Prince - The Very Best of Prince (CD)

the very best of prince

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Jul 26, 2001 | 1 out of 1 found this The Very Best of Prince review helpful

A great way to attract new fams, a great way to attract new publicity, but a poor album for Prince fams who will have all these songs. A Special edition format would be ideal with never released before material, mixes or live material! This is what w...e really want! Read more Less

PRINCE

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Jun 11, 2006

Pros: nice tracklisting

Cons: the end of the CD is a bit strange

very good selections but 4 songs from diamonds and pearls? that makes no sense. Money don't matter 2night was the only necessary track from that album. there's practically nothing from sign o times. otherwise this is a good best of. but if u ...like prince go for the albums u won't be disappointed Read more Less

great

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Sep 12, 2003

these are some of the best hits so why wouldn't they be good? It's Prince!

Good....but there is better.

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Dec 2, 2002

This album must be great...I know that, even though I didnt buy it. I have the "The Hits/The B-Sides" 3 Cd set from Prince and it has his greatest works on it. This CD contains maybe 2-3 songs that aren't on the 3 cd set. But believe me...."The Hits/...The B-Sides" is WAY BETTER than this. And...a comment to those who use this review section instead of using much-needed anger management....Please lets just use this for strictly reviews. Your petty comments and accusations are filth. Some people dont like Prince, and some are big fans of most of his work but dislike some of his other stuff. Lets accept the fact that we are all different and this review is for opinions. Thanks! Read more Less

On and on and on and on...

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Aug 23, 2002

For those unfamiliar with this confrontation, see the listing for the Prince Black AlbumA "Mere" assistant office manager? I have a staff of seventeen working under my direct supervision. Be aware that I don't mean ordering office supplies here, but ...coordinating operations between nine other large departments within the orginization. At least I am making money rather than being a financial drain on my family or the government as you must be. And the ease at which I go about my job leaves plenty of time for Proust, Joseph Campbell and Sartre , as well as my own personal musical, literal and athletic pursuits. This is not a job I plan on toiling away at for the remaining 60 or so years of my life, to be assured.As for ABC, A-Ha, Tina Turner, and so forth being "transparent", I am not putting any forth as being particularly important in the grand scheme of things. Notable pop voices like Tina Turner's, and the late Billy Mackenzie, speak for themselves in terms of their importance, however, even if the music that accompanies them is not always equal to the task. Some music can be listened to on a more emotional than analytical level. The music of some of these "favorite" groups of mine is often formulaic, but at least it is their own respective formulae, ones they started and have followed for a time, rather than the plastic boy band / Madonna / Britney, tired R&B, or Seattle alt-rock sounds that are the main stylistic choices these days. Try actually listening to something (the whole album, not just the online sound samples) before you offer an opinion. I believe that is a reasonable expectation. In your case it is not, however. Your often crude choice of words, whatever the depth of your actual opinion or intelligence, show you in an unfavorable light. Speak in a civilized manner, and the responses will be in kind.As for the direct e-mail you sent, it is a privilege you have misused, and my Yahoo! page has been changed accordingly. The "Mr. Redneck" comment is uproarious; I am biracial (black and white), educated, live in the northern midwest of the US near the nation's third largest city, and have very liberal political alignments. Further from a redneck I could not be. Come to this country and travel through Georgia or Alabama or any other southern or plains state (and dye your skin so it is my shade of brown or darker), and maybe you will find the meaning of the word. Until then, just shut up on the subject of race or appearance. A white man such as yourself knows nothing of facing discrimination.How about revealing your own lofty (according to you) musical preferences? I have not had a good laugh since I read your new posting just now. Just because I don't list Miles Davis, John Coltrane, or Oliver Nelson among my favorites doesn't mean I am not quite familiar with their works. Unlike Julian Lennon, I am a child of professional musicians who DOES know something about music. Listening to a lot of music does not guarantee a deep knowledge of all music, but actually writing and getting paid to sing some songs (as I have in a couple of Chicago jazz clubs) shows more ability than just firing empty words from 'round Bavaria Vay, which seems to be all you are capable of. All this anger! I feel sorry for you, having no release other than this one message board. Get another hobby, or just get some sleep. And last time I checked, admitting nothing, being self-centered is not a crime (You are an example of that). Being an altruistic doer of good deeds is something I am fairly certain you could not be accused of. Look in a mirror, and then make your evaluations of others. My one small offhanded remark (which was, jokingly, "He's German, what do you expect?" - recall that I said nothing else that was derogatory) from nearly nine hundred days ago, and look at all the vitriol that has come, most of it from you. I would write more, but the laughter over the folly of this whole exchange has my sides a Read more Less

Don't Buy THis!!

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Dec 26, 2001

Warner Bros. are such a bunch of *ssholes for releasing this without Prince's permission!!.. don't buy this album and make them richer.. buy Prince's new album, THE RAINBOW CHILDREN and support the real deal!!

Decent

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Nov 21, 2001

I'm a true Prince fan and if you are too you know some of his best stuff wasn't out as singles. This is a decent collection of his songs so I do recommend it. I have every album that he ever made so there was no need for me to purchase it. I also sug...gest you get the collection with the b-sides cause even if you have all of his albums, these are the ones that didn't make it on albums.Enjoy this one Read more Less

question???

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Nov 7, 2001

Where are "7", "Delirious" and "Pop Life"?

Not like The Hits/The B-Sides

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Oct 27, 2001

He should've added a lot more songs. And I mean a lot. But he still has his talent.