Prince: The Hits, Volume 1 & 2
Genre: '80s funk and roll	Dates: late '70s - early '90s

Like Madonna (and Bruce Springsteen) (and Michael Jackson), he successfully got good music on the radio in the '80s. But he did so despite being a strange agent of dimunitive stature and indefatigable, irrepressible libido, and despite being a loyal Minnesotan who thought mixing funk and '70s rock was a good idea. His intensity, stage presence, and fountainous productivity recalled Bob Dylan, and his self-sufficiency (most of his records were sung and played completely by…him) was unparalleled. In other words, a fine American weirdo who did it—and still does it—his way. Note to parents: this is now tamer than mainstream radio.

Playlist:

Volume 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 - (previously unreleased, live)
12. Adore
13. Pink Cashmere - (previously unreleased)
14. Alphabet St.
15. Sign O' The Times
16. Thieves In The Temple
17. Diamonds And Pearls
18. 7

Volume 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 - (previously unreleased)
13. U Got The Look - (with Sheena Easton)
14. Sexy M.F.
15. Gett Off
16. Cream
17. Pope - (previously unreleased)
18. Purple Rain