Okay people. Pick your favourite B-sides. The ones that should have been on official studio releases...what song(s), and what album do you think they'd fit best on.

I'd say "Hide the Bone" is my favourite B-side, on either Love Symbol (for it's funkiness, and Quirky Prince Production) or Chaos and Disorder (For it's funky rock vibe from start to finish).

How bout' choo?

ryleestrange said:

Okay people. Pick your favourite B-sides. The ones that should have been on official studio releases...what song(s), and what album do you think they'd fit best on.

I'd say "Hide the Bone" is my favourite B-side, on either Love Symbol (for it's funkiness, and Quirky Prince Production) or Chaos and Disorder (For it's funky rock vibe from start to finish).

How bout' choo?

"Hide the Bone" wasn't a b-side and it wasn't even recorded when Love Symbol came out, lol. First of all.

As far as actual b-sides... Obviously everyone will say "17 Days" which is totally correct. "Erotic City" has an album-quality vibe to it as well, though I am not sure if it would work on the Purple Rain album. I could see an edited version of "Love or Money" on something like Sign o the Times. Obviously "Escape" sounds VERY much like it should be a Lovesexy album cut (like, say, after "Dance On"). "Horny Toad" would've worked well on 1999, I think.

Alexa de Paris

She's Always in My Hair

How Come You Don't Call Me Anymore

along with the already suggested '17 Days', 'Escape' and 'Erotic City'

Also a more exciting recording of 'Girl' could have been great on an album.

I forgot Irresistible Bitch

Spinlight said:

ryleestrange said:

Okay people. Pick your favourite B-sides. The ones that should have been on official studio releases...what song(s), and what album do you think they'd fit best on.

I'd say "Hide the Bone" is my favourite B-side, on either Love Symbol (for it's funkiness, and Quirky Prince Production) or Chaos and Disorder (For it's funky rock vibe from start to finish).

How bout' choo?

"Hide the Bone" wasn't a b-side and it wasn't even recorded when Love Symbol came out, lol. First of all.

As far as actual b-sides... Obviously everyone will say "17 Days" which is totally correct. "Erotic City" has an album-quality vibe to it as well, though I am not sure if it would work on the Purple Rain album. I could see an edited version of "Love or Money" on something like Sign o the Times. Obviously "Escape" sounds VERY much like it should be a Lovesexy album cut (like, say, after "Dance On"). "Horny Toad" would've worked well on 1999, I think.

Didn't say it had to be on an album that was out when the song was released. I'm just saying what album i think it SHOULD have been written for, and would have sounded best on. And when was Hide the Bone an official release? It was off Crystal Ball, which was a bootleg/b-sides comp...as far as i know, maybe i'm mistaken.

ryleestrange said:

And when was Hide the Bone an official release? It was off Crystal Ball, which was a bootleg/b-sides comp...as far as i know, maybe i'm mistaken.

Crystal Ball is just a straight up outtakes set. It does contain some remixes of stuff like "Pussy Control" and "Loose" and "The Continental", but it's not a b-side compilation.

Call me crazy, but I think "Rock and Roll is Alive" would have been a kick ass opening track for "The Gold Experience"

17 MF DAYS

Here are my "deluxe" albums.

Purple Rain:

Let's Go Crazy (long version)

Take Me With U

The Beautiful Ones

Computer Blue

Darling Nikki

Erotic City (long version)

When Doves Cry

17 Days

I Would Die 4 U

Baby Im A Star

Purple Rain

God (Instrumental long version)

Around the World:

Around the World...

Paisley Park

Condition of the Heart

She's Always in my Hair (long version)

Raspberry Beret

Tamborine

America (21 min version edited down to 11+ min)

Pop Life

Girl (long version)

The Ladder

Temptation

Parade:

Christopher Tracy's Parade

New Position

I Wonder U

Under the Cherry Moon

Girls and Boys

Life Can Be So Nice

Love or Money (short version)

Alexa de Paris

Mountains

Do U Lie?

Kiss

Anotherlover...

Venus de Milo (moved and flows nicely into...)

Sometimes It Snows...

Once I "remastered" them and leveled them off, they flow smoooooth and sound like they were released yesterday rather than 20 some odd years ago.

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My favourites are obvious ones : erotic city & how come u don't call me anymore.

They should have been on albums but the fact Prince was able to release (in the days when a 45 was still something) such quality b-sides is part of the myth. For the better.

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"Silve tongue" could have fit in very well on "One nite alone-piano vocal"

"She's Always In My Hair" should have been on ATWIAD...perhaps in place of "Tambourine"?

It's definitely A-side material,imo.

"Horny Pony" should have been on the Symbol album, so I can easily disregard it along with many other crap tracks.

SoulAlive said:

"She's Always In My Hair" should have been on ATWIAD...perhaps in place of "Tambourine"?

It's definitely A-side material,imo.

Yes! As opening track for side 2, it would've changed the whole dynamic of the album (especially with "America" following it). Hmm, off to make a new playlist...

I LOVE Power Fantastic........

"SCARLET PUSSY" -

Spinlight said:

ryleestrange said:

And when was Hide the Bone an official release? It was off Crystal Ball, which was a bootleg/b-sides comp...as far as i know, maybe i'm mistaken.

Crystal Ball is just a straight up outtakes set. It does contain some remixes of stuff like "Pussy Control" and "Loose" and "The Continental", but it's not a b-side compilation.

Yep. And it is official, don't forget. Released in 1998. One of the first major artist albums to be made available via the internet.

StonedImmaculate said:

Here are my "deluxe" albums.

Purple Rain:

Let's Go Crazy (long version)

Take Me With U

The Beautiful Ones

Computer Blue

Darling Nikki

Erotic City (long version)

When Doves Cry

17 Days

I Would Die 4 U

Baby Im A Star

Purple Rain

God (Instrumental long version)

Around the World:

Around the World...

Paisley Park

Condition of the Heart

She's Always in my Hair (long version)

Raspberry Beret

Tamborine

America (21 min version edited down to 11+ min)

Pop Life

Girl (long version)

The Ladder

Temptation

Parade:

Christopher Tracy's Parade

New Position

I Wonder U

Under the Cherry Moon

Girls and Boys

Life Can Be So Nice

Love or Money (short version)

Alexa de Paris

Mountains

Do U Lie?

Kiss

Anotherlover...

Venus de Milo (moved and flows nicely into...)

Sometimes It Snows...

Once I "remastered" them and leveled them off, they flow smoooooth and sound like they were released yesterday rather than 20 some odd years ago.

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I think that only that complete Parade album would work. Always in my hair is to poppy and clear a vocal for ATWIAD-Erotic City is too much dirty funky Prince for the clean lines of PR

17 Days, God, Erotic City & Another Lonely Christmas could all have made Purple Rain easily. Just how Prince was able to separate these songs was amazing in itself. I miss the days of the b-side/extended remix!

I always felt that "Its gonna be a beautiful night" on SOTT was a mistake. It was a Parade tour track, and was so "live" (despite the overdubs) that it is out of place on the album. I think Prince should have stuck either Crystal ball or La La La He He He in its place, or put two shorter tracks in its place like Witness and Joy in Repetition.

how come you dont call me anymore

irresitible bitch

17days

erotic city got soooooooooooo much airplay(still does) it SHOULD have been a single(now to think of it same thing with how come you dont call me anymore)

she's always in my hair

shockadelca

feel u up

love left/love right(could have been released to clubs)