i heard this song a couple of days ago and it sounds like a black album outtake. do you think he should re-do this song
and bring it out on another album? he did it with rave, i think rebirth of the flesh would be an awesome album title!!

Yeah, he really should do this song an all FUNK album:

no ballads, just pure FONK!
[This message was edited Fri Jul 12 5:34:20 PDT 2002 by talk2thejay]

funkycomic said:

rebirth of the flesh was intended for the "Camille" album

This tune is my favorite with Good Man from his vault.

Finess said:

Yes.And it was also the opening song to the 3-album "Crystal Ball" project from 1986."Rebirth of the Flesh" is a funky song that probably should have been a B-side.

Funny how opinions collide. Check out what Per Nilsen had to say about it... you know "It's easy to see why it was left off" and all that...

We are here! where are you? everybody jam to the new boogie cool!
[This message was edited Fri Jul 12 8:23:18 PDT 2002 by july]

Novabreaker said:

I can't remember if it was Per,but one of the Uptown guys said that it made sense to trim 'Crystal Ball' into the 2-album 'Sott' set.As much as I like the discarded tracks,I have to agree.

No No No...he should never EVER re-do this song!!!

One of my favorites

Vashti said:

I agree! It's super funky the way it is...

funkycomic said:

I totally agree. But i think that once he offered the rehearsal version as a download, it would seem deflated to re-release it in a revamped version. I could be wrong, and i hope i am.

It's a really cool song, although at first I had 2 listen 2 It a few times before I could really get into it.But does anyone know the meaning behind the song???
Somebody please tell me...

This song got me the with the first four notes!!!

The rehearsal (although sensored... ) is funky as hell.

Should not update it, my opinion.

I like it on the Camille press, going right into HouseQuake. In fact, the entire Camille album is very good and I love the alternate takes of, say, IIWYG and the end track Rock Hard in a Funky Place.

Ohhh, the 1985-1988 time frame was such a great period for Prince. So much music, so little time -- from Dream Factory and Crystal Ball and Camille to The Black Album, SOTT, LoveSexy and all the Madhouse garagefunkjazz.

Can any kind soul put up a good version of this song for me to download?

"Long live the new flesh!" - David Cronenberg, "Videodrome"

Vashti said:

Isn't it, though??...Damn, I loved that rehearsal version, even if it's edited...especially the "That's good!...(hesitation)...pretty good" at the very end..lol

Throw that, and "Return Of The Bump Squad" on an all-funk/no ballads CD like someone up above suggested...and I'll be salivating...



...Edit, baby, YEAH!!...
[This message was edited Fri Jul 12 9:21:04 PDT 2002 by wellbeyond]

IceNine said:

Existenz is mo better!

yes the rehearsel version is funky as hell. i heard the older live version of rave and it blows the album version away. so maybe a live version of rebirth on a totally live album called "REBIRTH OF THE FLESH"...i would just hate to see it get watered down like rave did.

starboy126 said:

"eXistenZ" is certainly a different kind of movie... I liked it, but I liked "Videodrome" better. Cronenberg has always been obsessed with mutation of the human body and the subjectivity of reality... I love Cronenberg.

"Crash" was another strange one...

I have yet to see Crash, but isn't it funny that it's based on a novel by the boy that Empire Under the Sun is about?

And now Christian Bale is fighting dragons.

Who remembers "Creepy" magazine?

Uh oh, ya'll showing your age up in here.

Dead Ringers by David Cronenberg is one of my favourites films ever!!. Jeremy Irons was magnificent in that film.

Oh, and his version of The Fly was excellent too.

Love the song, and the lovesexy rehearsal version is amazing.
I doubt that he would release it again, especially since parts of the song were incorporated into Walk (don't walk)But it's a cool track nonetheless...

starboy126 said:[quote]I have yet to see Crash, but isn't it funny that it's based on a novel by the boy that Empire Under the Sun is about?

Empire Of The Sun is a work of fiction. The connection between it and Crash is that they were both written by JG Ballard (And are both excellent)

wellbeyond said:

I hear you on "Return of the Bump Squad" too...one of my favs off the EXODUS!!!

this track kicks ass. He better never touch the vault version. It was a damn shame that he censored the live rehearsal. That kicked ass!

he should leave it alone and never release it.
it has more power as an outtake(like the black album).
it's not that good of a song.

egad, this is one of my favourite outtakes of his. it just rocks hard in a funky place.

no other music like it. it's wild.

what's this rehearsal version you're all talking about tho?

tiger2 said:

theC
there was a rehearsal that was available as a download
from the NPGMC last year.

starboy126 said:

Check out "Rabid" if you haven't already.
A fave of mine.