I finally completed (with some help from some fellow orgers), my prince best of compilation. It's a 4 CD set, with a 5th extra CD of faves I couldn't let go of. I truly believe these 4 CD's represent my all time fave prince tunes, where i never have to skip over a single moment. I did limit this too official P releases (with the exception of Love Bizzare (hey, it's both p and shiela doing lead vox) and a live version of Shhh. Anyway, I'm done and let me know what ya'll think. The 5th CD is for the true fans and open for Change. Because of time restraints, they are all Hits/Single versions unless noted (WDC, Controversy, DMSR, etc)

1. Sign O’ The Times
2. Controversy (album version)
3. 1999
4. Darling Nicki
5. When Doves Cry (album Version)
6. Pop Life
7. My Name Is Prince
8. Money Don’t Matter 2 Night
9. U Got the Look
10. Let’s Go Crazy
11. Erotic City
12. Kiss (album version)
13. Nothing Compares 2 U
14. I Wanna Be Your Lover
15. Baby I’m a Star
16. Paisley Park
17. Pink Cashmiere

CD 2
1. Alphabet Street
2. DMSR (album version)
3. Purple Rain
4. 7
5. Take Me With U
6. Girls and Boys
7. Anestasia
8. America
9. The Beautiful Ones
10. Pussy Control
11. 17 Days
12. Cream
13. Diamonds and Pearls
14. 4 The Tears in Your Eyes
15. Another Lonely Christmass

CD 3
1. I Would Die 4 U
2. Rhasberry Beret
3. If I Was Your Girlfriend
4. Little Red Corvette
5. Circle of Amour
6. Get Off
7. Sexy MF
8. Do Me Baby
9. Thunder
10. Call My Name
11. I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man
12. The Ladder
13. I love U in Me
14. Girl
15. When 2 Are in Love
16. Crucial
17. MadSex

CD 4
1. Days of Wild
2. Gold
3. The Question of U
4. Shhh…(Live Version)
5. The Cross
6. Forever In My Life
7. Under The Cherry Moon
8. Sometimes It Snow in April
9. Love Bizzare (Edit)
10. Lovesign ( CB remix)
11. Joy in Repetition
12. Illusion, Coma, Pimp…
13. The Marrying Kind
14. If I was the man In your life
15. Tangerine
16. A million Days
17. Dear Mr. Man

CD 5
1. Around The World In a Day
2. Christopher Tracy’s Parade
3. New Position
4. I Wonder U
5. Sexuality
6. Bob George
7. Starfish and Coffee
8. Peach
9. Head
10. Free
11. Loose
12. The Most Beautiful Girl In the World
13. The One
14. 18 and Over
15. Joint 3 Joint
16. Face Down
17. Days ofWild (NPG Music Club Version)

Looks good. I'm thinking of doing something like this for a friend. It'll have to be in chronological order though, i'm personally not keen on compilations that skip backwards and forwards in time.

I'm going to do something like two singles off each album and a killer album track from the same album. It's not that easy when it comes down to it. There's alot that'll get missed.

LAProducer said:

The first song on CD 4 is Days of Wild (CB version)

you mean to say that in all the time you had to compile this you still couldn't learn how to spell "raspberry" (no "h") right?

Good compilation, by the way.

"yada yada yada"

accidental post twice edit
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"yad yada yada yada yada"

something went horribly wrong there edit

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mrdespues said:

Sorry, my mistake, if that's your biggest complaint, i guess the compilation must be good

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LAProducer said:

LAProducer:

Thats' my favorite version of Days of Wild also! Nice job on the compilation!

DiminutiveRocker

PurpleKnight said:

thanks for the feedback. i'm just not really into most of emancipation, i've tried and tried recently to get into it, but it doesn't do it for me + a lof of slow songs are represented here. As far as having the epic closers in the middle, it just felt right, i was very concerned with flow and order while making this compilation. I like bringing things down in the middle and then picking them back up.

My name is prince, i was considering cutting, but there was a point in time where i really liked that song, i know it's not a die hard fan fave, but it is up tempo, energetic, and represents a diff side of P, i was going for diversity.

I appreciate your feedback, and I must not have done too bad, cause again, your criticisims are minor

Great job! You've encouraged me to do the same thing. Some alterations I would make for my own best of collection:

1. I would arrange things chronologically, even if it wasn't the best flow for listening. Disc one would be his 70s stuff and early 80s. Disc 2 would be his commercial glory days in the early to mid 80s. Disc 3 would take his late 80s period (Lovesexy-ish) into the early 90s. Disc 4 would be mid 90s-today (I think I could fit it all on one disc).

2. My disc 5 would be a disc of Prince collaborations, covers, and songs made popular by other artists. Stuff like "A Love Bizarre," "Manic Monday," "Love, Thy Will Be Done," and so on.

Now I can't wait to start on this!!!

Keith/Kacey

I think I would ommit singles. I would do a disk only with stuff I haven't overheard and songs other people don't know.

LAProducer said:

who's this bitch?

I would suggest limiting a 4CD Best Of to 4 cds i.s.o. 5.

antoon said:

ok, just read your initial post. Please ignore my comment!

I take it you don't like The Rainbow Children?


What about The Chocolate Invasion?

Good compilation, though...I'd make it in chronological order.

I think this is great! Im sure it will influence a lot of people to do the same

"BOB George! - Aint that a bitch! Don't U know I will kill U know"- LOL

Does anyone know where I can get the Black Album on CD?

I'm not sure the flow works on these CDs.

I agree with go2theMax that some kind of chronolgy would be better

Tomorrow I'll post a compilation I received that broke it down like this:

78-83
84-88
89-01

The 4th volume picked up stuff that had been left off the previous ones, plus also covers of to 2003.

The actual tracklisting of the CDs was not chronological. I thought that was a nice way to do it, as you still have distinct eras but you can get the CDs to flow nicely.

The reason the 3rd CD covers such a long period in time is simple - the hits dried up in the 2nd half of the 90s, so any casual listener would just ignore a 4th CD with more recent stuff - best to suck them in with D&P, Cream, Beautiful Girl etc and then surprise with Tangerine, Last December, Endorphinmachine etc.

goat2004 said:

Hello, Goat2004!

I got the Black Album for a friend's birthday on Ebay - and got it for a pretty good price. The price all depends on how many are up for auction at the same time. But beware - there are lots of bad bootlegs out there - I actually encountered that first from a private seller on Amazon (his name for all of you reading is "bosscain") I specifically asked him if his Black Album was bootleg (he sold icheaper than the others) and he said "no" - and sure enough, it was! It was a super bad recording with two additional songs tagged on that only played out of one speaker! The upside - Amazon rocks! I worte them what happened and they refunded me in full!

Still missing She's Always In My Hair, The One and Morning Papers!! And no track from The Rainbow Children?? I'd include at least the title track to that and title track to Musicology!!

rainbowchild said:

I put the one on CD 5 "bonus CD", i Like it don't love it. I had title track to muicology, it certainly grew on me, but not sure it's a best of. I think i only like the song musicology cause i've herd it over and over. CD 5 is still a work in progress, 1-4 are truly my faves, shit, those CD's are full, all real close to 80 minutes

Thanks for your input

LAProducer said:

Musicology is an instant classic Prince track!! And it behooves you to include a track from Rainbow Children, preferably the title track!! Rainbow Children is only the best Prince album in years, you know...

I want to make genre specific compilations:

1. Ballads/Slow jams
2. Funk
3. Commercial/Pop
4. Middle of the Road

Any other thoughts????

P.S. Nice comp. man!

And My Name is Prince? Why?

I like My Name is Prince... what's everybody's problem with it?

Howdy, y'all.

I thought I'd share my Old School Prince Mixxx. Each has a bonus track, after some silence.

Volume I


Volume II


Volume III


I'm working on Volume IV, and contemplating a live one and a mixxx of his extended jams.

I'm forty years old... why do I spend so much time on this stuff? LOL

Peace!

CRACKA79 said:

I like it too!

I'm in the process of compiling a SINGLE DISC compilation of my all-time favourite Prince songs. It was difficult to narrow it down, but this is quite literally all of the Prince songs I couldn't live without. I've sequenced them in a really interesting way too. Let me know what you think...

Title: JOY IN REPETITION The Very Best of Prince

Musicology
If I Was Your Girlfriend
17 Days
When Doves Cry
Anna Stesia
The Holy River
Joy in Repetition
Kiss
Illusion, Coma, Pimp and Circumstance
Ripopgodazippa
Raspberry Beret
Christopher Tracy’s Parade
New Position
I Wonder U
Crystal Ball

Bear in mind it's not a career retrospective or a compilation of hits...it's somewhere in between. It's just a list of all my personal favourite commercially released tracks.

Additionally, I have already compiled a CD of all the Prince songs which I feel work rather well as sex music, they are either about sex or are great to have all aspects of sex to (in my personal experience)...shame that 70 odd minutes isn't long enough though...the CD calls for a repeat button...

Title: SEX WITH PRINCE

One Nite Alone
Curious Child
Dreaming About U
Soul Sanctuary
Ripopgodazippa
Little Red Corvette
Do Me, Baby
Pheromone
319
Kiss
New Position
I Wonder U
Erotic City
Lady Cab Driver
The Sensual Everafter

In this case these aren't my favourite songs (well, some of them are) just songs that work in the context, and which I do in fact LIKE...

I'm off to try it out...
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