1. Parade (all of the obvious reasons).

2. Dirty Mind (it's a great album and I'm curious about possible unknown outtakes).

3. Controversy (same reasons as Dirty Mind... in fact, these two could go in either order).

4. Around the World in a Day.

5. For You (I'm not big fan of this album, but I nevertheless would love a SDE because I want all of his albums to get that treatment).

EDIT: @ExTAFKASoladeo1, I just realized my list is basically identical to yours, with the same rationales, except I flipped Parade and Dirty Mind.

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1) Dirty Mind (it is my second favorite Prince album and I'd like to finally hear more of this project)

2) Controversy (maybe they could do something with the 'Second Coming' footage)

3) Parade

4) For You

5) ATWIAD

01 - Parade

02 - Around The World In A Day

03 - Dirty Mind

04 - Controversy

05 - For You

1 - 99 bloody mouth

1.Parade

2.Around the World in a Day

3.Dirty mind

4.Controversy

5.For you

1) Parade - I prefer ATWIAD as an album, but Parade had a tour, and from all accounts loads of unreleased songs, so we should get a great live disc, and 2 CDs of studio stuff. Also finally the chance to get the extended version of Anotherloverholenyhead which I've never been able to track down.

2) ATWIAD - Fine album, and be nice to get the extended versions of Paisley Park and America on CD.

3) For You - Love the album, and curious to see what else he was working on. Love funky Prince and would imagine there would be loads of that in the archive for these sessions.

First, no complaints b/c the Estate has done a fine job thus far....fine b/c they have released great sets every year and the sets themselves have been so well put together. The care they put into the remasters, the W2A Blu Ray ....superb. the Purple Rain Deluxe was the only 'poor' set and I believe they acknoledged that by not calling it 'Super' only 'Deluxe'.

I think there are some albums that are held together by a sound, a band or something that allows them to be linked. Having said all that, i do not believe the Estate, even at the pace they are going at, will be able to get to all his albums (even if limited to his most 'critical' albums) in the time left for us fans to appreciate and buy...I think they have to consider multi album sets.

What comes to mind immediately is a "The BLack Album / Lovesexy' set where the story of good, then bad can be told. Remaster them... throw in a disc or two of vault material AND then get into the live stuff...video and audio.

They could do a Diamonds and Pearls / set as well...the sounds was similar....

I actually believe they could do For You/Prince too.

The main idea is, get the remasters/sets out faster b/c he just has TOO MUCH music to get through. They don't have 25 years to do this...they really have to make good use of the next 5-10.

1. Parade
2. Parade
3. Parade
4. Parade
5. Parade

1. Parade

2. Around the World in a Day

3. For You

4. Controversy

5. Dirty Mind

1. Around the World in A Day

2. Parade

3. Controversy

4. Dirty Mind

5. For You

Parade

Controversy

Around The World In A Day

Dirty Mind

For You

Why these 5?

"Prince" outsold "For You" by a wide margin but is missing from the 5. It is from the era that all these 5 are from (once again just the early era).

Where are D&P, Symbol, Lovesexy, Batman, Musicology, 3121, Emancipation, TGE, Graffiti Bridge and Come which also all outsold "For You"? Whichever is selected must be commerially viable - the chances of a full set with every album getting the SDE treatment is slim. They have to aim for the big, popular and better known albums. Beyond that perhaps they could aim for sets based on periods of time rather than by specific albums.

nayroo2002 said:

The Elder meets The Revolution.

IanRG said:

JoeyCococo said:

What comes to mind immediately is a "The BLack Album / Lovesexy' set where the story of good, then bad can be told. Remaster them... throw in a disc or two of vault material AND then get into the live stuff...video and audio.

I would love something like this.

IanRG said:

Why these 5?

"Prince" outsold "For You" by a wide margin but is missing from the 5. It is from the era that all these 5 are from (once again just the early era).

Where are D&P, Symbol, Lovesexy, Batman, Musicology, 3121, Emancipation, TGE, Graffiti Bridge and Come which also all outsold "For You"? Whichever is selected must be commerially viable - the chances of a full set with every album getting the SDE treatment is slim. They have to aim for the big, popular and better known albums. Beyond that perhaps they could aim for sets based on periods of time rather than by specific albums.

I was also going to ask why For You was included but not Prince. Prince had one modest hit (I Wanna Be Your Lover), another modest hit covered by Chaka Khan (I Feel For You), and landed Prince an appearance on the popular TV show American Bandstand. Surely it's more well known than For You. It probably has a wider variety of outtakes too, if you include the Rebels sessions.

SoulAlive said:

JoeyCococo said:

What comes to mind immediately is a "The BLack Album / Lovesexy' set where the story of good, then bad can be told. Remaster them... throw in a disc or two of vault material AND then get into the live stuff...video and audio.

I would love something like this.

Yeah, me too.