These are all finished Prince tracks that didn’t appear on his general release albums. Many of them were released online through the NPG Music Club. One appeared as a CD b-side. Some remain unreleased.
If you like 1990s Prince, and don’t know this material, you will be knocked out. If you like Prince, but aren’t sure you can name any of his 1990s albums, these compilations are probably a good way to persuade you to look into that decade. He could seem to be trying a little too hard (to do/be what?) on some of those albums, but this stuff all sounds effortless.
The two fake albums presented here came about in the usual way. I swam around in oceans of non-album/unreleased Prince for a long time, until tracks I couldn’t get tired of started to sort themselves into groups. (The dates with the titles are recording dates taken from the invaluable Prince Vault site.)
Pop Album (52 minutes)
- Vavoom (2000)
- Eye Am the DJ (1995-1996)
- Van Gogh (1995)
- Peace (1999-2000)
- Northside (2000-2001)
- Horny Pony (1991)
- The Sex of It (1987)
- Get Blue (1990)
- Feel Good (1995)
- Beautiful Strange (1998-2000)
- Empty Room (live 2002)
Groove Album (72 minutes)
- The Daisy Chain (2000)
- Sadomasochistic Groove (1997)
- Well Done (1990-1993)
- Poor Goo (1993)
- Good Life (2000)
- Paradigm (1990-1992 & 2000 with George Clinton)
- The Undertaker (1993)
- Habibi (1998)
- Nagoya (2002)
- My Pony (1990-1991 with George Clinton)
- U Gotta Shake Something (1985)