prince purple rain dvd with music videos

i've got disc 2 on repeat in my car
so many highlights it seems pointless to list them but one i keep enjoying is the whoosh of the cymbal (?) in Roadhouse Garden
i like that version of We Can F**k too because it takes such a different turn in the middle than the one i've heard
long version of Computer Blue also *heart eyes emoji*

i am deliberately prolonging my non-ownership of this box but I can't hold on much longer

^^^

i pre-ordered it as a gift and have been hogging it since it arrived

disc two and dvd worth the price of admission (visually the quality of the show is Good not Great but also it's a fuckin' revolution show from 1985)

agree
though i did save the DVD for a time we could both watch it
i have SOME restraint

had credit on my amazon store card. bought for thursday delivery. downloaded AutoRip and, because I am perverse, am listening to disc 3 first.

good grief the 7" edit of let's go crazy is weird. good god it's nice to hear these 12" edits taken from a non-vinyl source. "god" 12" mix is so fucking great, help

erotic city 12" has an unfortunate little dropout in the opening lick though

"Velvet Kitty" is like the missing link between pub rock and Kraftwerk

"Possessed" is a really excellent "tracky" track, it reminds me of Tuomas asking about whether Prince ever did straight up house songs. It's not a straight-up house song but it's getting there.

That DRUM SOUND and that slightly slower than house tempo it is just PAVLOVIAN with me and SO MANY of these songs have it!!

"Our Destiny / Roadhouse Garden" sublime, I keep rewinding

And agreed, Hallway mix of Computer Blue a universe devastator, can imagine a club like Optimo going absolutely mental to a full playout of it

They missed out by not putting "Purple Music" on here. Now that's some amazing proto-House Prince. There are even bad House edits of it floating around these days.

Fucking love purple music but every version of it I have sounds terrible

Yeah, that's one of my favorite proto-house outtakes along with "The Line" and haven't heard a remotely good quality rip of either.

I'm guessing they could have dug for the originals in Ye Olde Vault.

Tracer otm, the sound of this band at this time, those drums, those saturated oberheim poly pads + piano, the guitar obv and the way his voice sounds with Lisa's and Wendy's, it's just the best place for my ears, I could stay forever like tamlin in fairy land

It must have been brutal for Prince to edit down 'Computer Blue' from 12 minutes down to the 4-5 minutes that it is on the LP, now that the full version is available in great quality, it makes the album version completely redundant and makes it feel incomplete.

"Heaven" is another amazing PR era track they could've put on here as well. Not a huge fan of "Velvet Kitty Cat" and "Love and Sex". They're sort of doodles as opposed to some of the other things from the era they could have dug up and put on there. "Possessed", "Purple Music", "Heaven" and the rest on one cd would have been insane. Alas...

I think velvet kitty cat is on here because it's something that can be pointed to as really truly new to people

I think the entire package is presented as something "new" for listeners. I doubt the record co. is thinking of the diehard Prince freaks over your average music listener when compiling a set like this.

Idk you don't think they might've put just one thing on there to say 'yes there's stuff in the vault even the cult has never heard of'?

"Velvet Kitty Cat" is a perfect throwaway -- the synth sound alone!

It's ok, Alfred.

I dunno. I mean -- they certainly did do that - and bless 'em. But it's not as dope as the tracks I mentioned. I think most fellow Prince freaks would agree.

They are probably going for the nostalgia factor in getting this to older listeners as well as the newcomers who may have only recently been turned on to Prince.

I dunno, Jay Vee, let's not get too far down a road where there's some sort of comprehensive pristine-sound release of all the rarities from 86-87 and the response is "No "Wally"? FAIL."

I like the doodles, you need those to break up the intensity.

There's so many Prince rarities I really love that are just a little too late to fit into a Purple Rain timeframe and too early to fit into a SOTT timeframe (which I think is the most likely other album to get a treatment like this)

I hope we get em somehow

I'm not too fussed about hearing any rarities from 1990 onwards, but I'd be all over a mammoth box set of stuff from the vault from 1980-1989 - although I suspect that even a box set would be too limiting - it'd have to be a series of releases.

Even a 1986 box would be almost too massive

I could do without "Wally" to be honest ;)

Whatever-- I'm getting compulsive. We got this, and this is wonderful

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There are a couple fan-compiled sets of just about everything out there "Parade" and "SOTT" related. They are indeed massive and I personally can't get sick of them yet! Bring it.

Even the SOTT era fusion-lite stuff like The Flesh is interesting and weird and deserves some sort of pro release.

I could do without "Wally" to be honest ;)

another vote for We Can Fuck and Dance Electric being astonishing lightning bolts
so excited to have a studio version of father's song; wanted this for decades

my copy came in today. starting w/ cd 2. loving it all so much. just got to roadhouse garden

i got into prince so late that about the first thing i heard of his was "the work", so i've always thought of the purple rain version of "computer blue" as sort of "impressions of computer blue" or something along those lines. kind of impressive how much of the song he packed into those four minutes, but you can't not do damage to the song by editing it that deeply.

"the dance electric"... ok, 12 minutes is maybe a little much, but the 4 minutes on the andre cymone version is not enough! a good 8 minute edit would rule the universe. apocalyptic funk jams are one of my favorite things prince did. even at 4 minutes should have been a hit, along with "neon telephone" and "yo mister".

"love and sex" reminds me of "sexual suicide", which is one of my favorite prince songs, so yeah i dig it. how many of the songs prince shortlisted for "crystal ball ii" are out there by now?

"our destiny/roadhouse garden" kind of a disappointment to me compared to the first ave 84 version. i'm sure one day they'll put out that show legit, as well they should.

"velvet kitty cat" and "katrina's paper dolls" are great because they're so clearly unfinished outtakes - we get to hear something in the middle of being written, if only because he never polished it off for whatever reason. because of the way prince worked he doesn't have a lot of what one could really call "demos". even as half-thought-out throwaways they're world-beaters.

reading about things on the prince forums they are very grouchy and disappointed, which does surprise me because it's a whole cd of fantastic tracks, some of which have never been heard before, that absolutely stand up in quality to purple rain itself. i guess things can always be better but man just wait for the 6 cd 35th anniversary deluxe box set and it'll be out there. purple music (which i always lump together in my head for some reason with the long early version of "around the world in a day") is a great song, but i don't need everything all at once.

(my favorite version of "purple music" is the 5:41 version with different vocals from the boot "for all the purple people" mislabelled "forever in my life", which i think one of the serious prince heads tipped the board to a couple years ago. still don't know anything about it, when it's from or anything like that but it's so good!)

(my favorite version of "purple music" is the 5:41 version with different vocals from the boot "for all the purple people" mislabelled "forever in my life", which i think one of the serious prince heads tipped the board to a couple years ago. still don't know anything about it, when it's from or anything like that but it's so good!)

oh, that's just another version of "heaven". gotcha!

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/25/arts/music/new-disputes-over-princes-estate-cloud-the-future-of-his-vault.html

Just please get someone who knows their shit to digitize all those tapes.

I really like the "unreleased" tracks and the idea that it's a kind of lost Purple Rain era album but I find surprising that they don't really sound like things on Purple Rain (except "Computer Blue", of course).
More like 1999 era tracks or even Parade era.

Album version of Andre Cymone's Dance Electric is 5:31, which nails it IMO.

Even a 1986 box would be almost too massive

http://1986boxset.blogspot.com

Not sure I was ever able to track down a copy of this one ...

no way "wonderful ass" was recorded before "need you tonight / mediate"

Recorded in 1986

sorry - 1983!

then W&L took it and worked on it some more in '86. So yeah it was already fully gestating before INXS

The Vault (book) suggests both songs were influenced by "Subterranean Homesick Blues" in their use of the "-ate" rhymes.

80s subterranean homesick poll

Prince v inxs v rem v b joel

don't suffocate on your own hate guys

Guys. Search BFTP 4.0 on M1xcl0ud. Amazing. Listening to a demo/rough mix? of "She's Always In My Hair " atm. U R Welcome.

solid recommendation. Currently listening to an amazing version of Feel U Up.

That stripped down version of Feel U Up is amazing.