Which one do u like better?

I know I'm gonna b flamed 4 that but I prefer the 2009 version: it's smoother and more elegant and sophisticated than the original. I still love the original, though, it was one of my fave outtakes for years, but it sounds a bit... clumsy compared to its 2009 conterpart.

Am I the only one to like the 2009 version better?

The original is more aggressive [which I miss in Prince's music], so I like it more than the newer one overall. But I do the like ending of the newer version better then the original....

Honestly for my heart the 1986 version is a lot better of the 2009 remake.

But the 2009 remake is not that bad.

Simply it sounds a little too minimalistic and bare having in mind the original and somewhat "out-of-time" if you can understand what I mean.

You know you've got something wrong with the title.

It's "In A Large Room With No Light" (unless you buy the claims that the title was originally even longer than that).

I like both versions. It was nice to see Prince realizing he had written such a good piece of music years ago and revisiting it later on.

Love both versions. 1986 version beats 2009 by a whisker though.

The problem with the new version is: there's no edginess!

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The original version is hardly that egdy either.

The frenetic beat is, at least a little bit. Not a big fan of the track anyway.

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Pulling this out was great, and it was a suitable version. Of course the original is better, but that it got a late airing like this at all was really cool. Why no officially released version though? Streams etc are BS.

I prefer the newer one.

I like to cheat myself pretending the 2009 horror never existed.

Is this even a REAL question?? Tell me this is an extremely early April Fools joke! There is only ONE version, which is the 1986 one. In my mind, nothing else exists. For damn sure not that atrocity he called a jam he released to a website that wasn't his own in 2009! Ugh.

This thread's a fail for even asking!

1986.

Original has the same kind of beat and sound as "Play in the Sunshine". Another example of him of him repeating a similar layer or element in a completely different song.

alexnvrmnd777 said:

Is this even a REAL question?? Tell me this is an extremely early April Fools joke! There is only ONE version, which is the 1986 one. In my mind, nothing else exists. For damn sure not that atrocity he called a jam he released to a website that wasn't his own in 2009! Ugh.

This thread's a fail for even asking!

lol

That sound is original it's pushing sounds and styles. It almost reminds me of the later sounds that the producer of some of Amerie & Beyonce's sound heard on Crazy In Love(?) & 1 Thing(?)

In A Large Room With No Lights has a similar frantic feel like Life Can Be So Nice and I love both as IS. that Jazzy remix is cool only that Prince 'pays' homage' to those days. But the remix does nothing for me

OldFriends4Sale said:

alexnvrmnd777 said:

Is this even a REAL question?? Tell me this is an extremely early April Fools joke! There is only ONE version, which is the 1986 one. In my mind, nothing else exists. For damn sure not that atrocity he called a jam he released to a website that wasn't his own in 2009! Ugh.

This thread's a fail for even asking!

lol

That sound is original it's pushing sounds and styles. It almost reminds me of the later sounds that the producer of some of Amerie & Beyonce's sound heard on Crazy In Love(?) & 1 Thing(?)

In A Large Room With No Lights has a similar frantic feel like Life Can Be So Nice and I love both as IS. that Jazzy remix is cool only that Prince 'pays' homage' to those days. But the remix does nothing for me

I think it is the same beat as the studio version of "Play in the Sunshine" with a different reverb and edit. Were they recorded the same week, or day?

OldFriends4Sale said:

alexnvrmnd777 said:

Is this even a REAL question?? Tell me this is an extremely early April Fools joke! There is only ONE version, which is the 1986 one. In my mind, nothing else exists. For damn sure not that atrocity he called a jam he released to a website that wasn't his own in 2009! Ugh.

This thread's a fail for even asking!

lol

That sound is original it's pushing sounds and styles. It almost reminds me of the later sounds that the producer of some of Amerie & Beyonce's sound heard on Crazy In Love(?) & 1 Thing(?)

In A Large Room With No Lights has a similar frantic feel like Life Can Be So Nice and I love both as IS. that Jazzy remix is cool only that Prince 'pays' homage' to those days. But the remix does nothing for me

The only thing "cool" about the 2009 version is the fact that he acknowledged it exists. That's it! He did to this song what he does to a lot of his jams on stage, which is turn them into jazz-lite lounge numbers. He completely castrated it. I don't see why he didn't just release the original, unedited of course.

novabrkr said:

You know you've got something wrong with the title.

It's "In A Large Room With No Light" (unless you buy the claims that the title was originally even longer than that).

Damn u're right, I think it was called like that on the old boots and it remained stuck this way in my mind despite me being aware of the real title...

So, what boot has the best quality of the 1986 version? I don't think I have the old version, and I have almost everything!

Edited to add: I'm not asking where to get said bootleg. I am quite capable of finding what I want. I just don't know what I'm looking for.

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Maaaaan, the 2009 version is jamming. I've been listening to it a lot lately.

Listen closely, it's not just a live rehearsal, he went back and overdubbed BG vocals etc.

For all those wishing for a Crystal Ball II etc, this is like a little tiny bit of that.

It's missing the "edginess" of the original (read: reverb), but so what?

He pulled a (highly-circulated) song out of the vault, and re-recorded the entire thing.

Sure, it's not a mastered, cleaned up version of the original, but that's likely not even possible at this point.

i think i like the original best although the new version's not bad, still would've liked the second verse, but then it has a naughty word in it.

vitriol said:

I like to cheat myself pretending the 2009 horror never existed.

EXACTLY!

I listen to both versions back to back and I just think that the 2009 version is more polished but they are both equally good.

databank said:

Which one do u like better?

I know I'm gonna b flamed 4 that but I prefer the 2009 version: it's smoother and more elegant and sophisticated than the original. I still love the original, though, it was one of my fave outtakes for years, but it sounds a bit... clumsy compared to its 2009 conterpart.

Am I the only one to like the 2009 version better?

i prefer the 2009 version as well....

toejam said:

Love both versions. 1986 version beats 2009 by a whisker though.

Yep

Whenever he cuts a track with Wendy & Lisa I always like THAT version better, same with this one. Eric Leeds even said that this track was just as much a Wendy & Lisa song as it was Prince's. And that's why I STILL don't like when he does Mountains or Power Fantastic, it's just not the same.

WonderU said:

Whenever he cuts a track with Wendy & Lisa I always like THAT version better, same with this one. Eric Leeds even said that this track was just as much a Wendy & Lisa song as it was Prince's. And that's why I STILL don't like when he does Mountains or Power Fantastic, it's just not the same.

What I can remember from the prince.org interview of Wendy & Lisa that wasn't the case at all. Lisa didn't even recognize the title and Wendy said that it was a track Prince wrote right after he parted ways with them.

novabrkr said:

WonderU said:

Whenever he cuts a track with Wendy & Lisa I always like THAT version better, same with this one. Eric Leeds even said that this track was just as much a Wendy & Lisa song as it was Prince's. And that's why I STILL don't like when he does Mountains or Power Fantastic, it's just not the same.

What I can remember from the prince.org interview of Wendy & Lisa that wasn't the case at all. Lisa didn't even recognize the title and Wendy said that it was a track Prince wrote right after he parted ways with them.

They parted ways before he wrote it, yet they're on the record? Surely you don't believe that, do you?

I have never really thought that either version was that special.