I dont know if anyone here has it but the most recent Eye Records release Lotus Box is..A complete travesty

I have to say i am appauled at this release!

I mean look at the track listing for the first 2 discs:

Disc One (90:16) ...
01 - Cause And Effect
02 - Purple And Gold
03 - Dance 4 Me (Radio Edit)
04 - Dance 4 Me (Icon Remix)
05 - Dance 4 Me (Tribal Drum Remix)
06 - Dance 4 Me (Dominatrix Remix)
07 - In A Large Room With No Light (2009)
08 - In A Large Room With No Light (1986)
09 - Ambient Loop (segue)
10 - (There'll Never B) Another Like Me (Instrumental Short Edit)
11 - Chocolate Box (Demo - No Q-Tip)
12 - Disco Jellyfish
13 - The Morning After
14 - Radio Announcement (Segue)
15 - Turn Me Loose (Studio Version)
16 - LotusFlow3r Soundz (Segue)
17 - Bria Valente - Here I Come (2007 Mix)
18 - Feel Better, Feel Good, Feel Wonderful (Demo - No Hornz) *
19 - All Along The Watchtower - Best Of You (Howard Stern Radio Show)
20 - One, Two (NPG Ahdio Segue)
21 - Jukebox With A Heart Beat
22 - I Like To Play (Prince Country Song Joke)
23 - Madrid 2 Chicago
24 - Breathe
25 - The Holy River - I Will (Instrumental)
26 - Hot Wit U (Dance Remix Fea. Eve)
27 - Sexy Dancer (DJ Rashida Dance Remix)

Disc Two (90:54) ...
01 - Hard To Get (1981 Version) *
02 - Traffic Jam *
03 - Go *
04 - Cosmic Day *
05 - Everybody Want What They Don't Got *
06 - Adonis And Bathsheeba *
07 - Witness 4 The Prosecution
08 - Movie Star
09 - A Place In Heaven
10 - The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker
11 - Starfish And Coffee
12 - Girl O' My Dreams
13 - Can't Stop This Feeling I Got
14 - We Can Funk
15 - Data Bank
16 - Wonderful Ass
17 - All Day, All Night
18 - The Ball
19 - Joy In Repetition (Full Intro)
20 - Rebirth Of The Flesh
21 - Big House *
22 - The Rest Of My Life
23 - Make Believe
24 - I'll Do Anything
25 - Don't Talk 2 Strangers
26 - My Little Pill
27 - Empty Room
28 - There Is Lonely
29 - Be My Mirror
30 - Madhouse - Kamasutra/Overture #8 (Remix)
31 - Xylophone

A part from the odd few songs I dont have I must say this release is a disgrace! Disc 2 the worst i mean they have lifted FBG's Box O Chocolates and placed it hear with no credit to FBG and there charging you what? about £30 for this when almost all of it is freely circulating?

Almost everything on here is easy to find so please DON'T BUY THIS!

Save your money for the summer 2010 boots or even better, dont buy this stuff at all!

I always thought Eye's releases were good and now i have lost all repect for them!

What do the rest of you think?

Mmmmm, i dont think u can really complain about people who sell illegal recordings. U obviously never checked the tracklist b4 obtaining this release which would be a fairly sensible thing to do. I hope u never paid a lot of money for it?

Is this like the "Don't Buy The Black Album" thing going on here?..ya lil minx

Joyinrepatition said:

More like an "i was dumb and never checked 1st" thing going on.

You paid thirty quid?...for £30!.. i could go into the town have large Fish and Chips, a good few pints with the boys, grab a bottle for her indoors on the way home, sit down with a nice cup of Coffee and download it for free...."aah Good Times"

I'd never buy a boot. It's so easy to get them free online. As it should be, if unreleased material is being distributed.

And yeah, seems like most of it's ripped from other recent cleaned up releases or Lotus/NPGMC odds n' ends. That's convenient, I suppose.

Question for anyone who knows... is this the first time the other two remixes of Dance 4 Me have been available?

No i never paid for it

But looking at it i just hope no one ever does!

where the hell does anyone buy these things anymore anyway? I *used* to see bootlegs like this in record stores. But I don't really any more. And if I do, it's the same ones I was seeing 10-15 years ago Same copies too, probably....

ravein2thejoy said:

If you never paid for it, what are you complaining about? You just got a load of good tracks in good quality for nothing! I dont see the problem.

Perhaps you should ring Prince and complain

purpledoveuk said:

I'll tell ya... if there were collecting all the lf.com stuff, why didn't they put the full, unmolested version of Colonized Mind that doesn't get interrupted by FB,FG,FW on there? now THAT would have been useful. and i mean the one that was streaming from lf.com, not the radio rip.

ravein2thejoy said:

Everything, except maybe 2 of those Dance 4 Me remixes, has been freely available for everybody.
Seems to me those "pressed" labels are specializing in ripping off other releases and collecting money for it.
Their recent released "Vienna Ball" is another example of this dubious practice.
Shame on them.

I can't believe this thing was actually factory pressed.

purpledoveuk said:

You beat me to it. It's all Prince's fault!!!

What a terrible release.

Still, their packaging always looks nice. lol

who the hell'd pay for that?

aren't EYE records the lot that put out the WOW boot, that was alright as it had the Tamar record.

elmer said:

Correct and actually some of the same stuff off Wow is on this release too :S

What's the source of this version of "The Ball"? Anyone know? I have never heard it this clean before. But the beginning, the fade-in, is missing. Still, it sounds near perfect to my ears, on par with the Box O' Chocolates material.
Bonus: I didn't buy it

Disc2 would be a wet dream for the beginner.

Aside from the confused song versions and the selections:
You can complain all you want but you forget that you either have a bunch of mp3/flac/apes, perhaps on a CD-R or on the ipod (does it play ape yet?), or you can have them on a more or less proper (90-minute?) factory pressed CD.

ravein2thejoy said:

If you wanna use a word like "appalled", make sure you know how to spell it.

I really don't approve of putting officially released material on bootlegs, especially considering the sources for some of these tracks are low quality mp3s, that's pretty scuzzy.

There were bootleg releases with the NPGMC stuff though, so it's been going on for years. Kinda reflects on how little new circulating unreleased music there is to put out.

This is an illegal recording of stolen music. What the F do you expect?

Plus, it's out there for free download

You've taken it to a whole new level...voicing disatisfactuon about Prince ripping you off whilst you rip him off.

The rose-coloured glasses brigade are goingbtonhwve to come up with a whole new category of distane for you

OperatingThetan said:

You obviously didn't read and/or didn't understand my remark.
Downloading stuff doesn't equal a nice medium.
Even though certain companies make you believe it is.

BartVanHemelen said:

How supersillyous of you.

NouveauDance said:

tbf their WOW release was A+ quality, and disc2 here comprises the BOC and the pulled I'll Do Anything EP which're as good as you're gonna find.

elmer said:

Not sure if I understand this?
You're basicly saying this release is justified, because they ripped-off FREE releases and are charging money for it???
Except the odd 2 D4Me Remixes, NOTHING on this set is new or an upgrade.
But it's alright to charge crazy money for it, only because it's pressed?
What a joke of a release. (and so was WOW for the record)

vc40 said:

I meant as good as you're gonna find online, was just pointing out that the quality's pretty good on the whole. I'm surprised anyone would pay for boots nowadays.
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