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Thread started 05/04/15 12:45pm

aaroncanderson

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Dream Purple Rain vinyl reissue boxset

Okay here is my dream Purple Rain reissue package. A 10 7” or 10” vinyl set. Each A side will have a song from the original track list and B-side will have one or two unreleased songs. The 10th record would be a 12” with nothing but unreleased songs (hopefully the alternate Purple Rain that's 10 minutes long would be included. Below would be the corresponding vinyl color for each disc.

Let's Go Crazy – Dark Maroon

Take Me With You – Lollipop Swirl (Orange and White)

Computer Blue – Blue duh (Old School PC Screen Blue)

Darling Nikki – Smoky Brown

When Doves Cry – Cream white

The Beautiful Ones – Dark Pink

I Would Die 4 U – Neon Green

Baby, I'm A Star – Yellow Glitter (with splatter colors from the other 8 7”)

Purple Rain – A swirl combination of different purples

Bonus tracks (a picture disc of whatever new cover artwork for the box sest)

What do y'all think?

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[Edited 5/4/15 12:49pm]

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Reply #1 posted 05/05/15 12:19pm

DJTricky

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That would be pretty sweet. Not sure about the colour scheme, but having them all as singles would be cool. Probably not a lot of anything new for the avid collectors though whom will have most of these songs on original 7s anyway!

Is it the outtakes or the alternate cuts that we generally want to hear? I'd say the outtakes were removed for a reason, and don't add to the experience of PR as a movie \ album package.

Any alternate versions would compliment a 'suite' nicely. I'd would dare say that 90% of fans would rather just have great quality recordings on CD with a bonus of outtakes in whatever quality they come.

I personally would like a 4 LP set, remastered Side A & B of the original album, and Sides C & D of the other pinnacle tracks from the movie (and a little of the incidental music). The lure of having outtakes included would detract from the movie \ album experience a little, and would rather have them on a seperate CD release.

Side A & B as per original release

Side C & D:

Jungle Love

The Bird

Modernaire

Sex Shooter

God

17 Days

Erotic City

Another Lonely Christmas

Father's Song

Lips 2 Find U

Outtakes CD

Roadhouse Garden

Our Destiny

Possessed

Glamerous Life (Prince on vocals)

Noon Rendezvous (W&L on vocals please??)

Mutiny

Do Yourself a Favour

Extra Loveable

Moonbeam Levels

Purple Music

Electric Intercourse

Lust U Always

Climax

Gotta Shake This Feelin' (non rehearsal please??)

If i'm really lucky there will be a new 'concert' blu-ray of teverything played with the Aladdin NPG band (or really amazingly lucky with the Revolution) > with a DTS sound mix!

Yes, I think I'd be a pretty happy fan with all of that! Sound quality is critical as I can put this set together myself from various sources on my PC. I don't listen to most of it though these days as yearn for better quality! The dynamic range of the orignal CD is low, and the LP isn't much better to be fair.

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Reply #2 posted 05/05/15 12:52pm

TwiliteKid

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aaroncanderson said:

Okay here is my dream Purple Rain reissue package. A 10 7” or 10” vinyl set. Each A side will have a song from the original track list and B-side will have one or two unreleased songs. The 10th record would be a 12” with nothing but unreleased songs (hopefully the alternate Purple Rain that's 10 minutes long would be included. Below would be the corresponding vinyl color for each disc.

Let's Go Crazy – Dark Maroon

Take Me With You – Lollipop Swirl (Orange and White)

Computer Blue – Blue duh (Old School PC Screen Blue)

Darling Nikki – Smoky Brown

When Doves Cry – Cream white

The Beautiful Ones – Dark Pink

I Would Die 4 U – Neon Green

Baby, I'm A Star – Yellow Glitter (with splatter colors from the other 8 7”)

Purple Rain – A swirl combination of different purples

Bonus tracks (a picture disc of whatever new cover artwork for the box sest)

What do y'all think?

[Edited 5/4/15 12:48pm]

[Edited 5/4/15 12:49pm]

That might be fun from a collector's perspective, but I have a couple sets that split albums up like this and I never listen to them. It's too much of a hassle to change the record after every song.

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Reply #3 posted 05/05/15 1:32pm

Genesia

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How many of these threads do we need? It ain't happening. lol

We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves.
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Reply #4 posted 05/05/15 2:59pm

warning2all

Tears For Fears put out a 6 cd box for "Songs from the Big Chair" last year.

Why is it too much to ask Mr.Nelson to do the same, even after an agreement with Warner Bros. & a press release?

Knob
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Reply #5 posted 05/05/15 3:00pm

bluegangsta

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DJTricky said:

Outtakes CD

Roadhouse Garden

Our Destiny

Possessed

Glamerous Life (Prince on vocals)

Noon Rendezvous (W&L on vocals please??)

Mutiny

Do Yourself a Favour

Extra Loveable

Moonbeam Levels

Purple Music

Electric Intercourse

Lust U Always

Climax

Gotta Shake This Feelin' (non rehearsal please??)

Most of these are from 1999 or recorded after Purple Rain.

Always cry 4 love, never cry 4 pain.
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Reply #6 posted 05/05/15 3:02pm

Genesia

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warning2all said:

Tears For Fears put out a 6 cd box for "Songs from the Big Chair" last year. Why is it too much to ask Mr.Nelson to do the same, even after an agreement with Warner Bros. & a press release? Knob


As it was so delicately put by the character in Pork in Gone With the Wind:

Askin' ain't gettin'.

We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves.
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