prince purple rain dvd with music videos

The Time was actually THERE, having just performed in the live performance space at BAM, and strolled in, sans Morris Day, to introduce Purple Rain.

They guy who played Jerome seemed to be particularly het up about something on the prince.org messageboards, and kept circling back to some unspecified beef, all while protesting that he really didn't care that much. ???

When the lights went down, and the blurry Warner Bros logo fetched up there on the screen, all of us, from the knots of white kids at the edges, to the rows of fan club members that had claimed the middle seats early, shouted "turn it up!!! turn up the god damn music!!!" everyone shoutin and singin along to every song. All of it, to me, a revelation all over again. How lucky we are to have this document of arguably the height of a very great musician's powers, at the height of his approbation. In the movie theater, it feels a little like being there for a concert. I sat next to a fan club girl who literally knew every single line, and would say it just BEFORE it happened in the movie. i.e. "I gave Jerome the night off"

Performance of "Electric Intercourse" by Prince and the Revolution. Live at First Avenue, Minneapolis, August 1983

Re-released in 2008 on red vinyl with a ton of cool remixes. "I want to breathe modern air" Dez brings the lolz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a9__4uTe_A

So...let's talk remaster.

the compression is not good. the officially released outtakes more than make up for it.

More or less compressed than the HDTracks remaster?

how good are the fabled bonus tracks?

Good to excellent – and they sound terrific to my un-audiophile ears.

would like an edit of Dance Electric. I suppose I could make my own, but

i'm also not an audiophile and i think the remaster sounds good!

I'm with PaulTMA

Plus some of these versions of long-available-as-bootlegs unreleased tracks are completely new. And awesome.

I don't mean "new" as in "rerecorded" but as in "no one knew they existed before this rerelease",

The PR remaster itself is way hotter than the HDTracks which is the best digital version IMHO. The og US vinyl is wonderful - still.

i keep both the HDTracks and the original CD on my MP3 player. Had a downloaded vinyl rip that sounded great but there were skips so fuck that obv.

Needless to say I will be buying the shit out of the new release even if not for the remaster of the album proper

Don't think I've heard PR all the way for nearly 30 years...massive Prince head but I dunno...obviously great but apart from 'When Doves Cry' it doesn't particularly feed my Prince Jones...iforgot how full on it is...it still feels like the outlier in his early catalogue...and the song PR is a fucking dirge...looking forward to listening to unreleased stuff...what I've heard of it so far is amazing

I love Purple Rain but agree that it sticks out like a sore thumb in Prince's discography - Prince never really went for mass appeal on that scale again - not even with high profile projects like Batman.

He tried again with "Diamonds & Pearls" which was a pretty slick and commercial production compared to what came before. "Batman" , "Graffiti Bridge" sounded positively claustrophobic and weird compared to stuff like "Cream".

I also never had the love for PR (really never cared for the title tune either) but "When Doves Cry" and "The Beautiful Ones" are sublime.

giving it a first listen, holy fuck "love and sex". i may not actually be alive by the end of the 10 minute "we can fuck", just giving y'all that warning up front. if i never post again this shit is so good it literally killed me.

Diamonds & Pearls was totally a calculated "comeback" album p much the only time he specially seemed to be trying to move units. Was super popular then pretty much forgotten it seems, though the holographic CD cover must've cut into the profit margin

omg these bonus tracks

"listen to the rhythm of your soul"

D&P is his biggest seller after PR.

i am deaded.

i think this "we can fuck" is the full-length version of the fragment on disc 4 of "work it 2.0" only in much much superior sound quality. fuck, that bridge, it's goddamn zeuhl and there isn't even any bass on this version.

those poor fuckers on the radiohead thread.

"we can fuck" is literally my favorite prince song now

Diamonds & Pearls still felt smaller in scale than Purple Rain, though.

We need to look a bit at the wider picture here too -- granted it's the jewel in the crown of the Warner years in terms of money so of course it would get the primary reissue. Even so, we ended up with a three CD/one DVD package for $25 (which puts a LOT of those super deluxe editions to shame right there), the outtakes were remastered by the guy who did the original mastering for the album to start with, Bernie Grundman, and -- something I haven't seen many people talk about! -- stellar liner notes. You've got Susan Rogers doing the main essay, plus a song by song breakdown of the main album by all the members of the Revolution, not to mention a quick note from his tour photographer from the time along with some archival photos. I mean, not to put too fine a point on it, but if they could maintain this general model for the rest of the reissues, especially the 70s/80s years -- and there's no reason why said model wouldn't work (album/outtakes disc/single and extended edits/video or concert film) -- then goddamn.

Bring on the riches, I say!

stellar liner notes. You've got Susan Rogers doing the main essay, plus a song by song breakdown of the main album by all the members of the Revolution

both of these things (and the live dvd) made me wish they had sent me a physical copy before i filed my piece. oh well lol

Annoyed at being miscredited on the reissue, Jill Jones has supposedly personally leaked Wednesday, Killing At The Soda Shop and her vocal version of Our Destiny
https://soundcloud.com/user-978085694

Well well indeed. "Killing at the Soda Shop" appears to be the totally unknown rarity?

I bought the two-CD set at Target this morning for $13. Ned's right about the lines. "We Can Funk" sounds massive in the car. Are those acoustic drums augmented with Linn?

somebody download those JJ leaks pls. I used to know how to grab tracks off soundcloud but I seem to have forgotten.

'we can fuck" has the basically same backbeat as "fame" by david bowie right? love it in any case

I want a rip of the version of "Purple Rain" that's supposed to be Wendy and Lisa's rough demo of it. It's the first time you hear it in the movie, and it's all with synths I think?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 30 January 2006 02:04 (eleven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

did this ever see the light of day??

Jon I'm ripping them direct to CD right now, hit me up

For your Soundcloud needs

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i just download everything with jdownloader

damn. drum breakdown about 4 minutes into extended "god" sounds like jaki liebezeit in "paperhouse"

wow mislabeled piano demos of wednesday have been going around for years.. i dont think anyone knew what that was.

what were they mislabelled as? are they on work it 2.0?

Drum pattern on "The Dance Electric" is the same as on "Mountains," right? But a little faster?

Yep.

And it's, comparatively, my least favorite song.

Hearing "Father's Song" was kinda amazing, not merely for how he interpolated that into "Computer Blue," but also because I want to hear a whole slew of tracks like that from that era.

Just bought the shit out of this. First CD I've bought via Amazon in about a year! Ned's 'wider picture' post OTM.

those poor fuckers on the radiohead thread

lol

i will never understand "purple rain (song) is boring/dirge/etc". i mean, on the surface i guess i understand since it's long & simple & repetitive.
but, like
i mean
they are taking you to mfing CHURCH!!!
i love it & it makes me ugly-cry so hard. i love it now even more after reading the band's liner notes where they say that it was one of their few pure collaborations where they each contributed something to the creation of the song & that made it pretty meaningful for them. i think it shows.

the "stairway to heaven" of the 80s

jfc

lol

is there a "superban" button?

"eject into the sun"

Anyone else not able to use scdownloader? Mine just keeps saving the html sites..

Christ, the version of 'We Can Fuck' on this rules so much - far better than any other version I've heard, including the version on Graffiti Bridge - it's also great to have the full version of 'Computer Blue' in decent sound quality (thinking about substituting it for the edited version on the album itself whenever I play Purple Rain) - also 'Wonderful Ass' and 'Father's Song' both rule... I agree that 'The Dance Electric' runs a little too long, but otherwise I'm pleased with the stuff on this.

100% on Purple Rain.
just that single 6-note figure he returns to throughout the solo of Purple Rain kills me.

computer blue hallway speech version just slays every fucking thing it encounters

THere's enough left of "Father's Song" to hear what Prince, Wendy, and Lisa extrapolated for "Computer Blue"

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

Xpost to self

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.

IS amazing

dang

jon is this in that master dump you passed my way?

Jungle Love demo!! Wonderful Ass Prince-only version is so fucking cool.

This is basically a rip of a giant boot collection that appeared a few days ago. Blessings to the uploader. :)

A new giant (4 cd's) boot collection. Many tracks have been out there for years but there's a ton of new and previously unheard things on here. The mythical Wally included.

wow first disc is amazing on contact.
um, if anyone ends up with mp3s, flacs, etc; please give a shout here?

digging the fuck out of this grimy ass 'feel u up'

I will prob have them soon. Will do.

i salute yer musical pursuit

Nice catch JV -- currently grabbing these!

That early version of "Our Destiny" is great. I feel like I'm listening to a covert recording of the Broadway premiere.

I'm beginning to wonder just exactly how much of his life he actually spent in the recording studio... the guy seems to have been either writing, recording, playing or touring and I'm surprised he managed to make time for anything else!

one of my favorite parts of the sheila e book was when she described what it was like when she and prince hung out. she had built a little studio in her room and they would basically just hang in there and make music and then occasionally leave to do other stuff that friends do, like go get ice cream. being friends with prince sounded idyllic.

I can't get over Our Destiny/Roadhouse Garden. I always want to listen to it twice if I listen to it once.

yeah he seemed to be thinking/making music all the time.
I remember an interview from someone in his entourage saying that they were taking a domestic flight and he was working on something/writing during the whole flight then when they arrived he rushed to a studio and started recording what he had been working on the plane : it was like 10 songs for sign O the times !

The same user just uploaded BFTP 5.0 ( another 4 cd's). This surpasses the Purple Rain Deluxe joy for me 100x. Incredible amount of stuff in one wave.

Someone think of me when ysi happens on these, thx

Is there a way to pull individual tracks from that site, or can each volume only be downloaded/streamed as a single long track/mix?

um, if anyone ends up with mp3s, flacs, etc; please give a shout here?

yeah this

I mean, I used some sort of in-browser service to download 4.0 and 5.0, but each volume is one long track.

Thanks for the recommendation. Loved BFTP Vols 1-3 and Vol 4 is sounding terrific so far. Look forward to the eventual flac shares.

this has made for a great night/day of listening

for those too lazy to check (i was until just now), individual tracklistings here:
https://www.discogs.com/Prince-Blast-From-The-Past-40/release/10605546
CD 1 is track 1 to 17
CD 2 is 18 to 31
CD 3 is 32 to 49
CD 4 is 50 to 65

https://www.discogs.com/Prince-Blast-From-The-Past-50/release/10605714
CD 1 is track 1 to 17
CD 2 is 18 to 36
CD 3 is 37 to 51
CD 4 is 52 to 72

ALSO: just found this, very dope
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWGo4XKjrjc

i could probably be talked into breaking down the time signatures if asked

I found download links for BFTP 4 and 5, I think. Download is still in progress but looks like MP3 judging by the size of the zip. Without killing the golden goose, there is an easily searchable Prince google group where people upload all manner of things. The name of the google group is the three letter initialization of Prince's second-best band, suffixed by a basic mathematical symbol which resembles a cross.

good BFTP 4.0 info
http://4th3funk.com/bootleg-labels/eye-records/blast-from-the-past-4-0/

sorry if i'm nerding this up unnecessarily; really enjoying these discs a lot

i'm not finding a goog group :(

"purple hippies enter here"

jon, thanks for the info; those nupower rars are indeed mp3 tracked versions
the v4 nine minute 'when doves cry' rehearsal track is grrrrrrrrrrrrreat

holy shit there is a jill jones version of If I Could Get Your Attention on here????

"purple hippies enter here" no results found

do you have a google account? Maybe google groups are only visible to those logged into their gmail accts

xxp to jon, there is indeed!

https://tinyurl.com/yd7rk72j
https://tinyurl.com/y75umsjg

thx !

yes I'm in a bunch of goog groups!

thanks ulysses!

ok found it.. it's google PLUS not google groups smh :)

Duh that's on me sorry

So much to love in 4.0 and so much to mourn re: his massive drop in quality/inspiration in '90s once you get to the later 5.0 discs :(((

BUT the versions of Cross The Line plus the versions of Positivity, Vicky Waiting etc more than make up for all that mess imo.

the late end of the track bob george bits of "Do Yourself a Favor" are hitting me today

this is a nasty version of Mutiny, damn

urgent q, do you think Jill Jones would date me even though I'm married, ugly and boring?

i'm gonna go with a hard maybe there

this version of 101 is fucking killer

also, blast from the past has some of those posthumous leaks in stereo that were mono before now (e.g. Eggplant)

Whole new batch of previously unheard stuff is out there. Lovesexy album demos and more. Also a 40 minute solo jam on "Lisa" that is completely bananas. More deets soon.

Essentially BFTP 6.0

http://www.4th3funk.com/bootleg-labels/eye-records/blast-from-the-past-6-0/

o my.
links on that would be welcome.

Yeah I don’t know a place for these anymore, so what forks said

Yo Misters

https://tinyurl.com/yawww2bg

Oh kind soul.

lovely man

you sir, are a prince

lol at the album image

have not heard this demo version of Nothing Compares!

You're welcome. There's a few repeats of old chestnuts like the Family demos (Mutiny, etc) in slightly better quality than usual but stuff like "Nothing", "Yo Mister" and the Lovesexy demos are incredible finds.

Is the demo for “The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker” on there?....

So are volumes 1-3 in this series any good?

All the Blast From The Past volumes are fantastic

xpost Don't think that's ever circulated - if it exists!

Just to clarify this is essentially BFTP 6.0 under a different moniker and minus a few tracks. 6.0 is supposed to be out sometime this month and some enterprising sould decided to undercut the BFTP folks - who sell their releases - by leaking it under another name.

xpost...it does exist...Quest Love leaked it once...it’s absolutely amazing...

ok. it's not on here. see link i posted yesterday for tracklisting

sonnyboy: ysi or it didn't happen

I swear on Morris’s brass water bed

you're not misremembering the S.O.T.T. rehearsal sessions version?

this extended 17 Days is an actual extended 17 Days and not the fan-mixed fake 12"!!! Holy craaaaap

yeah was just gonna say that made me 0_o when i saw it

could not tell from the intro; queuing it up now!

what's next on the reissue starting block then do we think? they missed the 30th anniversary of SOTT obvs..

oh shit this 17 days DOES open up don't it

didn't know this even existed and it actually improves on what is likely a top ten prince song for me, this is going onto repeat for the next week i think

yeah i hella dote on 17 days, this is such a treat

getting through the lovesexy demos now, amazing

the odd vocoded backing vocal on the chorus of If I Could Get Your Attention! <3

also did the prince version of High Fashion always sound this good?

it's mostly new to me (think i caught a youtube a time or two) and it sounds great for sure.

This bootleg is sick as shit and making me feel CRAZY

There’s Others Here With Us: wowwwww

just that "sister" sequence is so cool to hear ...

happy U all are enjoying it!

All the Family demos sound better than ever - and these have been around for years. My first copy of them was on a 3 record vinyl boot I got in ´89.

hoy moly these are good

"holy" natch

http://musicxclusives.com/2017/11/26/new-music-dawnrichard-another-lonely-christmas/
via maura, mixed feelings on a first listen but it's interesting hearing her play with it