This has to be in my top 5 favorite outtakes and one of Prince's best outtakes. This song is completely perfect, the lyrics and music, everything. With a nice little message. I wouldn't change a thing in this song. The horns are incredible. Prince has some great outtakes from 1986, and this one is a real good one. In A Large With No Light rarely get's mentioned. I just thought it sould have it's own thread for some Appreciation as a great song. If you heard it, Share your thoughts.

Rinluv said:

That song is the shit!!!! The music speaks in volumes, he was dealing with Miles Davis a lot during that time, thats why the horns are so profound. I discovered this song on a bootleg copy of the Crucial album a friend of mine in high school made for me and when i first heard it i was like "WOW !!!" it was clearly one of Prince's most experimental songs, it's one of my favorite songs of his i play Drums to.

Anybody know where that CLASSIC thread was a few years back about this song? I believe it was a picture thread.

Classic funk hornz!

Actually the lyrics and tempo of the song are quite disturbin and uneasy.

Lana drew a picture in school 2day
One that made her mother cry
A picture of a woman with a drink in her hand

Standing by a child with no eyes
Washington reaction based upon revenge
Babies blown 2 kingdom come

Damn the logic
Cartoon characters look better when they're on the run
Danny dropped the dime on his girlfriend

He said he didn't wanna go 2 jail alone
The seed lives in the same mind

With the thought that says we all should be stoned
And people lookin' 4 angels in the sky

Whenever they're broken-hearted
Love is grown, seeds are sown
A fire don't burn unless it's started
Did U ever feel that life was like lookin' 4 a penny
In a large room with no light?
A sophisticated man reduced 2 company in no-win situations
That aren't right
Everytime U wake up there's a little motherfucker
Talkin' big stuff in your face (Are U happy?)
U only get the kind of people that open their mouth
just 2 swap feet
Welcome 2 the rat race
Did U ever feel that life was like lookin' 4 a penny
In a large room with no light?
A sophisticated man reduced 2 company in no-win situations
That aren't right

Oh, if U could just pass your history class
Maybe life would be alright
Until then U'll be lookin' 4 a penny

In a large room with no light
Yeah!
Life {repeat 2 fade}


Sam 8)

brilliant song/sound. when i hear it, i think of this:

"He had that relationship with other people, Sheila E particularly and of course Wendy and Lisa. From a conceptual basis, Wendy and Lisa were the two musicians in any of his bands who were able to tap into him on some subliminal level - they really did have a musical relationship that was closer than with anyone that he worked with.

My relationship was a little bit more from a player's standpoint. Because of the tremendous drummer and percussionist that Sheila is, [it meant] that relationship was very important. Some of the more interesting and more enjoyable music from my point of view was when Sheila, Prince, Wendy and Lisa and I would just go into the studio and just jam. I've got quite a few tapes of sessions like that. Purely ad lib, instrumental sessions, where we'd go in and just make a lot of music. None of it was going to get released; it was for our own enjoyment. Wendy and Lisa don't really come from a jazz background [but] they shared in the ability to be very spontaneous. Our ability to go in and spontaneously play some music and at the end of an hour come out with some music that at least we could say has some kind of musical validity and continuity. It may not have the harmonic sophistication of a straight-up jazz band, but the ethic was very similar."

- Eric Leeds

beautiful, simply beautiful. if he's still creating gems like this, they must be tucked away in the vault someplace.
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I'd like to say lots about it but for me it's 1 of those tracks I can't find, That and "moonbeam levels" are said to be fantatsic, but I've never heard either of 'em.
Crucial is very inspiring for me

I wish someone could find the epic thread about this song that was here a few years back.

Not to be self-aggrandizing, but I started it with a post called "Show Ya Love -- In A Large Room With No Light" in which I examined the lyrics and praised the song to the heavens. Yomomma (I'm pretty sure) came in and put all these incredible images to the text. It was awesome.

This was also the beginning of a wave of "Show Ya Love" threads. Good times...

Peace, David

I love it love it love it! It moves, it's adventurous, and the lyrics are very interesting. It's my favorite of all the unreleased tracks I've heard.

INCREDIBLE song. One of my very favourties. He should really release this gem.

livewire said:

This is the thread I mean. It was an all-time Org great. I'd love to see that again.

Don't think I ever heard this song....
but sounds AMAZING!!!!!

Wish I cud get a hold of it somehow.....

I was living in Oz between May 2003 and May 2004 and a very kind Aussie friend copied me a lot of bootleg CD's. This song was amongst the treasure trove - fabulous, fabulous song that reminds me of my life over there.

I agree...but there is one small problem - there is a wee word amongst the lyrics that wont bode well with his current beliefs - and the thought of him butchering and putting an unbearable noise over the top of it just makes me cringe - so lets just let the song remain underground.

Funkmeimfamous said:

Fantastic track, one of THE best

Oh to get a release of all the 86 outtakes in perfect quality, swearing & all.....

wonderful ass
moonbeam levels
in all my dreams
the original we Can Funk.....

aaah we can but dream

This also 1 of my favorites

Classic track and I just came across a near clean version released by Thunderball which makes it even better.

blacksweat said:

released when? and on what?

GangstaFam said:

I have no idea when it was released, but it was flagged as Dream Factory outtake. It's still a boot, but good quality.

jstar69 said:

He says it so fast that maybe, just maybe he'd leave it be.

Genius. Absolute genius.

toe said:

I agree

Prince should release some stuff for the fans to order online

Brilliant song. I wish a better quality version of it was circulating. It really sucks not to have this amazing track in pristine quality.

NorthernLad said:

yeah just like; storm, electric intercourse etc
damn shame

I love this spooky style of his. Great tune!
Hard to put my finger on what I like about it, but it's irresistable.
I do think these more experimental times of prince are over.
In a word, the poor bugger has lost his nerve.

One of the greatest Prince songs ever made. Imagine if this were officially released?

it's not all that IMO. Too busy

sambluedolphin said:

I like em'

Listening to it now and i'm thinking i'm agreeing with LittleSmedley.

this is like one of the 20 songs that vie for my top 5 prince songs of all time. LOVE it.
to get this with 'power fantastic' back in the day all on the same boot...Whooooo!

i once played it for a close friend once and he said it sounded like music from late night talk show, like the opening music for David Letterman or something...

i was like,

u know, i was wondering how many of us can write likeable, loveable and popular music like Prince can? i say we should APPLAUD HIM!!!! Thank u Prince for the fine and upstanding Music u play for us! were happy to get what we deserve!!!

HiinEnkelte said:

Are you talking about the "Crucial" boot? That was quite a massive goldmine back in the day.

GangstaFam said:

wasn't it, though?

that was my first. independent record stores in Boston at that time were simultaneously my savior and bankruptor!

madartista said:

Strawberry

y'all just makin me even more sad and angry I still haven't heard this song....

GangstaFam said:

oh yeah, i had that back in the day... good collection.

sambluedolphin said:

this is a song i can play on repeat over and over again..tight!