I would have started with the singles and promos/promo videos for the anthology:

.

Eye hate U

Gold

P Control

Dolphin

Endorphinmachine

.

Dinner With Dolores

The Same December

I Like It There

.

Betcha By Golly, Wow!

The Holy River

Somebody's Somebody

Face Down

.

The Truth

.

The Greatest Romance Ever Sold

Baby Knows

Man'O'War

Hot Wit' U

.

U Make My Sun Shine

Supercute

Peace

The Daisy Chain

.

The Work Part 1

She Loves Me 4 Me

Last December

.

North

.

Musicology

Cinnamon Girl

Call My Name

.

Te Amo Corazon

Black Sweat

Fury

.

Guitar

Chelsea Rodgers

Future Baby Mama

The One U Wanna C

Somewhere Here On Earth

.

Crimson & Clover

.

Chocolate Box

Dance 4 Me

U're Gonna C Me

.

Not only those because some albums aren't represented, and not necessarily all of those either, but that would have been more respectful of how Prince felt his albums should be marketed.

I think it is a good Antology. Not perfect, but good for casual people to discover this era.

I fear there are legal problems for TMBGITW.

I wonder what the deal is with TMBGITW...

Original single release said (p) NPG Records.

TGE, with a slightly remixed version of it, said (p) Warner Bros.

Apparently, and I must admit I was wrong about that for many years, apologies to those I contradicted on that topic, TGE (as well, apparently, as C&D but, strangely, not TVOF4S?!), reverted to NPG Records at some point in the mid to late 90's, but... TMBGITW seems to be in limbo between WB and the Estate?

Could it be that the single version's rights were to revert to WB after some time, or that while WB allowed Prince to release it it was in fact, as with all material recorded during the WB years, something Prince couldn't rerelease without WB, with the (p) indicia being wrong? That could explain why TGE is now NPG while TMBGITW is WB?

I also wonder if WB is to maintain exclusivity on the 4 OST's until the end of time or only for a longer time than the rest.

No Gold Experience? One of his best albums is not listed?

MIRvmn said:

Anthology is now on Google play and all albums from 1995 - 2010 except TGE [Edited 8/16/18 17:55pm]

I think the anthology list leaves out a lot of his better songs for some of his lesser ones. And I couldn't figure out the rhyme or reason for song inclusion. Its is also very very low on the Truth songs. But is its not too bad.

[Edited 8/17/18 3:40am]

databank said:

I would have started with the singles and promos/promo videos for the anthology:

.

Eye hate U

Gold

P Control

Dolphin

Endorphinmachine

.

Dinner With Dolores

The Same December

I Like It There

.

Betcha By Golly, Wow!

The Holy River

Somebody's Somebody

Face Down

.

The Truth

.

The Greatest Romance Ever Sold

Baby Knows

Man'O'War

Hot Wit' U

.

U Make My Sun Shine

Supercute

Peace

The Daisy Chain

.

The Work Part 1

She Loves Me 4 Me

Last December

.

North

.

Musicology

Cinnamon Girl

Call My Name

.

Te Amo Corazon

Black Sweat

Fury

.

Guitar

Chelsea Rodgers

Future Baby Mama

The One U Wanna C

Somewhere Here On Earth

.

Crimson & Clover

.

Chocolate Box

Dance 4 Me

U're Gonna C Me

.

Not only those because some albums aren't represented, and not necessarily all of those either, but that would have been more respectful of how Prince felt his albums should be marketed.

This is more like it. I'd change a few things but way better than this 'official compilation'

databank said:

I wonder what the deal is with TMBGITW...

I think it could be related to the italian plagiarism for "Takin' me to paradise".

Ridiculously bad compilation. And it's not neccessarily the song-choices (although I would question some of them) – it's the sequencing that is really bad. No flow to it at all. People often forget these days that part of an album mastering process traditionally is actually creating a sequence that flows, that is going from somewhere to somewhere. There should be a dramaturgy of some sort, there should be musical variety, taking into consideration not just the tempo but the key of songs too, the dynamic range should be set consistently etc, etc...
.
This is just a bag of tracks randomly thrown in with a remarkable lack of professionalism.

.

(A good example of a nicely sequenced anthology is Pink Floyd's 'Echoes', btw.)

fabriziovenerandi said:

databank said:

I wonder what the deal is with TMBGITW...

I think it could be related to the italian plagiarism for "Takin' me to paradise".

I think the Italian court's ruling is only valid in Italy, at least that's what the Billboard article seemed to suggest at the time. IDK about the rest of the EU but I don't think it can possibly affect the whole world, including the US.

That would be insane if the song was banned worldwide just because of this, wouldn't it?

RODSERLING said:

Very Bad anthology ! The best asset of this deal, TMBGITW not available, TGE not available on I tunes... . TMBGITW was also deleted from youtube. Really too Bad. . Very Bad job, as usual, from the estate. . Good news is that Prince streaming numbers are gonna explose for his whole catalogue. . It would have been so much better commercially with TMBGITW...The anthology Will be able to chart. . I was positive about this Streaming deal, and thought that à greatest Hits would be the best Idea to highlight Prince ' job from this era. . But the tracklist is complètely WTF and not appealing at all for new listeners.

I don't necessarily disagree but have you always typed like Trump tweets or did I just never notice it before?

SkipperLove said:

No Gold Experience? One of his best albums is not listed?

MIRvmn said:

Anthology is now on Google play and all albums from 1995 - 2010 except TGE [Edited 8/16/18 17:55pm]

The Gold Experience is on Spotify and Apple Music and probably Google play if people look properly. It's there, it just missing TMBGITW.

[Edited 8/17/18 4:57am]

jaawwnn said:

RODSERLING said:

Very Bad anthology ! The best asset of this deal, TMBGITW not available, TGE not available on I tunes... . TMBGITW was also deleted from youtube. Really too Bad. . Very Bad job, as usual, from the estate. . Good news is that Prince streaming numbers are gonna explose for his whole catalogue. . It would have been so much better commercially with TMBGITW...The anthology Will be able to chart. . I was positive about this Streaming deal, and thought that à greatest Hits would be the best Idea to highlight Prince ' job from this era. . But the tracklist is complètely WTF and not appealing at all for new listeners.

I don't necessarily disagree but have you always typed like Trump tweets or did I just never notice it before?

The Gold Experience is on Spotify and Apple Music and probably Google play if people look properly. It's there, it just missing TMBGITW.

Why is it missing TMBGITW?

[Edited 8/17/18 5:57am]

stesa said:

so what's missing now?

For studio albums, I don't see the Black Album

I also don't see Kamasutra, Newpower Soul, Exodus or Goldnigga.

And girl 6 soundtrack (which has 2 otherwise unlreased tracks) and many of the maxi singles are stilll missing.

As are many video releases.

And it's really strange that TMBGITW is missing on the Gold Experience.

This is looking on Apple Music and iTunes Movies for the videos.

But this is certainly a good step in the right direction.

databank said:

the credits on iTunes say Released August 17, 2018

2018 NPG Records, Inc

Manufactured and Distributed by Leagacy Recordings

Also, Chaos and Disorder has the e mark for explicit, but P Control doesn't

[Edited 8/17/18 6:04am]

alandail said:

Hmm. I give this tracklist a B- There are some songs missing and some curious choices. We March? Also the Sequencing is horrible. That said, it's great that these albums are now accessible to all.

[Edited 8/17/18 6:30am]

rogifan said:

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databank said:

dustoff said:

Tracklist:

1. Emancipation

2. Black Sweat

3. P. Control

4. Crucial

5. The Love We Make

6. Eye Hate U

7. The Greatest Romance Ever Sold

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

9. Gold

10. Guitar

11. Dream Factory

12. The Work Pt. 1

13. Call My Name

14. Strays of the World

15. Shhh

16. Dreamer

17. Chaos and Disorder

18. Endorphinmachine

19. Musicology

20. Northside

21. When Eye Lay My Hands on U

22. Beautiful Strange

23. Future Soul Song

24. Empty Room (Live)

25. 3rd Eye

26. U're Gonna C Me

27. Dinner with Delores

28. Ol' Skool Company

29. 4ever

30. West

31. Xpedition

32. Muse 2 the Pharaoh

33. Somewhere Here on Earth

34. U Make My Sun Shine

35. 1+1+1 is 3

36. Chelsea Rogers

37. We March

WTFuck is this?!? All I see is a random playlist, not a proper "anthology".

jaawwnn said: