now if he would just add the guitar solo to the breakdown.....

luvsexy4all said:

now if he would just add the guitar solo to the breakdown.....

Not sure it would work as well on The Breakdown. The Breakdown is a song where you would kind of expect a guitar solo. On A&B it comes out of left field. To me that's more interesting.

love it...ethereal

KeithyT said:

I guess Prince used E more than once...

Pentacle said:

I guess Prince used E more than once...

Indeed! This whole era is laced in psychadelics ...

Ok, I'm gonna contribute..when I've finished listening...

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Wow

I so miss the way all the layers appear to effortlessly fit together to make a speciall 'whole'. IMHO that's what's been missing for the longest time.

I was intrigued as to who the players were on this - Prince, Eric L and Atlanta B (Princevault).

I love this track, it flows so hypnotically. Lovin' the guitarplaying and tone too. I love that there are tracks like this that I'm still experiencing as a Prince fan of 29 years.

Love it. Wish we were getting official tracks like this these days.

Romeoblu said:

The vault book gives it a really bad review. It calls the melody "bland and insubstantial". It says the production is "cluttered and overwrought". The review reads as if they had heard it and it makes no mention of the guitar solo, which Akes me wonder if they heard an earlier version. Maybe the version Susan Rogers heard wasn't this one and he finished it off later adding the guitar solo.

Maybe the writers of The Vault just pretended to have heard it and based their review on descriptions offered by others?

paulludvig said:

Dsoul said:

I rate the track somewhere in the middle between 80s classic and Susan Rogers' review: From 'Turn It Up 2.0' '"It was sappy and just plain silly", says Susan Rogers of 'Adonis and Bathsheeba', which she describes as a syrupy and sentimental ballad. "I mean, there's romantic love and there's syrupy love - this was pure saccharine. The chorus went 'Adonis and Bathsheeba in a garden of love' and a harp came on. I was sitting there as quiet as possible but I had a laughing fit and I just couldn't stop. And I was really embarrassed because I was sitting next to Prince and he asked "What's the matter with you?". I said, "I'm sorry, I just think the song is really funny". And he said, "You don't like the harp?". He would often ask us our opinion. I said, "I've got to be truthful, I think the whole thing is just silly. I just don't think it's worthy of your best work". He didn't like criticism but we didn't work much longer on it". The swooning, yearning music of 'Adonis and Bathsheeba' is clearly intended to summon thoughts of romance, but the overall result is disappointing due to the bland and insubstantial melody as well as Prince's quivering, affected vocal delivery. The arrangement is cluttered and overwrought with strings, horns and other instruments competing for attention. The song was tracked in Prince's home studio on July 27th 1986, shortly after he had completed the final version of 'Dream Factory'. Eric Leeds added a saxophone part on the same day. Prince appears to be fond of it as the lyrics were published in '10,000' magazine released in 1993 under his supervision. Furthermore, Eric remembers Prince commenting to him that he thought it was "one of the best lyrics" he had ever written. The song was one of the 17 chosen by fans during the 'Prince: A Celebration' week in 2000 for inclusion on a possible 'Crystal Ball Volume 2' album'. [Edited 7/22/14 14:20pm]

Hm.. there isn't any sax on the song as far as I can tell. There's flute though. And strings? Not sure about that either.

And I disagree with the sentiment that this is "pure saccharine". The harmonies tell a more complex story - there's hint of both doubt and danger.

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I posit that those samples that supposedly came from a sampler tape to interests singers wasnt it at all. I bet it was a sampler tape of some of the stuff sitting in the goody drawers of our esteemed collectors. There's no way some singer would have tackled adonis and bathsheeba or Big House or Cosmic Day.

They wouldnt sound good at all coming from anybody else AND those songs I know are definitely in collector's hands.

Vichona

Apparently just found it at one of my ole' haunts. Download now but have yet to listen. I don't know how HARD or EASY it is to find but if you really look in the usual various places I believe you will find it. Also everyone is talking about the guitar which is indeed great but I think the horn part on it is just as good and I love it as well! Is that Eric playing?

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Love2tha9s said:

Apparently just found it at one of my ole' haunts. Download now but have yet to listen. I don't know how HARD or EASY it is to find but if you really look in the usual various places I believe you will find it. Also everyone is talking about the guitar which is indeed great but I think the horn part on it is just as good and I love it as well! Is that Eric playing?

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Well it's mostly trumpets, so Atlanta Bliss. And a bit of flute played by Eric.

Better than I expected

Hmmmm....where to slot it in the Squirrel extended album files.

Its like an inbetween love child of the Parade and SOTT era. Stuck it on an extended Parade on the way to work today and it didn't gel. Fits better with Splash, All My Dreams and Crucial. I'm going to have to create a new category, "Under The Factory Times".


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Nice track, although the guitar solo sounds quite uninspired. Would have preferred Eric playing a solo on this.

God, I love it so much. I CAN'T STOP LISTENING TO IT.

Been wanting a full version of this song to leak ever since I heard the short snippet we were left with.

Probably the best thing I'm hearing from Prince as of late. The harmonies, the lyrics, the horns, the melody, cheesy yes, yet it's got that Prince quirk.

Oh and yes for the guitar solo at the end

SquirrelMeat said:

Hmmmm....where to slot it in the Squirrel extended album files.

Its like an inbetween love child of the Parade and SOTT era. Stuck it on an extended Parade on the way to work today and it didn't gel. Fits better with Splash, All My Dreams and Crucial. I'm going to have to create a new category, "Under The Factory Times".


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It definitely fits with All My Dreams... I think I have Crucial but I'm gonna have to dig it up to give it another listen...

Has KCOOLMUSIQ, commented yet, if not "Masterpiece"

Astasheiks said:

when prince still had interest in instrument's timbre and arrangements...

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