....and when listening to the title song - and how political the words are - it just seems so apt as to whats going on in the world today - it freaked me out a bit...

On a lighter note - the best part of this film has to be I Could never take the place of your man - closely followed by Its gonna be a beautiful night (hes having so much fun on them drums aint he?? I love it!!)

The whole concert is fantastic! My fave parts r Hot Thing andForever In My Life!

Yes a fantastic concert with amazing songs, but when i watched it recently i did feel the "acted" pieces in between hadn't dated so well. Could have done without those weird bits i think, especially the bit where Prince points to the ring in the window. WTF was that all about?! What does everyone else think?

dolphin1974 said:

Yeah - I agree - but maybe at the time it wouldn't have looked so cheesy

Definitely...at the time when i first saw it in 1988 i thought all those bits were cool. But then i thought everything he did was back then.

dolphin1974 said:

luv ur avatar

dolphin1974 said:

Well, they're short

I felt cheated when i heard nearly everything was recorded at Paisley Park
Good movie tho , nonetheless

dolphin1974 said:

Now that you mention it, I always wondered what that was about myself!?

I liked all the acted interludes. I just put it down to the weird shit Prince does. Plus it gives it an 80's feel. It's like a time capsule now; a great, big, electric crystal ball that scares the shit out of me when it starts crackling at the beginning of the DVD.

The ring in the window is before "Forever in My Life" isn't it? I thought it just tied to the song...you know, wedding ring, love, forever in my life, etc.

Favorite moments are "U Got the Look" and "Forever in My Life". And now, through the magic of DVD, I can easily select and play them again and again, ring in the window segue included. Yay!
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Dewrede said:

it doesn't blow me away a tenth as much as when i first saw it... knowing it's all mimed now, i hardly watch it...

mrdespues said:

Well,it's not like a Milli Vanilli situation Prince and his band are lip-syncing to a live recording that they really,truly made.They just couldn't use the original footage that they shot.

DavidEye said:

even so...

dolphin1974 said:

I kinda like those quirky bits. Just Prince being his usual, weird self - cute in small doses, which is thankfully what we got.

mrdespues said:

DavidEye said:

I think he coul have
I'm sure the recordings were done professionally

Forever In My Life/It still gives me goosebumps and takes me to a whole 'nother place.

dolphin1974 said:

aww c'mon thats what makes it classic! "He wants to settle down. I wanna know why a wolf is dressed like a lamb." The acting isn't as much acting as it is narration. But yeah no one deserved an Oscar. As for it being filmed at Paisley, it doesn't bother me that much although like most live performances that aren't boots there are extensive overdubs.

I dig the furr coat he wears in the performances of "U Got the Look," and "If I Was Your Girlfriend."

[b]Not all of the SOTT movie was recorded at Paisley Park. I know for fact the added video for U GOT THE LOOK was at least partially shot in Paris, France in the early summer of 1987 because Sheena Easton spoke of making the trip to appear in the video.

Dewrede said:

I think it was the film (not the audio recordings) that was screwed up.The footage was grainy and shaky and therefore couldn't be used.He had to go back to Paisley park and "re-create" the entire show.

DavidEye said:

I wish he'd done the same with the Las Vegas ONA - concert. The dude is just soo unprofessional sometimes.