I heard this version for the first time last week and just listened to it again. Goddamn, it kicks ass! The edited version on the 'Purple Rain' soundtrack doesn't do the song justice at all. What an epic!

Yeah, it's better than the album version.


I differ with critics who general dislike Computer Blue--It's one of the songs that made me a Prince fan. I just loved the way the song starts off with some singing, then basically turns into an instrumental with a very long bridge of sorts.

I love that song.

The last four minutes are absolute killer. Not surprisingly, the fact that it's a little creepy sounding really appeals to me.

sextonseven said:

You're sooooo scary.

that's HAWT.

http://www.prince.org/msg/7/123195

IBSTROLLIN said:

Well hell, I hadn't heard it back then.

AsianBomb777 said:

You can take the boy out of goth, but you can't take the goth out of the boy.

sextonseven said:

I knew that from your first comment, I just wanted you to c what other orgers had said before, no biggie

Can someone email me and let me know where I can get it. Not trying to bootleg, I just wanna hear it!

the one with the Hall Speach
killer version

heres the lyrics including the HallWay Speach

Computer Blue

Wendy?

Yes Lisa

Is the water warm enough?


Yes Lisa

Shall we begin?


Yes Lisa

Ow!

Where is my love life?
Where can it be?
There must be something wrong with the machinery

Where is my love life?
Tell me, where has it gone?
Somebody please, please tell me what the hell is wrong

CHORUS:
Till I find the righteous one
Computer blue
Till I find the righteous one
Computer blue

Oh

Where is my baby?
Where can she be?
Somebody please, please tell me what is wrong with me

Where is my baby?
Where has she gone?
Somebody please, please tell me what the hell is wrong

CHORUS

Yeah

The computer's on the verge of breakdown!

Come on
Oh baby, don't make me

Poor lonely computer
It's time someone programmed U
It's time U learned love and lust
They both have 4 letters
But they're entirely different words
Poor lonely computer
Poor, poor lonely computer
Do U really know what love is?

(Na, na, na, na, na)
Wave your hands in the air!
Now everybody sing it! (Na, na, na, na, na)
Everybody work out
Work out, work out (Na, na, na, na, na)
Everybody work out
Work out, work out (Na, na, na, na, na)
Everybody work out

He didn't like living alone
The house where he lived had many hallways
It was a long walk 2 his bedroom
Because 2 him each hallway represented an emotion
Every one vastly different from the next
One day while she was with him
He decided 2 name each one
She walked by his side, one hand on his thigh
No - she was sort of half a step behind him
Yeah, the grip on his thigh intensified
As they walked slowly through the corridor
He named the hallway "Lust"
And as they passed through the next one
He named it "Fear"
The grip she now loosened
So he walked faster
Her hands now trembling
She let dropped 2 her side as he wrote the word "Insecurity"
He looked into her eyes and smiled a demon smile
And quickly walked onto the next
Corridor after corridor
He named almost all when suddenly… he stopped
He picked up the word "Hate"
She was gone
So he picked up another – "Pain"

On the verge of a breakdown
What is life without love?
It's hell Computer Blue!

Father, Father, the sun is gone
(Father, Father) The Dawn, the Dawn
Father, Father, where is the Dawn?
(Where is the Dawn, Father?)
(Na, na, na, na, na) {x2}
Na, na, na, na, na

Shall I go 2 church on Sundays?
Shall I stay home and pray?
Shall I try 2 make her happy?
Shall I try 2 make her stay?

Where is my love life?
Tell me, where can it be?

Narrow-minded computer
(Somebody please, please tell me…)
It's time someone programmed U
(Somebody please, please tell me what's wrong with me)
It's time U learned women are not butterflies
They're computers 2
Just like U Computer Blue
(Where is my baby?)
Chauvinistic computer
It's time someone programmed U (Na, na, na, na, na)
U fall in love 2 fast and hate 2 soon
And take 4 granted the feeling's mutual
(The feeling's mutual!)
We're computers 2
Just like U Computer Blue

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!

TheBluePrince said:

i know...im with u. if anyone knows how i can listen 2 it, hit me up, please.

On the verge of a breakdown
What is life without love?
It's hell Computer Blue!

Father, Father, the sun is gone
(Father, Father) The Dawn, the Dawn
Father, Father, where is the Dawn?
(Where is the Dawn, Father?)
(Na, na, na, na, na) {x2}
Na, na, na, na, na

Shall I go 2 church on Sundays?
Shall I stay home and pray?
Shall I try 2 make her happy?
Shall I try 2 make her stay?


that part absolutely rocks!

I agree,the long version absolutely KILLS the edited version that appears on the album! Sometimes I think that maybe Prince really should have turned the soundtrack into a 2-record set.

Are we talking about the 11:34 version?

Is it the same as the 11:58?

PANDURITO said:

There are several different versions.I think sextonseven is referring to the "hallway speech" version.The other versions are mostly instrumental.

The 11:34 version is a slighty speeded up version of the 11:58 one by an unscrupulous bootlegger. The 11:58 one is the correct speed, I believe.

vickiwaiting said:

A lot of bootleggers do this ("tagging").

FunkMistress said:

Have you ever seen him performed this song on a bootleg concert???
awesome....

funkpill said:

Part of the extended version can be seen/heard on the 'Prince And The Revolution Live' VHS.

sextonseven said:

Yeah..I know, but there's a bootleg concert of the one everybodies
discussing.....Worth searching.....
It has the original "Purple Rain" performance on there also...