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Prince - The Hits 1 Audio CD

A fair review of the Prince "The Hits 1" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Prince reviews here, or go back to the Prince tabs.

Prince Band: Prince
Title: The Hits 1
Rating:
Release Date: 1993-09-14
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: When Doves Cry 2: Pop Life 3: Soft and Wet 4: I Feel for You 5: Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad? 6: When You Were Mine 7: Uptown 8: Let's Go Crazy 9: 1999 10: I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man 11: Nothing Compares 2 U 12: Adore 13: Pink Cashmere 14: Alphabet St. 15: Sign 'O' the Times 16: Thieves in the Temple 17: Diamonds and Pearls 18: 7

Prince Hits 1 & 2
I was very pleased with the condition and prompt delivery of my purchase! I would reccommend "Reima's Stuff" to everyone looking to purchase new and used cd's!.


THE LIGHTER SIDE
This cd has the lighter toned hits everybody can listen to , it doesn't have vulgarty in it , both cd's are great but this one is more family oriented.


The Hits/The B-Sides - 3 disc set
It had all the hits I wanted and some I'd forgotten about. Thanks to another reviewer's suggestion I checked out 'The Hits/The B-Sides' 3 disc set. I opted to just purchase the download version for $8. 99 instead of the packaged version for $35. 99. I usually like 'the packaging' but I got 55 or more songs for 8. 99!!! They'll be on my iPod soon and I'll be dancing around the house in no time!.


Good as a starting point but try to find the full versions!
This is a bit annoying, since for one you can't get the full scope of Prince's capabilities without the album takes on hand and for another, several songs are gutted. Bad news first - most these songs are included in single-edit format. I actually like the single edit of "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man" more than the full version - while that is a fantastic guitar solo, it doesn't fit with the song. I see it as a wonderful pop song foremost, and wonderful pop songs don't have three-minute guitar solos, even if they are as creative as that one, you know? One of my favorite Prince songs either way, if not my favorite period now that I think about it, I just happen to prefer the short version.
However, it's hard to get the full effect of many of these other songs without hearing them in full. I'm sorry, but you can't edit "When Does Cry". That is a crime against humanity, or at least against funk. Same with "Uptown". I'm sorry, but you just can't shorten "Uptown". I know the purpose was to make it all fit onto one disc, but you probably could've squeezed the album takes of those to onto there. Whatever, Dirty Mind and Purple Rain are two of Prince's best albums anyway, so that's just quibbling. A few other of my all-time Prince favorites were edited too - "Adore", "1999", "Sign o' the Times", "Diamonds and Pearls" - which is a little bit annoying but whatever.
That's the only complaint I have about this, though. Yes, several key hits are missing ("Little Red Corvette", "I Wanna Be Your Lover", "Purple Rain"), but that's only because they're on The Hits 2, which is an essential companion to this one. It's got all kinds of classics - the aforementioned several, "Let's Go Crazy", "Alphabet St. ", "When You Were Mine", "Soft and Wet", and so on. And there's not one bad song here.
Now time to discuss something else about Prince's music - the lyrics are not for the squeamish. Prince Rogers Nelson has ventured further into the alleys of sexual perversion and sexuality in general than any other successful artist. This doesn't bother me a bit, but it hacks a lot of people off, so be careful who you play it around. I'm pretty sure that if you bring it to a more Puritan type of party, you probably won't be invited back. Most Prince's more explicit material is contained on the second disc, but this thing's got a warning sticker on it for a good reason. Don't let that get in the way of the music, some of the funkiest, most eccentric, experimental, visionary music ever recorded. But let me warn you - Prince's lyrics are not for everybody.


Nothin can stop these tears from flowin
It's also great to hear his versions of his own songs originally recorded by others. Fantastic versions of Prince in his more funky element, spanning bands. .


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