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| Artist : Prince |
| Album : Ultimate (Advance) |
| Bitrate : VBR kbps |
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| Label : Warner Bros |
| Year : 2006 |
| Genre : R&B |
| Rip date : Mar-16-2006 |
| Store date : Apr-18-2006 |
| Size : 244,6 MB |
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|Track Listing: |
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| CD1 |
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| 01 - I Wanna Be Your Lover 02:59 |
| 02 - Uptown 04:12 |
| 03 - Controversy 07:17 |
| 04 - 1999 03:39 |
| 05 - Delerious 02:41 |
| 06 - When Doves Cry 03:51 |
| 07 - I Would Die 4 U 02:59 |
| 08 - Purple Rain 08:43 |
| 09 - Sign O The Times 03:42 |
| 10 - I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man 03:41 |
| 11 - Alphabet St. 05:40 |
| 12 - Diamonds And Pearls 04:21 |
| 13 - Gett Off 04:33 |
| 14 - Money Don't Matter Tonight 04:48 |
| 15 - 7 05:11 |
| 16 - Nothing Compares 2 U 05:05 |
| 17 - My Name Is Prince 04:04 |
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| CD2 |
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| 01 - Let's Go crazy (Special Dance Mix) 07:37 |
| 02 - Little Red Corvette (Dance Remix) 08:27 |
| 03 - Let's Work (Dance Remix) 08:05 |
| 04 - Pop Life (Fresh Dance Mix) 06:19 |
| 05 - She's Always In My Hair (12" Version) 06:32 |
| 06 - Raspberry Beret (12" Version) 06:36 |
| 07 - Kiss (Extended Version) 07:16 |
| 08 - U Got The Look (Long Look) 06:44 |
| 09 - Hot Thing (Extended Remix) 08:33 |
| 10 - Thieves In The Temple (Remix) 08:08 |
| 11 - Cream (N.P.G. Mix) 04:52 |
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| cd1: 77:26 cd2: 79:09 |
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| This was going to be released on March 28th but it is being bumped due |
| to 3121. It's now due in April. Enjoy! |
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| Few artists have created a body of work as rich and varied as Prince. |
| During the '80s, he emerged as one of the most singular talents of the |
| rock & roll era, capable of seamlessly tying together pop, funk, folk, |
| and rock. Not only did he release a series of groundbreaking albums, he |
| toured frequently, produced albums and wrote songs for many other |
| artists, and recorded hundreds of songs that still lie unreleased in his |
| vaults. With each album he has released, Prince has shown remarkable |
| stylistic growth and musical diversity, constantly experimenting with |
| different sounds, textures, and genres. Occasionally, his music can be |
| maddeningly inconsistent because of this eclecticism, but his |
| experiments frequently succeed; no other contemporary artist can blend |
| so many diverse styles into a cohesive whole. |
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| Prince's first two albums were solid, if unremarkable, late-'70s |
| funk-pop. With 1980's Dirty Mind, he recorded his first masterpiece, a |
| one-man tour de force of sex and music; it was hard funk, catchy |
| Beatlesque melodies, sweet soul ballads, and rocking guitar pop, all at |
| once. The follow-up, Controversy, was more of the same, but 1999 was |
| brilliant. The album was a monster hit, selling over three million |
| copies, but it was nothing compared to 1984's Purple Rain. |
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| Purple Rain made Prince a superstar; it eventually sold over ten million |
| copies in the U.S. and spent 24 weeks at number one. Partially recorded |
| with his touring band the Revolution, the record featured the most |
| pop-oriented music he has ever made. Instead of continuing in this |
| accessible direction, he veered off into the bizarre psycho-psychedelia |
| of Around the World in a Day (1985), which nevertheless sold over two |
| million copies. In 1986, he released the even stranger Parade, which was |
| in its own way was as ambitious and intricate as any art rock of the |
| '60s; however, no art rock was ever grounded with a hit as brilliant as |
| the spare funk of "Kiss." |
| |
| By 1987, Prince's ambitions were growing by leaps and bounds, resulting |
| in the sprawling masterpiece Sign o' the Times. Prince was set to |
| release the hard funk of The Black Album by the end of the year, yet he |
| withdrew it just before its release, deciding it was too dark and |
| immoral. Instead, he released the confused Lovesexy in 1988, which was a |
| commercial disaster. With the soundtrack to 1989's Batman he returned to |
| the top of the charts, even if the album was essentially a recap of |
| everything he had done before. The following year he released Graffiti |
| Bridge, the sequel to Purple Rain, which turned out to be a considerable |
| commercial disappointment. |
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| In 1991, Prince formed the New Power Generation, the best and most |
| versatile and talented band he has ever assembled. With their first |
| album, Diamonds and Pearls, Prince reasserted his mastery of |
| contemporary R&B; it was his biggest hit since 1985. The following year, |
| he released his 12th album, which was titled with a cryptic symbol; in |
| 1993, Prince legally changed his name to the symbol. In 1994, after |
| becoming embroiled in contract disagreements with Warner Bros., he |
| independently released the single "The Most Beautiful Girl in the |
| World," likely to illustrate what he would be capable of on his own; the |
| song became his biggest hit in years. Later that summer, Warner released |
| the somewhat halfhearted Come under the name of Prince; the record was a |
| moderate success, going gold. |
| |
| In November 1994, as part of a contractual obligation, Prince agreed to |
| the official release of The Black Album. In early 1995, he immersed |
| himself in another legal battle with Warner, proclaiming himself a slave |
| and refusing to deliver his new record, The Gold Experience, for |
| release. By the end of the summer, a fed-up Warner had negotiated a |
| compromise which guaranteed the album's release, plus one final record |
| for the label. The Gold Experience was issued in the fall; although it |
| received good reviews and was following a smash single, it failed to |
| catch fire commercially. In the summer of 1996, Prince released Chaos & |
| Disorder, which freed him to become an independent artist. Setting up |
| his own label, NPG (which was distributed by EMI), he resurfaced later |
| that same year with the three-disc Emancipation, which was designed as a |
| magnum opus that would spin off singles for several years and be |
| supported with several tours. However, even his devoted cult following |
| needed considerable time to digest such an enormous compilation of |
| songs. Once it was clear that Emancipation wasn't the commercial |
| blockbuster he hoped it would be, Prince assembled a long-awaited |
| collection of outtakes and unreleased material called Crystal Ball in |
| 1998. With Crystal Ball, Prince discovered that it's much more difficult |
| to get records to an audience than it seems; some fans who pre-ordered |
| their copies through Prince's website (from which a bonus fifth disc was |
| included) didn't receive them until months after the set began appearing |
| in stores. Prince then released a new one-man album, New Power Soul, |
| just three months after Crystal Ball; even though it was his most |
| straightforward album since Diamonds and Pearls, it didn't do well on |
| the charts, partly because many listeners didn't realize it had been |
| released. |
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| A year later, with "1999" predictably an end-of-the-millennium anthem, |
| Prince issued the remix collection 1999 (The New Master). A collection |
| of Warner Bros.-era leftovers, Vault: Old Friends 4 Sale, followed that |
| summer, and in the fall Prince returned on Arista with the all-star Rave |
| Un2 the Joy Fantastic. |
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| In the Fall of 2001 he released the controversial Rainbow Children, a |
| jazz-infused circus of sound trumpeting his conversion to the Jehovah's |
| Witnesses that left many long time fans out in the cold. He further |
| isolated himself with 2003's N.E.W.S., a four-song set of instrumental |
| jams that sounded a lot more fun to play than to listen to. Prince |
| re-bounded in 2003 with the chart-topping Musicology, a return to form |
| that found the artist back in the top ten, even garnering a Grammy |
| nomination for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance in 2005. |
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