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#22

Thanks. Donā€™t know why I couldnā€™t find it.

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#24

Not as good as ā€˜Electric Intercourseā€™ but still great to hear these, especially the ā€˜Roadhouse Gardenā€™ section.

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#26

So this is out today (good old Amazon delivered my copy yesterday). Loving the ā€œvaultā€ disc, havenā€™t had chance to watch the DVD yet but looking forward to sticking that on over the weekend.

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#28

Absolutely loving this. I was a massive Prince fan at that time, but never got into any of the bootlegs and had drifted away a bit over the years. Most of that vault CD is completely new to me and and itā€™s amazing - The Dance Electric, Electric Intercourse, Roadhouse Garden, Possessed, Wondeful Ass, Velvet Kitty Cat - wow.

I wish the booklet had a bit more about all hose tracks, but the music is fantastic and wonderfully weird, varied and imaginative.

A similar re-issue of all the ā€˜golden periodā€™ albums would be brilliant.

#29

That solo version of Fatherā€™s Song. Incredible.

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#30

just finished disc 1 - the remaster is mint

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#31

Got mine at the weekend. Still to listen to any of the cds, but watched a few songs from the dvd - the quality is pretty grainy (which Iā€™d expected anyway), but the performance is incredible. If it was a standalone dvd youā€™d be expecting a bit more in terms of extras and stuff, but as part of the whole reissue itā€™s fine.

As someone else has said, a package like this for each of the classic era albums would be amazing.

#32

I know this is insane - but I know v little of Prince and have never heard this album before this morning. Now five listens deep. Itā€™s fucking amazing.

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#33

You are going to have an amazing time working through his back catalogue then :smiley:

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#34

The remaster of the album proper is stunning. Itā€™s almost too much, now. The raw urgency in his breakdown during The Beautiful Ones, the bass brought up and fully realised throughout, making the sudden drop for When Doves Cry all the more astonishingā€¦ this is what Iā€™ve been waiting for for like 20 years.

Second disc is also pretty remarkable; The Dance Electric and We Can Fuck are massive highlights, even if the latter almost descends into self-parody.

Not sure Iā€™ll get a lot of mileage out of the third disc, given none of these tracks have been remastered to the same degree as the album, but thereā€™s some interesting versions on there and Erotic City and Another Lonely Christmas are pretty damn good.

#35

Just bought the Ā£17 version with 35 tracks. This is probably the first Prince album Iā€™ve ever bought actually. I have a bunch of singles.

What the hell is that noise on Letā€™s Go Crazy thatā€™s like a creaky door over the top of the drums. Itā€™s leaping out. Never spotted it before.

#36

Listening to the remaster now. I knew that this was an album crying out for a remaster, but didnā€™t expect it to sound this good, itā€™s fantastic.

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#37

It would be wonderful if they did the same for the other albums from this period, with a disc of contemporary ā€˜vault tracksā€™. Itā€™s interesting how little a lot of those tracks have in common with the music that ended up on Purple Rain itself - thereā€™s a lot of the extended, Minneapolis style electronic funk that could have come from Controversy or Purple Rain, some balladry that would fit on Parade, some psychedelia that could be on Around the World in A Day, but not much of the rockier guitar based sound of PR - so the unused tracks look forward and backwards in his development.

Iā€™d be interested to see if that was always the case.

#38

Pretty cool rehearsal footage. Going to start going to band practice in a fur coat and suspendersā€¦

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#39

Iā€™ve seen this unedited footage before. The whole thing is absolutely unreal. Nice to hear the demo. I wonder does this preclude more archival releases?

#40

Letā€™s hope so. Purple Rain style deluxes of all of his 80s album would be amazing.

So much good stuff in that vault.

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