In late 2000, a Crystal Ball Volume II was in the works. It was intended to act as a follow-up to the 1998 Crystal Ball release. Similar to the first set, Crystal Ball Volume II was planned to include previously unreleased outtakes and remixes. The album was planned as a 2-CD set to be shipped with packaging for the The Truth and Kamasutra albums that were included in the original Crystal Ball 5-CD package, so that the two discs could take their place in the package instead.
The album was announced during the Celebration in June 2000, when iMac computer screens at Paisley Park Studios offered names of a selection of albums for fans to vote for to be released next, and within the option for Crystal Ball Volume II track names were shown which users could vote on for inclusion on the album. The list showed 22 tracks, and 17 tracks were eventually chosen by fans.
The tracks offered and voted for included a much wider scope of recordings than the original Crystal Ball set, mostly ranging from 1980-1991 with one track recorded in 1999.
It is not known if the collection was completed, but the 17 tracks that got voted on to it were, in chronological order:
American Jam (1980)
Strange Way Of Saying Eye Love U (1981)
U’re All I Want (1982 or 1991) – released on the 1999 Super Deluxe Edition in 2019 as You're All I Want
Turn It Up (1982) – released on the 1999 Super Deluxe Edition in 2019
Xtraloveable (1982)
Lust U Always (1982)
Katrina’s Paper Dolls (1983) – released on the Purple Rain Deluxe Edition in 2017
Electric Intercourse (1983) – released on the Purple Rain Deluxe Edition in 2017
Love And Sex (1984 or 1986) – released on the Purple Rain Deluxe Edition in 2017 or on the Sign O’ The Times Super Deluxe Edition in 2020
Others Here With Us (1985)
Evolsidog (1985)
Kiss (Xtended Version) (Never released b4)
Girl O’ My Dreams (1982 or 1986)
Everybody Want What They Don’t Got (1986) – released on the Sign O’ The Times Super Deluxe Edition in 2020
Adonis & Bathsheba (1986) – released on the Sign O’ The Times Super Deluxe Edition in 2020
3 Nigs Watchin’ A Kung Fu Movie (1987)
Eye Wonder (1990 or 1991)
Also scheduled for inclusion:
Wonderful Ass (1983) – released on the Purple Rain Deluxe Edition in 2017
What Should B Souled (1999)
Tracks that didn’t get voted on it:
She’s Just A Baby (1981)
If It’ll Make U Happy (1982) – released on the 1999 Super Deluxe Edition in 2019
Girl – either previously released or Prince’s version of the The Time track
Gotta Stop (Messin’ About) – B-side of Let’s Work in 1981
Come Elektra Tuesday (1985)
It is a pity this collection didn’t get released, but maybe Prince’s religious advisor Larry Graham found songs like Xtraloveable and Lust U Always too risqué for a Jehova’s Winess to release? When the 1999 Super Deluxe Edition was released in 2019, those two songs certainly got left out for mentioning rape. And when old Prince songs were played on his NPG Ahdio Shows in 2001, words like “fuck” (on My Name Is Prince), “shit” and “ass” (on The Good Life) were censored, much to the dismay of fans. Recording new songs without dirty words was one thing, but censoring past works… So, “Wonderful Ass”? No. It wouldn’t do for a Jehova’s Witness to release such a song. Prince had to clean up his act.
Tracks on Crystal Ball II that were both previously unknown to fans at the time of voting and still remain unknown 23 years later were American Jam, Kiss (Xtended Version), 3 Nigs Watchin’ A Kung Fu Movie and What Should B Souled. The rest have either been bootlegged or officially released on posthumous releases like the 1999, Purple Rain and Sign O’ The Times deluxe editions. No career spanning vault tracks collection have been released since Crystal Ball.
Another collection fans could vote for at the June 2000 Celebration which never got released either was When 2 R In Love: The Ballads Of Prince that would have included previously released songs like Do Me, Baby, Adore, Insatiable and Scandalous.
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