we all know Prince is a pretty quirky dude. i was wondering if certain technical difficulties are intentional. a few cases in point

Raspberry Beret - cough. - i remember hearing he thought it was a good idea to leave it in

Black Sweat - the drum pattern seems like it "skips" out of rhythm near the end of the musical part of the bridge

Walk in Sand/Sea of Everything - the abrupt ending in how the songs flow together (this could be a glitch from the download and not the case on actual "professional" copies of the cd)

Others? nothing else is coming to mind right now. but i thought about this when i was listening to Sea of Everything (its in heavy rotation right now)

there's that horrible skip in the opening seconds of "From the Lotus..."

i doubt it's intentional, but it's annoying as hell. easy enough to fix with a wav editor though.

errant said:

there's that horrible skip in the opening seconds of "From the Lotus..."

i doubt it's intentional, but it's annoying as hell. easy enough to fix with a wav editor though.

It's so annoying, I don't know what the hell "skip" you're talking about.

I'd say one of the most famous intentional technical difficulties would be the beginning of America.

Maybe not what you mean but what comes to mind is that out-of-nowhere beeping toward the end of the song "Lovesexy"

chaos96 said:

Maybe not what you mean but what comes to mind is that out-of-nowhere beeping toward the end of the song "Lovesexy"

yes, I have noticed that!

NDRU said:

chaos96 said:

Maybe not what you mean but what comes to mind is that out-of-nowhere beeping toward the end of the song "Lovesexy"

yes, I have noticed that!

scratched the hell out of the vinyl back in the day trying to figure out what I missed and where that even fit in the song!

The segue before "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" on The Gold Experience is all "scratched". Lame. You think he'd catch that.

Hmm, but this thread is for intentional ones...

- The mic distortion in "Little Red Corvette"

- Saying "trampoline" over and over in "Tambourine"

- Saying "I never meant to cause you any paint" in "The Purple Medley"

- Tony M's voice?

chaos96 said:

Maybe not what you mean but what comes to mind is that out-of-nowhere beeping toward the end of the song "Lovesexy"

I love that beep, it's like he got too erotic and censored himself. It makes me laugh.

chaos96 said:

Maybe not what you mean but what comes to mind is that out-of-nowhere beeping toward the end of the song "Lovesexy"

the end of Billy Jack Bitch "please access another experience..."

Ive always wondered about the one is "Something In The Water (Does Not Compute).

Right before he says, "Why in Gods name do you want to make cry," he says something like "Come On" and there is a sound like the cord came out of his guitar and he's plugging it back in.

Weird.... Or was that the computer??

I think the most obvious Technical glitch (though more human error) occurs in Forever In My Life when he recorded the backing vocals a bar too early.

To his credit he left them in and the song is better for it.

Swa said:

I think the most obvious Technical glitch (though more human error) occurs in Forever In My Life when he recorded the backing vocals a bar too early.

To his credit he left them in and the song is better for it.

That's a Happy Accident!!

Bulldog said:

Ive always wondered about the one is "Something In The Water (Does Not Compute).

Right before he says, "Why in Gods name do you want to make cry," he says something like "Come On" and there is a sound like the cord came out of his guitar and he's plugging it back in.

Weird.... Or was that the computer??

Yeah, that's a great one. I love that bit. It's like the computer has gone from 'not computing' to malfunctioning

NeoGeo24bit said:

errant said:

there's that horrible skip in the opening seconds of "From the Lotus..."

i doubt it's intentional, but it's annoying as hell. easy enough to fix with a wav editor though.

It's so annoying, I don't know what the hell "skip" you're talking about.

At :04, there is an audible set of crackles from the sound of vinyl sound effects. One specific pop is pretty loud and sounds more like a defect of the audio.

Spinlight said:

NeoGeo24bit said:

It's so annoying, I don't know what the hell "skip" you're talking about.

At :04, there is an audible set of crackles from the sound of vinyl sound effects. One specific pop is pretty loud and sounds more like a defect of the audio.

it is an audio defect. look at it in a wav editor.

Hatman said:

chaos96 said:

Maybe not what you mean but what comes to mind is that out-of-nowhere beeping toward the end of the song "Lovesexy"

I love that beep, it's like he got too erotic and censored himself. It makes me laugh.

That's precisely what he did.

I believe he is referencing nutting deep in the broad and he bleeps out "come" from the line.

errant said:

Spinlight said:

At :04, there is an audible set of crackles from the sound of vinyl sound effects. One specific pop is pretty loud and sounds more like a defect of the audio.

it is an audio defect. look at it in a wav editor.

I wonder why this was left in. Is it just an MP3 issue and not on the actual pressed CD? I never opened my official copy cuz I already had the leaked version and the album didn't make me go nuts so I never bothered.

Spinlight said:

errant said:

it is an audio defect. look at it in a wav editor.

I wonder why this was left in. Is it just an MP3 issue and not on the actual pressed CD? I never opened my official copy cuz I already had the leaked version and the album didn't make me go nuts so I never bothered.

it's on the CD too.

maybe that's why that engineer turned him over to debt collection. wasn't getting paid, so there was nobody to catch that

Spinlight said:

errant said:

it is an audio defect. look at it in a wav editor.

I wonder why this was left in. Is it just an MP3 issue and not on the actual pressed CD? I never opened my official copy cuz I already had the leaked version and the album didn't make me go nuts so I never bothered.

Nah, it's on the CD as well. It certainly looks like a defect. A massive pop just before the rhodes comes in. I edited it out as well, but it's possible it was intentional, or intentionally left in (for what purpose though, other than to annoy the shit out of audio-tech-heads, I have no idea )

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i hate the digital distortion (noise) on the truth. it's a vile sound and always wondered if it was a mistake

Spinlight said:

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there's a digital pop on the entrance of the band on 'and god created woman' i always wondered if it was a mastering mistake or something but it always bothered me.

electric said:

there's a digital pop on the entrance of the band on 'and god created woman' i always wondered if it was a mastering mistake or something but it always bothered me.

Where?

can anyone confirm if the end of Walk In Sand & the beginning of Sea of Everything on an "official" European version of 20Ten has the abrupt transition?

Spinlight said:

electric said:

there's a digital pop on the entrance of the band on 'and god created woman' i always wondered if it was a mastering mistake or something but it always bothered me.

Where?

on the downbeat of the band's entrance, like i dunno 6-7 secs in. there's the keyboard intro and then a millisecond before the band kicks in there's a pop, sounds more to me like a bad punch having listened again