What Prince albums have you ammended/changed to suit your preferences?

I'm currently working my way through his back catalogue (I'm on the 1996 era at the moment)

Changes I've made to albums so far:

Controversy - 'Do Me Baby' I've shortened to 4:50 as I love the song but don't love listening to Prince orgasm everytime I listen to it.

Lovesexy - Single tracked so I can actually choose songs I really want to listen to i.e. Anna Stesia.

Graffiti Bridge - Only kept Prince songs on there and got rid of The Time, Tevin Campbell etc. as I felt they lowered the quality of the album

Love Symbol - Got rid of all the segues as I found they ruined the flow of the album

Come - Shortened the song 'Come' to 5:45 as anything after that I felt was unecessary

The Gold Experience - Got rid of all the NPG Operator messages (annoying) and changed 'The Most Beautiful Girl In The World' to the single version (as I think it's much better)

That's it for the moment... I'm sure there's more to come.

I'd be interested to know what changes you've all made to your collection!

Exodus

Removed all segues and New Power Soul and Cherry Cherry.

I've added Moonbeam Levels to 1999 and removed International Lover. I know a lot of people on here consider it an amazing track and I can understand why they would feel that way, but to me it really gets the flow out of the album. Just my personal preference.

Parade is a double album in my music library, I've added a lot of the outtakes and extended versions.

I've tried to include Kiss in Sign O' The Times, as I've always felt Kiss fits very good in Sign O' The Times' minimalistic concept, but it didn't work out because the drum tracks and falsetto parts are so different.

I can remember Ernest Sewell edited D&P so that it wouldn't include Tony M's rap, but because I never thought of D&P as a really good album I didn't take the time to do that myself. But I guess others on the Org have that version or have done the same thing.

I haven't made any changes myself but someone here on the org (I forget who) excised Tony M. from Diamonds and Pearls. Poor Tony M.

I dabble in this at times, just for some fun. Here's two of my better attempts:

Lotusflow3r - retitled 'Planet Lotus'
- Includes both "The Morning After" and "Crimson & Clover"
- Used the mp3 of "Colonized Mind" from lotusflow3r.com that has the full guitar effects at the end so it doesn't abruptly segue into "Feel Better"
- Added "3121", "Planet Earth" and "Guitar" as they seem like tracks that were recorded during the same sessions/same feel as most of the Lotusflow3r album ("3121" right before "Wall Of Berlin" sounds great!)

Rave Un2 - retitled 'Ultimate Rave'

- My preference for all the different versions:

1. Rave Un2 (Un2)
2. Undisputed (Un2)
3. The Greatest Romance (In2 - includes the guitar solo from the "Adam & Eve Remix")
4. Hot Wit U (Un2)
5. Tangerine (In2)
6. So Far, So Pleased (In2)
7. The Sun, Moon & Stars (In2)

8. Man O War (Un2 - segue included so it's one complete track)
9. Baby Knows (In2)
10. I Love U, but I Don't Trust U Anymore (In2)

11. Silly Game (Un2

12. Strange but True (Un2)

13. Wherever U Go, Whatever U Do (In2)

14. Beautiful Strange (Beautiful Strange VHS)
15. Prettyman (In2)

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Can one of you please tell me how to do this sort of thing. I can picture myself having loads of fun with it. Also (if you know) how to create my own personalized medley's. Orgnote me if u want.

Thank you.

changed the order of the songs on Purple Rain to the order they go in the movie

got rid of the "NPG Operator" segues in TGE (i dont mind the segues in other albums but these are just annoying)

speaking of which, deleted "Wedding Feast"... -_-

added the EPs that go with certain albums TO those albums.. i dont remember what the EPs were called so i cant really give examples.

combined the two Madhouse albums

deleted the songs from Rave In2 the Joy Fantastic that were unchanged, so its basically a remix EP

added "the new master" of the song "1999" to the end of the album 1999

added "The Morning After" to Lotusflow3r, right after "Crimson and Clover"

changed "Starfish and Coffee" to start 2 seconds in, to skip over that obnoxious telephone ringing. im sure i made more edits like that but i cant remember. not very many though.

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All of the prince albums i have, he's rubbish at albums .... but does produce some of the greatest singles in the last 30 years without question

Excellent thread

1.Mix of my fav songs of For You/Prince '79: I still own both albums, but now I only listen to this mix I made a couple of years ago...I don't have to listen to With You or So Blue anymore, lol

2.Around the World In a Day: I've added "Hello" between the title-track and Paisley Park, I've replaced Tamborine for Girl, and I've added the long version of She's Always in My Hair before Temptation. 10 tracks.

3.Black Album/Lovesexy Revisited (Spooky Electric vs Camille): in one CD:

1.LeGrind

2.Cindy C

3.Dead On It

4.The Sex of It

5.Bob George

6.Super...

7.2 Niggs...

8.Rockhard

(10 tracks of 2 seconds of silence...lol)

9.Alphabet St.

10.Glam Slam

11.Dance On

12.Anna Stesia

13.Lovesexy

14.When 2 R in Love

15.I Wish U Heaven (long version)

16.Positivity

bye bye to EyeNo

4.Graffiti Bridge: Prince's tracks only and a new front cover (the front cover of the NewPowerGeneration single)

5.Emancipation: my fav 14 tracks in one CD...

I also tried to change A LOT of things of the 1996-2003 era but I realized that it was just too difficult so I gave up; at one point I was trying to mix the best of NPS and Rave in 1 Cd but it was worthless, really...

6.Musicology: I've eliminated Life'O the Party

I also made a box of 8 CD's of the best tracks of Crystal Ball mixed with the truckload of rarities/non-released songs that (sadly) were not included in CB, including the 1986 and 82-83 outtakes/rarities, and also the B-Sides official CD...

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I've made a true Purple Rain soundtrack (including The Time, Apollonia 6 and Modernaires) and an expanded The Gold Experience (adding back in Interactive, Ripopgodazippa, Acknowledge Me and Days Of Wild).

Reduced Emancipation to about 15 songs

Same with Crystal Ball

I added the Lovesign song (- the original 1-800-New-Funk version) to the excellent Come album:

01. Come (11:13)
02. Space (4:28)
03. Pheromone (5:08)
04. Loose! (3:27)
05. Papa (2:48)
06. Race (4:28)
07. Dark (6:10)

08. Lovesign (4:31)

09. Solo (3:48)
10. Letitgo (5:33)
11. Orgasm (1:39)

I also shortened Emancipation to 30 songs

01. Jam Of The Year (6:09)
02. Right Back Here In My Arms (4:42)
03. Somebody's Somebody (4:43)
04. Betcha By Golly Wow! (3:30)
05. We Gets Up (4:17)
06. White Mansion (4:47)
07. Damned If Do (5:20)
08. Can't Make U Love Me (6:37)
09. Mr. Happy (4:46)

10. In This Bed Scream (5:40)
11. Sex In The Summer (5:56)
12. One Kiss At A Time (4:40)
13. Soul Sanctuary (4:41)
14. Emale (3:37)
15. Curious Child (2:57)
16. Dreamin' About U (3:52)
17. Joint 2 Joint (7:51)
18. The Holy River (6:55)
19. Saviour (5:48)
20. Friend, Lover, Sister, Mother/Wife (7:37)
21. Slave (4:51)
22. New World (3:42)
23. The Human Body (5:41)
24. Face Down (3:16)
25. La, La, La Means Love You (3:58)
26. Style (6:40)
27. Sleep Around (7:41)
28. My Computer (4:36)
29. The Love We Make (4:38)
30. Emancipation (4:12)

Taking Off these:

Get Yo Groove On
Courtin' Time
Let's Have A Baby
The Plan
Da, Da, Da
One Of Us

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My version of Parade:

Christopher Tracys Parade

New Position

I Wonder U

Alexa De Paris (7" edit)

Under The Cherry Moon

It's A Wonderful Day

Girls and Boys

Sexual Suicide

Life Can Be So Nice

Venus De Milo

Power Fantastic

Mountains (extended version, but faded out at 6:33)

Do U Lie?

In A Large Room With No Light

Love or Money (edit)

Kiss (extended version,faded out at 5:05)

Anotherloverholenyohead

4 The Tears In Your Eyes (Live Aid video version)

Sometimes It Snows In April

All My Dreams

This version 4 me is killer! Songs like Sexual Suicide and It's A Wonderful Day were thrown in cuz I know Sexual Suicide was in an early draft of "Under The Cherry Moon" and "...Wonderfu Day" is in the movie. In A Large Room With No Light just fits the album perfectly in my opinion.The Live Aid video version of 4 The Tears In Your Eyes is so beautiful and the way Prince, Wendy, and Lisa harmonize and the overall atmosphere of the song is a perfect way 2 go in2 Sometimes It Snows In April. This is the way I feel Parade should have been

And my version of Come:

Interactive

Come #1 (Glam Slam U. version)

Endorphinemachine (segued from Come #1)

Space

2morrow

Acknowledge Me

Phereomone

Loose

Papa

Pope (from the Dawn 4.1)

Race

Dark

Love Sign

Letitgo

Dolphin (from Come Original Test Pressing)

Come #2 (album version)

My albums were alrady reworked from selecting the remasters by FoeFur

thedance said:

I also shortened Emancipation to 30 songs

01. Jam Of The Year (6:09)
02. Right Back Here In My Arms (4:42)
03. Somebody's Somebody (4:43)
04. Betcha By Golly Wow! (3:30)
05. We Gets Up (4:17)
06. White Mansion (4:47)

...

...

29. The Love We Make (4:38)
30. Emancipation (4:12)

Taking Off these:

Get Yo Groove On

I mean, that's the best pop/upbeat number off Emancipation WHAT THE HELL??

The only Prince CD that I've ever rearranged is 2010. I put Laydown at the beginning, as the first track, blending into Compassion

I've removed all the songs on 20Ten and left only the silence cuts before Laydown. Now it's a superb album.

vitriol said:

I've removed all the songs on 20Ten and left only the silence cuts before Laydown. Now it's a superb album.

Graffiti Bridge - I took out all of the non-Prince songs

- I took out the segues

Emancipation Disc 3: I took out La La La means I Love U and Da Da Da

3121 - I took out Beautiful Loved and Blessed

lovesexy06 said:

Can one of you please tell me how to do this sort of thing. I can picture myself having loads of fun with it. Also (if you know) how to create my own personalized medley's. Orgnote me if u want.

Thank you.

It's pretty easy, with a little time and effort. Download a wave editing program - Audacity is a free one.

Purple Rain:

Lets Go Crazy (extended)

Take Me With U

The Beautiful Ones

Computer Blue

Darling Nikki

Erotic City (extended)

When Doves Cry

17 Days

I Would Die 4 U

Baby I'm A Star

Purple Rain

God (Extended instrumental)

Around the World:

Around the Worldin a Day

Paisley Park

Condition of the Heart

Raspberry Beret

She's Always In My Hair (extended)

Tamborine

America (21min version)

Pop Life

Girl (extended)

The Ladder

Temptation

Parade:

CT Parade

New Position

I Wonder U

Under the Cherry Moon

Girls and Boys

Life Can Be So Nice

Alexa de Paris (extended)

Love or Money (my own edit, about 4 min)

Mountains

Do U Lie?

Kiss

Anotherlover...

Venus de Milo (should be towards the end, like the movie)

Sometimes It Snows...

none, it all sounds a bit complicated

toejam said:

lovesexy06 said:

Can one of you please tell me how to do this sort of thing. I can picture myself having loads of fun with it. Also (if you know) how to create my own personalized medley's. Orgnote me if u want.

Thank you.

It's pretty easy, with a little time and effort. Download a wave editing program - Audacity is a free one.

Thank you, toejam. Onto it now. Let the fun begin!!!!

this used to be a major passtime of mine. usually replacing things with longer versions, adding tracks, based on recording dates, etc. lots and lots of anal retentive rules that really didn't mean a damn thing. I could go through a spindle of 100 discs like nothing if I was working on some multi-disc "Hits" with my own home-made .wav edits or a 1993-1995 "Welcome 2 the Dawn" project. then, one day, I just stopped. maybe it was when I got my iPod. I'm actually now more inclinded to just listen to albums, whole albums even, the way they were released than I ever was before, which from what I understand is the opposite of most people. I've barely ever made a playlist on the thing.

lopez568 said:

What Prince albums have you ammended/changed to suit your preferences?

I'm currently working my way through his back catalogue (I'm on the 1996 era at the moment)

I'd be interested to know what changes you've all made to your collection!

I did this all the time back in the day when I had to put my CDs and LPs on tape to listen to them in a Walkman or in the car (pre-car CD players!). Yep I'm old.

I would mostly add the remixes and b-sides and insert an outtake.

I had a Purple Rain soundtrack tape that went along with the movie's sequence (LGC ext mix, etc).

With CD burning these days, it's so much easier to change up album sequences and stuff.