(Sorry to start a new topic, but i've never been able to do a proper search for some reason. Keeps saying "area closed")

Anyway, I'm new here - hi. I became very interested lately in the Dream Factory album, and came across a tracklisting on wikipedia which differs from what is on the FAQ on this site. I have most of the tracks and I'd like to put them together in the proper order. Is there a definitive tracklist? It's already gonna come out weird because of differing audio quality on tracks, so I'd like to get as close to the right order as possible.

Thanks!

From that FAQ thread;

Dream Factory July 18th 1986
Last Album sequence made before it was shelved:

Side 1:
01. Visions
02. Dream Factory
03. Train
04. Ballad Of Dorothy Parker
05. It
Side 2:
06. Strange Relationship
07. Starfish & Coffee
08. Slow Love
09. Interlude
10. I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man
Side 3:
11. Sign O The Times
12. A Place In Heaven
13. Crystal Ball
Side 4:
14. The Cross
15. Last Heart
16. Witness 4 The Prosecution
17. Movie Star
18. All My Dreams

To answer your question better; the album went through some changes along the way. If I am not mistaken the album was tracked three times, all with different songs and song orders.

This was the last one before it finally got pulled and Prince moved on to a Revolution-less era.

Thanks for that ... The thing that got me interested was an article in some UK magazine, an appreciation of Prince essay. It actually sounds as if maybe the writer was referring to a different version.

I assume BTW that the tracks that ended up with Camille vocals did NOT have said vocals on the Dream Factory.

cortez said:

Actually, they did. There are a few versions of Strange Relationship, but all the other released Camille songs did not vary from the Dream Factory versions.

hmmm, cause I read that the Camille thing was a seperate album that got folded into Sign o the Times. I'll take your word for it though! Thanks again.

It's in the FAQs http://www.prince.org/msg/7/145050