Hits & B-Sides - Prince

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by: Kathleen Johnson (USA)
on: Monday, 23-August-2010

What more can a music lover ask for! Youve got two albums with some of Princes most badass songs from the late 70s to mid 90s! I must confess I was never into Prince untill mid 2000s. I go through these fazes where I fall in love with an artist and listen to them over and over again. First it was the Spice Girls, then the king of pop, then Janet Jackson, and finally the sexy MF himself! Orince is definately a musical genious! Hes the most underrated guitarist on the planet. Just listen to that wild solo on Lets Go Crazy. The guy plays just about every instrument there! One of my definate favorites on this album has to be Thieves in the Temple. Diamonds and Pearls is one of the most beutiful slow songs Ive ever heard. When Doves Cry is actually abridged on this album which is very unfortunate. To hear the full version of When Doves cry you should get Purple Rain. I must be honest though I love the songs on this album, but I like the other one better because it has my favorites (Little Red Corvette FTW).

by: J. Gourdine (NJ)
on: Saturday, 21-August-2010

This boxed set has over 50 songs of Princes most classic, funked out music. This is hours of brilliance compilated into a few CDs. Not to mention the booklet enclosed giving an overview of his life. I dont need to write a whole bunch of pretty metaphors to capture how awesome this box set is. Like I said in my title, its what every Prince Fan has ever wanted...

by: Tim Brough (Springfield, PA United States)
on: Saturday, 26-December-2009

Prince is a genius. Not much to dispute here. And this three disc set, many of the songs on the third disc unavailable on CD elsewhere, is the best of his many anthologies. Covering his years at Warners (a company Prince now thoroughly despises), the 56 songs at a fairly bargain price is an excellent source of Princely funk.

Beginning with his earliest one-man band material, it is awe inspiring to see just how fast Prince went from being a generic funkster with a dirty mind (Soft and Wet, Uptown) to the audacious gender bender of colossal music like 1999 or When Doves Cry. The string of albums that ran from 1999 to Sign O the Times would have left Prince in the halls of giants, and theres plenty of other tracks around these albums to listen to.

A good percentage of the credit is due the The Revolution, Princes groundbreaking multi-cultural/sexual/instrumental coconspirators, who managed to whip up his ideas into ravaging mixtures of guitar rock, funk and new wave without being completely of one genre. Songs like the Hedrixian Purple Rain or pstychedelic swirl of Raspberry Beret cross over effortlessly (Warren Zevon even took a good crack at Raspberry) between styles. But he dismantled The Revolution over time, and while songs like Thieves In The Temple or 7 are brilliant, they dont have the electric verve of those earlier singles.

Be that as it may, Prince had long become a master-tunesmith by this point. Even his duff material (many of the b-sides on disc 3) has an indelible charm. This is the disc where you can find Another Lonely Christmas or Erotic City (a minor hit in its own right). The minor quibbles come on the basis of some edited single selections (When Doves Cry being a major violation), a non-chronological sequencing and the omission of some sizable hits (the #1 Batdance most notably). Still, this is the set to own, over both Ultimate Prince or The Very Best of Prince.

by: Gwendolyn Y. Hogg (Texarkana, TX)
on: Wednesday, 25-November-2009

This is surely for Prince fans. If the essence of Prince hasnt already been realized to you then you should really get this collection. Every Prince song you can name off the top of your head is on this collection! I like it, so get it

by: Donald P. Mattson Jr. (nv)
on: Sunday, 24-May-2009

I BOUGHT THIS 4 MY GIRL FOR HER BIRTHDAY SHE LOVE IT SHE HAD IT ONCE BEFORE BUT SHE LOSS IT SO I BOUGHT IT FOR HER BIRTHDAY ITS GOT EVERY SONG PRINCE HAS EVER DONE AND MORE I LOVE IT ALSO I BOUGHT BACK OLD MEMORIES I THINK EVER BODY NEEDS TO GET A COPY OF THIS CD.............!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

by: Martin Japan (Japan)
on: Sunday, 22-February-2009

Maybe not every track is for you - but I challenge ANYONE to not like at least on of the tracks on this.
Prince plays so many styles and genre throughout his career - and displays them here.
Excellent songwriting, musicianship.
This guy has lead the music industry up new path.
Just buy it.

by: Jeremy Gloff (Tampa, Fl United States)
on: Tuesday, 25-November-2008

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