I'm talking about audio CD releases only.

Which EPs and LPs are the hardest to come by, or most valuable?

I thave the japanese copy of "The Beautiful Experience"
It has 2 bonus tracks...

Not to sure how are it is

All that I can think of is, "Yellow" and The Interview disc from the London cafe.

Perhaps this one?




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Or this one?




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ONA Piano and voice?

Jochem said:

I wonder if that is the version of God used as the love theme in Purple Rain, with the woman crying. If so, I would love to hear that.

therat said:

The track with the woman crying is not God. Thats the track sometimes refered to as Bedtime Story.

The version of God on Strange Tales From The Purple Rain is "God- Vocal". Which actually doesn't belong on the disc. As sides one and two were supposedly following the tracks from the movie, the 7 minute "God" should have been used instead.

There's no official "rarest", it all depends how much you are willing to pay. If you are thinking of starting a collection, try getting these babies....

Original 1987 Black album
Purple Rain "Syndicate" 7"
51 hours 12"
MPLS/Ryde Dyvine CD single
DMSR promo 12" (with T-shirt)
Soft & Wet Disco mix 12" promo
Strange Tales From the Purple Rain
Black Album grey marble
Around the world in a day Gold CD
The Undertaker CD
Peace CD single
LRC, sealed 1999 Calender 12"
1999 LP (Portuguese Green Trench coat cover)
1999 single LP cassette (with longer version of How Come You don't call)
Gett Off (Birthday Promo)
His Majestys Pop Life 2 x LP
Housequake Remix acetate
SOTT remixes acetate
Sounds Of The Times (1987 greatest hits promo)
I Love Prince (1988 greatest hits Promo)
My Name was prince (1993 greatest hits promo)

Jochem said:

They say there where only 500 copy's made for friends and WB hotshots at least 1 is in holland...

The Rainbow Children,vinyl is pretty hard to come by.

http://sleevographia2.fre...0USA11.htm

Black album 2284 Euro's (3550 USD)

1987 Pressing. 2 stickers attached to the shrink wrap.
It is estimated that less than 6 copies are known to still exist today but Alan Leeds says :
There are surely more than 6, they're just not in collector's circles. Prince had at least 100 and gave away most of them to band members and pals...people I know who received them included Madonna, Miles Davis, Sheena Easton, Sheila E and Kim Bassinger. Many of the Paisley staff took one each. I don't doubt that the more industrious Warner employees also managed to get one, although Warners did go on a sort of lockdown the day it was cancelled and an executive was given the responsibility to gather whatever advance copies were floating around their offices.
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I'd say a rare Prince album would be something listenable he's released in the last 15 years.

Gold N*gga, especially the 16 track version. (Technically an NPG album, but we know Prince was essentially behind it.)




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underthegraffitibridge said:

I'm a little confused, you say you are talking about audio CD's, then say what are the hardest to come by EP's and LP's. EP's and LP's are totally different then CD's. I assume you mean either CD's or EP's and LP's.

This is the rarest record in my collection:



"51 hours" promo
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SquirrelMeat said:

I have this, what's even better is that it was the ultimate bargain.....got it for £4.99 at a dark dusty independent music shop in Birmingham, England

At the time, I didn't own the ATWIAD album in any form. I wasn't looking for the gold disc specifically, I was just looking for the album as I didn't own it and happened to buy it from there.

It wasn't until a few months later that I saw it listed on a collectors site....so I checked the catalogue number.....and boom. Talk about lucky!!
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SquirrelMeat said:

What is the "Purple Rain Syndicate 7" ?
And is the SOTT remixes acetate the one that is supposed to contain the long, full version of The Ballad of Dorothy Parker ?
Is the longer version of How Come U Don´t Call Me longer than the 12" version ?

Do you have a scan of the Portuguese 1999 cover ? ( I´m curious about the green trenchcoat)

Ever heard of a promo album called Crown Jewels ? I saw it at a record fare years ago, looked pretty legit to me. It´s not " His Majesty´s Pop Life", or is it ?

KoolEaze said:

http://www.housequake.com..._syndicate

Tame said:

'Yellow' is a bootleg. A crap one at that.

nogganooch said:

HEHEH isnt it shit? got mine for 2 quid!

Jochem said:

that is probably the rarest apart from WX147 which of course is the ultimate for prince collectors

funky? no doubt

2000 quids worth-hell no

Jochem said:

thanx 4 the Nfo ....currently on holiday but im gonna check out a few of the recka stows down here n the algarve,,.,,meeting another couple from ireland later n they know some really good places here where 2 get rare prince material.
4 legal reasons i cant say 2 much more about that....heh heh
peace n love yall
WOLFY
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irishwolfhound said:

your on holiday reading prince org??

.....hehehe






indeed

jonylawson said:

lol..i know...i have 2 check on my e mails a few times a day no matter where i am n always check n here 2 c whats up...its like a bad habit n only cause prince is comming 2 ireland this year,,,,possibly his last.
WOLFY
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SquirrelMeat said:

tell me more about these...the only rare 1 i have is the beautiful experience 12" where all 7 songs are on both sides
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