seemed to me that prince just kinda converted to NPG records as a kind of indie label when his relationship with WB went sour.

Thank U

Was the last paisley label used on "come"?
[Edited 10/31/05 16:21pm]

Wow, I hadn't even noticed!

Paisley Park Records officially shut down in February 1994,if I'm not mistaken.The label wasn't making much money so Warner Bros. decided to shut it down.Several albums that were scheduled for release---Rosie Gaine's 'Concrete Jungle',an album by a new band called Belize,and an album from Tyler Collins---remain somewhere in the WB/Paisley Park vaults.

It should have dissolved when Good Question was released.

I hope something comes out of that wistful thinking! BTW, seems to me like there's some great material the public has never heard. How does it benefit Prince to lock all this away in the vaults?

I believe the last Paisley Park album by Prince was the symbol album. Warners closed Paisley Park (the label) and gave Prince another job as a Vice President of their R & B section. I think it all had 2 do with 100 Million Dollar contract.

Prince's last Paisley Park Release was "The Hits/The B-Sides".. the next release was The Beautiful Experience, which Prince released independantly from Warner Bros.

The last protoge releases were Mavis Staples "The Voice" and George Clinton's "Hey Man Smell My Finger"...also the very limited release of Jacob Armen's "Drum Fever", which I belive was the very final Paisley Park release.

When Mavis, Jill, Tony (Higher then High), Good Question, Dale, Carmen, Mayte, George, and Ingrid didn't sell or go wood.Early 90's?

sovembol said:

R U sure about the Hits and the Beautiful Experience? I thought the Hits is Warners and The Beautiful Experience is P's 1st NPG release distributed by Bellmark

BEAUGARDE said:

The Hits were on the Paisley Park/WB lable.
The Beautiful Experience was on NPG/Bellmark.

Alrighty then

BananaCologne said:

Hmmm...

That report states that 'The Glamorous Life' was a Paisley Park release...

What I find interesting is how some albums are solely attributed to the Paisley Park imprint and some are attributed to Paisley Park/Warner Bros.

BinaryJustin said:

I've got more to scan, but it's late and I start my new job tomorrow, so it'll have to wait until tomorrow eve now.

Ironically however, these articles I pulled out today with the specific intention of scanning - go figure.

EverlastingNow said:

what's sad is that,Paisley Park showed alot of promise in it's early years.Albums by Mazarati,The Family and Sheila E. are very good.But by the late 80s,Prince ruined things by signing crap "artists" like Good Question and Dale Bozzio.

Good Question, weren't that bad, especially, "Got a New Love", it was very prince-ly...not that Paisley releases had to have a Prince sound or the "obligitory" Prince-penned track...

Dale was about the hope of a Missing Person's album with a Prince flair with it wasn't....
oh well....
Prince was into the Lovesexy, weren't we all....saving all our lives..I mean c'mon

Sure paisley could have been more....but think about in your heart...the sound of paisley, the feeling..the whole of the whole...it served its purpose for US..
We have allowed ourselves to be greedy about it and god bless us for that.

I'm glad, paisley had its 80's run and gave us the Madhouse albums, the Taja, the Jill Jones, The Family, the Mazarati.....
ya'lls Ipods would be a little empty without.

in the days of having a dry spell, makes us really appreciate what output we did get...enjoy what u have.

BEAUGARDE said:

is this true? Prince as a vice-president?

chunky said:

Warners made Prince a vice president in 1992.It was one of the "perks" of his $100 million contract.But since he went to war with them so soon after signing this deal,it's a safe bet that he was probably "removed" from this position,lol.

sovembol said:

You're joking right? Good Question was bland,faceless dance/pop crap and it didn't sound anything like Prince.He was wise not to have anything to do with this garbage

The last PP release was the Hits/B-sides