You know, its kind of ironic that P just said he will cease to release albums, just jams. Now while this remains to be true, given his output, vault material, his impressive b-side singles, perhaps the idea of non albums is not so difficult to depart from. I found myself wondering what would have been the "appropriate" albums or homes for songs like:

Extra Loveable

Purple Music

All Day, All Night (his version)

She's Always In My Hair

ETC

etc.

Now don't me wrong, P has managed to make some very sonically and conceptually cohesive albums but he is extremely prolific and has a boat load of material that just doesn't "fit" in an album context and perhaps this "industry construct" is partially why hundreds of songs haven't seen the light of the day and may never. Not just from P btw either. Cohesive albums are actually pretty rare if u think about it. So perhaps P again, is on to something here

Shoot I just store it under "Non album releases "enter year here" and keep it movin..or include them filed under an album as bonus tracks (i.e. Magnificent to Musicology)

Actually I have "She's Always In My Hair" On my "ATWIAD" track listing

1) Around the World In a Day

2) Paisley Park

3) Raspberry Beret

4) Girl

5) Tamberine

6) She's Always In My Hair

7) America

8) Temptation

Condition of the Heart is saved for slow jam mixes:horny: for my social agenda ya dig?

datdude said:

You know, its kind of ironic that P just said he will cease to release albums, just jams. Now while this remains to be true, given his output, vault material, his impressive b-side singles, perhaps the idea of non albums is not so difficult to depart from. I found myself wondering what would have been the "appropriate" albums or homes for songs like:

She's Always In My Hair

Now don't me wrong, P has managed to make some very sonically and conceptually cohesive albums but he is extremely prolific and has a boat load of material that just doesn't "fit" in an album context and perhaps this "industry construct" is partially why hundreds of songs haven't seen the light of the day and may never. Not just from P btw either. Cohesive albums are actually pretty rare if u think about it. So perhaps P again, is on to something here

i think artists have creative eras or splurges that END UP being an album because that's what they're under contract FOR, but as we see, many songs from those "sessions" don't make it and they end up being associated with that album or era even though they didn't make the "cut" so they should just find another way to share them. crystal ball style, nah mean!

LAYDOWN

paisleypark4 said:

Shoot I just store it under "Non album releases "enter year here" and keep it movin..or include them filed under an album as bonus tracks (i.e. Magnificent to Musicology)

That's quite funny. So do I. Exactly.

most of the songs (outtakes & bsides) I fit within the era it was created (completed even if not released)

She's Always In My Hair fits perfectly in my ATWIAD playlist: Girl, Hello, She's Always In My Hair

Extra Loveable

Purple Music

All Day, All Night (his version)

Purple Music definately 1999

Extra Loveable could have easily appeared on 1999 or What Time Is It?

I still say Jill Jones should have had 1999-Purple Rain album or a ATWIAD-Parade album

All Day, All Night should have been a Prince/JJ duet

Our Destiny theme energy I could see being in place of Baby I'm a Star, or somewhere on that album, serious high energy, but I think by 1983/84-1986 there are so many song that were created, it's hard to say which could be on a particular album.

I try to feel the music out, because there are songs that feel like each other:Go, Splash, Adonis & Bathsheba etc

The Bsides (and direct album outtakes) go with the album they were released for.

Looking back if I had a say in what happened with Prince, would have had him release not a double album but a double booklette album, like opening a binder the first side is all ATWIAD, music images pictures etc, but when you flip it over, there is Roadhouse Garden or Our Destiny and all the cuts that came out of that period

during the Parade period (not including the 30+songs created for the Dream Factory project) he had the Flesh sessions, he had a good number of Parade outtakes, and a good number of other songs created that were not connected to Parade or Dream Factory, that's at least 3 albums

Lovesexy period had some interesting stuff come out of it, much that went to the Batman album.

It's obvious he was working on music that couldn't be considered Lovesexy outtakes, even though the Line was considered an early outtake for the album, it just doesn't feel like anything on the album. The Line & the Future have very similar shadowy, stripped feels. 1989 Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic album I think would have been hot.

SOTT is definately a collage album, you can pull songs that have a similar feel and make a different nice albums

(very stripped sound)

Sign o the Times

Starfish & Coffee

It

Forever In My Life

ICNTTPOYM

the Cross

Train*

Big Tall Wall*

(the Camille voice/tracks)

Play In the Sunshine

Housequake

If I Was Your Girlfriend

Strange Relationships

U Got the Look

Shockadelica

Scarlett Pussy*

(easily has a similar feel to *the Camille tracks, just doesn't have the Camille voice)

the Ballad of Dorothy Parker

Adore

Hot Thang

Slow Love (stand alone track)

It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Night (the Flesh)

*Fixed LOL

OldFriends4Sale said:

(the Camille voice/tracks)

Good Love

Housequake

If I Was Your Girlfriend

Strange Relationships

U Got the Look

Shockadelica

Scarlett Pussy*

Love or Money

Rock Hard In a Funky Place

We can make our own albums now.

You want "Purple Rain Pt. 2"? No sweat, just compile the appropriate outtakes and anything else you think fits, and viola!

The album you always wanted Prince to make!

The main one for me is Erotic City - that is a classic....

It seems some of his most recent good tracks have also been left off albums:

Example:

United States of Division - if released on an album would have got much wider attention and imo critical acclaim.

Magnificent - again should have been on an album.

If i was him I would have binned If I Was The Man In Ur Life and The Marrying Kind from Musicology and replaced them with the above.

Glasscutter - underrated gem, v funky.

Cause and Effect - 100x better than anything on 20TEN.....grows on you a lot.

I also would liked to have seen Sex Me, Sex Me Not get a wider release too even though it technically became an album track later....

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RodeoSchro said:

We can make our own albums now.

You want "Purple Rain Pt. 2"? No sweat, just compile the appropriate outtakes and anything else you think fits, and viola!

The album you always wanted Prince to make!

I want Roadhouse Garden, the Flesh sessions, Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic 1989 (did he get that title from Trip the Light Fantastic?)

DecaturStone said:

*Fixed LOL

OldFriends4Sale said:

(the Camille voice/tracks)

Good Love

Housequake

If I Was Your Girlfriend

Strange Relationships

U Got the Look

Shockadelica

Scarlett Pussy*

Love or Money

Rock Hard In a Funky Place

lol Play In the Sunshine, Feel U Up, Rebirth of the Flesh can be the B sides