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Thread started 05/03/13 10:02am

glassman

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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 ? confused
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Reply #1 posted 05/03/13 10:11am

PurpleSullivan

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There are two different ones. I have both:)

https://www.youtube.com/w...LXqz--Fjk0
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Reply #2 posted 05/03/13 1:23pm

dualboot

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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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Reply #3 posted 05/03/13 2:14pm

NouveauDance

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dualboot said:

And it's hard to find a photo off those sleeve on te web. Underrated part of this album

http://sleevographia2.free.fr/

Great site, they have a scan of the lake sleeve being discussed too.

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Reply #4 posted 05/03/13 11:14pm

Giveit2mebaby

If you have a " Suzy " logo somewhere on back cover, it's a Yugoslavian pressing with that unique inner.

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Reply #5 posted 05/04/13 12:39am

glassman

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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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Reply #6 posted 05/06/13 11:31am

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NouveauDance said:

dualboot said:

And it's hard to find a photo off those sleeve on te web. Underrated part of this album

http://sleevographia2.free.fr/

Great site, they have a scan of the lake sleeve being discussed too.

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:

http://forums.stevehoffma...ves.69109/

" 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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Reply #7 posted 05/06/13 11:53am

NouveauDance

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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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Reply #8 posted 05/06/13 12:27pm

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NouveauDance said:

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.

Thanks a lot. wink

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Reply #9 posted 05/06/13 5:29pm

LadyZsaZsa

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That's pretty.

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Reply #10 posted 05/06/13 5:32pm

LadyZsaZsa

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It reminds me of how the Org used to look.

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Reply #11 posted 05/08/13 10:29am

OldFriends4Sal
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a bit brighter

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Reply #12 posted 05/08/13 12:22pm

Tremolina


So does anybody think the background picture of the inner sleeve has any meaning to it? I mean, it could just be some arguably cool picture of light shining on the dark waters, but it's certainly no 'Purple Rain' we are seeing there.

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Reply #13 posted 05/08/13 2:41pm

dualboot

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The Dawn maybe?

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Reply #14 posted 05/08/13 4:29pm

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dualboot said:

The Dawn maybe?

I was going to say the same thing

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Reply #15 posted 05/09/13 2:34am

Tremolina

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dualboot said:

The Dawn maybe?

I was going to say the same thing

Me too, begging the question whether the Dawn and the Purple Rain are metaphors for the same thing or experience.

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Reply #16 posted 05/09/13 6:21am

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Tremolina said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

I was going to say the same thing

Me too, begging the question whether the Dawn and the Purple Rain are metaphors for the same thing or experience.

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
U've been there since dawn

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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Reply #17 posted 05/09/13 6:44am

dualboot

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NouveauDance said:



dualboot said:


And it's hard to find a photo off those sleeve on te web. Underrated part of this album

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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Reply #18 posted 05/13/13 2:01pm

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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 ? confused // the purple rain sleeve is from the RCA Myusic Service release

[Edited 5/13/13 14:02pm]

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