databank said:

All right. But what they sound like to you is not the issue here.

As stated, the circulating version of 'The Line' seems to be missing a lot compared to the finished item.

'Possessed #2' seems to have been completed with vocals. What's circulating amongst collectors is a recording of an earlier stage of the song, before those were added.

Same for 'Letter 4 Miles'. Can't remember where I read the circulating version is unfinished, and can't either remember what's missing. But that's something easy to believe.

The fact that something is circulating and that it may sound pretty much finished to you doesn't imply it's a finished thing. It's only that it leaked before Prince was definitely done with it.

Regarding the 1983 recording of 'We Can Fuck', the story of the song being renamed 'Moral Majority' on the studio bill so as not to upset WB is circulating but there are also some statements made by Roy Bennet saying that he was actually asked to contribute backing vox on a song called 'Moral Majority'.

Those vocals were recorded in the studio bathroom for reverb purposes. He said he was leaning on the WC to make room for the rest of the vocalists and accidentally let the water off during the recording.

But I think the intended mislabelling of WCF may also have happened. It's not an unlikely fact at all.
[Edited 5/10/10 15:37pm]

OnlyNDaUsa said:

I'm still not sure i get what u mean
Prince is known for not going to sleep neither allowing ANYONE to go asleep until he considers a song finished. I don't understand what you mean by "finished", though. A song can be reworked and overdubbed, which is often the case with Prince, but how do you determine an unreleased song is finished unless you have an overdubbed, later, version of it circulating or released?
Except maybe for the acoustic version of "Kiss", i can't think of any circulating outtake that can be considered unfinished as in "just one verse and one chorus" or "just a bass line and a voice".

basically: the early version of the song may well just be the beginning of an idea but never considered by Prince to be compete even as a demo or starting point. Finished would mean prince was pretty much finished with the basic composition and lyrics and had recorded and mixed the major elements. Even if it goes through major changes.

For example: 'the Ball' was finished. I was a song. In its final form as 'Eye NO' was lyrically nearly unrecognizable.

Someone got a box of chocolates.

That's why I ask. Nearly everybody talks about 'the original' versions of WCF and WA when they refer the the 1986 versions.

If all that guy got is a box o'chocolates we all already have, he hasn't the original (1983) versions of which only snippets are circulating (and with terrible sound).

There is another version i have which sounds like the BOC version but is a cleaned up mix with echoing/delay vocals by Prince. this is also pretty good.
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lotusflw3r said:

You are talking about the "We Can Funk" included on the "H20" release.

And I agree is a fantastic sounding version.
Probably a little more clean that the BOC version.

Shame only that the beginning is cutted.