I love Around The World in a Day but I wish Prince would have given us one more slice of his Purple rock before he went off to Paisley Park.

He had alot of top rate stuff that I'm sure would have been another hit album.

Imagine if he had released this.

Prince And The Revolution

The Dance Electric

Side 1

Our Destiny

Roadhouse Garden

Traffic Jam

G Spot

All Day All Night

Side 2

Love And Sex

Feline

100 Mph

The Dance Elecric (11 minute version)

All hard hitting jamming Mpls funk.

First single The Dance Electric followed by G Spot followed by 100 mph.

This would have been one great album

Romeoblu said:

I love Around The World in a Day but I wish Prince would have given us one more slice of his Purple rock before he went off to Paisley Park.

He had alot of top rate stuff that I'm sure would have been another hit album.

Imagine if he had released this.

Prince And The Revolution

The Dance Electric

Side 1

Our Destiny

Roadhouse Garden

Traffic Jam

G Spot

All Day All Night

Side 2

Love And Sex

Feline

100 Mph

The Dance Elecric (11 minute version)

All hard hitting jamming Mpls funk.

First single The Dance Electric followed by G Spot followed by 100 mph.

This would have been one great album

LOVE AND SEX???

You making shit up??

you high n shit?? droppin imaginary songs??

trafic jam???

aint no way he putting that shit on an album...

seriosly man???

the ladder..nah

raspberry beret nah?

pop life ? nah

traffic jam?? hell yeeeeah

dude you smoking some good stuff

dude is this your list??

1. 1999
2. Sign
3. Controversy
4. The Black album
5. Lovesexy
6. Dirty Mind
7. Purple Rain
8. Around the world in a day
9. Parade
10. Mplsound
11. 20ten
12. Lotusflower
13. Prince
14. Diamonds and Pearls
15. The Rainbow children
16. Symbol
17. Rave un2 the joy fantastic
18. Come
19. The Gold experience
20. For you

WHAT THE FUCK????????????

Rave,20ten,mplsound HIGHER than GOLD???

nah you should be banned

MODERATOR!!!

Yeah, but Jony, you like Under The Cherry Moon.

That just about disqualifies your opinion in any serious discussion.

Hahaha, jony is killing it today!

This would have been a good album but it would have been Prince moving backwards, not forwards IMO, stylistically. The sounds of ATWIAD and Parade are the evolution, leading the masterpiece of Sign O' The Times. So I wouldn't change a thing!

Pentacle said:

Yeah, but Jony, you like Under The Cherry Moon.

That just about disqualifies your opinion in any serious discussion.

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Reminds me of: http://prince.org/msg/7/360416 and my fantasy PR mkII:

Side A:
1. The Dance Electric
2. Moonbeam Levels
3. Posessed
4. Electric Intercourse
Side B:
5. 100 MPH
6. G-Spot
7. All Day, All Night
8. Roadhouse Garden / Our Destiny
9. She's Always In My Hair

It's not so much going backwards as capitalising on the Purple Rain sound and hype by giving the audience another strong set in the same vein - But when has Prince ever given the public what they want?!!

A lot of artists do try the follow up record idea, sometimes you get bigger and better, sometimes you get more of the same and they're spent, artistically because they sat in one spot for too long. In the end, I think Prince was canny in doing what he did ATWIAD/Parade/SOTT was far more artistically/commercially daring and interesting that belting out another PR-like set (reminds me of Street Songs and Throwin' Down, Rick James - Thrownin' Down is good, but half the songs are just carbon copies of Superfreak).

jonylawson said:

Romeoblu said:

I love Around The World in a Day but I wish Prince would have given us one more slice of his Purple rock before he went off to Paisley Park.

He had alot of top rate stuff that I'm sure would have been another hit album.

Imagine if he had released this.

Prince And The Revolution

The Dance Electric

Side 1

Our Destiny

Roadhouse Garden

Traffic Jam

G Spot

All Day All Night

Side 2

Love And Sex

Feline

100 Mph

The Dance Elecric (11 minute version)

All hard hitting jamming Mpls funk.

First single The Dance Electric followed by G Spot followed by 100 mph.

This would have been one great album

LOVE AND SEX???

You making shit up??

you high n shit?? droppin imaginary songs??

That wasn't a made-up title. That song exist and it's actually 2 recordings with that title. One was recorded in 1984, just prior to When Doves Cry and the other one was in 1986. Now it is unknown whether or not those 2 recordings have any other connection besides the title.

actually a lot of those songs even though they come from the PR era are very much different sounding Dance Electric, Roadhouse Garden & Our Destiny easily have a PR - ATWIAD bridge

NouveauDance said:

It's not so much going backwards as capitalising on the Purple Rain sound and hype by giving the audience another strong set in the same vein

Right, but if the follow up record was in the same vein rather than moving forward (as he did), then surely it follows that he would be either moving backwards or not moving at all. Semantics. I think Prince did the right thing, but perhaps there could have been another way to get some of this other strong material out, perhaps a one-off single release for a certain reason, or a song on a soundtrack.

By all accounts it does seem that WB were already concerned about the amount of music being released and wouldn't have encouraged other ways of doing it. I see no reason why Prince wouldn't have wanted to release some of these songs. Of course, some of them worked perfectly being given to associates, like giving "The Dance Electric" to Andre, but clearly some of the others Prince would have wished to release himself but they didn't fit stylistically with his main current project.

Damn, I hope we get a Crystal Ball II at some point

I have never been inside Prince's Vault but,

I can just see what is in there.

Dance Electric is on the 'Ice Cream Castle' bootleg album.

It consists of: The Bird, Chocolate (take 1), Do Yourself A Favour, Chocolate (take 2) and Dance Electric.

They are all in demo/rehersale form.

What I really want 2 know is what color is the cover of that bootleg album?

I think it might just be of 1 color.

If I am right, I will never know.

Militant said:

NouveauDance said:

It's not so much going backwards as capitalising on the Purple Rain sound and hype by giving the audience another strong set in the same vein

Right, but if the follow up record was in the same vein rather than moving forward (as he did), then surely it follows that he would be either moving backwards or not moving at all. Semantics. I think Prince did the right thing, but perhaps there could have been another way to get some of this other strong material out, perhaps a one-off single release for a certain reason, or a song on a soundtrack.

By all accounts it does seem that WB were already concerned about the amount of music being released and wouldn't have encouraged other ways of doing it. I see no reason why Prince wouldn't have wanted to release some of these songs. Of course, some of them worked perfectly being given to associates, like giving "The Dance Electric" to Andre, but clearly some of the others Prince would have wished to release himself but they didn't fit stylistically with his main current project.

Damn, I hope we get a Crystal Ball II at some point

Yep, I could easily see WB allowing Prince 2 release 2 records, because I think they wanted something a bit stronger than ATWIAD

He could have released ATWIAD as a 'love letter 2 his fans' and "Dance Electric"

I don't really see it as standing still or moving backwards because the music then was just so alive and different. There were different styles that I think musically Purple Rain was more diverse than 1999. Purple Rain had songs like Computer Blue When Doves Cry Purple Rain I Would Die 4 U and all these songs represent a serious diverse flavour of styles and sounds

Dance Electric, Our Destiny, Roadhouse Garden, Traffic Jam, Manic Monday, 4 the Tears in Your Eyes

all have a very different feel that would have been almost a more 'organic' sounding PR

jonylawson said:

altho i do love ATWIAD, i kind of agree with this idea. an album that felt like a sort of extension of PR but more geared toward radio (which is what I view this list as) would have been cool.

Romeoblu said:

jonylawson said:

trafic jam???

aint no way he putting that shit on an album...

seriosly man???

the ladder..nah

raspberry beret nah?

pop life ? nah

traffic jam?? hell yeeeeah

dude you smoking some good stuff

I never meant as a replacement to atwiad but released before. I'm sure we could have handle 2 albums in 1985. Plus I think he would satisfied alot of the purple rain fans and consolidated his fan base. By the way your tone is out of order, I thought you must have a youngling, but I checked your profile and was shocked to see you were 35. You hinted at a difficult upbringing so I guess that's what made you the way you are, bearing this in mind I'll pity you and move on.

PITY!!PITY!!PITY

At last from the org i have pity!

oh thankyou thankyou...i feel like an extra in the A team who inanvertently stepped on Mr t's large warrior feet..

and *ahem* for the record

ATWIAD is still the bravest and perverse album EVER by a major artist.

i would have loved to be a fly on the wall when prince previewed the album to WB sat coss legged with wendy twirling flowers in his hand

i mean DAMN! who the fuck has ever followed up a smash with an album like that

that takes artistic balls

i mean it would be like following up Purple Rain the movie with a black and white celluoid piece of whimsy...........

*oh im 38*

jonylawson said:

Romeoblu said:

jonylawson said: I never meant as a replacement to atwiad but released before. I'm sure we could have handle 2 albums in 1985. Plus I think he would satisfied alot of the purple rain fans and consolidated his fan base. By the way your tone is out of order, I thought you must have a youngling, but I checked your profile and was shocked to see you were 35. You hinted at a difficult upbringing so I guess that's what made you the way you are, bearing this in mind I'll pity you and move on.

PITY!!PITY!!PITY

At last from the org i have pity!

oh thankyou thankyou...i feel like an extra in the A team who inanvertently stepped on Mr t's large warrior feet..

and *ahem* for the record

ATWIAD is still the bravest and perverse album EVER by a major artist.

i would have loved to be a fly on the wall when prince previewed the album to WB sat coss legged with wendy twirling flowers in his hand

i mean DAMN! who the fuck has ever followed up a smash with an album like that

that takes artistic balls

i mean it would be like following up Purple Rain the movie with a black and white celluoid piece of whimsy...........

*oh im 38*

ATWIAD was in may ways Purple Rain part 2.

And now in retrospect its easy to ascertain that what with DM's stripped demo sound and dirty lyrics, Controversy's mish mash of sights n sounds, 1999's techno synth fried rock, ATWIAD is not really that out there as a follow up. In fact its "safe."

Now if he followed Rain with Parade, that would be some cajones.

He should have took the best stuff from ATWIAD and the best stuff from parade and put them on one album, with the dance electric, old friends 4 sale and she's always in my hair added.

not in any order

01 the dance electric (not the way too long overrated bootleg version)

02 she's always in my hair

03 kiss

04 new position tamborine

05 pop life

06 raspberry beret

07 old friends 4 sale

08 paisley park

09 Temptation

This would have worked with combining for you 1978 with prince 1979 and the black album with lovesexy

1 iwanna be your lover

2 soft and wet

3 why you wanna treat me so bad

4 sexy dancer (8:53 version)

5 just another sucker (non lp track tossed in)

6 i feel for you

7 bambi

8 i'm yours

9 it's gonna be lonely

Too many slow songs on both for you and especially prince. Baby and still waitng sucks so I picked it's gonna be lonely. too bad Prince favoured the weak still waitng over this strong slow jam and never even performed it live

lovesexy/black album could have one side called the dark and the other side called the light

I totally agree with the idea of this thread.I was never all that crazy about ATWIAD...I would have liked at least one more Prince album with the classic Minneapolis sound.When I listen to stuff like "Extra Lovable","Electric Intercourse","G-Spot" (Prince's 1983 version),etc...I just think it's a shame that the world never got to hear these amazing songs.

Milty said:

altho i do love ATWIAD, i kind of agree with this idea. an album that felt like a sort of extension of PR but more geared toward radio (which is what I view this list as) would have been cool.

rdhull said:

jonylawson said:

PITY!!PITY!!PITY

At last from the org i have pity!

oh thankyou thankyou...i feel like an extra in the A team who inanvertently stepped on Mr t's large warrior feet..

and *ahem* for the record

ATWIAD is still the bravest and perverse album EVER by a major artist.

i would have loved to be a fly on the wall when prince previewed the album to WB sat coss legged with wendy twirling flowers in his hand

i mean DAMN! who the fuck has ever followed up a smash with an album like that

that takes artistic balls

i mean it would be like following up Purple Rain the movie with a black and white celluoid piece of whimsy...........

*oh im 38*

ATWIAD was in may ways Purple Rain part 2.

And now in retrospect its easy to ascertain that what with DM's stripped demo sound and dirty lyrics, Controversy's mish mash of sights n sounds, 1999's techno synth fried rock, ATWIAD is not really that out there as a follow up. In fact its "safe."

Now if he followed Rain with Parade, that would be some cajones.

I agree. Raspberry Beret is right in keeping with Take Me With You, Temptation is right there with Darling Nikki (with that dirty, bluesy, strip club vibe).

And actually, I think America wouldn't sound amiss on Controversy.

It was Parade that really took him away from Purple Rain.

Romeoblu said:

I love Around The World in a Day but I wish Prince would have given us one more slice of his Purple rock before he went off to Paisley Park.

He had alot of top rate stuff that I'm sure would have been another hit album.

Imagine if he had released this.

Prince And The Revolution

The Dance Electric

Side 1

Our Destiny

Roadhouse Garden

Traffic Jam

G Spot

All Day All Night

Side 2

Love And Sex

Feline

100 Mph

The Dance Elecric (11 minute version)

All hard hitting jamming Mpls funk.

First single The Dance Electric followed by G Spot followed by 100 mph.

This would have been one great album

This shit would have been to Purple Rain, a slightly more interesting sounding MPLSound to Lotusflow3r.

G-spot, All Day All Night, 100Mph, and Dance Electric are all interesting enough I guess, but anything but a progression for Prince. it's the type of album I would have played to death for a month, then shelved.

To me, this 'Dance Electric' album would have ended sounding like any number of Prince copycat acts out there at the time, where ATWIAD stood out.

I love it when Prince's music used to make people scratch their heads.

We had the same discussion on MoQuake a while back, that it would have been cool to hear an album of the roughly Purple Rain era tracks that were unfinished, relegated to B-sides or given away. After some back-and-forth I think this was the proposed list:

1. Possessed

2. She's Always in My Hair

3. Sugar Walls (with a lyric change of course)

4. The Glamorous Life

5. 17 Days

1. I Love You (A Million Miles)

2. 100 MPH

3. Wonderful Ass

4. All Day, All Night

5. Bedtime Story

Certainly there were many other available tracks at this time but these songs I think would have made a cohesive album and would have kept with his desire to not release a re-hash of Purple Rain...

Genesia said:

rdhull said:

ATWIAD was in may ways Purple Rain part 2.

And now in retrospect its easy to ascertain that what with DM's stripped demo sound and dirty lyrics, Controversy's mish mash of sights n sounds, 1999's techno synth fried rock, ATWIAD is not really that out there as a follow up. In fact its "safe."

Now if he followed Rain with Parade, that would be some cajones.

I agree. Raspberry Beret is right in keeping with Take Me With You, Temptation is right there with Darling Nikki (with that dirty, bluesy, strip club vibe).

And actually, I think America wouldn't sound amiss on Controversy.

It was Parade that really took him away from Purple Rain.

The Ladder/Purple Rain, America/baby Im A Star....

I agree... Parade was the real left turn