SpiritOtter said:

PRINCE

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1. Into the Lotus...

2. Condition of the Heart

3. Power Fantastic

4. Alexa de Paris

5. Old Friend 4 Sale

6. All My Dreams

7. Computer Blue (Hallyway Speech version)

8. Lady Cab Driver

9. Crystal Ball

10. If I Was Your Girlfriend

11. Anna Stesia

This would be an awesome album. I wouldn't be so sure about the sequencing, but the selection of songs is flawless.

Side A:

1. A Place in Heaven

2. Pop Life

3. Dolphin

4. Damn U

5. All My Dreams

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Side B:

6. Starfish And Coffee

7. All The Midnights In The World

8. Old Friends 4 Sale

9. Lady Cab Driver

10. The Holy River

timmie said:

This would be a freakin amazing album!!

SpiritOtter said:

Quite brilliant, Isten. I think that would have been an apt description of the realities surrounding all those sessions and a well thought out and assembled collation of songs which really do seem to flow nicely. Obviously, you have favoured the more natural, organic, sounding songs from those sessions, in which case I would possibly also suggest a surprisingly often overlooked song (which I believe you in fact despise): CHELSEA RODGERS. It might segue nicely either before or after $ on Side 2, It was clearly a song Prince considered reasonably important during those sessions, given that he released a video for it, performed it live and clearly at least attempted to perfect it on record. It is perhaps worth another visit, even if you do still absolutely hate it. Another often overlooked gem is, dare I say it, "MR GOODNIGHT, which namechecks many of those session era songs, as well as the 3121 theme. The instrumentation is in fact lush and I find the lyrics and vocal delivery something of a guilty pleasure of mine. It might also fit on Side 1 after FUNK, although I personally would also include one of my favourite vocal performances alongside it, namely FUTURE BABY MAMA. Thus, the sequence might become Feel Good, Feel Better, Feel Wonderful, F.U.N.K., Future Baby Mama, Mr Goodnight, Love Like Jazz etc. I must say, I particularly like your inclusion of THE MORNING AFTER. Overall, bravo.

i do think i've mentioned my absolute dislike for that song once or twice, yes

good suggestions, by the way. but like you said, i did favor the more organic

tracks for this particular tracklisting.

planet earth would indeed fit quite well where you suggested it, but i'm sorry

to say that i detest it even more than chelsea rodgers

it's funny how songs from those albums name-check each other, isn't it? we've

got 3121 mentioning lotusflower ("from a lotus flower") then there's like you've

mentioned Mr Goonight mentioning 3121. Old Skool Company also mentions

"77 Beverly park" (although i still think that reference is actually to another,

unknown track that was also called 77 Beverly Park since it is mentioned in a

rap with other Mplsound tracks, amongst which this tune would not fit at all).

personally i've always thought Disco Jellyfish would be a contender for that.

but i digress, as usual

1. When Doves Cry
2. Rebirth of the Flesh
3. We Can Fuck
4. Eye Hate U
5. Kiss extended
6. Pheromone
7. I Wanna Melt With U
8. Live 4 Love demo
9. Alexa De Paris

Disc 2

1. Computer Blue
2. Darling Nikki
3. Shockadelica
4. Love 2 the 9s
5. Something In The Water
6. Black Sweat
7. Emale
8. Shy
9. Wasted Kisses

I kind of feel like one could make an infinite number of great albums from the tracks we have. The one I posted tonight would be completely different if you asked tomorrow..

IstenSzek said:

SpiritOtter said:

Quite brilliant, Isten. I think that would have been an apt description of the realities surrounding all those sessions and a well thought out and assembled collation of songs which really do seem to flow nicely. Obviously, you have favoured the more natural, organic, sounding songs from those sessions, in which case I would possibly also suggest a surprisingly often overlooked song (which I believe you in fact despise): CHELSEA RODGERS. It might segue nicely either before or after $ on Side 2, It was clearly a song Prince considered reasonably important during those sessions, given that he released a video for it, performed it live and clearly at least attempted to perfect it on record. It is perhaps worth another visit, even if you do still absolutely hate it. Another often overlooked gem is, dare I say it, "MR GOODNIGHT, which namechecks many of those session era songs, as well as the 3121 theme. The instrumentation is in fact lush and I find the lyrics and vocal delivery something of a guilty pleasure of mine. It might also fit on Side 1 after FUNK, although I personally would also include one of my favourite vocal performances alongside it, namely FUTURE BABY MAMA. Thus, the sequence might become Feel Good, Feel Better, Feel Wonderful, F.U.N.K., Future Baby Mama, Mr Goodnight, Love Like Jazz etc. I must say, I particularly like your inclusion of THE MORNING AFTER. Overall, bravo.

i do think i've mentioned my absolute dislike for that song once or twice, yes

good suggestions, by the way. but like you said, i did favor the more organic

tracks for this particular tracklisting.

planet earth would indeed fit quite well where you suggested it, but i'm sorry

to say that i detest it even more than chelsea rodgers

it's funny how songs from those albums name-check each other, isn't it? we've

got 3121 mentioning lotusflower ("from a lotus flower") then there's like you've

mentioned Mr Goonight mentioning 3121. Old Skool Company also mentions

"77 Beverly park" (although i still think that reference is actually to another,

unknown track that was also called 77 Beverly Park since it is mentioned in a

rap with other Mplsound tracks, amongst which this tune would not fit at all).

personally i've always thought Disco Jellyfish would be a contender for that.

but i digress, as usual

Thank you for reminding me about Disco Jellyfish, Isten. I had forgotten about it, so revisiting it now. It would be nice to surround the MPLSound LP with outtakes/b-sides, as it might make the collection feel more well thought out than we perhaps have been left to believe, especially compared to Lotus Flower, which certainly feels like a complete album.

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I must say, I am surprised about the ferocity of your dislike to Chelsea Rodgers and Planet Eart, but it perhaps then stands to reason why you don't particularly enjoy the album entirely, as these are two stand out songs. The title track is even more special to me, as it features Michael B and Sonny T and the instumentation is really amazingly delightful to me throughout the song, especially the halfway instrumental Manilow nod, as well as the swirling guitar solo-crashing work towards the finale. I also particularly like the 'roundness' of the chorus. It's difficult for me to see what there is to dislike?! As for Chelsea Rodgers, how on Earth can you not dig THAT bass line and THOSE horns. I admit, the lyrics feel somewhat and occasionally 'clunky', but to get stuck on that point, misses the greatest point. It is a SERIOUS jam!

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Knock back a few hard drinks and revisit your inner-purple, Isten. Planet Earth is really just a delightfully compact and seamlessly flowing album. Even Resolution has a charm to it, when you can accept it as the little ditty that it is meant to be. Nothing more, nothing less.

PRINCE - SEX ON WAX (Classic 80s lust)

1. Do Me Baby (Album version)

2. Irresistable Bitch (1981 Version, the ones with him in his Morris Day Pimp voice)

3. Feel u up (1981 demo)

4. Xtra Loveable (Version off 1982 Vault album)

5. Lust u always (Open book version)

6. Lets Pretend we're married (Album version)

7. International Lover (Album Mix)

8. Electric Intercourse

9. Wonderful Ass (1983 demo mix)

10. Computer Blue (Long version but 3 minutes of guitar feedback edited)

11. Go (1985 version)

12. Empty Room (1986 version)

13. Big Tall Wall

14. Baby Go go (Prince version from 1986)

15. Neon Telephone (Prince version from 1985/86)

16. When 2 R in Love

17. Adore (Sign o the Times album version - remastered)

Its a sex concept album from his 80s period.

Adorecream said:

PRINCE - SEX ON WAX (Classic 80s lust)

1. Do Me Baby (Album version)

2. Irresistable Bitch (1981 Version, the ones with him in his Morris Day Pimp voice)

3. Feel u up (1981 demo)

4. Xtra Loveable (Version off 1982 Vault album)

5. Lust u always (Open book version)

6. Lets Pretend we're married (Album version)

7. International Lover (Album Mix)

8. Electric Intercourse

9. Wonderful Ass (1983 demo mix)

10. Computer Blue (Long version but 3 minutes of guitar feedback edited)

11. Go (1985 version)

12. Empty Room (1986 version)

13. Big Tall Wall

14. Baby Go go (Prince version from 1986)

15. Neon Telephone (Prince version from 1985/86)

16. When 2 R in Love

17. Adore (Sign o the Times album version - remastered)

Its a sex concept album from his 80s period.

I really like the concept, but what do you use the album for?

SpiritOtter said:

Adorecream said:

PRINCE - SEX ON WAX (Classic 80s lust)

1. Do Me Baby (Album version)

2. Irresistable Bitch (1981 Version, the ones with him in his Morris Day Pimp voice)

3. Feel u up (1981 demo)

4. Xtra Loveable (Version off 1982 Vault album)

5. Lust u always (Open book version)

6. Lets Pretend we're married (Album version)

7. International Lover (Album Mix)

8. Electric Intercourse

9. Wonderful Ass (1983 demo mix)

10. Computer Blue (Long version but 3 minutes of guitar feedback edited)

11. Go (1985 version)

12. Empty Room (1986 version)

13. Big Tall Wall

14. Baby Go go (Prince version from 1986)

15. Neon Telephone (Prince version from 1985/86)

16. When 2 R in Love

17. Adore (Sign o the Times album version - remastered)

Its a sex concept album from his 80s period.

I really like the concept, but what do you use the album for?

Thats what I was thinking, to listen to, or to use as a marital/sexual aid. It would be great if you are trying to get with someone.

Adorecream said:

SpiritOtter said:

I really like the concept, but what do you use the album for?

Thats what I was thinking, to listen to, or to use as a marital/sexual aid. It would be great if you are trying to get with someone.

Do you think Big Tall Wall could be used as an aid?

SpiritOtter said:

I must say, I am surprised about the ferocity of your dislike to Chelsea Rodgers and Planet Eart, but it perhaps then stands to reason why you don't particularly enjoy the album entirely, as these are two stand out songs. The title track is even more special to me, as it features Michael B and Sonny T and the instumentation is really amazingly delightful to me throughout the song, especially the halfway instrumental Manilow nod, as well as the swirling guitar solo-crashing work towards the finale. I also particularly like the 'roundness' of the chorus. It's difficult for me to see what there is to dislike?! As for Chelsea Rodgers, how on Earth can you not dig THAT bass line and THOSE horns. I admit, the lyrics feel somewhat and occasionally 'clunky', but to get stuck on that point, misses the greatest point. It is a SERIOUS jam!

*

Knock back a few hard drinks and revisit your inner-purple, Isten. Planet Earth is really just a delightfully compact and seamlessly flowing album. Even Resolution has a charm to it, when you can accept it as the little ditty that it is meant to be. Nothing more, nothing less.

oh i like most of the other tracks on Planet Earth just fine. although

i only LOVE two of them "Lion of Judah" and "All The Midnights".

.

the thing i hate so much about the title track are most of the things

that you mention as reasons for loving it the only reason i've

tried listening to it several more times is because michael & sonny

are on it. but that is it's only redeeming quality for me.

.

it's like "saviour", but even less enjoyable (one of my least favorit

songs on the emancipation set). there's songs in this vein that i'm

in love with (for instance "gold" or "strays of the world") but these

just rub me the wrong way.

.

chelsea rodgers, i don't really hate. i just don't care for it. to me it

is just bland bland bland. it's a funky little groove but it's not really

a good song. plus, shelby is on lead vocals with prince burried so

deep in the mix i can barely make him out. if he was on lead vox

i might like it a bit more. i guess i just don't get this song.

.

all the other songs on the disc that i haven't mentioned yet, i kind

of like. i enjoy them when they come up on shuffle. and i do think

i don't hear enough of them simply because i hate the title track

so much that i never feel like listening to the whole album

dandan said:

... craft your perfect Prince album of 10-15 tracks.

[Edited 8/28/13 16:09pm]

Trying to make an upbeat one...

1. Bambi

2. We Can Funk ('86)

3. Lady Cab Driver

4. Eye Hate U

5. So Far, So Pleased

6. Free

7. In This Bed I Scream

8. Iressitable Bitch

9. Good Love

10. Gold

IstenSzek said:

SpiritOtter said:

I must say, I am surprised about the ferocity of your dislike to Chelsea Rodgers and Planet Eart, but it perhaps then stands to reason why you don't particularly enjoy the album entirely, as these are two stand out songs. The title track is even more special to me, as it features Michael B and Sonny T and the instumentation is really amazingly delightful to me throughout the song, especially the halfway instrumental Manilow nod, as well as the swirling guitar solo-crashing work towards the finale. I also particularly like the 'roundness' of the chorus. It's difficult for me to see what there is to dislike?! As for Chelsea Rodgers, how on Earth can you not dig THAT bass line and THOSE horns. I admit, the lyrics feel somewhat and occasionally 'clunky', but to get stuck on that point, misses the greatest point. It is a SERIOUS jam!

*

Knock back a few hard drinks and revisit your inner-purple, Isten. Planet Earth is really just a delightfully compact and seamlessly flowing album. Even Resolution has a charm to it, when you can accept it as the little ditty that it is meant to be. Nothing more, nothing less.

oh i like most of the other tracks on Planet Earth just fine. although

i only LOVE two of them "Lion of Judah" and "All The Midnights".

.

the thing i hate so much about the title track are most of the things

that you mention as reasons for loving it the only reason i've

tried listening to it several more times is because michael & sonny

are on it. but that is it's only redeeming quality for me.

.

it's like "saviour", but even less enjoyable (one of my least favorit

songs on the emancipation set). there's songs in this vein that i'm

in love with (for instance "gold" or "strays of the world") but these

just rub me the wrong way.

.

chelsea rodgers, i don't really hate. i just don't care for it. to me it

is just bland bland bland. it's a funky little groove but it's not really

a good song. plus, shelby is on lead vocals with prince burried so

deep in the mix i can barely make him out. if he was on lead vox

i might like it a bit more. i guess i just don't get this song.

.

all the other songs on the disc that i haven't mentioned yet, i kind

of like. i enjoy them when they come up on shuffle. and i do think

i don't hear enough of them simply because i hate the title track

so much that i never feel like listening to the whole album

Well, you certainly made me laugh with that line above!

I guess that explains it. I had never really thought about these songs in that vein, but it strangely might make an interesting Extended Play of sorts (I have extended your idea of those types of songs a touch):

1. Strays of the World

2. Colonised Mind

3. The Holy River

4. Dolphin

5. Animal Kingdom

6. Planet Earth

7. Saviour

8. 3 Chains of Gold

9. Gold

10. Wherever U Go, Whatever U Do

Side 1

Dream Factory
It's a wonderful day
Teacher Teacher
in A large room with no light
Train
Splash

Side 2

sexual suicide
Last heat
Witness 4 the prosecution
Power fantastic
Crucial

Side 3

Go
Neon telephone
Adonis and Bathsheba
Cosmic day
Heaven

Side 4

Crystal ball
A Place in heaven
Old friends 4 sale
All my Dreams.
[Edited 9/4/13 13:57pm]

IstenSzek said:

not 'the perfect prince album' but a little project i'd been

trying out lately. i find these tracks to segue very nicely

and they all 'fit' somehow.

.

since prince was working on the Lotusflower album for a

long time and several tracks that are from the sessions

of songs that ended up on 3121 and Planet Earth, i think

these songs somehow really feel connected:

.

very cliche, i've named it "The Lotus Experience"

.

CD 1:

01. From The Lotus.....

02. Boom

03. Crimson & Clover

04. All The Midnights In The World

05. Colonized Mind

06. Feel Good, Feel Better, Feel Wonderful

07. F.U.N.K.

08. Love Like Jazz

09. 77 Beverly Park

10. Reflection

.

CD 2:

01. 3121

02. Wall Of Berlin

03. $

04. Somewhere Here On Earth

05. Lion Of Judah

06. The Morning After

07. 4Ever

08. The Word

09. Dreamer

10. .... Back 2 The Lotus

.

LOOOOVE THIS.

thanks2joniandu said:

IstenSzek said:

not 'the perfect prince album' but a little project i'd been

trying out lately. i find these tracks to segue very nicely

and they all 'fit' somehow.

.

since prince was working on the Lotusflower album for a

long time and several tracks that are from the sessions

of songs that ended up on 3121 and Planet Earth, i think

these songs somehow really feel connected:

.

very cliche, i've named it "The Lotus Experience"

.

CD 1:

01. From The Lotus.....

02. Boom

03. Crimson & Clover

04. All The Midnights In The World

05. Colonized Mind

06. Feel Good, Feel Better, Feel Wonderful

07. F.U.N.K.

08. Love Like Jazz

09. 77 Beverly Park

10. Reflection

.

CD 2:

01. 3121

02. Wall Of Berlin

03. $

04. Somewhere Here On Earth

05. Lion Of Judah

06. The Morning After

07. 4Ever

08. The Word

09. Dreamer

10. .... Back 2 The Lotus

.

LOOOOVE THIS.

thanks

i've got this in my car at the moment and i enjoy it soooo much.

The list would too long. Would end up being a box set.

I made a NEW PRINCE cd for a friend a few years back. I keep the playlist on my phone, love this mix.

Dance 4 Me

The 1 U Wanna C

Chelsea Rogers

Black Sweat

Come On

Here

Fury

Dreamer

Feel Wonderful

Love

3121

1 + 1 + 1 is 3

Sticky Like Glue

Lavaux

Ure Gonna C Me

She Love Me 4 Me

Guitar