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Purple Rain lp inner sleeve I've just started buying all Prince's vinyl albums again after losing all the originals a few years ago after being flooded out, so I received purple rain today, the inner sleeve is completely different to the copy I bought in '84. The lyric side has a painting of Purple Rain (just like on the back of the PR single) with the lyrics printed on top, my original had a pic of the sun hitting off what I presume is Lake Minnotaka (wrong spelling I bet) Does anyone know if there was two inner sleeves produced and shipped out randomly or have I got some kind of bizarre rarity ? | |
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There are two different ones. I have both:) | |
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And it's hard to find a photo off those sleeve on te web. Underrated part of this album [Edited 5/3/13 13:24pm] | |
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http://sleevographia2.free.fr/
Great site, they have a scan of the lake sleeve being discussed too. | |
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If you have a " Suzy " logo somewhere on back cover, it's a Yugoslavian pressing with that unique inner. | |
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Thanks for the info guys, after all these years of being a huge fan it's great to come across these random finds. | |
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I think I have both versions but I couldn´t find the picture on the site you mentioned. It´s a great website and I looked it up under "Purple Rain" but I couldn´t find it.
The "lake" sleeve is also mentioned here: " I´d rather be a stank ass hoe because I´m not stupid. Oh my goodness! I got more drugs! I´m always funny dude...I´m hilarious! Are we gonna smoke?" | |
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It's difficult to link to individual pages of sleevographia because it's all in frames, and linking to the individual frames kind of messes with the layout/navigation (and also is kind of impolite to the site owner) - but it's listed under vinyl catalogue / purple rain / purple rain album / USA [7 pix]
pic is from sleevographia, but hosted on a freehost for bandwith. | |
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Thanks a lot. " I´d rather be a stank ass hoe because I´m not stupid. Oh my goodness! I got more drugs! I´m always funny dude...I´m hilarious! Are we gonna smoke?" | |
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That's pretty. | |
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It reminds me of how the Org used to look. | |
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a bit brighter
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The Dawn maybe? | |
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I was going to say the same thing | |
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Me too, begging the question whether the Dawn and the Purple Rain are metaphors for the same thing or experience. | |
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Maybe the Rain proceeds the Dawn
His 1st reference of the Dawn (as well as Purple) is from Leaving 4 NY (1976)
Leaving For New York Sitting there on the purple lawn
17 Days the rain will come down, then U will have 2 choose. If U believe, look 2 the dawn and U shall never lose
Closing out the PR album credits: Thanks 2 all, may u live 2 see the Dawn. | |
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NouveauDance said:
http://sleevographia2.free.fr/
Great site, they have a scan of the lake sleeve being discussed too. Yep, great collector's reference. Is there a clean highrez scan of this? My sleeve is a bit tattered of all reading and holding in the early years. | |
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glassman said:I've just started buying all Prince's vinyl albums again after losing all the originals a few years ago after being flooded out, so I received purple rain today, the inner sleeve is completely different to the copy I bought in '84. The lyric side has a painting of Purple Rain (just like on the back of the PR single) with the lyrics printed on top, my original had a pic of the sun hitting off what I presume is Lake Minnotaka (wrong spelling I bet) Does anyone know if there was two inner sleeves produced and shipped out randomly or have I got some kind of bizarre rarity ? // the purple rain sleeve is from the RCA Myusic Service release [Edited 5/13/13 14:02pm] I AM LOOKING FOR USED PRINCE CONCERT TICKETS ... https://www.facebook.com/...erttickets | |
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