ernestsewell said:

tricky2 said:

MajesticOne89 said:

Hey, I was bored one afternoon, and need a pic for my 365 project this year. Voila...there it is. I also did Madonna's Bedtime Stories album cover too.



Just pray I don't do Lovesexy!

ernestsewell said:

ernestsewell said:

great stuff ernest..what a cool idea..I wanna do Lovesyxy cover of myself LOL

rudeboynpg said:[quote]

OldFriends4Sale said:

Susannah and Paul both have told me today that is "it is NOT Susannah - FOR SURE". It's probably that model he was hangin' with. But I knew it wasn't Susannah. Doesn't look a thing like her, and every girl had hair like that back then. It WAS the 80's after all.

ernestsewell said:

Maybe it's Prince's mamma.

tricky2 said:

classic shot right there


warfield theatre frisco me thinx

very nice thread, ta! xxxxx

Prince with Troy Breyer

PEJ said:

Was it the caption that says "Warfield Theater, San Francisco" that clued you in? LOL

[Edited 5/3/09 11:35am]

OldFriends4Sale said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

[NOTE: There seems to be nothing to support this claim -Mars23]

Hotness!!!!!

rudeboynpg said:

wow, thanks. I've always wanted 2 know who she was

I don't know if it's in jest or truth but the story behind the veil was Prince said to her that she wasn't a pretty as he was or not pretty enough so let's put a veil on her.

Girls and boys!
He only knew her 4 a little while
But he had grown accustomed 2 her style
She had the cutest ass he ever seen
But he did 2, they were meant 2 be
They loved 2 kiss on the steps of Versailles
It looked like rain, mama, birds do fly

CHORUS:
I love U baby, I love U so much
Maybe we can stay in touch
Meet me in another world, space, and joy
Vous êtes très belle, mama, girls and boys {U're very pretty, ...}

He gave her all the love that anyone can
But she was promised 2 another man
He tried so hard not 2 go insane
Birds do fly, it looks like rain

CHORUS

Life is precious baby, love is so rare
I could take the breakup if U say that U care
He had 2 run away, his pride was 2 strong
It started raining, baby, the birds were gone, oh

Maybe (CHORUS)
Meet me in another world
Vous êtes très belle, mama, girls and boys

I want U, baby (CHORUS)
Maybe we can play 2day
Vous êtes très belle, girls and boys

















Vous étiez de l'autre côté de la salle

{U were on the other end of the room}

Vous dansiez si fort je sentais votre parfum

{U were dancing so hard I could smell your perfume}

Votre sourire me dit que nous devrions nous parler...

{Your smile tells me that we should talk...}

Sur la piste de dance, baby

{On the dance floor, baby}

Fais cet appel pour moi

{Make that call 4 me}

Oh oui, baby - sexe et repos

{Oh yes, baby - sex and rest}

Et ne résistez pas

{And U won't resist it}

Vous savez que vous aimerez ca, baby, oh ouah

{U know U'll like that, baby, oh ow!}

Je vous enlacerai avec mes jambes, baby

{I will wrap my legs around U, baby}

Pendant des heures je veux vous étonner, baby

{4 hours and hours I want 2 amaze U, baby}

Fleurs dans votre bain, amour dans vos draps

{Flowers in your bath, love in your sheets}

Faire l'amour, faire l'amour - où nous rencontrerons-nous?

{Make love, make love - where will we meet?}

CHORUS

I want U baby, I want U so much (CHORUS)
Maybe, maybe we can stay in touch
Another world, space
Lips, face

Happiness in its uncut form
Is the feeling that I get in your warm, warm...
Happy's what I get when we do what we do
Happiness, mama, is being with U ... good Lord

Meet me somewhere after dawn ... Lord

(I love U baby, I love U so much)
(Maybe we can stay in touch)
(I love u baby, I love U so much)
Vous êtes très belle (Maybe we can stay in touch {x4})
So like I saw U from across the room and..
Honey, U danced so hard I smelled your perfume
And the look on your lips said that a..
We could talk some more, some more on the dance floor baby

Hear the words I'm sayin' (CHORUS)
Feel the sex I'm layin'
Naughty's what I wanna be with U 2night, 2night
Vous êtes très belle, mama, girls and boys

Vous êtes très belle, mama, girls and boys
Vous êtes très belle, mama, girls and boys
Vous êtes très belle, mama, girls and boys
Girls and boys

© 1986 Controversy Music - ASCAP

tricky2 said:

They definately fit the Parade look but I thought those 2 photos were from Wendy & Lisa's project (is it Girl Bros?)

OldFriends4Sale said:

Nah, these are from the 1986 Rolling Stone interview "Prince's Women." you posted the cover above. I really love that cover photo. It's a great interview.
If I can scan it, I'll post it. They discuss UTCM.
Great job on these threads BTW.
[Edited 5/4/09 9:18am]

tricky2 said:

Oh wow, I didn't realize that. That's cool, thanks 4 sharing

Prince Strips Down: Parade
Davitt Sigerson, Rolling Stone, 24 April 1986




Prince Strips Down

Who but Prince fills us today with the kind of anticipation we once reserved for new work by Bob Dylan, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones? Happily, following the commercial and creative letdown of Around the World in a Day (cleverly presented as his Personal Statement record), Parade: Music from “Under the Cherry Moon” bears the weight of intense hope and scrutiny as lightly as its maker wears the satin capes he favours.

Prince has made it his task to shock us: his work sounds so inevitable we can no longer identify what it was that first surprised us. He did this on ‘When Doves Cry.’ Was it simply the omission of bass guitar or the retention of a single line of melody for verse and chorus? The answer lies in the way it was assembled; the result is that most of us can remember where we were and what we were doing the first time we heard it.

‘When Doves Cry’ and Purple Rain, the blockbuster it introduced, weren’t even Prince’s best work. That had been achieved one record before — on 1999. A febrile double album of extended dance pieces, it featured his best song, ‘Little Red Corvette,’ and an example of his musical wit, ‘1999.’ A lover of ‘60s pop, he built ‘1999’ around the central riff of the Mamas and the Papas’ ‘Monday, Monday.’ To complete this tribute-by-triangulation, Prince has now written for the Bangles ‘Manic Monday’, which bears a melody almost identical to ‘1999’ but omits the founding riff that would link it to its original source.

This is the degree of energy and intelligence we have come to expect from Prince. This is the promise he has once again kept — on Parade. Like Purple Rain, the new album is a soundtrack (for the forthcoming Under the Cherry Moon) and is preceded by the stunning ‘Kiss.’ The single has been mistaken as a return to the music of his Dirty Mind period. In fact, it is made with a sparseness and — most surprising to the ear — an absence of reverb that bespeak years of learning. Rhythmically, ‘Kiss’ is funk; harmonically, it is rhythm & blues; lyrically, it proves Prince is crossing yet another frontier, into emotional maturity.

The petulant baby — first trumpeting a purported sexuality and then expecting us to care about a so-called spiritual rejuvenation — is no more. Not that Prince wasn’t intelligent enough to say interesting things all along, between the nonsense. Usually, though, sex was his code word for a kind of achievement in which the gratification of voyeur and audience defined success. This explains the curious the curious lack of love, or even motivation, in Prince’s sex songs. Dirty Mind’s ‘Sister,’ for example, isn’t a song about making love to one’s sister; it’s a song about making love in which the female seducer is cast as the protagonist’s sister, much as a pornographer might create a fantasy to titillate his audience. ‘Sister’ is not about what it claims to be about, and neither incites nor shocks.

What really shocks, of course, is the aural landscape of records like ‘When Doves Cry’ and ‘Kiss.’ We all may have dirty minds, but few of us are visionaries. In the arrangements on Parade, it is Prince’s vision to that is paraded: a simple Weillen waltz like ‘Under the Cherry Moon’ proves an excuse for all manner of orchestral invention; when Prince says on ‘New Position,’ “You’ve got to try my new funk,” believe him. In ‘New Position,’ on ‘Kiss’ and above all in the sensational ‘Girls & Boys,’ Prince conceives a clean, diamond-hard style that could spawn years of imitations.

Far from the funk of Dirty Mind, this style springs from an understanding f orchestration, rather than the innate ability to jam on rhythm instruments. On Parade, all sounds — snippets of guitar, horn, percussion, voice — are treated equally, erasing the line between ‘basic track’ and “sweetening”. Prince has achieved the effect of a full groove using only the elements essential to a listener’s understanding — and so has devised a funk completed only by the listener’s response.

Thanks to Under the Cherry Moon, we get the title song, ‘Sometimes It Snows in April’ and ‘Christopher Tracy’s Parade’; thanks to shooting in France, we get the French touches in ‘Girls & Boys’ and ‘Do U Lie?’ But the growth in Prince’s lyrics isn’t because maturity is written into the film script. On Parade, sex and love sound real, and perhaps for the first time, they sound related. He’s made the adult discovery — or is it an admission? — that the people you care about can be the people who turn you on the most. ‘Kiss’ even offers something of a manifesto: in lines like “Women not girls rule my world”, “U don’t have 2 watch Dynasty 2 have an attitude” and “U can’t be 2 flirty mama I know how 2 undress me”, Prince smiles at his old ways. On another track, he serves notice that he’s “got 2 try a new position”.

If Parade harks back to Dirty Mind, it is less in the surface similarities of the falsetto funk style than in its freedom from thematic pretensions. Prince has given us three successive concept albums — first the unintended masterpiece 1999; next the Cinerama extravaganza Purple Rain, where his exertions occasionally drowned out his intentions; and finally the con job Around the World in a Day, when he summoned craft and packaging to bridge the creative chasm he faced. Having gathered enough laurels on which to rest comfortably forevermore, Prince wants to have some fun with music, or as he puts it, to “go fishing in the river, the river of life.” What better time for a new baptism?



Davitt Sigerson
[Edited 5/4/09 12:19pm]

aarontj said:

Parade Outtakes

Tracklist:
01. Little Girl Wendy's Parade 2:07
"Christopher Tracy's Parade" was originally recorded as this outtake. The song is basically the same but with a reference to Wendy's guitar (rhymes with "car" in the next line) as opposed to Tracy's piano. Incidentally, Prince sings "little girl Wendy's parade" in "Kiss" right before the third verse.

Everyone come behold little girl Wendy's parade
The show will proceed unless it should rain strawberry lemonade

02. New Position 2:16 Originally from the Controversy era
03. I Wonder U 1:33
04. Under The Cherry Moon 2:51
05. There's Others Here With Us 2:38
*Prince's experimental frame of mind is evident on this track, a dark, strange number with a stark instrumentation made up of tribal-like drumming and various sound effects, such as someone weeping. Prince's vocals are harsh and confused, matching the nightmarish lyrics mentioning death and suicide. Recorded during the Parade sessions, it confirms Prince's belief the spirit lives on after death.

It's strange how your mind works when Love is in power
One learns 2 care and appreciate a flower
What makes others want 2 change your mind?
All the things I've seen, life is so sublime

06. Life Can Be So Nice 3:08
07. Sometimes It Snows In April 6:41
08. Old Friends 4 Sale 3:30
*This slow bluesy classic is one of Prince's most autobiographical songs in which he sings about Steve Fargnoli, Wendy Melvoin, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, and the late bodyguard Chick Huntsberry. A somber mood is established from an eerie slightly discordant synth with a piano the main accompaniment. Recorded during the Parade sessions, two versions exist, with one including Clare Fischer's orchestra. It was revised in 1991.

The sun set in my heart this afternoon
4 2 friends of mine got stuck in the snow
In Uptown when winter's alarmin',

This song I originally heard a few times on 104 WDKX back in 85, it was played as a PROMO. I really believe Prince might have released it as such, instead of it being 'leaked'
I had it on tape the same time I added the Black album boot to when it was 'leaked' to the underground. I love(d) this song, it's so personal, so much feeling and history behind it versus the version released on the Vault cd which is so overworked/destroyed impersonal and just not enjoyable. Like Hello, Old Friends 4 Sale is recounting some experiences that happened near the end at the end of the Purple Rain era/tour. His 1st real move toward a jazz feel. Piano, bass, drums with use of the brush and some strings.

Old Friends 4 Sale
Get em while their still hot
Watch out they'll kiss U till they get what U got
And they'll show U the friends that their not
Old Friends 4 Sale

09. All My Dreams 7:12

Welcome, this is where I live
This is where I dream my dreams

10. Girls & Boys 5:37
11. Love Or Money 4:10 Sung in Prince, not Camille, voice

Nothing comes 4 free now
If U want 2 be with me now
What's it gonna be now?

12. Heaven 7:04
*12. Heaven (recorded in France summer '84), this whimsical track was recorded in May of 1985 but was never placed on any configuration of Parade. Prince plays the main "carnivalesque" theme on the organ, alternating with a different figure, played on synth sounding like a harp. The lyrics reflect Prince's belief that heaven can be a place on earth.

Heaven will be here on earth
If we just try 2 love

- An Honest Man Complete instrumental version of the song, from Under the Cherry Moon movie & an accapella lyrical version

- Neon Telephone Parade outtake later given to Three OClock 3:52

Sometimes her pride is like a big tall building
It hides the street that leads 2 a sweet mystery
[Edited 5/5/09 8:00am]