Prince

Tracklist
Disc One
"Crystal Ball"* – 10:28 (recorded 1986)
"Dream Factory"* – 3:07 (recorded 1985)
"Acknowledge Me"* – 5:27 (recorded 1993)
"Ripopgodazippa" – 4:39 (recorded 1993)
"Love Sign" (Shock G's Silky Remix)‡ – 3:53 (recorded 1994)
"Hide the Bone" – 5:04 (recorded 1993)
"2morrow" – 4:14 (recorded 1995)
"So Dark"‡ – 5:14 (recorded 1994)
"Movie Star"* – 4:26 (recorded 1986)
"Tell Me How U Wanna B Done"‡ – 3:16 (recorded 1992)
Disc Two
"Interactive" – 3:04 (recorded 1993)
"Da Bang" – 3:20 (recorded 1995)
"Calhoun Square"* – 4:47 (recorded 1993)
"What's My Name" – 3:04 (recorded 1993)
"Crucial"* – 5:06 (recorded 1986)
"An Honest Man"* – 1:13 (recorded 1985)
"Sexual Suicide"* – 3:40 (recorded 1985)
"Cloreen Baconskin" – 15:37 (recorded 1983)
"Good Love"† – 4:55 (recorded 1986)
"Strays of the World" – 5:07 (recorded 1993)
Disc Three
"Days of Wild" (Live)* – 9:20 (recorded 1995)
"Last Heart"* – 3:01 (recorded 1986)
"Poom Poom" – 4:32 (recorded 1996)
"She Gave Her Angels" – 3:53 (recorded 1996)
"18 & Over"* – 5:58 (recorded 1994)
"The Ride" (Live)* – 5:14 (recorded 1995)
"Get Loose"‡ – 3:31 (recorded 1994)
"P Control"‡ – 6:00 (recorded 1995)
"Make Your Mama Happy" – 4:01 (recorded 1986)
"Goodbye" – 4:35 (recorded 1995)
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An American singer-songwriter, musician, multi-instrumentalist, and actor that produced 22 RIAA-platinum albums during his 40-year career, Prince may be known for one of many different things – his turn as “The Kid” in the iconic film/album/8 ½ minute ballad “Purple Rain”, being the writer behind the acclaimed anthem “Kiss,” rivaling Michael Jackson at the pinnacle of his career, being the inspiration behind censorship laws, or being the artist addressed as an unpronounceable symbol throughout the 1990s—but while many know of Prince, most don’t fully understand the impact his legacy left on this world.

Going by many aliases throughout his life, Prince Rogers Nelson was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on June 7, 1958 with his father’s (John L. Nelson) stage name as his own given one. Growing up, Prince suffered from serious epileptic seizures at a very young age, but he had wrote his first composition of many by age seven, and outside of his love for basketball, he wanted music to be his purpose in life. His tumultuous childhood, witnessing alcoholism and abuse, caused him to find refuge in neighbor André Cymone’s home in his teens, where the two competed in local band competitions, leading to Prince’s introduction to Morris Day alongside music with his cousin’s band 94 East, leading him to be courted by record labels and ultimately signed to Warner Bros. Records with complete creative control; at 19, his debut album, For You (1978) was released – Prince played all 19 instruments on the record.

Influenced by the likes of Miles Davis, Rick James, and James Brown, Prince desired to form a music dynasty and after the success of his next albums – the platinum-selling Prince (1979), the sexually-charged Dirty Mind (1980), and politically-motivated Controversy (1981) – he negotiated for the ability to form his own label and manage artists of his own. Prince’s trademark sexual/religious rhetoric within pop-and-dance, funk-rock sound gained him a following, but his opening slates for Rick James and The Rolling Stones were both negatively received and facing bankruptcy, the young artist began to reach for mainstream popularity. Cashing on the drug-influenced doomsday mania of the times, 1982’s 1999 easily achieved that mainstream appeal, landing him on MTV, music charts, and radio stations across the world.

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