around 1993 or 1995 i bought the vinyl copy of it for 80 German Mark (round 40 €) because i thought and was told by the owner of the recordstore it was a copy of the first pressing of the black album -

i never played the vinyl - until..

around 2005 i opened the copy .... and were pissed

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I have it as audio files somewhere, and I think it's brilliant! NOt as in a good album to listen to, but it's such a good reverse engineering of all the musical ideas on the album done in a much cheaper sounding MIDI kind of way.

I used to do that for fun myself, recreate the music to Prince songs I wanted to figure out the beat or rhythm structure of. But not on that level, with vocals too!

I got that cd, but there´s no info on it about the performer.

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Jacq said:

MIDI kind of way you say?

Yeah, this would be a must have.

the artist was called "the black album band". i have the LP, i didn't know it was released on cd. it's fucking awful

trickster said:

around 1993 or 1995 i bought the vinyl copy of it for 80 German Mark (round 40 €) because i thought and was told by the owner of the recordstore it was a copy of the first pressing of the black album -

i never played the vinyl - until..

around 2005 i opened the copy .... and were pissed

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That's even worse than my experience!

I will comfort myself that at least I didn't buy the thing without listening, only to find out at home it wasn't the real deal...

Jacq said:

I got that cd, but there´s no info on it about the performer.

[img:$uid]http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z138/Zjakie/BlackAlbumcover_t.jpg[/img:$uid]

Yeah I am pretty sure that is the one I had in my hands back then!

Will start the hunt now that I've got some more details. Thanks!

I also bought it in the early 90's. I only discovered it wasn't Prince when I played it at home. I was disappointed, of course, but still I played it a lot. It sounded good. In 1994, when the Prince record was offically released, I got rid of the copy.

I bought it in vinyl, and it had a sticker that said: "I own The Black Album".

Recently I've read from Per Nilsen that the album was played by a German band. I don't know its name.

I bought it in the early 90ies on vinyl and CD. All the record stores in my area here in germany had it. The vocals were awful. But it contained a nice "I own the black album" - sticker.

ufoclub said:

Does anyone know where I can hear this album?

The cover version was released by a small record label from Frankfurt called TNT. Back then it was the label boss Ralf Thomas who came up with the idea of rerecording the whole album with some musicians from Frankfurt and a flown in vocalist from NY in order to make it sound more authentic.

Benny Braun, a German producer, composer, arranger and former drummer of TTD's Band "The Touch", was mainly responsible for the musical realisation of the project.

If anyone has a link to this version, please let me know! I'd love to hear it just to say I did . It seems like it might be a hilarious experience......

If you have a CD copy & wouldn't mind making a link for it, that would be awesome too

Tittypants said:

The CD and vinyl are for sale at Discogs:

CD: http://www.discogs.com/se...&ev=rb
VINYL: http://www.discogs.com/se...&ev=rb

Gerard said:

The CD and vinyl are for sale at Discogs:

CD: http://www.discogs.com/se...&ev=rb
VINYL: http://www.discogs.com/se...&ev=rb

What would make you think one would want to buy before trying this first?