What if that day comes when Prince decides to empty his vault, & besides the outtakes already out there, nothing else is all that good? What if Prince [mostly] released all of his best stuff????

Some people have expressed the opinion that the stuff left in the vault (including what we know) is, by and large, unmarketable and not that great comparitively speaking.

It may be nostalgia or the taboo nature of collecting, but I really believe there's about an album per "era" of releasable material and that would be good enough. I don't follow the belief that the vault is endless and endless and endless and everything within it is perfect.

There's gotta be at least 30 reels worth of "Gangsta Glam" and "Face Down" remixes alone.

Spinlight said:

Some people have expressed the opinion that the stuff left in the vault (including what we know) is, by and large, unmarketable and not that great comparitively speaking.

It may be nostalgia or the taboo nature of collecting, but I really believe there's about an album per "era" of releasable material and that would be good enough. I don't follow the belief that the vault is endless and endless and endless and everything within it is perfect.

There's gotta be at least 30 reels worth of "Gangsta Glam" and "Face Down" remixes alone.

I just don't put much hope into the vault like a lot of other people do. Of course I'd like to hear everything, but I won't hype it up in my mind, only to be disappointed in the end.....

Im sure theres lots of gems and duds in there

but i doubt its overrated

mplsmike said:

Im sure theres lots of gems and duds in there

but i doubt its overrated

I can't imagine what outtakes from the 00's must sound like....

More like "What if The Vault turns out to be EMPTY..." before we can get our greedy little hands on it?

...Prince

MarquessMarq said:

More like "What if The Vault turns out to be EMPTY..." before we can get our greedy little hands on it?

...Prince

I've always had this thought that Prince could've destroyed some of his raunchy music in the vault due to his JW ways.....who knows how much is/was raunchy....

-Everything Prince is IN that Vault!

-Prince will never throw away anything and I do mean ANYTHING that has to do with him.

-Everything conserved in its natural state, what a dreamland.

What if: he released stuff from the vault the past 10 years...so we allready heard a lot of it???

Its nothing in that vault, Prince is just an attention whore like Al Capone.

Paisley4u said:

What if: he released stuff from the vault the past 10 years...so we allready heard a lot of it???

That wouldn't be good.....

formallypickles said:

Its nothing in that vault, Prince is just an attention whore like Al Capone.

They should get Geraldo's ass to open it too....

Since when is nearly EVERY single live performance on video and audio considered "overrated"??

alexnvrmnd777 said:

Since when is nearly EVERY single live performance on video and audio considered "overrated"??

Exactly, the best items in the vault are all the soundboard recordings and live videos. what would you grab first. the box labeled "push it up" and "freaks on this side" remixes or 1984-1987 live.

alexnvrmnd777 said:

alexnvrmnd777 said:

Since when is nearly EVERY single live performance on video and audio considered "overrated"??

I was only referring to studio outtakes we've never heard of.....I never mentioned live footage of songs already out....

all those live audio and video recordings alone..

I believe some different, and long and extended versions of studio songs too.

the vaults just can't be overrated.......

Tittypants said:

alexnvrmnd777 said:

Since when is nearly EVERY single live performance on video and audio considered "overrated"??

I was only referring to studio outtakes we've never heard of.....I never mentioned live footage of songs already out....

Okay, so really you mean the title to say just "unreleased outtakes", right?

friend2001 said:

alexnvrmnd777 said:

Since when is nearly EVERY single live performance on video and audio considered "overrated"??

Exactly, the best items in the vault are all the soundboard recordings and live videos. what would you grab first. the box labeled "push it up" and "freaks on this side" remixes or 1984-1987 live.

Neither. My choice'd be "Hot Wit U" (The Heat Index Mix).

Blasphemy!!!!

We already know what the circulated outtakes are like. There's enough good stuff there so that you could compile albums of them that are just as good as many of his 80s albums.

When Prince refers to "The Vault" I doubt he refers only to stuff that nobody has heard before. If we'd only get the outtake stuff from the 1980-1990 sessions that we'd already heard in great sound quality what more could we ask? Anything extra would be just, well, extra.

I'm sure there'll be great music in the Vault. It probably is very overrated, though.

[Edited 8/16/11 7:41am]

We already have hundreds of unreleased tracks and alternate versions, extrapolate that to the whole kaboodle, and that says what?.... That it's a mix of gems, average stuff and crud just like the released body of work.

Just give me anything left from 1976-1989

Make It Through The Storm, We Can Work It Out, Donna, Down A Long, Lonely Highway, Big Tall Wall, Extraloveable, Purple Music, Cosmic Day, Adonis and Bathsheba, There's Others Here With Us, Moonbeam Levels, The Grand Progression, Splash, In My Dreams, Schoolyard, Can U Come Outside And Play...

All bangin, all make me cream my jeans. I am ready to pick the lock.

OldFriends4Sale said:

Just give me anything left from 1976-1989

Lol! Yeah, definitely!!

2freaky4church1 said:

Make It Through The Storm, We Can Work It Out, Donna, Down A Long, Lonely Highway, Big Tall Wall, Extraloveable, Purple Music, Cosmic Day, Adonis and Bathsheba, There's Others Here With Us, Moonbeam Levels, The Grand Progression, Splash, In My Dreams, Schoolyard, Can U Come Outside And Play...

All bangin, all make me cream my jeans. I am ready to pick the lock.

YES!!!!!!!!

I would probably do major harm to someone just to hear the full version of Adonis and Bathsheba no matter the quality.

There's probably two or three or maybe even four albums' worth of phenomenal music.

Which is two or three or maybe even four more albums of phenomenal music than most artists put out in their life.

paniuroczy said:

Blasphemy!!!!

Spinlight said:

Some people have expressed the opinion that the stuff left in the vault (including what we know) is, by and large, unmarketable and not that great comparitively speaking.

It may be nostalgia or the taboo nature of collecting, but I really believe there's about an album per "era" of releasable material and that would be good enough. I don't follow the belief that the vault is endless and endless and endless and everything within it is perfect.

There's gotta be at least 30 reels worth of "Gangsta Glam" and "Face Down" remixes alone.

I hear ya Spin and I would be willing to 'chance it' by hearing some of it and make my own judgements ...