The Very Best Of Prince CD</br>On April 21?? 2016?? the world lost a gifted musician?? outrageous entertainer?? creative genius?? and sensitive soul.</br>Experience the realms of his uniqueness with 17 of the R&B/Pop icon's best.</br>Includes "Doves Cry??""Little Red Corvette??""Kiss??""I Would Die 4 U??"and many others.</br></br>Product Description</br></br>This is the "greatest hits" album we've been waiting for: all of Prince's biggest hits packed onto one disc.  Arguably the most influential artist of the '80s?? Prince is one of the very few musicians of this or any other era to find a massive and intensely loyal audience while still being praised by critics and musical contemporaries alike for his bold experimentalism and prodigious instrumental skills.  His brash?? high-NRG mix of pop?? rock?? funk?? and psychedelia picked up where Sly Stone left off?? and the result was music that was revolutionary in its sonic experimentation and provocative fashion.  This collection brings together the absolute best of Prince's Warner Bros. recordings - perhaps the most important recordings since the '70s - on one hit-jammed disc.</br></br>Amazon.com</br></br>Taken literally?? this album's title is sure to cause endless  arguments. Nothing from <I>Dirty Mind</I>?? not a  trace of the early anthem "oversy</I>??"no "Erotic City"--no non-LP  cuts at all?? save some edited single versions--and a cold shoulder to  the criminally out-of-print <I>Gold Experience</I>. Damn.  As a compendium of 17 key A-sides from 1979 to 1992?? however?? <I>The  Very Best of Prince</I> is (ahem) a quick-'n'-dirty review of the days  when the Artist was?? in the estimation of R.E.M. guitarist  Peter Buck?? one of the weirdest musicians in the Top 10. Blessed with  both creative cunning and the wish to reach every listener possible??  Prince revitalized rock and soul modes from the sex-crazed (" Red  Corvette") to the cryptically spiritual ("Purple Rain"). Often he  blurred lines between attitudes as surely as he did musical ones; the  New Testament image of "Thieves in the Temple" became in his hands a  complaint about a stolen girlfriend. Though a fine party artifact?? this  disc is still likely to prove too scanty even for many casual Prince  fans. <I>--Rickey Wright</I></br>mm:val="ndOvr" /> </m:ma