Unreleased Prince material set for release on two new records

Purple rarities incoming.

Warner Bros has announced a new greatest hits album, Prince 4Ever, and a deluxe reissue of 1984’s classic Purple Rain. Both will feature unreleased tracks from Prince’s now-mythical vault.

The remastered version of Purple Rain will include a second album of previously unreleased material. As the BBC notes, tracks from that era which have only appeared on bootlegs since – ‘Electric Intercourse’, ‘Father’s Song’, ‘All Day, All Night’ ‘Possessed’ – are likely contenders for the pack. The reissue was “agreed [upon] with Prince before he passed away,” according to the press release. More details will be released at a later date.

Ahead of Purple Rain, the label will release the hits compilation Prince 4Ever next month. The collection will include best-known tracks – including ‘When Doves Cry’, ‘Raspberry Beret’, ‘Little Red Corvette’ and ‘Kiss’ – along with a previously unreleased one, titled ‘Moonbeam Levels’. Due on 22 November, find the tracklist below.

Tracklist for Prince 4Ever

01. 1999
02. Little Red Corvette
03. When Doves Cry
04. Let’s Go Crazy
05. Raspberry Beret
06. I Wanna Be Your Lover
07. Soft and Wet
08. Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad
09. Uptown
10. When You Were Mine
11. Head
12. Gotta Stop (Messin’ About)
13. Controversy
14. Let’s Work
15. Delirious
16. I Would Die 4 U
17. Take Me With U
18. Paisley Park
19. Pop Life
20. Purple Rain
21. Kiss
22. Sign ‘O’ The Times
23. Alphabet Street
24. Batdance
25. Thieves In The Temple
26. Cream
27. Mountains
28. Girls & Boys
29. If I Was Your Girlfriend
30. U Got The Look
31. I Could Never Take The Place of Your Man
32. Glam Slam
33. Moonbeam Levels
34. Diamonds and Pearls
35. Gett Off
36. Sexy MF
37. My Name Is Prince
38. 7
39. Peach
40. Nothing Compares 2 U