Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #31435 in DVD
• Released on: 1999-09-20
• Rating: Exempt
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Best of, Closed-captioned, Colour, DVD-Video, Full Screen, PAL
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 61 minutes

Special Features
4:3 Full Frame
DVD 5
English
English
Region 2
PCM English
PCM
English

Synopsis
The pint-sized, sex-obsessed pop music guru called Prince (and then "the artist formerly known as Prince," and then Prince again) is one of mainstream music's most eccentric geniuses. Along with having had several chart topping songs and albums, the musician has written countless other gems for a diverse array of other performers, among them Sinead O' Connor. THE HITS COLLECTION is a 15 video retrospective of Prince's best loved videos, from the beginning of his career through 1993. Included are "1999," "Diamonds and Pearls," "Little Red Corvette," and "Kiss."

Customer Reviews

The 'uncomplete' Hits collection...
Coinciding with the release of Prince's 1993 Hits 3 Cd set, this DVD is a compilation of 'some' of the purple one's strongest videos from over the years.

The main problem with this video collection, however, is how many video's it leaves out, Prince himself has said he doesn't enjoy making music videos, which is something of a contradictory statement considering he's made over 70 of them over the course of 25 years now. I'm sure Warner Bros. had enough room to put double the amount of videos on here, so it's hard to see why certain performances are left out...no 'When Doves Cry'? no 'U Got The Look'? no Gett Off? It's understandable that particular tracks were omitted from the Hits Cd collection, but why should songs which DO feature on that collection not show up on this DVD...

With the main drags out the way it's best to focus on the videos which are here...such as '1999', 'Raspberry Beret' and 'Kiss'; all of them are excellent and despite previous reviews the picture transfer to DVD is surprisingly good.
The most impressive videos though are the early, pre-1999 vids.
'Controversy' still remains one of his classic performance videos, and 'Dirty Mind' and 'Uptown' are both highly enjoyable to watch even if Prince hasn't got all his moves nailed down yet.
'7' though, is probably the main highlight and it is easily one of Prince's best videos of the 90's.

On the whole The Hits is a dissapointment to many fans due to so many videos being left out, but the quality of what IS on here more than makes up for it, and it's a wothwhile purchase.

Its full of filler tracks of faux "live concert" footage
What a grave disappointment: few actual videos, just loads of filler songs in awful kitsch studio concerts - not even proper gigs, see the overdressed audiences for confirmation. I wouldn`t have minded some real live footage- there`s a great version of sign of the times that could have been on here for example but isn`t. I would also have liked to see some of the fabulous Cat but alas I can`t find her on this disc.

The few "proper" videos are very poorly transferred indeeed and look very dated. The quality is so bad on some that you wonder if your set up is wrong for a moment. I am surprised an artist of Prince`s apparent stature and sensibilities allows this sort of embarrasing junk to get off the cutting room floor.

The shame is that it could have been so much better had a more discerning effort been made.

For an object lesson in how it should be done, see Ladies and Gentlemen, The Best of George Michael DVD.

Adrian

Great Artist - Bad Collection
I've nothing against any of the videos included in this collection but for me it is more notable for it's ommissions. Where is 'Batdance' or 'Partyman'? Where is 'U Got the Look' or the visually stunning video for 'I wish u Heaven?

The early videos like 'I wanna be your lover' are funny to watch and I am happy to see my personal favourite video 'Raspberry Beret' included here. Overall a wasted opportunity. Could have been a timeless collection for the 20th Century's most talented musician instead as I said in the title of this review a bad collection.