NO

there won't be anything except the 3 new albums on there and a lot of
streaming video files of concert footage.

as the year advances we might see some more exclusive downloads like
a few mp3 files and i'm guessing it will be at least4 or 5 months in
until *perhaps* we will see some unreleased tracks. maybe a few and
maybe even an entire cd's worth.

but i would NOT hold my breath for numerous cd's full of outtakes on
that site. and also, unreleased material does not constitute only an
array of those prized 1982-1987 outtakes. unreleased could mean some
cd's full of songs recorded between 1998 and 2004, for instance.

lastly, no one should simply expect from a small quote in an article
about people prepping some unreleased material, that it will be there
on the site when it opens up and that it will come for "free" with
the $ 77,- subscribtion charge.

when the site opens there will be nothing but lots of graphics, those
3 new albums, lots of video footage and perhaps a concert stream or
two of either individual songs or (unlikely) an entire show from the
past.

with the membership will come perks like pre-sale tickets, a retail
store with candles, perfume and ear wraps and the well known weird
blog entries about spiritual stuff.

all the rest is just fantasy. prince has never released any of his
treasured outtake material except for a little bit on crystal ball,
and about 2 or 3 things on the npgmc. like "splash" or a rehearsal
version of "the rebirth of the flesh".

why anyone would think that prince would, for 77 dollars, just put
10 albums worth of unreleased prime era music on his site is just
incromprehensible. we're talking about the same dude here, right?

they're dangling carrots, once again. i would be happy with just a
lot of new music. outtake release is a dream and it's kind of sad
that they would stoop to using it as a marketing ploy when it's all
still very much unsure wether anything of that material will ever
be released.

just look at what that little line has caused here on the org
there are going to be so many pissed off people come march 24th and
for no other reason that misleading information that was not even
misleading to begin with but which was butchered into something
beyond recognition by us, lol.

johnny2000 said:

I agree with almost all of this...but there have been some shreds of life...some REALLY great songs since that period...the Gold Experience has some great songs on it...but some of the best were left off of it for some unknown reason.... The symbol album had some really good stuff... I'd say in the past 5 years or so though..that there has been nothing at all that has impressed me in the least...we all come back because we all hope that maybe...just maybe this time...this album will be the one...I'll be there...

The vault songs get so much hype … the reality is most of us have heard 100’s of unreleased bootlegs already, so we know what we would be getting. The only plus point would be the sound quality being perfect.

The Prince hype of “the best Revolution songs have not been released” is almost guaranteed as total nonsense …. There is no way that Prince is sitting on better songs than ‘Raspberry Beret’ …. If he had something that great in the vault already why would we have to be tortured with albums like Planet Earth.

The idea of all these amazing outtakes that we have never heard is exciting …. But the reality is I think we have heard most of it already…. And what we have not heard is probably quite interesting… but that’s about it. The few surprises on the Crystal Ball album did not exactly blow people away. (‘Poom Poom’ anyone?)



Prince’s career has been built on the hype that he is a workaholic musical genius with 1000’s of songs already recorded …. For me he’s a talented dude, but the last 15+ years musical output has been poor to even embarrassingly bad at times which really proves that hype has played a key role in his career. That 5 year period in the mid to late 1980’s he was really something special …. But since then he has not really come up with anything that would warrant the title ‘MUSICAL GENIUS’.

Hello folks,

what is there in this hyper space station called lotusflow3r.....
Are there really 10 new Albums ready 4 the download....like : The last december,roadhousegarden,dream factory, the flesh sessions,The long awaited - The dawn album (promised on the cassette single of holy river)...!!!!!

There´s something fantastic on this new homepage that we could not imagine...!
He will give much of his new and old music away....

I like the prize of the Lotusflow3r 3 cd Set...he kicks record comapnys ass....and thats a real deal 2 show them....every artist has the right 2 own his music.....The gatekeepers change.....and this is waht the future like´s

Everybody ready 2 see the dawn ?

Electricity3121 said:

u r prince arent u?

PEJ said:

Aren't we all Prince?

Dave1992 said:

well I know you are.

As much as I would love for Prince to put up all that music, in reality, it would be really silly for Prince to release 10 unreleased CDs on that website. That's mainly because there would be a "fan" or 2 on there that would try and rip the music from the site and then think it would be his or her "duty" to put that music onto a torrent site and then think they are doing a service for those who aren't members or some other average Joe when in the end, it would wind up hurting the members the most cause that well of "new" or unreleased music would dry up with a quickness and then even more people would complain. That's all the more reason why I think there won't be all this new music on there, at least not at once if at all. Maybe I'm off here but I could just see some of this stuff going to God knows what kind of sites if that happens, but if Prince does this, then he does it. We will see starting exactly 1 week from today.

PEJ said:

Aren't we all Prince?

Dave1992 said:

I'm Prince, and so is my wife.

NPGMC teased us with the possibility of purple rain outtakes, "roadhouse garden" and the possibility of prince doing "rare fan favorites" in vegas. none of these things happened. now we're getting teased with ten never-before heard albums. of course i would LOVE it if he followed through on this, but i've been well trained not to expect anything, especially if prince's folks dangle it in front of my face like a carrot.

TheEnglishGent said:

So you are lesbians?

NO

there won't be anything except the 3 new albums on there and a lot of
streaming video files of concert footage.

as the year advances we might see some more exclusive downloads like
a few mp3 files and i'm guessing it will be at least4 or 5 months in
until *perhaps* we will see some unreleased tracks. maybe a few and
maybe even an entire cd's worth.

but i would NOT hold my breath for numerous cd's full of outtakes on
that site. and also, unreleased material does not constitute only an
array of those prized 1982-1987 outtakes. unreleased could mean some
cd's full of songs recorded between 1998 and 2004, for instance.

lastly, no one should simply expect from a small quote in an article
about people prepping some unreleased material, that it will be there
on the site when it opens up and that it will come for "free" with
the $ 77,- subscribtion charge.

when the site opens there will be nothing but lots of graphics, those
3 new albums, lots of video footage and perhaps a concert stream or
two of either individual songs or (unlikely) an entire show from the
past.

with the membership will come perks like pre-sale tickets, a retail
store with candles, perfume and ear wraps and the well known weird
blog entries about spiritual stuff.

all the rest is just fantasy. prince has never released any of his
treasured outtake material except for a little bit on crystal ball,
and about 2 or 3 things on the npgmc. like "splash" or a rehearsal
version of "the rebirth of the flesh".

why anyone would think that prince would, for 77 dollars, just put
10 albums worth of unreleased prime era music on his site is just
incromprehensible. we're talking about the same dude here, right?

they're dangling carrots, once again. i would be happy with just a
lot of new music. outtake release is a dream and it's kind of sad
that they would stoop to using it as a marketing ploy when it's all
still very much unsure wether anything of that material will ever
be released.

just look at what that little line has caused here on the org
there are going to be so many pissed off people come march 24th and
for no other reason that misleading information that was not even
misleading to begin with but which was butchered into something
beyond recognition by us, lol.

He should drop the hype and goofy websites and release or make available some music in a normal manner.

for year 2

Dave1992 said:

Errr, how do you arrive there?

what i don't understand is why he can't just make a boxset of some
of his better unreleased material. not like crystal ball but more
like these miles davis "complete sessions" releases. they come with
extensive photographic outtakes and liner notes/information on the
songs. all packaged beautifully with 4, 5, 6 cd's filled to the brim
with material.

2 of these sets, each 5 discs, could be released quite easily. there
must be a market equally big for prince outtakes than there is for
the umpteenth miles re-issue. and these boxsets are simply released
to stores without all the hoopla or drama that comes with prince and
his releases.

so it can't be THAT hard to pull off.

don't get me wrong, if the way to get my hands on lots of unreleased
material is through his new website as downloads, i'm ok with that.
but i don't understand why he wouldn't be able to compile a few box
sets of material and release them as nice, beautiful items that are
gonna stand out more than just downloads on a gaudy website.

IstenSzek said:

Sadly something like that will never happen. At least not until Prince is 6 feet under

IstenSzek said:

I fully support this post

what i don't understand is why he can't just make a boxset of some
of his better unreleased material. not like crystal ball but more
like these miles davis "complete sessions" releases. they come with
extensive photographic outtakes and liner notes/information on the
songs. all packaged beautifully with 4, 5, 6 cd's filled to the brim
with material.

2 of these sets, each 5 discs, could be released quite easily. there
must be a market equally big for prince outtakes than there is for
the umpteenth miles re-issue. and these boxsets are simply released
to stores without all the hoopla or drama that comes with prince and
his releases.

so it can't be THAT hard to pull off.

don't get me wrong, if the way to get my hands on lots of unreleased
material is through his new website as downloads, i'm ok with that.
but i don't understand why he wouldn't be able to compile a few box
sets of material and release them as nice, beautiful items that are
gonna stand out more than just downloads on a gaudy website.