This album is awesome(except for sound Quality) but it's the shortest double cd ever. If it was a minute shorter it would be one disc. Prince could of put another 79 minutes of music on there. It's annoying that you have to put two discs int he cd player and change to another when one is finished.

WHY PRINCE OH WHY?

mikek1 said:

you have to remember the time it was released compact discs didnt have the time restraints they have now.

TheRealFiness said:

For real.

'dre

mikek1 said:

you're right... it wasn't worthy of 2 cds.

IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN THREE.

--gm--

GeneMohawk said:

and where da fuck u been ?

TheRealFiness said:

f'real....hey, man!

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

hehe.... hi y'all.

how does the johnny cash song go? "i've been everywhere man, i've been everywhere....."

--gm--

TheRealFiness said:

Not to mention that CD's weren't very known, at the time. So it WAS a double LP (I think).

I don't remember, I bought the cassette.

TheMaster said:

yep... it was a double album.

damn, i miss lps.

--gm--

mikek1 said:

How old are you?

FunkMistress said:

prolly not old enough to remember them "big black CDs"...

CDs were around back then but vinyl was still the main source for music. Prince was trying to fill two vinyl records.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Yeah, them big black CD's that would get snags & play the same clip over & over, until you kicked the player to make it skip the snag.

TheMaster said:

if i remember right, "SOTT" was Prince's first cassette single
up until that point it had all been vinyl
anyone know what was his first CD single?
i'm guessing "Batdance" ???

Snap said:

That or Alphabet Street.

vainandy said:

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No, No, No. The CD is on two disc because of the time constraint on the CD's at that time. Today you could get it all on one disc. Maybe if and when they update the sound they will put it all on one disc.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

BWAHAHAHAHA, Aww shit one of my buddies still has a bunch of lp's and his kids call em big black C.D.'s

HAHAHA

I made my own single disk version of SOTT. It was tricky, because most of the tracks flow into one another with no break whatsoever. I had to shave off 4 seconds of silence at the end of "Adore", and three seconds between "The Cross" and "Beautiful Night" - these are the only places you can edit without losing music, and the CD still clocks in at 79:57.

FunkMistress said:

Alphabet Street was on CD single
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laurarichardson said:

hopefully soon

mikek1 said:

except that you are just WRONG... in 87 it would not have fit on one CD even if it was 10 mins shorter. sure they could re press it but it would cost more to do than it would be worth.

also keep in mind that most albums at the time were sold on cassesst, then vinal, and then in a distant 3rd was CD.

Anyone remember those Long CD boxes, that they used for store slots? You know, before the plastic lock-em-up version with the alarms in them...

They actually had their own box with artwork.

talk2bill2 said:

Actually If I was Your Girlfriend was the first... as a a promo CD

I'm able to fit all of the songs on 1 CD.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

...or that before the CD store, music was purchased at the wrecka stow.

mikek1 said:

fms said:

Why edit when you can overburn?

guess its witching season on the newbies again.