I've heard a lot of unreleased material, live perfomances etc. However, these clips were never in an alphabetic order, no chronological order, no themed order. My first occasion was just finding a .rar site randomly which had the Yellow bootleg. The one with Open Book, Get Blue and the other tracks. I, of course, adored these recordings and starting to search by my own. Throughout the years, check out these obscurities, I heard Miami 85 soundcheck, Diamond & Pearls Beginnings and only a few more "concept" recordings. Never Moonbeam Levels, Empty Room, A Room With No Light, Big Tall Wall and other holy grails. YES, THAT INCLUDES SMALL SCLUB(!!!!!). I'm not the person who just wants to dive into something without any direction. I know your response "Well just go onto Youtube if you want to listen to Small Club". Nah, my experience is to put on my headphones and play recordings without any input from anyone. My brain will do that during each session. So which are the essentials? Of course I will find these on my own but I want guidance where to start at. And I want to start with some studio recordings. What I can gather is that The Work 4.0 or 5.0 is essential. What about The Work 1.0? These are questions I want answers to. If the moderator want to ban me for life, please don't. It's just that I might had the best outer body experience when I heard Prince's falsetto on Insatiabe on D&P Beginnings. I want that feeling and surprise again.

blast from the past all of em

city lights all of em

work it all of em

TrevorAyer said:

blast from the past all of em

city lights all of em

work it all of em

In what specific order? Blast From The Past 1.0 first? City Lights 1.0(?) after that. Or continue on Blast From The Past 2.0?

TrevorAyer said:

blast from the past all of em

city lights all of em

work it all of em Work It 2.0

30 Years of Unreleased Funk (3 volumes)

The Work (11 Volumes}

Blast From The Past (5 volumes)

For live recordings, there are so many I won't even start. Pick a period and find some you like.

Wolfie87 said:

TrevorAyer said:

blast from the past all of em

city lights all of em

work it all of em

In what specific order? Blast From The Past 1.0 first? City Lights 1.0(?) after that. Or continue on Blast From The Past 2.0?

city lights is live shows chronological and has a lot of decent soundboards so depending on the era you are most interested in

blast is a mish mash of outtakes .. i cant even remember what is on them but i remember a lot of them having some good stuff that was exciting at the time

work it is like 40 cds worth of outtakes ... it has a lot of everything altho there have been some upgrades since .. if you have the time ..

i would grab a blast or any city lights to start ... box o chocolates and the live 83 birthday show are all pretty great too