The final results are in. After a very close last round with 27 votes (the final vote decided the winner of 2003!!!), these are the tracks that left us:

2001 - 1+1+1=3 - Rainbow Children wins!!!
2003 - Empty Room - East wins!!!

The final winners are:
1978 - Just As Long As We're Together
1979 - I Wanna Be Your Lover
1980 - Uptown
1981 - Controversy
1982 - Lady Cab Driver
1983 - Irresistible Bitch
1984 - The Beautiful Ones
1985 - Condition Of The Heart
1986 - Sometimes It Snows In April
1987 - If I Was Your Girlfriend
1988 - Anna Stesia
1989 - The Future
1990 - Joy In Repetition
1991 - Gett Off
1992 - 7
1993 - Power Fantastic
1994 - Rockhard In A Funky Place
1995 - P Control
1996 - The Love We Make
1997 - Don't Play Me
1998 - Crystal Ball
1999 - When The Lights Go Down
2000 - When Will We B Paid?
2001 - Rainbow Children
2002 - One Nite Alone...
2003 - East

Of these 26 tracks:

23 are from full-length albums
3 are b-sides/compilation tracks (Irresistible Bitch, Power Fantastic and When Will We B Paid?)

6 were singles
0 were #1 in any Top 40 (as far as I know)

4 were album title tracks
7 were the opening track of an album
3 were the closing track of an album

5 were known to be vault tracks from 4 or more years before release (Joy In Repetition, Power Fantastic, Rockhard In A Funky Place, Crystal Ball, When The Lights Go Down)

5 have never been played live (Just As Long As We're Together, Rockhard In A Funky Place, The Love We Make, Crystal Ball, East)
10 were played a few times at least on the One Nite Alone... tour

26 are available on CD
0 are download-only



I for one will be burning a double-CD set of this list - is there anyone who would like to make great-looking covers for this?

Thank you to everyone who has taken part and indulged me in this game. Thanks especially to Moonbeam whose Alphabet Soup game gave me the idea, and to Mutiny for taking over while I was on my honeymoon.

What's the next game? Who's starting it?

tho' it wuz months ago, i'm still miffed over '79..."sd" shoulda had it...

I think this is the longest contest the org has ever had!!

Didn't NPGMC have a similar contest? What were the results of that?

TRON said:

No, I started that at the same time, but finished it after 7 or 8 rounds - only 3 or 4 people voted each round. I think everyone was scared to vote off Prince's children on his own site...

booyah said:

Just As Long As We're Togethre was played in 1980. The song is circulating from march 6th, 1980.

booyah said:

oh. I bet the lists would've been a lot different had people participated.

Yeah, although there are a few I dont agree with-I will be making this compilation for my listening pleasure-thanks for getting all our opinions together and hope you had fun on ur honeymoon!

Thank you for running this, Booyah! It was a pleasure to participate, even if the last 2 rounds certainly didn't go as I wanted!

Damn - I just tried burning this - it only just doesn't fit on 2 CDs - the first disc is 79:59 (from Just As Long As We're Together to Gett Off), and the second disc is over 77 minutes (from 7 to East) - unfortunately my discs (which claim to be 80:00) are 79:57 long each...

Maybe I'll need to edit some silence off some of the tracks...

booyah said:

Did you do it with a computer? Make sure there isn't a 2 second pause between tracks.

Moonbeam said:

I'm more interested in how 'the future' sounds next to 'Joy in Repetition'.I can't imagine that segue going too well.

Fantastic job booyah!

langebleu said:

The bass on that is so funky- it's andre playing?

Thanks for all your effort, Booyah.

I still can't believe that The Rainbow Children beat 1+1+1=3.

Yeah, thnx Booyah! Lets Hope P. will read this. Can anyone forward this topic to him?

Maybe now we can start a contest where everyone has to vote for the best song (in stead of a negative vote).

dawn74 said:

I think that would be interesting - I think it might give different results for some years. I'm not sure I want to take it on, though - anyone else? dawn74?

booyah said:

Cool, thanks for the breakdown.
Now where are all the Org artistes?
Make with the "Org Jams of the Year" cover art!

ok, I burned it on an mp3 disc in the end - my discman plays mp3 CDs anyway.

I'm just reaching the end of the disc now (I'm on East), and what has struck my in listening to this is just how representative and varied the winners are. The piano of One Nite Alone... to the electronics of Lady Cab Driver, the rap of P Control to the falsetto of Power Fantastic, the guitar of Don't Play Me to the guitar of Joy In Repetition, the relaxation of When The Lights Go Down to the raw power of parts of East, the band atmosphere of Rainbow Children to the one man jam of I Wanna Be Your Lover...

Even if you don't agree with all the winners (and I don't) this is still an amazing, and very representative selection of Prince's variety and genius.

FYI: You can burn all 26 tracks on 2 regular discs. I cut out the 3 minute instrumental at the end of Rainbow Children. As a two disc set, it actually works well.

Disc 1: Just As Long As We're Together - Joy In Repetition
Disc 2: Gett Off - East
[This message was edited Sat Oct 11 8:07:57 PDT 2003 by floralelephants]

Now a certain person can get a life. lol.

2freaky4church1 said:

too right...

floralelephants said:

FunkMistress, whip my pale ass.