I was browsing through the selection of Prince CDs on cduniverse.com just recently when I found this: http://www.cduniverse.com...yes&page=2 Here are listed as imports from Japan all Prince albums from For You to Lovesexy... release date May 25th 2005! I wonder if these are remastered ... Does anyone here have more info on this?

Hmmm, this seems promising... something to keep an eye out for.

japanese vinyls have the best quality. they put the most care into quality. maybe they would with cds too

I wish this would be true... that would make my year.
Funny, did you notice that they have "parental advisory" only on Emancipation - not Dirty Mind or others (i hope and pray that doesnt mean they are cencored ... this is the way to get rumours started).

great news!!

prinssi said:

I don't think the non-stickered albums are censored. The recording industry didn't start stickering albums until the very late '80s, so the first Prince album to get the industry-standard "Parental Advisory" sticker was Graffiti Bridge. Older albums weren't retroactively tacked with warning labels, so the Dirty Mind CD never had a warning label, and likely never will. Well, with the exception of the warning that was on the Dirty Mind cassettes back in the day, which said something like, "Contains language which may be unsuitable for some listeners."

this would be so...

For You: 1978

1. For you
2. In love
3. Soft & wet
4. Crazy you
5. Just as long as we're together
6. Baby
7. My love is forever
8. So Blue
9. I'm Yours
10. Make It through the storm
11. Machine
12. Aces
13. Just as long as we're together (alternative)
14. Baby (alternative)

Prince: 1979

1. I wanna be your lover
2. Why you wanna treat me so bad?
3. Sexy Dancer
4. When we're dancing close and slow
5. With You
6. Bambi
7. Still Waiting
8. I Feel for you
9. Its gonna be lonely
10. Donna
11. Wouldn't you love to love me?
12. I wanna be you lover (long version)
13. Bambi (long version)
14. Sexy Dancer (long version)

Dirty Mind: 1980

1. Dirty Mind
2. When you were mine
3. Do it all night
4. Got a broken heart again
5. Uptown
6. Head
7. Sister
8. Party up
9. She's just a baby
10. Gotta stop (messin about)
11. Lisa
12. Broken
13. Head (long version)
14. When you were mine (alternative)

Controversy: 1981

1. Controversy
2. Sexuality
3. Do Me Baby
4. Private Joy
5. Ronnie Talk 2 Russia
6. Lets Work
7. Annie Christian
8. Jack U Off
9. Tick Tick Bang
11. Cool
12. Girl
13. Private Joy (long version)
14. Lets Work (long version)

Nate said:

:pinch:

thats a wish list, not a track list by the way!

Nate said:

I was gonna say!

The top music industry magazine/site in Japan, Oricon (the Japanese Billboard), confirms that 10 titles (all albums from For You to Lovesexy) will be rereleased on May 25.

http://www2.oricon.co.jp/...week=4&k=2

I've mailed Warner Music Japan to ask if there is anything special about the rereleases.

I've found some online shops that are offering pre-orders for the CDs. There's no indication of any bonus tracks or special features, and the titles will probably be 1800 yen each.

http://www.neowing.co.jp/...WPCR-75016

CDs get reissued here in Japan quite often. Usually it's to offer some low-price campaign or update the information in the Japanese liner notes.

Will let y'all know if i find out anything else.

P.S. This is hilarious, just to let you know. If you use Altavista's translation engine to translate the Oricon page above, some of the album titles will come up correctly. But Purple Rain becomes Purple Lane, and the two albums that were retitled for Japan, Prince and Controversy, become Pegasus of Love and Your public child of shivering !!

interesting, isn't this at a similar time that the remasters of 1999:new master and new power soul are coming out in the US?

its an odd market japan, i think when aerosmith toured there lately they remastered the solo albums from joe perry and brad whitford, i mean, only the hardcore of the hardcore have them but they were mastered and put on cd etc. so who knows?

I got the answer:
These are just lower-priced versions of the previously available CDs. No remasters, no special packaging, no bonus tracks.
The hardest of hardcore collectors will want them for the slightly different obi strips (those little pieces of paper wrapped around the spine of Japanese CDs or the length of records), and Lovesexy might be a tracked version, but otherwise the CDs are the ones you already have.
Let's keep hoping for something new.

Peace
Kebi

djkebi said:

Hi Kebi! Thank U 4 finding out the details about the upcoming releases.

djkebi said:

Thanks!

Nate said:

1st of all "broken" would follow gotta broken heart again that was the original sequence

I noticed that Sign O' The Times is on 1 cd!

ugh, i hope any remaster of SOTT isn't a single disc, i'm just not arsed, its conceived of as 2 discs, i don't want it to be one 80minute disc opus.

does make you wonder if anythings been change, but i heard all recent re-prints of this album have been single disc, wonder if prince is happy with that.

softandwet said:

Actually, SOTT is on 2 CDs.

http://www.neowing.co.jp/...WPCR-75021

It has a 2800 yen list price.

OceanofViolets & Psykosoul,
My pleasure! I'm always happy to give the updates from Japan.

djkebi said: