Are there any really old school fans on here who still have some prince albums on cassette? and if you have can you post some pics as I have never seen any prince cassettes. cheers arrr retro prince

I have a couple cassette singles. As far as I know, the cassette single of Thieves in the Temple was the only place where you could get "Part 2" of that song, so the completist in me keeps it. I also have the If I Was Your Girlfriend cassette single and Cream.

Efan said:

Yeah I was wondering that, if there would be any differences with the cassettes ie cover design extra track etc. I mean if you think about it when prince was at his 80s peak this is the format most fans would have heard his music on.
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Part 2 of thieves in the temple??? you mean the "put your foot on the rock" part? that's on the CD single.

i have a whole bunch of cassette singles that i was gonna throw out, but my bf saved them from a certain doom. i kept my maxi-cassingles for SOTT and IIWYG because i still think they're cool looking.

No. Part two is an instrumental track that runs about 1:45. It's also on the US 45 and, from what I understand, a Japanese CD single. I have it on the US 45.
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I love Cassettes





Thats some of my collection.

Anxiety said:

No, it's just an instrumental portion where he's stripped the vocals out and it's something like 2 minutes long. (I'd have to check when I get home.) When I got it, I was in college and was really broke and a friend of mine kinda yelled at me, "I can't believe you paid $3 for that!" Because, really, it was pretty much a waste, but I had to have it.

muirdo said:

WOW muirdo that is so cool.

...whaaaaat a braggart.


...seriously, that's a nice collection.

I have a bunch of cassettes-those thingz sound awful.

mine were chewed up by stereo after countless plays..aahhhh! the beauty of cassettes!
in those days, we lived in fear tht the bastid would break & get chewed up by the stereo..
spent ages picking stuff out with small implements etc
the dreaded chewed up noise..
the relief when u just about save it
& take a while winding all the ribbon back in.. lol
i remember i managed 2 repair one once with selotape...not kidding!
was like micro surgery

great collection muirdo!


'let it unwind your mind!'

sexxydancer said:

but how could it sound awful when it was your sweet baboo singing on them?

Nice thread, but this shit anyway

nurseV said:

Anxiety said:

I mean the hissing in the background!

lottielooloo1968 said:

lottielooloo1968 said:

Brilliant description....

Nice collection muirdo! This thread is a strange coincidence. Just this morning I decided to go thru all my old cassette tapes of Prince to see which ones could be salvaged. Lots of miles on these cassettes

I HATE cassettes. When I was little, I had a little blue boombox that I'd play my cassettes in. And they always got chewed up
All the tape would fly out of it when I rewinded it or something.
Playing a cassette tape was a horror, I had to pray every time that it wouldn't get the tape torn out.


As for Prince Cassettes, my dad has emancipation on cassette, which he plays. My brother claims my dad has some more Prince cassettes, but I've never seen them.
If he has the Gold Experience, which he might, I'm stealing that shit.

Just out of interesed which was the last prince album released on cassette???

cassettes are fun and still cheap, a cool collection

When I was growing up in the 80's I bought everything on tape. Everything up to Batman. When I got my first CD player I got all of Prince's CD's. I still have some of the tapes lying around. I don't listen to them anymore.

muirdo said:

Nice collection. I'd done with cassettes by the time TGE came out, and I don't think I'd seen TGE or C&D on cassette before.

I still have all my cassette singles because I didn't think they'd be worth selling, but I sold all my album cassettes years ago.
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I still have Purple Rain on cassette. I used to have Prince The Hits 1 and Diamonds And Pearls but they some how got ruined so I just threw them away.
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I have about 9 of those Prince cassettes.

NouveauDance said:

Cassingles...my favorite!

Very Cool!

I had Prince's cassettes, but then I sold them to buy cd's, and sold the cd's to buy vinyls!

muirdo said:

nice

after 1999, my 2nd princely cassette was the dual Dirty Mind / Controversy one
i guess it's hard as hell to find these days
not to say that hell is hard to find
cuz it ain't, especially not these days
well, that's what the Bible says anyway
and that's what i believe
cheers, y'all
keep it groovy

edit: oops, unless you're JW, which is what Prince is, and i ain't him, so i say differently
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