Copycat said:

Thank God. Thought it was just me. Aladdin could easily be a bootleg the quality is so poor.

Rave is good to listen to and worth putting on for friends to laugh at (that blue jumpsuit!).

EmeraldSkies said:

me too!

IT's always going to be a toss up with people. Alladin isn't the whole concert (No clue why), and Rave has some editing problems (with the sudden slow motion-caught-in-the-moment shots. There are good and bad moments in each. Get both, be your own judge.

Aladdin

Both really suck

They're very different. Rave has hits, but Vegas has the energy of a live show. Rave only picks up the pace towards the end. Also the camera stuff gives me seizures in Rave.

I prefer Vegas, but the song list is not that impressive.

They're both crap.

What does Prince have against his own performances?

This is why non-fans laugh at Pro-Prince folk, he so unrepresents himself on DVD. He has nothing to hide, he's brilliant live, i don't know why he doesn't want to impress folk. i just don't get it at all!

emilio319 said:

I totally agree with this opinion.

I have both, but love RAVE...

Both,but bcuz of the long hair,Rave.

Rave. The 5.1 sound is mixed well, the set is varied, Larry's bass redeems the preachiness of Purple Rain and it was professionally filmed and edited. Some don't like the A.D.D./slap-chop editing, but I don't think that it hinders the product.

Aladdin is fine to listen to, but I can't watch it without feeling I purchased a second rate bootleg.

Both for different reasons.

Rave - Pre JW
Alladin - Post JW
nuff said!!!

alladins sound quality is bunk

I want to thank you everyone! I will buy Rave first and later I'll get Alladin Thank U!

motherfunka said:

Rave as pretty damn close though. He didn't curse in the Rave DVD, and Graham was obviously very present.

Marrk said:

Didn't Prince once say that aside from a few random live recordings, "Purple Rain", "Baby I'm A Star", "I Would die 4 U", "It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Night" he had never released a live album (to that point), because it was such a final statement on how a song would sound? Oddly, an album version suffers that fate especially if it's never played live.

He'd make a killing if he put the time, effort and money into producing good DVDs of his concerts. Hook up with Showtime or HBO and do it. They'll film it, get the sound right, the look right, and it'd sell buttloads. So many artists have done that, and done well with a deal like that. That PPV thing was ridiculous. It could have been even bigger with a real television deal. It wasn't even in reruns in the following years.

Prince is stupid.

You're right ernest. He has the money to hire the right company to make a professional job of a show but so far he hasn't. Sound quality of recent live dvds I've bought is so good, as is the video quality (HD cameras have existed for a while now). But will he? Probably not.

I don't get the people who say 'Alladin' looks like it has been shot with a cellphone-camera.

ÍMO he is purposely going for a not so 'glossy' look on that DVD, to make it more like you are in the audience yourself.
When you pay attention to how shots are taken and edited, you can see there were multiple cameras used, and that the editting is on a professional level.

It shows it was an 'artistic' decision of him (or the director?) to make it appear grainy and low-key.

Tame said:

Too hard to choose, get them both like my friend here said..

Rave has that idiot woman dancing around onstage like she's having an epileptic seizure.

iloveannie said:

Alan, I agree. He's talked about making the lion's share of sales.... he'd make a freakin' killing with a little effort.

Alladin....Rave is strange....i can't put my finger on it...but it feels and sounds kinds plastic...plus larry is all over the goddamn thing.

BobGeorge909 said:

It's cheap game show video instead of film, or even using a film filter to give it a glossier look. The stage and the lighting is a bit too simplistic and spartan. Plus the audience looks bored part of the time.

ernestsewell said:

yeah, i agree, the lighting is way too bright. its like the house lights have been put on!

ernestsewell said:

Why does it always give me a double-take when someone uses my name here?

i think Rave is a funner dvd...they enjoy themselves there...Alladin, though exposing good musicianship is a bit, serious for me (manufactured fun is the expression that comes 2 mind)

neither, I don't like these 2 dvd's,

Alladin is very bad filmed, incomplete too,
Rave is just bad, includes Larry Graham too

these were so much better....:

The Beautiful Experience tv special,
Love 4 One Another tv special,

but unreleased on dvd - of course!

thedance said:

Never saw Love41another but The Beautiful Experience was great.
It was very exciting at the time to have all this new material thrown in your face, cheesy but very cool. I still love the version of Come and its video.
Seeing Days of Wild for the first time was fantastic.