Thirty years ago today, Prince recorded Moonbeam Levels. This is still my all-time favorite Prince unreleased track. Let's celebrate Moonbeam Levels. How much do you love this song?

I would say more, but I really need to use the bathroom...

KingSausage said:

Thirty years ago today, Prince recorded Moonbeam Levels. This is still my all-time favorite Prince unreleased track. Let's celebrate Moonbeam Levels. How much do you love this song?

I would say more, but I really need to use the bathroom...

Same feeling 4 me...happy birthday 2 this magical unreleased Prince song!!

PS>I hope that we will get a clear or unreleased version(1988 re-made version) of this song soon on the connection Prince set project (un-official release 2 come)

peace

love2thenines2003 said:

KingSausage said:

I didn't know there was a remade 1988 version. Cool. But I want the original. love2thenines2003 said:

Same feeling 4 me...happy birthday 2 this magical unreleased Prince song!!

PS>I hope that we will get a clear or unreleased version(1988 re-made version) of this song soon on the connection Prince set project (un-official release 2 come)

peace

Yes It was!!

http://princevault.com/index.php/Moonbeam_Levels

love2thenines2003 said:

Beautiful song. It inspired me to buy a Moonstone pendant! The Ancient Romans believed that Moonstone was born from solidified rays of the moon.

one of the greatest ever!, so want another Box o Chocolates this year

toe said:

mushmackalenta said:

Probably the single greatest song never released. I still don't get what he was thinking by keeping that one to himself.

It's a crime, actually. Like Aerosmith keeping Dream On in the vault. Could you imagine a world without Dream On? Or Purple Rain. I can make the case that Moonbeam is a better song.

2freaky4church1 said:

Yes one of his best songs.....needs to be released at some point!!!

I remember listening to some old bootleg at a MPLS record store (remember CD listening stations?), and this song came on and I couldn't even fucking believe it. I was mesmermized by the melody, the words, the voice...

I still don't know wtf a moonbeam level is or how it relates to the rest of the lyrics, but I still think it's one of the best things he ever did.

SchlomoThaHomo said:

'Moonbeam Levels' is one of the most eery songs I've ever heard. There's just something about it that makes it uncomfortably comfortable to me. I definitely think it's one of the best unreleased tracks by Prince. I would love a better version of this song right along with everybody else .

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mushmackalenta said:

It is a great song and I always think I would enjoy it more with a clear copy. It wouldn't be my holy grail track, the song tat takes that title is Cosmic Day.

It was leaked though, i love cosmic day and moonbeams

"yesterday i tried to write a novel but i didnt know were to begin so i layed down in the grass a tried to feel the world turn"

VERYY VERRY GGGGGGGGGGGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!

KingSausage said:

SchlomoThaHomo said:

I remember listening to some old bootleg at a MPLS record store (remember CD listening stations?), and this song came on and I couldn't even fucking believe it. I was mesmermized by the melody, the words, the voice...

I still don't know wtf a moonbeam level is or how it relates to the rest of the lyrics, but I still think it's one of the best things he ever did.

Awesome. I had the same experience at a MPLS CD shop listening station! I was reaching for my wallet as I listened.

wow! I wish I could remember exactly what store that was. I feel like it was somewhere in Uptown. And the boot had Prince in his Parade era yellow suit and I think the song was labled as A Better Place 2 Die on the sleeve. I didn't buy it because I was low on cash. That would be crazy if it was the same store and the same copy.

Everything just recently clicked into place for me with this song. The first few times I heard it, it dipped a little into cheesy rock ballad territory, but it makes more sense to me now, especially after listening to it with the 1999 album. Prince is sort of a musical chameleon! It's cool to hear him experimenting with sounds: the spaceship blasts; the piano complementing and overlapping with the guitar; his layered vocals toward the end. The lyrics are something special though. What an emotional struggle! I like how he switches from "I" to "he" in the beginning, like the song becomes the story the "I" was having trouble starting, if that makes any sense...

I found a lot of interesting and helpful comments in older threads about this song; here are two links, the second one includes the lyrics. (I already bungled another song's thread by posting the wrong lyrics so... fingers crossed! )

http://prince.org/msg/7/366132

http://prince.org/msg/7/3...?&pg=2

30 years in the Vault... Sounds more like a prison sentence than a birthday to celebrate!

SchlomoThaHomo said:

KingSausage said:

SchlomoThaHomo said: Awesome. I had the same experience at a MPLS CD shop listening station! I was reaching for my wallet as I listened.

: And the boot had Prince in his Parade era yellow suit and I think the song was labled as A Better Place 2 Die on the sleeve.

This? http://main.thedigitalgar...2-die.html

Still my fav' since I first heard it on a lost tape in 1990.

To all those who love this heartful, melancolic, epic Prince & friends, " Go " is gonna be your next fav' .

TheDigitalGardener said:

SchlomoThaHomo said:

: And the boot had Prince in his Parade era yellow suit and I think the song was labled as A Better Place 2 Die on the sleeve.

This? http://main.thedigitalgar...2-die.html

Yep, that's it!

Giveit2mebaby said:

Still my fav' since I first heard it on a lost tape in 1990.

To all those who love this heartful, melancolic, epic Prince & friends, " Go " is gonna be your next fav' .

I can't wait til this leaks! I heard it won't be long. I've worn out the minute long snippet from a few years ago, and the Real Audio sample from like '99. Sounds like a great song.

For the track listing from the Connection set ... i smell we get the songs :

Traffic Jam

Go

The computer blue ( new unreleased alternate version)

Hard 2 get (81' version)

Cosmic Day

Adonis & Bathsheba

Everybody Want What They Don't Got

Big house

^ Let's hope.....those samples were AMAZING....

It's my understanding that Prince performed this song once and only once on the Triple Threat tour. Wish I had audio of that.

so far, the most overrated track in the vault IMO. listened again upon seeing this thread, just doesn't do anything for me