1999 WARNER WPCR-75017 494367405594
2005 Japanese standard jewel case pressing of Prince's 1983 album. Features
the same tracks and mastering as the US edition but includes an OBI and
Japanese/English insert. Warner. 2005.


Prince Around The World In A Day WPCR-75019 493467405195
2005 Japanese standard jewel case pressing of Prince's 1983 album. Features
the same tracks and mastering as the US edition but includes an OBI and
Japanese/English insert. Warner. 2005.


Prince Controversy WARNER WPCR-75016 494367405593
2005 Japanese standard jewel case pressing of Prince's 1981 album. Features
the same tracks and mastering as the US edition but includes an OBI and
Japanese/English insert. Warner. 2005.


Prince Dirty Mind WARNER WPCR-75015 494367405591
2005 Japanese standard jewel case pressing of Prince's 1980 album. Features
the same tracks and mastering as the US edition but includes an OBI and
Japanese/English insert. Warner. 2005.


Prince For You WARNER WPCR-75013 494367405589
2005 Japanese standard jewel case pressing of Prince's 1978 album. Features
the same tracks and mastering as the US edition but includes an OBI and
Japanese/English insert. Warner. 2005.


Prince Lovesexy WARNER WPCR-75023 494367405606
2005 Japanese standard jewel case pressing of Prince's 1988 album. Features
the same tracks and mastering as the US edition but includes an OBI and
Japanese/English insert. Warner. 2005.


Prince Parade & The Revolution WARNER WPCR-75020 494367405598

2005 Japanese standard jewel case pressing of Prince's 1986 album. Features
the same tracks and mastering as the US edition but includes an OBI and
Japanese/English insert. Warner. 2005


Prince Prince WARNER WPCR-75014 494367405590
2005 Japanese standard jewel case pressing of Prince's 1979 album. Features
the same tracks and mastering as the US edition but includes an OBI and
Japanese/English insert. Warner. 2005.



Prince Purple Rain & The Revolution WARNER WPCR-75018 494367405595
2005 Japanese standard jewel case pressing of Prince's 1984 album. Features
the same tracks and mastering as the US edition but includes an OBI and
Japanese/English insert. Warner. 2005.


Prince Sign O The Times WARNER WPCR-75021 494367405597
2005 Japanese standard jewel case pressing of Prince's 1987 album. Features
the same tracks and mastering as the US edition but includes an OBI and
Japanese/English insert. Warner. 2005.


Still no remasters!!!!!

OK, I have counted to ten and calmed down and realised that I will have to to make do with my own remasters for the time being..... which although very good are not up to the standard acheived on the Girl 6 soundtrack. I need official remasters damn it!!!!!

BlurredEye said:

OK, cool, but what is an OBI ??

KoolEaze said:

OBI's are those little strips of paper/card that hug the spin of japanese vinyl and CD releases. It's just a little strip, but it makes them look more attractive, and any release that has one, that is being sold (2nd hand say, on eBay etc) that DOESN'T have it is worth less than one that does.



Here's an example:


[Edited 6/2/05 11:33am]

I always throw obi's away cause I think they're inconvenient and ugly, does this make me a fool?

MetroArea said:

Aaah, I see . I´ve got some of those...D´Agelo´s Live at the Jazzcafe in London and Parliament Live from the seventies.
As far as I know most Japanese CDs, whether they are remastered or not, sound better than any other cd, right ?
I mean better than the US- or European version.
Same with old vinyl records...to me they all had a different sound quality. US records sounded a bit louder, British vinyl a bit crisper, and German vinyl wasn´t as loud as American pressings but sounded a bit as if you had to turn up the volume a bit more.

i have a couple of imports with OBIs...i usually just tuck 'em into the liner notes booklet or something. didn't know they were such a big whoop, collector-wise. i guess everything is in that world, though.

I wrote some like this on another music/audiophile forum : why do 2 of the greatest artist of the last 30 years (Bruce Springsteen and Prince) have such sub-par sounding CDs available. In many cases, those CDs were mastered almost 20 years ago . Why wouldn't these artists want their great works highlighted in the best possible audio light ? It could only help them, because we all know damn well that if WB said it had a "Prince Remastered" series or Sony offered a "Springsteen Remastered" set, all us fans would run out and buy them again, even if we had them already.
And I'm not even talking about Special Edition CDs here, with extra tracks or liner notes or anything like that. I mean simply taking the existing tapes, and re-doing the CDs. Mastering technology has jumped leaps and bounds in the last 15 years or so . I just want better SOUND

What is keeping Prince's CDs from being remastered? I don't understand the politics and legal issues-- who decides what gets remastered, who pays for it, who owns the recordings, etc...???

Can anyone explain this to me?

duggalolly said:

Prince.