:hmm2:all 3 are great tracks as well as screams of passion. I fucking love the entire family album!!!!

woulda been even awesome-er
but i really dug the whole Family project & members
just wish it had lasted longer

they are great.. but prince's versions are even better.. his version of desire ranks amongst his best songs imo.

I've said it before and I'll say it again; he should've kept ALL the materials from The Family album.

But hey,,,shoulda coulda woulda, right?

Mutiny and High Fashion don't really move me but 'Fashion' is ok.
But 'River Run Dry', 'Screams of Passion', Nothing Compares 2 U, and 'Desire',
I would love to hear Prince do on an album.

Mutiny doesn't really move U? did u ever hear Prince's live version from tne hit and Run parade tour. it always makes me wanna!!!

rusty1 said:

Just listened to parts of four versions of Prince doing Mutiny. Feeling nothing.

Always feeling 'Nothing compares to U' when it comes to Prince because there's No One, no where, no how that could ever be better than PRINCE .
It's been more than 7 hours and 13 days, since U took U're away. Dr. says gotta have sum fun, real soon.

They would have to rename it - Purple Rain II

I loved The Family album but never understood why he didn't keep great songs
as High Fashion,Mutiny AND River run dry (one of my all time fav)
2 himself,because they were better than SOME of the songs
on ATWIAD !!

1.Around The World In A Day
2.The Screams of Passion
3.Condition of The Heart
4.High Fashion
5.Mutiny
6.Rasberry Beret
7.Nothing Compares 2 U
8.Pop Life
9.America
10.The Ladder

bboy87 said:

well,in the 80's that B-side would have been killer!

Mutiny with that horn and drum arrangement!!

Paisley4u said:

Can we replace Mutiny with Desire and make Mutiny a B-side?
Add Paisley Park back in.
While I'm at it, make America the B- side of Pop Life and put She's Always in My Hair after Pop Life.

bboy87 said:

Prince would never have put two ballads back to back inthose days.

I often wondered about that - but i feel the vibe of the songs is more geared towards parade - in fact High Fashion would have been perfectly suited to Under The Cherry moon. The Family project was clearly the some kind of bridge album for prince to move over to the more horn based sound he wanted to explore.

I always thought Manic Monday would have fit the ATWIAD album though.

All the Family songs warranted more attention from prince (Didnt Bobby z write River runs Dry though?). Much as I love the family album, wouldnt it have been total killer if the album had included other '85 tracks given to Sheila, such as A Love Bizare, Sister Fate, Dear Michaelangelo. That wouldve been one helluva album.

I don't think any of The Family tracks would've worked on Around The World
In A Day at all. Musically, they've got a very different vibe from each other.
They've got more in common with the Parade material. Adding them to ATWIAD
would just ruin the album IMO.

And yes, Prince didn't write "River Run Dry", Bobby Z did.
[Edited 7/27/08 3:53am]

CrozzaUK said:

I always considered The Family a stepping stone from ATWIAD to Parade.

TrueFunkSoldier2 said:

I'd take The family's version of NC2U over P's any day. Paul's vocal have so much ache in them and that's what makes it a great cut.

MuthaFunka said:

I agree only because Prince spends so much effort trying to distance himself from The Family and Sinead's versions.

SUPRMAN said:

He definitely distances himself from sineads, but listen to the One Night Alone version of NC2U, its not too far from the arrangement of the Family's. Also the arranegement he performed on the nude tour had echoes of sineads version, in terms of vocal delivery, tempo etc.

Ive only ever heard his demos for High Fashion, Mutiny & Desire. Ive heard a rehersal of Screams of passion, but nothing else. Do others exist?

HamsterHuey said:

Interesting idea. Prince's creative method is to release his music before he fully develops the concept that he is processing. That's why I never agree with the fans who want to edit P because we would miss out on a lot of great material.

ATWIAD shoud have the Dance Electric extended version

Parade should b re-released with an additional disk - his vocals on the family tracks

jstar69 said:

That so belongs with Purple Rain.

The album would've been too long...Warner Brothers would've pitched a fit...and we'd never have gotten to hear any of it.

tane1976 said:

very true and how far left he went with ATWIAD is just brilliant in itself. the family album is the perfect set up 2 parade tho

Genesia said:

Coming off the ginormous success of Purple Rain? naw, WB wouldn't have pitched nothing.

MuthaFunka said:

and i would take the family's version over any other version out there including that train wreck job sinead did

L4OATheOriginal said:

Yeah, I don't know what people ever saw in her god-awful version. Didn't move me for shit.