Probably would have sold better if 'Girls & Boys' would have been the 2nd single instead of 'Mountains'. Don't get me wrong, I love both songs, but 'Kiss' should have been followed by "Girls & Boys' with an extended 'I Wonder U' as the B-side and then 'Anotherholenyohead' with 'Neon Telephone' as the B-side.

BEAUGARDE said:

So stuff the 'Mountains' 12" extended version then?

Even as a B-side in preference to 'Neon Telephone'?

Probably would have sold better if 'Girls & Boys' would have been the 2nd single instead of 'Mountains'.

In a completely unfeeling, record industry moment, I think Ill have to agree with beaugarde, Girls and boys would have finished what Kiss started, without a doubt. Releasing MOuntains just made all the non-fans say, oh it was just a passing thing, hes still that freak Prince!

hence, why we love Mountains.

I like Mountains better than Girls and Boys too, but commercial wins out at the end of the day

this is one of the reasons why I keep longing for remasters
of his albums. simply because so many others have done it n
put b-sides, remixes and unreleased tracks on a second disc

that would be so absolutely amazing



all those songs in good top notch soundquality, including
long versions of "Love or Money" and "Alexa de Paris" etc
and some 12" versions plus a couple of unreleased tracks,
like "Others here With Us" and "Old friends 4 Sale (86)"
or "All My Dreams" to name but a few



The only adaptation I would make regarding the entire Parade
project as it was released, including it's single releases n
videos etc would be the inclusion on the album of the first,
original version of "Old Friends 4 Sale" and the ultraweird
"Others here With Us", thus providing the album with Princes
weirdest/most haunting track and his most beautiful ballad.

Probably would have sold better if 'Girls & Boys' would have been the 2nd single instead of 'Mountains'. Don't get me wrong, I love both songs, but 'Kiss' should have been followed by "Girls & Boys' with an extended 'I Wonder U' as the B-side and then 'Anotherholenyohead' with 'Neon Telephone' as the B-side.

BEAUGARDE said:

C'mon now. You know good and well "Girls and Boys" isn't a hit single anymore than "Mountains" is. Mountains is more pop so it was a better choice. However, it was too vanilla to make any noise on the pop charts-- that and it was a different sound than most fans were accustomed to from Prince. Besides, let's face it, after 1999 and Purple Rain, the bar was set so high people were bound to be let down by anything short of a miracle. The successes of Raspberry Beret, Pop Life, AnotherLover... and Kiss owe (largely) to Prince's ability to write a simple pop tune but Prince was obviously evolving musically at a different rate than the public.

Maybe AnotherLover should've been the second single.

That would've been the logical choice, I guess, in hindsight. Part of me wishes he had done the ballsy thing and released All My Dreams or something like that-- something completely out of left field. He was already becoming known for his eccentricity. It would've been better to play that out than try to give the public what you think it wants. You could see how Mountains would totally kill momentum for the album on the charts. It's a good song in the context of the album but on its own...
[Edited 9/10/05 13:05pm]

Parade (as is) + Old Friends 4 Sale + Others Here With Us + All My Dreams = Best album of all time

Kiss was the only single on that album. I like the album, but it wasn't stuff to be played on the radio. Mountains sounded like weak Earth Wind and Fire.

Kiss was the only single on that album. I like the album, but it wasn't stuff to be played on the radio. Mountains sounded like weak Earth Wind and Fire.

In the UK, Kiss reached number 6, Girls & Boys was the follow-up which reached 11. I think it was a far catchier, radio-friendly single than Mountains would have been. Actually, the follow up then was Anotherloverholenyohead which reached only 36, Mountains never being released as a commercial single here.

Personally I think the singles shoulda gone like this...

1. Kiss / Love Or Money

2. Girls & Boys / Alexa De Paris

3. Mountains / An Honest Man

4. New Position / Under The Cherry Moon

5. Anotherloverholenyohead / Others Here With Us

.

Probably would have sold better if 'Girls & Boys' would have been the 2nd single instead of 'Mountains'. Don't get me wrong, I love both songs, but 'Kiss' should have been followed by "Girls & Boys' with an extended 'I Wonder U' as the B-side and then 'Anotherholenyohead' with 'Neon Telephone' as the B-side.

metalorange said:

UK releases:

1. Kiss
2. Mountains
3. Girls and Boys
4. Anotherloverholenyohead

.

metalorange said:

UK releases:

1. Kiss
2. Mountains
3. Girls and Boys
4. Anotherloverholenyohead

.