Prince - The Very Best of Prince
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Artist: PrinceBrand: PRINCE
Edition: Music CD
Published: 2001
CD Release Date: 2001-07-31
Music Label: Rhino
Product features:
- PRINCE CREAM - THE BEST OF
- I Wanna Be Your Lover
- 1999
- Little Red Corvette
- When Doves Cry
- Let's Go Crazy
- Purple Rain
- I Would Die 4 U
- Raspberry Beret
- Kiss
- Sign 'O' The Times
- U Got The Look
- Alphabet St.
- Thieves In The Temple
- Gett Off
- Cream
- Diamonds And Pearls
- Money Don't Matter 2 Night
Music reviews of The Very Best of Prince
Music Review: AS GOOD AS ANY ONE-DISC PRINCE HITS COLLECTION CAN BE, EXCEPT...
Rating: 4 Stars
...On what planet was "Money Don't Matter Tonight" a bigger hit than "7"?!?!
This compilation does a great job of selecting the major most highlights of Prince's career, hitting on the biggest singles and best-known tracks from each album. Of course, it skips a few key tracks that a lot of us die-hard fans are sure to miss (although this album, or any album like it by any long-time hitmaker - Springsteen's single disc greatest hits anyone? - is hardly intended for die-hard fans), but this is a given, so it is no small feat that this album is able to sustain momentum to such a degree that one hardley misses some of the more glairing omissions (why has "Batdance," or any song from the "Batman Soundtrack" been left off every Prince hits album?).
The only thing that really strikes me as odd is the inclusion of "Money Don't Matter Tonight," a fine song, but hardley a monster hit like the rest culled here, and in no way better or more well known than "7," which, had the tune been included here, this single-disc compilation would have rather acurately represented all of Prince's biggest hits (imagine that on a "greatest hits" cd). Technical chart hits aside, "7" is hardley the only great Prince tune missing here, but it is the only one I really miss. This collection would feel so much more complete with it. There always seems to be one odd choice like this in every greatest hits package. Guess something has to keep us buying the other albums.
One could always go with "The Hits/B-Sides" compilation released nearly a decade earlier and including all these tunes plus most of the greats that are missing here, as well as B-Sides and other rarities, but the point of this release (other than making money for Warner Bros.) is to give a concise, fast-paced overview of Prince's biggest hits sans any bonuses or filler: essentially anything that doesn't get heavy radio rotation. That also means it is for the casual Prince fan who only wants the radio tunes. But it can also be for us big Prince fans who don't always want to sift through a whole collection of albums or the previous three-disc greatest hits (a compilation which is oddly arranged; not simply chronologicaly, but by song theme (there is a serious disc, a party disc, and the b-sides), which makes it hard to get from favorite song to favorite song when you need take out one disc and put in another - not exactly ideal for parties and the like)when we want a quick best of Prince fix.
For that, this is an album plays great all the way through. Sure I miss certain songs, but for what this is, it is a great collection.
Beware though; some of the songs are represented here by their "single edits" ("When Doves Cry" and "1999") are the most obvious), but these are the way they are played on radio so it doesn't sound too odd (I actually know people that are wierded out when they hear the album cut of these songs and they forget they don't end where they are used to hearing them end on the radio). What is odd though is there is about 5 minutes of time left on the cd (if the record companies use 80 minuters like the rest of us), so I don't know why they didn't leave all the songs in their original form (or include another one with the time left - hey, did I mention "7"?!). But this again all proves that this is a collection for people who write reviews here saying things like "Great CD. It has all the Prince songs you know and love; all you'll ever need; etc..."
That is hardly true, but this is an over-all great collection nonetheless and in terms of accomplishing its obvious goal its a winner.
Description of The Very Best of Prince
PRINCE CREAM - THE BEST OFTaken literally, this album's title is sure to cause endless arguments. Nothing from Dirty Mind, not a trace of the early anthem "Controversy," no "Erotic City"--no non-LP cuts at all, save some edited single versions--and a cold shoulder to the criminally out-of-print Gold Experience. Damn. As a compendium of 17 key A-sides from 1979 to 1992, however, The Very Best of Prince is (ahem) a quick-'n'-dirty review of the days when the Artist was, in the estimation of R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck, one of the weirdest musicians in the Top 10. Blessed with both creative cunning and the wish to reach every listener possible, Prince revitalized rock and soul modes from the sex-crazed ("Little Red Corvette") to the cryptically spiritual ("Purple Rain"). Often he blurred lines between attitudes as surely as he did musical ones; the New Testament image of "Thieves in the Temple" became in his hands a complaint about a stolen girlfriend. Though a fine party artifact, this disc is still likely to prove too scanty even for many casual Prince fans. --Rickey Wright
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