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Overview

4Ever, the first posthumous Prince album, arrived seven months after his April 21, 2016 death -- just in time for that year's holiday season -- and it's the first Prince hits compilation since 2006, when Rhino/Warner issued the 17-track Ultimate Prince. A better comparison, however, is the 1993 set The Hits/The B-Sides, which contained two discs of hits -- also available separately -- and a disc of otherwise unavailable flip sides. 4Ever covers this same territory, even working the B-side "Gotta Stop (Messin' About)" and the majestic 1982 outtake "Moonbeam Levels" into its 40 tracks, bypassing anything released after 1993 due to licensing reasons. This means his last Top Ten hit, 1994's "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World," is absent, as are the other singles he released in the subsequent 23 years, but they're not missed as much as his own version of "I Feel for U," "Money Don't Matter 2 Night," the minor hit "Let's Pretend We're Married," or "Erotic City," "17 Days," "How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore," and "Another Lonely Christmas," all B-sides that could easily have been included in a definitive compilation. This, along with the odd non-chronological sequencing, means 4Ever isn't definitive, but in terms of consumer value, it might be the best single Prince compilation because it rounds up the great majority of his '80s and early-'90s hits -- including such singles as "Let's Work," "Mountains," "Girls & Boys," and "Batdance," all absent from previous Prince compilations -- in a convenient package. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Product Details

Release Date: 11/22/2016
Label: Rhino / Warner Bros. / Wea
UPC: 0093624914600
Rank: 83931

Tracks

Disc 1

  1. 1999
  2. Little Red Corvette
  3. When Doves Cry
  4. Let's Go Crazy
  5. Raspberry Beret
  6. I Wanna Be Your Lover
  7. Soft and Wet
  8. Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?
  9. Uptown
  10. When You Were Mine
  11. Head
  12. Gotta Stop (Messin' About)
  13. Controversy
  14. Let's Work
  15. Delirious
  16. I Would Die 4 U
  17. Take Me with U
  18. Paisley Park
  19. Pop Life
  20. Purple Rain

Disc 2

  1. Kiss
  2. Sign 'O' the Times
  3. Alphabet Street
  4. Batdance
  5. Thieves in the Temple
  6. Cream
  7. Mountains
  8. Girls & Boys
  9. If I Was Your Girlfriend
  10. U Got the Look
  11. I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man
  12. Glam Slam
  13. Moonbeam Levels
  14. Diamonds and Pearls
  15. Gett Off
  16. Sexy MF
  17. My Name Is Prince
  18. 7 [Album Edit]
  19. Peach
  20. Nothing Compares 2 U

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Prince   Primary Artist,Bass,Drums,Guitar,Keyboards,Orchestra,Vocals (Background)
Prince and the Revolution   Primary Artist
Mavis Staples   Primary Artist
Robin Power   Primary Artist
The Steeles   Primary Artist,Vocals (Background)
T.C. Ellis   Primary Artist
Tevin Campbell   Primary Artist
Prince & the New Power Generation   Primary Artist
George Clinton   Primary Artist
Lisa Coleman   Keyboards,Voices
Jerome Benton   Vocals (Background)
Rosie Gaines   Lead,Organ,Sampling,Vocals (Background)
Brownmark   Voices,Bass
Amp Fiddler   Keyboards,Vocals (Background)
Belita Woods   Vocals (Background)
Garry Shider   Vocals (Background)
Eric Leeds   Brass,Vocals,Saxophone
Dr. Fink   Keyboards
Jana Anderson   Vocals (Background)
Morris Day   Drums,Vocals
Candy Dulfer   Saxophone
Steve Boyd   Vocals (Background)
Kirk Johnson   Percussion,Vocals (Background)
Mike Harris   Vocals (Background)
Sonny T.   Bass,Vocals (Background)
Matt Fink   Voices,Keyboards
New Power Generation   Vocals (Background)
Michael Bland   Drums
Bonnie Boyer   Organ,Vocals,Organ (Hammond),Vocals (Background)
Tommy Barbarella   Sampling,Keyboards
Atlanta Bliss   Vocals,Trumpet
Damon Dickson   Percussion,Vocals (Background)
Mazarati   Vocals (Background)
Sandra Dance   Vocals (Background)
William Payne   Vocals (Background)
Boni Boyer   Organ,Vocals
Cat   Vocals
Sheena Easton   Vocals
Tracey Lewis   Vocals (Background)
Sheila E.   Drums,Vocals,Percussion,Vocals (Background)
Bobby Z   Percussion
Pat Lewis   Vocals (Background)
Wendy Melvoin   Guitar,Voices
Levi Seacer, Jr.   Bass,Vocals,Guitar (Bass),Guitar (Rhythm),Vocals (Background)
Joseph Fiddler   Keyboards,Vocals (Background)

Technical Credits

Lisa Coleman   Composer
Prince & the New Power Generation   Arranger,Composer,Lyricist,Producer
Prince   Mixing,Arranger,Composer,Lyricist,Producer
Tony M.   Composer
Prince and the Revolution   Arranger,Lyricist,Producer
Herb Ritts   Photography
Tommy Vicari   Producer
Alex Tenta   Design,Art Direction
Chris Moon   Composer
Lowell Fulsom   Composer
Anthony Mosley   Composer
Justine Walpole   Cover Photo
Spike Lee   Producer
Jimmy McCracklin   Composer
David Z.   Arranger
Wendy Melvoin   Composer
Levi Seacer, Jr.   Composer
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