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What's your Very Best Of Symbol? Unreleased "best of" mentioned in the One Nite Alone tour book. Source: http://www.princevault.co..._Of_Symbol
As-per the punny name it would've been an interesting release, compiling the best songs from the "symbol" era. Unfortunately it was left unreleased and I really want 2 imagine what a tracklist would've been like... The following are the obvious numbers: The Most Beautiful Girl In The World (EP Version) Pussy Control Eye Hate U Gold Betcha By Golly Wow The Holy River Somebody's Somebody Face Down The Greatest Romance Ever Sold
Newpower Soul content wouldn't make the cut in Prince's opinion cause it was issued as an NPG album, not an "Artist" album. Well-known album cuts could make the cut, including Love Sign and Dolphin but who knows. | |
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Great Question! My best of symbol album would consist of the following tracks: The Most Beautiful Girl in the world Letitgo Dark Dolphin I hate you Shhh Shy Gold Chaos in Disorder Dinner with Delores Into the Light/I will Had U She spoke to me Old friends for sale Extraordinary 5 women Somebody's Somebody White Mansion I can't make you love me** In this bed I scream Soul Sanctuary Emale Joint to Joint Human Body Facedown My Computer One of us** The love we make Days of Wild Don't play me Circle of Armour The other side of the pillow Comeback The greatest Romance that ever been sold Man O' War Eye love u but I don't trust you anymore Beautiful Strange Silly Game Come On The One | |
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Unfortunately, since Prince changed his name back for ‘The Rainbow Children’ the scope of credited material isn't very broad. Having said that here’s my attempt...
01) Jam Of The Year 02) Interactive 03) Acknowledge Me 04) The Most Beautiful Girl In The World 05) The Greatest Romance Ever Sold 06) Sleep Around 07) Love Sign 08) Days Of Wild 09) Cybersingle 10) Right Back Here In My Arms 11) Somebody's Somebody 12) U're Still The One 13) In This I Scream
01) Don't Play Me 02) Hot Wit U (Nasty Girl Remix) 03) Man'O'War (Remix) 04) Emale 05) Joint 2 Joint 06) Baby Knows 07) I Hate U 08) My Computer 09) One Song 10) The Truth 11) The Holy River 12) Gold 13) Welcome 2 The Dawn
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That's cool - now cut it down to one CD of 12 tracks. | |
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I love how it's not enough material on one hand but two-discs worth on the other. | |
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Space Loose Dolphin Billy Jack Bitch I Like It There Dinner With Delores Jam of the Year Right Back Here In My Arms Face Down Sleep Around Crystal Ball Acknowledge Me The Truth Dionne The Rest of my Life 5 Women Strange But True Wherever U Go, Whatever U Do | |
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1993 - 2000 Letitgo Pheremone Come Shy Dinner With Delores White Mansion My Computer Sleep Around The Most Beautiful Girl In The World thats it for me...i always felt like this was the 1 period where my interest in his music started to fade...especially since i was so heavily into hiphop...it seemed like the albums in that period had more filler than any other time in his career...Chaos & Disorder was just as the name implies ...IMO his worst lp ever...1 good song, Dinner With Delores... Gold Experience had two or 3 good songs and a bunch of silly segues and filler...Emancipation had way too many mediocre songs... i can barely name the rest of his late 90s stuff.. he picked up steam again with The Rainbow Children/N.E.W.S./The Chocolate Invasion/The Slaughterhouse run he went on in the early 2000s | |
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1. Letitgo 2. Space 3. TMBGITW 4. Lovesign 5. Gold 6. Eye Hate U 7. Dinner With Delores 8. The Same December 9. Betcha By Golly Wow 10. Face Down 11. The Holy River 12. Somebody's Somebody 13. Come On 14. The One 15. The Greatest Romance Ever Sold 16. Hot Wit U (Nasty Girl Remix) | |
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WhisperingDandelions said: I love how it's not enough material on one hand but two-discs worth on the other. Hi Whisper. In my defence I didn't say there wasn't enough. I said the range wasn't very broad. If you were to ask me to make a 'best of' his Warner Bros era albums it would represent a larger cross section of his career. | |
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I'm not sure why so many people are using Come material when that was officially the "last" Prince (not symbol) album until he changed back. | |
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so 9 discs then? I'm just saying, in accordance with the prompt, the Very Best Of.... you kind of gotta edit down at a certain point. I've never seen one of those particularly labeled comps go over one disc... | |
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MattyJam said: 1. Letitgo 2. Space 3. TMBGITW 4. Lovesign 5. Gold 6. Eye Hate U 7. Dinner With Delores 8. The Same December 9. Betcha By Golly Wow 10. Face Down 11. The Holy River 12. Somebody's Somebody 13. Come On 14. The One 15. The Greatest Romance Ever Sold 16. Hot Wit U (Nasty Girl Remix) I'd go for something like this but take out the 2 Prince tracks (Letitgo and Space) and replace them with Days Of Wild and Acknowledge Me. . Days Of Wild would be the opener and Gold the closer | |
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I suppose because it's a post-Hits/B-sides album and was recorded at the same time as the Gold Experience. The difference is pretty artificial. | |
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Isn't the difference between all "Symbol" vs. "Prince" music pretty artificial, though? There's still a set of parameters, arbitrary as they may be... [Edited 3/27/20 10:58am] | |
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Is When The Lights Go Down considered Symbol or Prince? Not sure...but its become on of my fave songs of the era. | |
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Prince produced Symbol on Rave so I really don't think that should count either. We all know Prince micromanaged anything he produced, however a domineering an artistic force Symbol might have been. [Edited 3/27/20 14:32pm] | |
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What about content from The Vault: Old Friends 4 Sale (1996/1999, released under the Prince name)? | |
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I saw some New Power Soul trax on some lists as well... pretty sure that was the Artist Formerly Known as Tora Tora, not Symbol and definitely not Prince. | |
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WhisperingDandelions said: I saw some New Power Soul trax on some lists as well... pretty sure that was the Artist Formerly Known as Tora Tora, not Symbol and definitely not Prince. Of course NPS was an NPG album but he was Symbol at the time. And was on the cover and in the videos, undisguised unlike Exodus | |
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Yes of course, I suppose the other bit of my thinking is that the Come material is already left off all the Prince best ofs so far and tracks would end up unfairly orphaned. Also, while we're complicating matters, lets not forget Newpower Soul a) has the Symbol on the cover as himself's tattoo, b) has a big picture of Prince and only Prince on the cover and c) had those promo posters and cds for the album which made it very clear who it was by. Hey, it's an NPG release "officially" for sure, but any best of Symbol that doesn't have The One on it isn't a best of Symbol in my book. [Edited 3/31/20 15:17pm] | |
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1. Gold 2. I Hate U 3. TMBGITW 4. Come (edit) 5. Letitgo 6. Chaos And Disorder 7. Dinner With Delores 8. Jam Of The Year 9. The Holy River 10. Face Down 11. Joint 2 Joint 12. Somebnody's Somebody 13. Come On 14. The One 15. Greatest Romance 16. So Far So Pleased 17. Man O' War 18. Hot With You | |
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There as an advert that once said "The Artist - Brand New Album", are you referring to that? | |
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Am I referring to the advert i'm linking to? Yes I suppose I am. | |
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Good one! NPG Radio:
https://open.spotify.com/...63VlWY6m1A | |
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bUt It'S nOt LoW-pItChEd!!! | |
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