They're not necessarily considered his best but all these songs capture me. The sequence tells a story and the mood is hypnotic...

Crystal Ball depicts the haunting desire by Prince to make love, to connect with other souls, while all around bombs explode and hate advances on the right. Amidst the chaotic intro to Joy In Repitition, Prince frequents a club down up on 36th. Up on the mic repeating 2 words, over and over again, was this woman he had never noticed before. For everytime she said the words another one of his doubts were gone. Should he try to rap to her? He thinks so in We Can Funk and starts to play with her mind. He's scared, cuz though they just met there's this energy between them. In A Love Bizarre, Prince wonders if we all want the stuff that's found in our wildest dreams. That's what we are, we all want a love bizarre. Realising that he's been the only one following his own heart, Prince becomes painfully subdued and starts longing for what he doesn't have in If I Was Your Girlfriend. You can almost hear what silence looks like before the opening chords of Anna Stesia. Have you ever been so lonely that you felt like you were the only one in this world? Prince asks Jesus to save him. Late at night when the world's a sleepin', he's still frightened cuz the power's creepin', Power Fantastic is in his life. He's a little apprehensive even though what it is, is what he wants and needs. Still confused and hurt, Prince just has to ask her one more time, what's it gonna be? He realises The Beautiful Ones always smash the picture, always everytime. He's bitter now and can't hold back his desperate anger, you can hear it when he screams in Something In The Water (Does Not Compute) Prince decides to write it in a novel but he doesn't know where to begin. Moonbeam Levels is his fight for perfect love until it's perfect love he makes. When he's happy then his battle will be won. I Wish U Heaven is a beautiful reflection. Doubts of our conviction, follow where we go. And when the world's compassion ceases still I know. For your every touch I thank you so much. For your every kiss, I wish you love, I wish you heaven, I wish you heaven.

Why, you can play what you want to, All The Critics Love U In New York...

TRON said:

Yes. I wanted to know what everyone elses are, sequenced?

CalhounSq said:

I'm interested, Cal.

Moonbeam said:

Thanks, I like it too and luckily, Boris has mixed it with soul. I love the way he's mixed I Wish U Heaven's pt 2 (blue angel), following on from the album version, and then segued into All The Critics Love U In New York.

What's your essential selection sequenced, Moonie?

Anji said:

ah,mine up there is just my fave compilation 2 a specific style.

damn 2 get my fave trax sequenced i would need a month & a caffine drip 2 keep me awake!

Joshy84au said:

Try it, Joshy.

Sister
Oliver's House
Toy Box
Romance 1600
Girls & Boys
Alexa De Paris
An Honest Man [ From UTCM ]
Power Fantastic
Housequake
Forever In My Life (from Sign O' The Times Movie)
Mia Bocca
Bob George
2 Nigs United 4 West Compton
Thirteen
Fourteen
Fifteen
Escape
Scarlet Pussy [ Extended ]


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[This message was edited Sun Apr 20 9:17:32 PDT 2003 by VelvetSplash]

Not possible, sorry. You can't capture the breadth (sp?) and depth of his work on one disk. The tracklists some of you have posted are certainly nice collections, but they miss so much. . .

tackam said:

There's no gun to your head, just post a CDs worth of music that you are feeling right now, or think you will feel forever.

tackam said:

This is not about the breadth and depth of Prince's work. This is just your essential Prince selection sequenced, on one disc. If you don't think it's possible for you to do, that's cool.

Off the top of my head:

Joy In Repetition
Sexy Dancer
We Can Funk
Lovesexy
Computer Blue
Live For Love
Willing And Able
Days Of Wild(Crystal Ball version)
Dreamin' About U
Anotherloverholenyohead
17 Days
Condition of the Heart
Partyman(long video version)
Cindy C
Loose
All The Critics Love U In New York

It ain't deep. It may not be his best works. It is funky.
[This message was edited Sun Apr 20 10:24:46 PDT 2003 by stymie]

Amazing how no one considers When Doves Cry, Raspberry Beret or Purple Rain to be 'essential songs'.

Lammastide said:

You ready, Lammas?

WatchThemFall said:

Personally speaking, those are the songs that get folks into Prince, not the songs that keep them listening.

WatchThemFall said:

I considered all of them but they don't make my essential selection. I'm quite sure other people have them in theirs...

80 mins:
Sign O the times
The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker
It
How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore
Do it all night
Gotta broken heart again
Around the world in a day
condition of the heart
willing and able
pheremone
thieves in the temple
joy in repetiton
anna stesia
shes always in my hair
the ladder
the love we make
the beautiful ones

ooo damn its impossible

i want:
when doves cry
erotic city
wasted kisses
crystal ball
and quite a few others too

...still thinkin'

got it down to about 24 tracks,
just gotta trim off another 10 or so

Bambi
Head
Dirty Mind
Something in the water
Computer Blue
Darling Nikki
Tamborine
Newposition
Housequake
Anna Stesia
Joy in Repetition

and..

now i'm stuck!

Anji said:

I'll post something when I get them done, but there won't be just one :O OH NOOO There are too many essential songs. I need one for:

fast/funky
slow/sexy
somber/dark
joyful/spiritual
workout (similar to fast/funky probably, great songs to exercise to)
absolute favorites

It's gonna take me a while

NO WAY no how!!! ha ha...Anji...why U bring up ALL the tough
threads? this is gonna take time...ok..let me see-out the
top of my head...without putting these on one tape:

erotic city (long version)
shockadelica
the ride
power fantastic
lets pretend we're married
when we're dancing close and slow
old friends 4 sale
do yourself a favor (prince's version)
how come you don't call me anymore
17 days
sexy mf
private joy
the question of U
she's always in my hair
4 the tears in your eyes

these were picked for the sound and that they aren't quite
the songs most people would chose. i picked these without
putting them down on a tape and mixing them... i might have to rearrange these...MAnnn..what a tough thread.

anji,i like your choices. i gotta do some recording!!!

great thread Anji!

This is what I'm feeling right now:

1.When the Lights go down
2.The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker
3.Open Book
4.Extraordinary
5.Pearls B4 the Swine
6.Shy
7.Forever in my Life
8.Paisley Park
9.The Future
10.Darling Nikki
11.I could never take the place of your man
12.Sign o' the Times

The sequence sounds painful but I couldn't seem to make sense of it any other way.

I hope your selection includes the version of 'Power Fantastic' that incorporates the "missing" jazzy intro, Anji!

Before you ask, no, I haven't worked on a personalised disc just yet (but would love it if you sent me a copy of yours!)


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BorisFishpaw said:

Intrigued Boris. What's the shortlist so far?