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is missing:Eric Leeds, Wendy, Sheila E, Lisa, Atlanta and a few others... "

So according to you if others are playing on this track they can't be friends of Prince?


Some of you need to get out of the past that you are living in

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OldFriends4Sale said:

Mars23 said:

And there it is. This is why the org can NEVER die.
It's got a brain of it's own.

Not as good as the original boot, but this is still very very very nice!!!!

I'm glad Prince decided to revisit this song and give it a 2009 spin.

very cool version. i really like it

garganta said:

A vast improvement on the original.
The original was so cornaball i could not stand it, this one is one is much much much better.
[Edited 7/15/09 7:09am]

Shorty said:

PicassoFace said:

Good song, typical Prince bullshit.

Wow, prefer this to the original. Excellent stuff, well worth my $77. Oh hang on, this was on a free site. Oh well, cool anyway.

Horrible. Horrible. Not as bad as the remake of Old Friends but another classic ruined.

Thibaut said:

I would too. I liked it but I dig the original more. Even if I hated it, I'm glad that Prince is acknowledging the song's existance by playing it on stage and now releasing it via the Monteaux website. Good for Prince.

Living in the past, I'm living in 2009,
your attitude needs adjustment, don't read crap into my post that isn't there

I'm not saying those people should have been on this recording, and that was just a list of the people who did create that piece with Prince
If I didn't add those peoples names you probably would not have said a damn thing

All the fuck I said was you don't get the chemistry that you hear on the original.

laurarichardson said:

[Edited 7/15/09 7:47am]

Sounds like something off of Marvel VS Capcom 2

npggirl77 said:

with either john or michael b behind the drums i'm always a happy camper

KeithyT said:

Wow, that sums up how I feel perfectly.

Glossy, vegas-lite jazz vibe. He just can't seem to recapture the edge and punch he once displayed, don't know if its over-production or what.

The original is so great, this is just a tepid piece of pretend-jazz wankery.

FYI: mp3 embedded in the FLV is 96 kbps:

laurarichardson said:

Prince releases tepid re-recording of 20+ year old classic outtake and WE are the ones living in the past?

BartVanHemelen said:

Still sounds better than the boots I have of this song, they hurt my ears. Hardly listened to it before but love this version.

TheEnglishGent said:

Oh please, the Dream Factory boot was sourced from a cassette tape, was remastered by a guy who knows his skills, and sounds absolutely great.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

BartVanHemelen said:

Ah, Bart. You can always be trusted for consistency - a combination of pure negativity for anything post-95 along with excellent information!

BartVanHemelen said:

Thank U

I can't believe I am going to say this but I really don't like it.

On one hand I really appreciate the sentiment and think it's sweet of prince to put this out there knowing that there are purple geeks like me that have hoped this song (and many other unreleased gems) would one day be released.

On the other hand the rerecording of this is light years away from the original (obv just my opinion) and the moment I finished listening my brain was blah... it's just so anticlimactic. Ya know what, it actually made me sad (doesn't take much lately, lol). There was absolutely NO magic in this version- the previous had such a vivid life of it's own and always gave me that feeling you get when you fall in love with a song for the first time. That intangible something that made me get so involved in the prince world waaaay back when I first heard the original. Maybe it's unfair of me to make comparisons since part of the charm of the original may be linked to it being unreleased and rare and the mystery around it. But this IS a remake so I think comparisons are inevitable.

It's not like the icepick in the ear of 1999 the new master but to me it falls into the same category of things that should never be tinkered with or rerecorded. BUT, like I said, I think he probably wanted to give us this because there has been such a buzz about it recently on the org- at least there's comfort in knowing he's paying attention!

And wouldn't it be awesome if on the lotusflow3r site he put the original up for download.. wouldn't it? Wouldn't it Prince???

i get it why he put it there-so EVERYONE can hear it

but surely-they could also have added it to Lotus too-but to not even mention this is obviously a definate signal-there are so few members it's not worth doing anything.....

great-what the fuck about us that joined then

i think-at this stage SURELY we deserve to be told either way

BartVanHemelen said:

Oh please, are you going to completely ignore the bit where I said, "better than the boots I have"?

Not everybody has every single boot ever released. If there's a decent quality version, I'm missing it. Got a couple of Dream Factory boots but nothing with a crystal clear Large Room With No Light.

If you have a lovely clear version, then good for you, but don't assume everyone else has. My boots of this song sound horrible.

polkadotbliss said:

Exactly, he's a twat.

contrapposto said:

There isn't any original one. Since this was unreleased and we have only heard it before because some one STOLE it from prince. What we heard maybe version 7 for all we know. Some of u act as if the music belongs to u when it prince's creation and he has the freedom to make a million different versions of it and release none of them if he so desires.

U act like a bunch of ungrateful children. Be happy u have 2 versions. And prince is free to release music where and how he wants. He never said every sound and message from him would be funneled thru the website. Like I said every move Prince makes will be critized no matter what.