imago said:

What I find really odd is that he doesn't perform unreleased tracks these days live like he used to back in the day. It's as if he's given up trying to tease us with new material. I like the days that Prince would perform something we'd never heard of, but never release it--that shit was hilarius.

Now, we get hits and popular b-sides, and the really, really mind-numingly less-than-spectacular cover of some old musical group's song.

He has performed 2Y2D and The Breakdown on his recent tour. Both unreleased.

imago said:

I've heard many, MANY of the unlreleased bootlegs, and found much of it bland and demo-like in the sense that they didn't sound like finished ideas.


My hunch is he probably has thousands of songs in his vault now, and even the smaller precentage of them was good, that's still more than the entire catalogues of his peers put together.



What I find really odd is that he doesn't perform unreleased tracks these days live like he used to back in the day. It's as if he's given up trying to tease us with new material. I like the days that Prince would perform something we'd never heard of, but never release it--that shit was hilarius.

Now, we get hits and popular b-sides, and the really, really mind-numingly less-than-spectacular cover of some old musical group's song.

He played new stuff on the W2A tour and LOL tour.

billymeade said:

novabrkr said:

How "current" do you think something recorded in 1984 would have sounded in 1994?

The premises and the implied conclusions of this thread are absurd.

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Heard "Empty Room"?

Right, there are a few exceptions. Not hundreds of exceptions. Thanks for pointing out "Empty Room" though. The ballads usually have a more "timeless" quality to them and are easier to update than dance tracks that rely on a certain set of drum and synth sounds (changing those sounds would result in a completely different feel in many cases).

Other than that, I think the premises of the thread remain seriously flawed.

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I really think that we have already heard the cream of the crop,as far as outtakes go.The truly good stuff leaked a long time ago.