1999 sounds in many ways like an artist pushing himself to his limits. Yet, ultimately, reassuring: “I only want you to have some fun.” So begins “1999,” a song about having a good time in the face of nuclear proliferation. I won’t hurt you.” It’s almost startling. The album opens with a robotic voice: “Don’t worry. Everyone knows about Prince’s most successful album Purple Rain, but Prince created numerous masterpieces that sometimes get overlooked in Purple Rain’s enormous shadow. From his 39 studio albums, his protégé albums, his motion pictures, to his mythic live performances, Prince worked tirelessly to create music that celebrated love, confronted injustice, and made people move their bodies. The Chocolate Invasion (Trax from the NPG Music Club: Volume 1) (2004)ġ7.Prince left us too soon – but what he left us with was an impressive body of work, the likes of which we are only beginning to understand. One Nite Alone…Live – The Aftershow: It Ain’t Over (Up Late with Prince & The NPG) (2002)ġ6. The Gold Experience (1995) (“The Most Beautiful Girl in the World” greyed out, partial album streaming only album unavailable for download)ġ1. Check out the full list of newly released Prince albums and stream the new Anthology below.ġ. A Prince memoir is also due later this year. Prince’s estate will be releasing the stripped-down live album Piano & A Microphone ’83 next month, and a track from the record, “Mary Don’t You Weep,” was released in June.
As part of a separate deal, NPG / Warner Bros released a new deluxe edition of Purple Rain last year.
Sony and Discogs have also compiled a useful consumer’s guide to this dense catalog, which features a lot of rare releases initially sent only to Prince fans through a subscription service, here.Īfter the release of these (roughly 300) songs today, the deal struck between the late artist’s estate and Sony last year means that we have roughly 12 more albums more worth of material from 1978 to 2015 period still slated to be reissued. As part of a deal with the Prince estate, 23 new albums from his independent NPG Records era have been posted to streaming services, along with a new three-hour-plus Anthology of select tracks from this time period in Prince’s career. A slew of Prince releases, dating from 1995 to 2010, have been released on streaming platforms for the first time ever, thanks to Sony Legacy Recordings.
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