Oh girl, where'd U get those shoes?

These are "come-and-fuck-me" pumps

Baby, I swear 2 God if U don't kiss 'em

Honey, U see these pumps? Bitch!

Almost immediately after the decision to shelve it, the Black Album emerged on the streets in bootleg form, arguably becoming popular music's most legendary bootleg, after The Basement Tapes and Smile. Several celebrities, including U2's frontmen The Edge and Bono, cited it as one of their favorite albums of 1988 (Rolling Stone magazine celebrity poll). By the time it was released by Warner Bros. legitimately in November 1994 (again, containing only a track listing and a new catalog number—45793—printed onto the disc itself and only legal copy appearing on the spine), almost every dedicated Prince fan already owned an illegal copy. It was released in a strictly limited edition and deleted by Warner Bros. the following January. It is believed that this release was legitimized so that Prince could get out of his new 7-album contract with the label, which he had signed the previous year and regretted instantly, because he wanted ownership of his recordings, a rarity in the music industry. Soon before the release of The Black Album, Prince started to appear with the word "slave" written on his face and changed his legal name to an unpronounceable symbol.

OldFriends4Sale said:

Time upon a once
There was a boy named Camille
Now this boy named Camille
didn't know how 2 feel...

Where is this from?

Harlepolis said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

Time upon a once
There was a boy named Camille
Now this boy named Camille
didn't know how 2 feel...

Where is this from?

the Lovesexy Tour Book

Dead On It

Riding in my Thunderbird on the freeway
I turned on my radio 2 hear some music play
I got a silly rapper talking silly shit instead
Sayin' the only good rapper is one that's dead on it
Uh, dead on it
Shall we go back? (Yeah!)

Let's go

Negroes from Brooklyn play the bass pretty good
But the ones from Minneapolis play it like it oughta should
A mackin' fro is better when U got a blue bonnet
And the 2 and fro is funky when the grease is dead on it
Funky dead on it
Uh, dead on it
Shall we go back?
Let's go

Funky dead on it, wow

See, the rapper's problem usually stem from being tone deaf
Pack the house then try 2 sing, there won't be no one left
On it

Parking lots on fire, brothers peelin' outta town
They say in disgust, been singin' their guts
Rappin' done let us down (down, down)
We got 2 be dead on it
Dead on it (Dead)

All the sisters like it when U lick 'em on the knees
Don't believe me? (No)
Do it once then stop
They'll be beggin' please, please, please (please, please, please)

Shoo bee doo wa, dead on it

What does that have 2 do with the funk? Nothing!
But who's payin' the bills?
If U don't wanna lick my knees
I'm sho' your mama will, uh
Cuz we, cuz we, cuz we dead on it
De..de..de..de..de..dead on it, on it

La, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la

My bed's a coffin, Dracula ain't got shit on me
My nickname's Hellzapoppin', I'm badder than the wicked witch
I got a gold tooth cost more than your house
I got a diamond ring on 4 fingers, each one the size of a mouse
They dead, they dead on it

(Asses is crackin') {x2}

La, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la {x2}

Wait now, hang up, dial tone on the 3
U know, U know I'm busy, 2 scizzy
Can't nobody fuck with me!
Cuz I'm dead (on it, on it, on it) on it

(Shoo bee doo wa wa, dead on it)

Dead on it, on it, on it {fade out}
Dang, dang, dang, dang (Dead on it)
Shoo bee dang, dang, dang, dead on it
Dead, dead on it

While specific recording dates are not known, basic tracks were recorded in March, 1987 at Prince's Galpin Blvd Home Studio, Chanhassen, MN, USA (during the same set of sessions that produced Cindy C. and Nine). The song includes a sampled line by Sheila E. taken directly from Holly Rock ("badder than a wicked witch"). Although unreleased at the time, lyrics (ridiculing rappers) from Dead On It were rapped by Tony M. (over music from Race) as an introduction to Jughead on each date of the Diamonds And Pearls Tour.

DON'T BUY THE BLACK ALBUM ... I'M SORRY

^ Great moment in Prince history.

The Black Album vs. Lovesexy.. 2 excellent albums.

And I that Alphabet Street music video...:

[img:$uid]http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/8024/alphabetstvideo.jpg[/img:$uid]

Credits from housequake.com, I forgot the original poster.

OldFriends4Sale said:

Time upon a once
There was a boy named Camille
Now this boy named Camille
didn't know how 2 feel.
Sometimes he was lonely
sometimes he was sad
but most times
he just took 4 granted
all the nice things
that he had.

Some people said they loved him
but Camille said
"Contempt!
Winter, Spring,
Summer, or Fall,
love is no good
unless it's felt by all"

So, naive & terrifically in need
Camille started looking for answers
His paintbrush the questioner,
his canvas the arena,
Camille set out to silence his critics.
"No longer daring" - his enemies laughed.
"No longer glam, his funk is half-assed...
one leg is much shorter
than the other one is weak.
His strokes are tepid,
his colors are meek."

So Camille found a new color.
The color black:
strongest hue of them all.
He painted a picture
called Le Grind --
hittin' so tall.
And then Cindy C --
THE vogue fantasy.
Horns & vocals 2 die 4.
Lollipops -- in yours!

Stroke after stroke callin' all others a joke.
Superfunkycalifragisexi.

Camille rocked hard in a funky place.

Stuck his long funk in competition's face.

Tuesday came. Blue Tuesday.
His canvas full, and lying on the table,

Camille mustered
all the hate that he was able.

Hate 4 the ones who ever doubted his game.

Hate 4 the ones who ever doubted his name.

"Tis nobody funkier -- let the Black Album fly."

Spooky Electric was talking, Camille started 2 cry.

Tricked.
A fool he had been.

In the lowest utmostest.

He had allowed
the dark side of him 2 create something evil.

2 Nigs United
4 West Compton.

Camille and his ego.

Bob George.

Why?

I swear I would rock the heck out of that suit! Love the outfits!!!

Thanks for the details and work in this post

PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS

Friday, November 25, 1994
Section: FEATURES YO!
Page: 98

DISCS

'BLACK' IS GOLDEN FOR PURPLE ONE

by Jonathan Takiff, Daily News Staff Writer

THE BLACK ALBUM
Prince
Warner Brothers
* * * *

Just before its scheduled debut in December 1987, Prince suddenly decided to cancel his new album release. It was a time of heavy censorship agitation against pop music, and evidently Prince (or his advisers) didn't want to supply more fuel for the fire with this patently sexy set, which was never officially titled but known by its monochrome, type-free cover as "The Black Album."

Prince paid off Warner Brothers to have all 400,000 copies of the initial pressing destroyed. Yet a few copies escaped and fell into the wrong (or right) hands. Almost overnight, "The Black Album" became, according to Prince's label, the most bootlegged album in history.

As well it should have. The set is one of the hardest, funkiest works Prince has ever cranked out. Its eight solid jams hark stylistically to the scorched scorings of James Brown and Sly and the Family Stone, tip a hat to the hip-hop community and allude to the progressive jazz-rock horn charts of Frank Zappa. And like Zappa, Prince boldly mixed the musically sacred with the lyrically profane.

The electro-percolating "Le Grind" is a definition of dirty dancing that leaves nothing to the imagination. "Up and down, up and down like a pony would," pants our boy.

Elsewhere, Prince espouses the aphrodisiac powers of squirrel meat (who knew?) in "Superfunkacalafrajasexy" and encourages guys to excite the sisters by licking on their knees (who knew that was a hot spot?) in the rapping, rapturous "On It."

The bold one begs a beauty mark-festooned model named "Cindy C." to let him "see you in your birthday suit tonight." Look out, Richard Gere!

The set also is home to the Prince concert favorite "When 2 R N Love," a pretty ballad that encourages romantics "nothing's forbidden and nothing's taboo."

Designed to spark even more controversy was a hard-bitten gangsta rap called "Bob," in which Prince processes his voice to sound like Barry White, and plays the ugly part of a gun-wielding, chauvinist pig.

I could do without the last track. But the rest are a kick and a half. And the double good news, as you may have guessed already, is that you finally can hear this music officially. Prince and Warners have struck a unique deal to issue "The Black Album" for a limited, two-month span, commencing this week and ending Jan. 27. So if you want it, come and get it fast.

Amusingly, Warner Bros. is offering "amnesty" to buyers of the bootleg. The first 1,000 felons who turn in their "naughty, counterfeit" copies will receive a new official CD or cassette copy. To participate, send your contraband album to Amnesty Offer, Warner Bros. Records, Box 6868, Burbank, Calif. 91505.

OldFriends4Sale said:

PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS

Friday, November 25, 1994
Section: FEATURES YO!
Page: 98

DISCS

'BLACK' IS GOLDEN FOR PURPLE ONE

by Jonathan Takiff, Daily News Staff Writer

THE BLACK ALBUM
Prince
Warner Brothers
* * * *

Just before its scheduled debut in December 1987, Prince suddenly decided to cancel his new album release. It was a time of heavy censorship agitation against pop music, and evidently Prince (or his advisers) didn't want to supply more fuel for the fire with this patently sexy set, which was never officially titled but known by its monochrome, type-free cover as "The Black Album."

Prince paid off Warner Brothers to have all 400,000 copies of the initial pressing destroyed. Yet a few copies escaped and fell into the wrong (or right) hands. Almost overnight, "The Black Album" became, according to Prince's label, the most bootlegged album in history.

As well it should have. The set is one of the hardest, funkiest works Prince has ever cranked out. Its eight solid jams hark stylistically to the scorched scorings of James Brown and Sly and the Family Stone, tip a hat to the hip-hop community and allude to the progressive jazz-rock horn charts of Frank Zappa. And like Zappa, Prince boldly mixed the musically sacred with the lyrically profane.

The electro-percolating "Le Grind" is a definition of dirty dancing that leaves nothing to the imagination. "Up and down, up and down like a pony would," pants our boy.

Elsewhere, Prince espouses the aphrodisiac powers of squirrel meat (who knew?) in "Superfunkacalafrajasexy" and encourages guys to excite the sisters by licking on their knees (who knew that was a hot spot?) in the rapping, rapturous "On It."

The bold one begs a beauty mark-festooned model named "Cindy C." to let him "see you in your birthday suit tonight." Look out, Richard Gere!

The set also is home to the Prince concert favorite "When 2 R N Love," a pretty ballad that encourages romantics "nothing's forbidden and nothing's taboo."

Designed to spark even more controversy was a hard-bitten gangsta rap called "Bob," in which Prince processes his voice to sound like Barry White, and plays the ugly part of a gun-wielding, chauvinist pig.

I could do without the last track. But the rest are a kick and a half. And the double good news, as you may have guessed already, is that you finally can hear this music officially. Prince and Warners have struck a unique deal to issue "The Black Album" for a limited, two-month span, commencing this week and ending Jan. 27. So if you want it, come and get it fast.

Amusingly, Warner Bros. is offering "amnesty" to buyers of the bootleg. The first 1,000 felons who turn in their "naughty, counterfeit" copies will receive a new official CD or cassette copy. To participate, send your contraband album to Amnesty Offer, Warner Bros. Records, Box 6868, Burbank, Calif. 91505.

Huh? The reviewer didn't like "Rockhard in a Funky Place?"

Amnesty, eh? I wonder how many folks took WB up on that offer?

OldFriends4Sale said:

1988 I went to an 'urban' store called All Day Sunday in the mall

I'm walking around and I hear this music that has that distinct 1982-1987 Prince sound/feel/vibe

I had everything out there as far as Prince & proteges were concerned and for a min thought he had a new protege band because that was 100% Prince sound

Then the owner announces over the system that we are listening to the unreleased Black Album by Prince

my heart dropped, shopping at that moment NO LONGER MATTERED, I wandered the store listening to the music, realizing at that moment that almost all my morals and standards were being tested.

What would I not do to get a copy of that???

I finally left anxiety just all over the place sad excited frustrated etc etc

I call up my friend William and told him what happened, he said he knew the owner and we could get a couple of copies. I went and bought Maxwell GOLD tapes 100 mins and gave Will one of them, by the next day I had my own copy of the infamous Black Album by Prince

YOU SUCK!!! I so want that! I mean it's not fair!!!!!!!!! Haha jk, You were so blessed to be in the position you were in! I would have done everythig I could to get that album! 4 SURE! The whole concept and era is just inspiring and completely beautiful! haha

StonedImmaculate said:

After hearing all of the hoopla about the Black Album and trying to see the hidden message in the "Alphabet St" video, I was seriously jonesing for this thing. I was only 14 when "Lovesexy" dropped, so I really didnt know where the hell to get a copy. I heard Kurt Loder say that bootleg copies were selling at swap meets in Europe for hundreds of dollars, and I just had to have one. No way I was going to Europe, so I grabbed the yellow pages and started calling all of the "mom and pops" stores listed. I called everybody! "Do you have Prince's Black Album?" A lot of them had no idea what I was talking about and put me on hold while they checked their inventory, but a few knew what I was talking about. I got responses like "I wish" and "Nobody has that shit!" One dude gave me his phone number and told me that if I found a copy, call him!

There was a store called "Off the Record", right around the corner from San Diego State University. The girl told me they had two copies, but already sold them. I was devastated. The last store I called was "Blue Meanie Records" in El Cajon, CA. I asked if they had it and the girl laughed at me. She said "We don't carry bootlegs but if you come visit us, you wont be disappointed. Got it?" I begged my father, BEGGED him to take me there...and he did. When we pulled up outside, my dad said "What the fuck is this?" This record store was BIZARRE...well, to us anyway. There were tons of windows, but each was covered with paint. There were Blue Meanies and Beatles, David Bowie's half dog picture from "Diamond Dogs" (?), a lot of Satanic looking stuff...my dad looked at me like I was insane. When we went inside, it only got worse. Loud, loud, loud death metal playing, nothing but white folks and they all looked like punk rockers and skinheads. I was terrified to speak to anyone, so I just went to the "P" section to search for Prince and...HOLY SHIT!!! This was my first experience with bootlegs and they had a TON of shit, all on vinyl. I damn near wet my pants. I totally forgot about the Black Album as I was out of my mind. Never saw it, so I grabbed "The Regent of First Avenue", the 03/21/87 show from the Ave. When I went to pay for it, the girl behind the counter looked at it, looked at me and said "Did you call me earlier about the Black Album?" I said "Yeah." She walked away...when she came back, she handed me my first copy of the Black Album, on vinyl.

That was the summer of 1988...I didnt leave my room for like a week.

What a fantastic story! I wish I was around in 1988! Haha

OldFriends4Sale said:

Cindy C.

Yeah!

This song's about a high-class model over in Paris, France (Oh Cindy C.)
If I get a camera, tell me will U dance? (Will U play with me?)
If I take a picture in the middle of the night (Oh Cindy C.)
Will U funk with me, sugar? (Will U funk with me?)
Say it's alright, come on (Say it, say it)

CHORUS:
(Cindy C., play with me)
(I will pay the usual fee)
Ah Cindy C. (What's it gonna be?)
Will U play with me? (What's it gonna be?)
(Cindy C., play with me)
(I will pay the usual fee)
Ah Cindy C. (What's it gonna be?)
I'll pay the fee (Cindy C.)

Super-fine heifer, U're so bloody vogue (Super fine)
I knew U would be trouble (trouble, trouble) from the word go (go, go)
I'll give U 7 sips of elderberry wine (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
Maybe we'll unlock the secrets of your mind

CHORUS

The passion's in the mix (Serve it up, Sheila)
Drink it quick Cindy – shit!
Where'd U get that beauty mark?
Baby, U and I should be undressing

Don't all girls look the same?
They don't? Oh, what a shame
Cindy, Cindy - I'll pay the usual fee
What's the matter, don't U like me?

(Poppy, tell me what it's all about)

I'm talkin' 'bout a long crucial leg

(Cindy C. – listen 2 me)

Girl, if I have 2 beg

Baby, is that alright?

(Cindy C.)

Oh Cindy C., will U play with me?
I'll pay the usual fee

2 organ solos 2 go

Oh Cindy C. {repeat}
(Yeah)

Oh Cindy C., will U play with me?
Oh Cindy C., I will pay the fee
Ah Cindy C., will U play with me?
Ah Cindy C., I will pay the fee

Help me! (Ah shit)
Uh!

Excuse my savoir-faire
But baby, I'm dyin' 2 take U everywhere (Oh yeah?)
I wanna show U 2 my friends (Ha ha ha)
Because baby, U're the living end (Tell me now)
Baby, U have a debt worth winning
I can feel your ice is thinning
Like a frozen pond in spring (Woo)
Your furry melting thing awaits me (Ah)
Your furry melting thing awaits me and my 6-string
(Oh Cindy C., will U play with me?)

(Cindy, where are U?)
Come on Cindy (Oh my God)
Come on Cindy (Wait)
Don't U wanna play with me? (Uh yes, no, wait)
Don't U wanna play with me? (Yes)
What's the matter with me, Cindy? (Nothing)
Ahhh!

Shockadelia!

Oh Cindy C., won't U play with me?

{Rap from "Music Is The Key" by J.M. Silk}
Music is the key 2 set yourself free
From depression, drugs and increasing poverty
The key is 2 the lock, the lock is on the door
The door has a knob that U never turned before
The jack, use the jack, it opens up the lock
Cuz there's the key 2 unlock the body
Place it like that 2 open up the door
The door 2 the house 4 the people galore
The beat won't stop till the J.M. jocks
And he jacks the box till the party rocks
The clock tick-tocks and the place gets hot
And believe it or not, all the troubles U forgot
It's just that easy if U want it 2 be
4 all the fellas and the young ladies
So ease your mind and set yourself free
2 the mystifying music that we call Cindy C.

Oh Cindy C., won't U play with me?
Oh Cindy C.

While specific recording dates are not known, basic tracks were recorded in March, 1987 at Prince's Galpin Blvd Home Studio, Chanhassen, MN, USA (during the same set of sessions that produced Dead On It and Nine). After "The Black Album" was initially canceled, the track was broadcast on December, 1989 as part of The New Power Generation Radio Show, hosted by Prince (under the name Me, Myself and I) and Robin Power, Ingrid Chavez and Levi Seacer, Jr.

The track's title refers to supermodel Cindy Crawford. Cat's rap in the song (later reused in an unreleased version of Positivity), was taken from J.M. Silk's 1985 track Music Is The Key, although Prince was unaware of this at the time (he removed it from Positivity when he found out, but it is included here as a quote from Cindy C. as Prince was unaware of its origins at the time of its use).

AHHHH!!! These lyrics are OFF the chain! HE really was feeling CINDY! I mean I would do, she was the SHIZ back then! Still is, she was just too hot! I mean, " Your fury melting thing, awaits me" HELL NAH! Cindy seemed to have Pussy control though. haha

Nevertheless, this track is just the BOMB! Heard it while, I went on a walk, and just started funking in the parks. WHAT A JAM!

OldFriends4Sale said:

Oh girl, where'd U get those shoes?

These are "come-and-fuck-me" pumps

Baby, I swear 2 God if U don't kiss 'em

Honey, U see these pumps? Bitch!

Woman with cufflinks.. SEXY! Haha

EyeJester7 said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

1988 I went to an 'urban' store called All Day Sunday in the mall

I'm walking around and I hear this music that has that distinct 1982-1987 Prince sound/feel/vibe

I had everything out there as far as Prince & proteges were concerned and for a min thought he had a new protege band because that was 100% Prince sound

Then the owner announces over the system that we are listening to the unreleased Black Album by Prince

my heart dropped, shopping at that moment NO LONGER MATTERED, I wandered the store listening to the music, realizing at that moment that almost all my morals and standards were being tested.

What would I not do to get a copy of that???

I finally left anxiety just all over the place sad excited frustrated etc etc

I call up my friend William and told him what happened, he said he knew the owner and we could get a couple of copies. I went and bought Maxwell GOLD tapes 100 mins and gave Will one of them, by the next day I had my own copy of the infamous Black Album by Prince

YOU SUCK!!! I so want that! I mean it's not fair!!!!!!!!! Haha jk, You were so blessed to be in the position you were in! I would have done everythig I could to get that album! 4 SURE! The whole concept and era is just inspiring and completely beautiful! haha

lol it was. certain time periods just had to be lived I'm glad i bathed in the purple rain

Yeah I got this in 1988 too and it was just incredible coming between Sign of the Times and Lovesexy...amazing album at the time and still today. I used to trade bootleg P tapes with people all over the country and don't even remember how I got the BA but loved it from the start. This was an incredible time to be a Prince fan with all the Crystal Ball stuff and Camille album and Black Album and Trojan Horse soundboard aftershow a whole bunch of other outtakes.

[Edited 12/23/11 19:34pm]

This should have been in the inner sleave

'the Sheila E Birthday Party album'

Badder than the wicked Witch

While specific recording dates are not known, initial tracking took place in early October, 1987 at Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN as the final track recorded for "The Black Album"(during the same set of sessions that produced U, I Guess I'm Crazy and Take This Beat).

When 2 R In Love

So fierce U look 2night
The brightest star pales 2 your sex
Before we do anything, let me just talk 2 U

When 2 are in love
They'll whisper secrets only they 2 can hear
When 2 are in love

When 2 are in love (Love)
Their stomachs will pound every time the other comes near
When 2 are in love

When 2 are in love (Love)
Falling leaves will appear 2 them like slow motion rain
Slow motion, slow motion

When 2 are in love
The speed of their hips can be faster than a runaway train
(Drip-drop, drip-drop - water, water, water)

Come bathe with me – let's drown each other in each other's emotions
Bathe with me – let's cover each other with perfume and lotion
Bathe with me – ooh, let me touch your body till your river's an ocean
Bathe with me – let's kiss with one synonymous notion
Nothing's forbidden and nothing's taboo (Nothing's taboo)
When the 2 are in love (L.O.V.E. - L.O.V.)
Can U hear me?

When 2 are in love (When 2 are in love)
Their bodies shiver at the mere contemplation of penetration
(Let alone the act) Let alone the actual act (Act)

When 2 are in love
The thought of his tongue in the V of her love
In his mind (this thought) - it leads the pack (Pack)

Come bathe with me – let's drown each other in each other's emotions
Bathe with me – let's cover each other with perfume and lotion
Bathe with me – ooh, let me touch your body till your river's an ocean
Bathe with me – let's kiss with one synonymous notion
That nothing's forbidden and nothing's taboo (Nothing's taboo)
When the 2 are in love (Love)
In love

Can U hear me?

Hold me
Yeah, just like that
Don't move

January 20. 1989
"Gatwick Airport" London during the Black Tour

ariomuse said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

Time upon a once
There was a boy named Camille
Now this boy named Camille
didn't know how 2 feel.
Sometimes he was lonely
sometimes he was sad
but most times
he just took 4 granted
all the nice things
that he had.

Some people said they loved him
but Camille said
"Contempt!
Winter, Spring,
Summer, or Fall,
love is no good
unless it's felt by all"

So, naive & terrifically in need
Camille started looking for answers
His paintbrush the questioner,
his canvas the arena,
Camille set out to silence his critics.
"No longer daring" - his enemies laughed.
"No longer glam, his funk is half-assed...
one leg is much shorter
than the other one is weak.
His strokes are tepid,
his colors are meek."

So Camille found a new color.
The color black:
strongest hue of them all.
He painted a picture
called Le Grind --
hittin' so tall.
And then Cindy C --
THE vogue fantasy.
Horns & vocals 2 die 4.
Lollipops -- in yours!

Stroke after stroke callin' all others a joke.
Superfunkycalifragisexi.

Camille rocked hard in a funky place.

Stuck his long funk in competition's face.

Tuesday came. Blue Tuesday.
His canvas full, and lying on the table,

Camille mustered
all the hate that he was able.

Hate 4 the ones who ever doubted his game.

Hate 4 the ones who ever doubted his name.

"Tis nobody funkier -- let the Black Album fly."

Spooky Electric was talking, Camille started 2 cry.

Tricked.
A fool he had been.

In the lowest utmostest.

He had allowed
the dark side of him 2 create something evil.

2 Nigs United
4 West Compton.

Camille and his ego.

Bob George.

Why?

I swear I would rock the heck out of that suit! Love the outfits!!!

HECKS YEAH! ME 2!!!

I remember the summer of '88. While the release of Lovesexy was still thrilling us all, we had all heard about the bootlegs that had been circulating around of the "Black" album. Not having any exposure to bootlegs, this seemed near-mythical in its scope! The idea of having an unreleased album! It was an incredibly exciting concept, but I never hoped to actually lay hands on one.

One afternoon, a friend of mine called me up to tell me I needed to head to his apartment as soon as possible. He had something that I was gonna flip over. Now, this buddy of mine was as big of a Prince fantatic as I was, so I KNEW what he was talking about. When I arrived, he handed me a cassette..."is this...?". "Yes!". We sat and grooved on the cassette over and over that afternoon.

That fall, I was in line with a friend to purchase tickets for the George Michael "Faith" tour. I struck up a conversation with a couple of guys in the line, who got incredibly excited when I mentioned I had the Black album. So excited, in fact, that they offered to purchase our tickets in exchange for a copy! I look back on that and think "damn, was that the best deal ever, or what?"

Later, I found out our cassette was actually the "sped-up" version. By that time, the album was in regular ciculation as a boot. I had bought a vinyl copy at a store, and at first was put off by the change in tempo. The more I listened, the more I came to appreciate that this was the proper speed for the album. I also discovered that my original cassette had a skip from the vinyl it had been sourced from (the whole "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em" bit was missing from my tape). It was like hearing the whole thing again for the first time!

Of course, it was shortly thereafter that I saw Prince on the Lovesexy '88 tour, and the inclusion of "Bob George" and "Superfunkycalifragisexy" were MAJOR highlights of the show! It was an incredible time to be a Prince fan, with him releasing such fantastic music and putting on such amazing shows!

StonedImmaculate said:

Let's not allow this thread to die!! Keep 'em coming!

Imagine my horror and disappointment when, after reading this thread, I went to play the Black Album and discovered that I didn't synch it to my new Ipod!

It's on there now

This is ALL kinds of DARK! Haha

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Imagine my horror and disappointment when, after reading this thread, I went to play the Black Album and discovered that I didn't synch it to my new Ipod!

It's on there now

SUPA!!!!!!!

Yeah, that woulda sucked! First thing I did after reading this thread was listen to the Black Album & Lovesexy back to back!

EyeJester7 said:

This is ALL kinds of DARK! Haha