Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. When Doves Cry
2. Pop Life
3. Soft And Wet
4. I Feel For You
5. Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad
6. When You Were Mine
7. Uptown
8. Let's Go Crazy
9. 1999
10. I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man
11. Nothing Compares 2 U
12. Adore
13. Pink Cashmere
14. Alphabet St
15. Sign O' The Times
16. Thieves In The Temple
17. Diamonds And Pearls
18. 7

Disc 2:

1. Controversy
2. Dirty Mind
3. I Wanna Be Your Lover
4. Head
5. Do Me Baby
6. Delirious
7. Little Red Corvette
8. I Would Die 4 U
9. Raspberry Beret
10. If I Was Your Girlfriend
11. Kiss
12. Peach
13. U Got The Look
14. Sexy MF
15. Gett Off
16. Cream
17. Pope
18. Purple Rain

Disc 3:

1. Hello
2. 200 Balloons
3. Escape
4. Gotta Stop (Messin' About)
5. Horny Toad
6. Feel U Up
7. Girl
8. I Love U In Me
9. Erotic City
10. Shockadelica
11. Irresistible Bitch
12. Scarlet Pussy
13. La La La He He Hee
14. She's Always In My Hair
15. 17 Days
16. How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore
17. Another Lonely Christmas
18. God
19. 4 The Tears In Your Eyes
20. Power Fantastic

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6875 in Music
• Released on: 1993-09-13
• Number of discs: 3
• Formats: Box set, Explicit Lyrics
• Dimensions: .42 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review
Even with single edits substituting for full-length versions in a handful of cases, The Hits/The B-Sides is a mighty testament to the man we once called Prince. (For that matter, we still do.) In addition to most of his singles, from "I Wanna Be Your Lover" to "Thieves in the Temple", from "When Doves Cry" to "7", this triple-CD set throws in some worthwhile new music and a full disc of the fantastic flips that made buying 7- and 12-inches a must even when you already owned the A-side. "You can be the side effect," he mutters herein. "I'd rather be the dope." Witness some of the funkiest pharmaceuticals around. --Rickey Wright

CD Description
This 3CD set brings together the 1993 compilations 'The Hits Vol.1' and 'Vol.2' (both available seperately), and adds abonus disc of b-sides. The collection concentrates on what was arguably the multi-talented Minnesotan's most fruitful period. A total of ten UK top 10 hits are included.

Customer Reviews

Purple Genius
In the last year and a half i had decided to investigate the genius of Prince having heard Purple Rain the song and a few others. Having grown up in the 90's and liked Britpop the 80's seemed so far off to us and i just believed that the main man in 80's music was Michael Jackson. Of course some of his music is also tremendous but when you hear the three CD's worth of music on offer here it makes you realise that Michael Jackson isnt even close to the genius of Prince. CD1 has an astonishing range of songs. The brilliant early work of 'When you were mine' and 'Uptown' and the original 'I feel for you' to the classics 'Sign o the times', 'Alphabet St', 'Adore', 'Lets Go Crazy', 'When Doves Cry', '1999', 'I could never take the place of your man' and 'Pop life'. 1 also includes a beautiful original song called Pink Cashmere. To top it off is the stunning 'Nothing compares 2 u' which for me in one song puts Prince ahead of Michael Jackson because Jackson could only dream of writing this and then just giving it away. CD2 is so funky. The naughty stuff starts appearing here. 'Dirty mind', 'Head', 'Do me baby', 'Sexy M.F.', 'Gett off', 'Cream'. Of course the classics keep coming too. 'Purple Rain', 'I wanna be your lover', 'I would die 4 you', 'Little Red Corvette', 'Kiss', 'U got the look'. The crowning moment of CD2 is the untouchable 'Raspberry Beret' which is surely the greatest pure pop song of all time. CD3 takes us into the realm of hidden gems Prince puts out there. Amazing songs like '17 days', 'I love u in me', 'Girl', 'Scarlet Pussy', 'She's always in my hair', 'Erotic City', 'Horny Toad' and 'Feel u Up'. Also included on this disc is the fantastic christmas song 'Another lonely Christmas' which is just classic Prince. While everyone is singing about snow, holly and bells he sings about losing someone on the 25th of December. So if you want rock, rap, funk, soul, dance, pop and almost any other musical genre wrapped into one then buy this triple CD. The amazing thing is i have missed out some brilliant songs in this review which highlight his brilliance. Remember this only goes up to 1993 and doesnt include 'The most beautiful girl in the world', 'Gold' or any of the recent material from the brilliant album 'Musicology' which is a shame but dont let that stop you in your tracks, you have come this far. So do yourself a favour and check out the greatest solo artist in the history of music. You wont regret coming and joining the rest of us under the PURPLE RAIN.

Brilliant if predictable compilation - B sides worth the money alone
if the 12 best tracks off the b sides disk were released as an album, it would be up there with all his classic records. they really are that good.more experimantal than the hits and fans should buy this even if they own all the albums.

Prince for the iPod generation
At this price you pretty much cannot go wrong; this triple CD is packed with great music.

This a slightly odd offering - it is exactly what the title says it is - a collections of hits and b-sides gathered into a triple CD. The sequencing is a bit of a mystery to me and (for me) often does not work but it does not matter, you are only ever a couple of tracks away from another great song.

Personally, I think that Prince is best appreciated by listening to the albums (although he has been so prolific it would be rather expensive to buy them all) so this is great compromise. I have listened to it all the way through once and I do not think I will do it again - but the tracks have already permeated most of my iPod playlists.