his back catalog, do you think he would change the steamy lyrics and or music or do you think he would record it as acurately as possible? Also would you buy them?

1) yes.

2) hell no.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Co-Sign to That. He'd for sure F-It up. I can see a whole new Lovesexy...with one track.

they'd end up like this...

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Big co-sign.

The man won't even sing "strip right down to your underwear," or "wear lingerie to a restaurant." He for damn sure won't be singing about f@@@ing the taste out of someone's mouth or anything to do with "head." Fahgit aboudit.


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Even if he were to re-record all that material (and it would be A LOT of work), he can't recapture the magic of those recordings again. Trying to record them as accurately as possible to the originals can only serve to detract from the re-recording. What eventually becomes classic material is like catching lightning in a bottle, you can't go back and do it again and get the same results. There would be no reason for me to buy them for that reason.

Has anybody heard Aretha's re-recording of "Respect" for The Blues Brothers 2000 movie?

Bowie's re-recording of "Fame"?

And although I'm not a big fan of the Police's "Don't Stand So Close To Me," their re-recording some years later was AWFUL by comparison.

I always figured Prince was bluffing when he said he'd do it anyway. Just play buddy buddy with Warner Bros. and remaster/reissue the stuff without changing the content.


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1999:TNM is the only Prince release that I've never bought and don't plan on buying. I heard it in its entirety once and I thought it was the most miserable thing I've ever heard. If he ever plans on recording all his classic material in that vein - overproduced, dated and completely losing the plot of what made the music unique in the first place - then i really can't have any part of further "new masters" - it would just be too depressing.

on the other hand, if he decided to do an all-acoustic verson of one of his albums, or if he rerecorded an album with a full orchestra...now THEN we could talk.

You can remaster or do a "new" master and still borrow tracks from your old master. In other words, Prince can re-use the vocal tracks from his original masters of Warners and it can be considered a "new" master-- parts of 1999-TNM where that way.

But I agree, he'd tamper with it so much it would be regretful. Although (and I'll get yelled at for saying this), I was neither inpressed with "for you" nor the followup "Prince" CDs and would like to hear what new masters of those would sound like with updated instruments and more complicated arrangements.

The additional arrangement he did to 1999 would have been a great improvement if he would have left the Friggen Rap out of it. The original 1999 was to repititious to me.

Anxiety said:

Drastically changing the arrangement? He'll, that's sometimes what he does during live gigs - the stage is where a great artist sometimes reinvents his/her music. Sure, that'd be cool. But I wouldn't want him to re-visit the past for too long to the point that he stopped producing new music for a significant amount of time. I'm greedy...but not Veruca Salt greedy. Then again, nevermind...I don't really want him doing all that in the studio at the expense of newer material.

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Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Why would you buy them in the first place. I never hear you talk about anything past Dirty Mind.

Apparently he's already done it.

He'd change shit & I wouldn't buy it

Emancipation88 said:

where'd i say i would? i answered the question in the two parts it was asked. the "yes" is for if he'd change things, the "hell no" for buying it.


then start payin attention to a sista a little closer from here on out.

Supernova said:

I totally agree.I absolutely HATE it when artists re-record their material and I would never buy Prince music that was re-recorded.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

I have.

I remember hearing him say he was gonna do it (or maybe he was in the middle of it at the time. The way he made it sound, he was doing it note perfect. If that 1999 new masters is an exampleof what he did if he did indeed rerecord his shit, he can keep it in the vault. We should know better than to think his ego wouldn't get in the way of doing dirty mind again. But if he did rerecord the positive he did it before he became a jehovas witness.

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Supernova said:

I agree. Plus, he is constantly changing his musical tastes and styles. Each era he recorded an album in, he was in a certain state of mind. He could never go back and record them as well because his state of mind has changed several times. All of the albums would sound like the state of mind he is in right now rather than the state of mind he was in back then.

That's exactly right. He would be so busy re-recording the old stuff, he would not have the time to record some new stuff.