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

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