Do U think it would have been a great Prince & the Revolution album or would it suffer the same fate as the eccentric "Parade" material? I think he was at his most creative point with the Revolution in late 86! I still think it was a shame 2 break up the band and I cannot stand the NPG!

mestizo5000 said:

"Everyone should come behold Christopher Tracey's parade"

Personally i think Parade was great, he was very creative and unpredictable throughout this period. Like i said before for me Prince's best stuff has been between 1980 - 1992. If people didnt get Parade then too bad for them , but why not all the following songs are the bomb "kiss", "girls & boys" ,"mountains" "sometimes it snows in april", uneedanotherlover", "new position", "parade", "under the cherry moon"

I don't really think Dream Factory or Parade was going to have similar concepts. I really think Dream Factory was going to be transitional album because he was going to push the boundaries of his music by expanding the experimentation he tried with Around The World and Parade and making those two approaches stellar and sophisticated . I think it would've been a great album, but I still don't know how this and Crystal Ball would've been commercially successful. Parade is one of my favorite P albums--jazz, soul, european funk, and classical music mixed into one adventurous music stew.

Weird. I was listening to it last night and asking myself that very question. It's hard to say because this is not 1986 and it's impossible to put yourself back in to that mind set, but what I heard last night (with my objective ears on) was a very fragmented project. The tracks have no unifying theme or even elements to them. I understand it was intended to be just a collection of funky tunes, but a double CD without a central thread might have been hard to sell at the time. The double CD "Sign O the Times" seemed to have the theme of stripped down back-to-basics 'seriousness' to it, where "Dream Factory" was much more frivolous and has an uneven quality to it. Granted, the bootlegged version may not have been a completed master of the record and there may have been last minute touches that would have put it all together better. Or maybe the reason it was cancelled to begin with is that Prince heard that same fragmentation and thought it wasn't working. The Revolution may have really gone as far as they could like they contended in interviews from the time.

I think that the Dream Factory wouldve been one his most successful album if he hadve released it. I love the bootleg version.

Masterpiece.