Period. Point blank. Nothing else compares.

Early Erotic City live says it all.

Seriously...nothing else compares.

First Avenue, Minneapolis : 7th June 1984

1. 17 DAYS
2. OUR DESTINY
3. ROADHOUSE GARDEN
4. PRINCE SPEAKS
5. ALL DAY, ALL NIGHT
6. FREE
7. NOON RENDEZVOUS
8. EROTIC CITY
9. SOMETHING IN THE WATER (DOES NOT COMPUTE)
10. WHEN DOVES CRY
11. HAPPY BIRTHDAY
12. IRRESISTIBLE BITCH
13. POSSESSED

Opinions are like assholes, everybody's got one.

Happy Birthday 2 Prince, 14 years ago.

Tame said:

err...make that 24 years ago.

digitalelectric said:

Actually I think his latest NY 2008 concert (21 nights) was the best. It was intimate and I loved all the songs he played.

digitalelectric said:

I would LOVE to hear this!

Shorty said:

Check ure orgnotes

Dayclear said:

Salt 'N' Pepa, nice

pplrain said:

okay ur saying this tops his permance at the paladium in 94? yeah right ..

Shorty said:

dseann said:

dseann said:

I was like I'm only 25! then I was like damn...no I'm not.

xenon said:

oohhh I love it! wish it was sound board though...not complaining..just wondering....

Shorty said:

I'd like to hear this in sounboard too, I don't think it's in circulation but I could be wrong..

Good concert but not his best, not by a long shot.

The year before he played 1st Avenue also and played a set he tried to recreate in the movie.

Let's Go Crazy *
When You Were Mine
A Case Of You
Computer Blue *
Delirious
Electric Intercourse *
Automatic
I Would Die 4 U *
Baby I'm A Star *
Little Red Corvette
Purple Rain *
D.M.S.R.


The *-songs were played for the first time live. It was an electrifying set. You can hear some songs did not have their final form, like Computer Blue and Purple Rain. That last song's recording ended up on the actual album albeit heavily edited. The main parts of I Would Die 4 U and Baby I'm A Star were also reworked for the album.
It's cute how Prince announces Computer Blue, giving it it's title, showing he is proud of that rocker. Too bad we do not hear it live anymore.
Also he covered Joni Mitchell's A Case Of You in a way better version than he later on released on One Nite Alone.
And, of course, Electric Intercourse, the song that was bumped offa Purple Rain cuz of the later recorded The Beautiful Ones.

digitalelectric said:

Is this show taped at all? I have it on audio

Oh and I hear there is this recording called Small Club that is quite happening also.

HamsterHuey said:

Yes very good show....I hate how I can hardly hear him on the vocals to Just My Imagination