Crystal Ball | 
 enlarge | Artist: Prince
Label: NPG Records
Category: Music
Buy New: $143.95
New (1) Used (7) Collectible (3) from $30.54
Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 17999
Format: Box Set, Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 1
UPC: 785337987124
EAN: 0785337987124
ASIN: B000006CHF
Release Date: March 3, 1998
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: Store stock, sealed, NEW. U.S. pressing, no barcode. NPG Records/Paisley Park Ent, 1998, double-sized jewel box, complete. Leftover store stock, from a closed CD store, out of print. Always first class mail, insured with delivery confirmation, from upstate New York. IN STOCK.
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Crystal Ball | | • | Dream Factory | | • | Acknowledge Me | | • | Ripopgodazippa | | • | Love Sign | | • | Hide the Bone - Prince, Wilson, Hilliard | | • | 2morrow | | • | So Dark | | • | Movie Star | | • | Tell Me How U Wanna B Done |
Disc 2
| • | Interactive | | • | Da Bang | | • | Calhoun Square | | • | What's My Name | | • | Crucial | | • | An Honest Man | | • | Sexual Suicide | | • | Cloreen Bacon Skin | | • | Good Love | | • | Strays of the World |
Disc 3
| • | Days of Wild | | • | Last Heart | | • | Poom Poom | | • | She Gave Her Angels | | • | 18 and Over | | • | The Ride | | • | Get Loose | | • | P. Contro | | • | Make Your Mama Happy | | • | Goodbye |
Disc 4
| • | The Truth | | • | Don't Play Me | | • | Circle of Amour | | • | 3rd I | | • | Dionne | | • | Man in a Uniform | | • | Animal Kingdom | | • | The Other Side of the Pillow | | • | Fascination | | • | One of Your Tears | | • | Comeback | | • | Welcome 2 the Dawn |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Call him what you want--Prince, O(+>, TAFKAP, or the Artist: If this massive collection--three archival CDs and a fourth "unplugged" disc--proves anything, it's that music, not his name, is the reason we should still care about Funkytown's most famous musical exponent. Crystal Ball contains moments of unfettered brilliance, including furious jams ("Acknowledge Me," "Interactive," "Da Bang"), sexadelic funk ("Tell Me How U Wanna B Done") and unexpected hilarity ("Movie Star"). There's filler, too, like the mindnumbing vamp "Cloreen Bacon Skin" and the Broadway miscue "Strays of the World," but overall, this set is valuable if only as a rare glimpse inside the little guy's throne room during the height of his purple reign. --Daniel Durchholz
Album Description
Limited import quantities found of this 4CD set released in 1998 and currently out of print domestically. Thirty one tracks in all including 'Dream Factory', 'Lovesign', 'Da Bang', 'Crucial', '18 & Over', 'Get Loose' & 'Goodbye'. Packaged in a standard do
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| Customer Reviews:
Inside the Crystal ball December 19, 2008
luvsong (San Diego, CA United States)
this boxset was a gracious gift from the Purple One. Basically it covers rare content from 85 to the mid 90's. The tracks cover ers's from the Black Album > sign o the time > the gold experience and everyting between. It's classic prince, you'll hear his fun tracks, the dance tracks, rock, beatiful love songs. Disc for is something special an acoustic(sort of) cd, i think every real artist should do one. the acoustic cd let's you into his head, no crystal ball needed it's "The Truth"
the booklet gives comentary on each track..
My favorite and most listened to piece in my library September 18, 2008
Said Head (MN, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I wasn't going to review this item, but considering the other two reviews, especially Raymond Wesner's, are very pathetic. So here goes:
This 4 disc set is filled with outtakes, alternate mixes, some live, acoustic, and experimental pieces. I like Prince for his more artistic endeavors, namely his early-mid 90's period, where the majority of this material originates.
I think largely this set consists of music intended for his albums 'Gold Experience' and 'Come', along with a couple alternate mixes of songs that actually did appear on those albums. These tracks include 'Days Of Wild', 'P Control', 'Get Loose', and maybe songs like 'Interactive', 'Acknowledge Me' and 'Dream Factory'; they've got that strong vibe that exists throughout those albums. 'Honest Man' sounds like a track that had been substituted by 'Solo' on Come, but that's just speculation.
Other/most tracks are compositions that Prince made for 'private use only': 'Crystal Ball', 'Poom Poom', 'Chloreen Bacon Skin' (an experimental drum/bass guitar mix which features Morris Day), 'Tell Me How', 'Calhoun Square', 'The Ride', and 'Da Bang', to name a few (this is after all a HUGE collection of music).
I honestly love every track, minus a few weaker tracks: '18 & Over', 'Rippopgodazippa', and some others sound like they have a purpose but not for wide listening.
I don't listen to the last disc much, if at all. It just doesn't do much for me, as I'm not a fan of acoustic material, but I should definitely give it another try.
Altogether, there's a good 3 hours of music on this collection. It may not be Purple Rain, but Prince isn't Purple Rain, so if you're disappointed that you can't hear any 'When Doves Cry', you should probably go back to 1984, because this stuff is more forward-looking than a lot of fans are willing to admit.
Quick as promised August 3, 2008
Raymond Wesner
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
They deliver what i bought on the time yhey stated. What else dcan you ask for?
Worth it for the last disk alone December 8, 2007
Gavin R. Jewell (Seattle, WA, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I've had "Crystal Ball" for quite some time. I haven't played most of it for a while, but I find disk 4 just stunning - so much so, that in the last couple of years its probably my most played prince disk. Considering the size of my Prince collection (I've got most (if not all) of his officially released album stuff + various other tidbits, including stacks of vinyl, picture disks and more) I think that says something.
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