And lord Jesus help me if I aint thinkin about looping that to three minutes. Not to take away from the album at all...just heard it..I never heard no one talk about the tune though. I got the Vault and read abotu it but hearing it is two different things. The Linns..I mean..the Linns

just about the funkiest shit ever . prince should release the full versions of this and all the other snippets from last year (cosmic day, etc.) on lotusflow3r

Seriously funky.

Is this a boot? I haven't even heard of the title.

CocoRock said:

oh i just heard, wtf ive had this forever

is it part of lady cab driver?

punkofthemonth said:

From what time period?

this is DARK

aint it the shit?

CocoRock said:

the early eighties sometime. i'm not entirely sure

punkofthemonth said:

Interesting. Thanks! I'll check it out.

CocoRock said:

From the Purple Rain sessions

OldFriends4Sale said:

every single one of those one minute snippets are golden. i would pay $77 just for full versions of 'adonis and bathsheba' and 'everybody want what they don't got.'

stanleylieber said:

I would pay twice that just for Cosmic Day!

Militant said:

that too.

i feel bad that susan rogers apparently made fun of 'adonis and bathsheba,' quashing prince's enthusiasm for the song shortly after he completed it. sure, it's cheesy -- but, holy hell! -- listen to the singing.

stanleylieber said:

I know...its SOUL and its elegant sweey syrupy falcetto. The harmonies are astounding!

I am also impressed with the mantra like "Big House". Reminds me of The Line. I like the falcetto and the lyrics sung. The repeated shouting in the background 'oooooaaaooh!' is experimental and fresh still...but kinda 90's house like. It seems like this was a Lovesexy type of tune especially how he talks about hoping to shake the "Big Man"'s hand in the Big House and bring all his friends with him.

paisleypark4 said:

the drums. this is one of those things that should be pointed when people ask 'what was so great about the old stuff that isn't in the new stuff?' there is not another prince song anywhere that has drums that sound like this. that used to be a regular feature of any given prince song. it's nuts. listen to all these snippets back-to-back. every one of them has a different drum sound.

apparently 'big house' was one of the tracks recorded in '88 that was kicking around for the original 'rave unto the joy fantastic' album. on my pretend playlist i open with 'batdance' and then go right into 'big house':

stanleylieber said:

the drums. this is one of those things that should be pointed when people ask 'what was so great about the old stuff that isn't in the new stuff?' there is not another prince song anywhere that has drums that sound like this. that used to be a regular feature of any given prince song. it's nuts. listen to all these snippets back-to-back. every one of them has a different drum sound.

apparently 'big house' was one of the tracks recorded in '88 that was kicking around for the original 'rave unto the joy fantastic' album. on my pretend playlist i open with 'batdance' and then go right into 'big house':

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NICE LIST! I can talk about bootlegs until my face is black and blue. I really think Big House would have worked well with Batman / The Future...matter of fact The Future could have been an idea brought out from that song. Almost has the same beat..and to think about the haunting sounds in the background of the Future..sound like the vocal sample in the back of Big House.

And you are right they do all have a different drum pattern, but the thing is they all were in different eras....

paisleypark4 said:

quite true but i miss hearing new drum textures on a regular basis. 'mplsound' literally has the same drum sound on every track. the opening song on 'lotusflow3r' (which i do like) sounds exactly like the way the songs on 'the rainbow children' had their drums recorded. that's eight years of the same two drum sounds! i really do dig the post- '00, jazzy flow but nowadays EVERY SONG has either the same linn sample tuned the same way (see: every track on 'mplsound') or else it has that damned live drums snare rim click that worked so well on '' but hasn't changed since.

* wipes forehead with back of hand *

anyway. yes.

i have all the snippets, but were they ever aval in full. traffic jam is so cool

jethrouk said:

i'm not aware of longer versions circulating.

stanleylieber said:

Yeah they are not circulating amonst us peeps, but Per Nilsen (who is THIS GUY!?!?! ) wrote on about all the tracks and what they sound like.

paisleypark4 said:

yep. we need to send a crack commando unit to infiltrate his compound.

stanleylieber said:

You are right...he didnt have many different Linn Sounds that could not be found on the sampling set. I don't know why but I am glad that my favorite tunes he used the camille voice in What's done is done though oh well. I think I heard those same Linn's since What Do You Want Me 2 Do & Props and Pounds. Still good to me anyway.