jjam said:

besides, i might be the only one here, but i wouldn't even blink an eye

if he took a song like "sister" off dirty mind and replaced it with another

song from the album sessions.

/

there's only about 3 or 4 really totally unforgiveable songs in his whole

catalogue i think so if we don't get those or they are heavily edited it

won't take away my enjoyment of the rest of the album being in good

soundquality at last, with the prospect of all kinds of bonus material.

EyeJester7 said:

jjam said:

Meanwhile, Epic and Kobalt scratch their heads confused as fuck...

Hahaha hahahahaha! ExAcTlY.

i don't know. we never knew what the exact deals were, did we?

kobalt distributed liv's album and a few singles (did they also do

andy's album, i can't remember).

and epic just released that one off single i guess. who knows it

is possible 3EG will be released on another label and he's got a

new 'new' album for warners, although that seems a bit too much

material.

Farfunknugin said:

Start the reunion rumors in 3, 2, 1..

It would make sense, for something one time or limited.. a 30th year anniversary will only happen once and none of them are getting any younger..

EyeJester7 said:

jjam said:

Meanwhile, Epic and Kobalt scratch their heads confused as fuck...

Hahaha hahahahaha! ExAcTlY.

oh yes you are right. let's see what happens with this.

Wow.. we knew things had gone too quiet, now we know why.

lezama said:

Farfunknugin said:

Start the reunion rumors in 3, 2, 1..

It would make sense, for something one time or limited.. a 30th year anniversary will only happen once and none of them are getting any younger..

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paulludvig said:

Kinda dissapoi

and it starts

IstenSzek said:

paulludvig said:

Kinda dissapoi

and it starts

I know right? How on earth can anyone be disappointed? Isn't this exactly what we've all been asking for for years?

revox said:

First up: a 30th anniversary deluxe reissue of "Purple Rain" including "unreleased, unheard material."

This is from a joint press release out this morning.

PRINCE AND WARNER BROS. RECORDS UNVEIL NEW PARTNERSHIP

April 18, 2014 - Prince and Warner Bros. Records today announced a new agreement that will see the release of long-awaited, previously unheard material, while giving the artist ownership of the master recordings of his classic, global hits. At the same time, the deal extends Prince's relationship with Warner Bros. Records, through an exclusive global licensing partnership that covers every album released from 1978 into the nineties. The financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. For Prince fans worldwide, the new partnership will open a veritable gold mine. The surprise announcement comes just in time for this summer's 30th Anniversary celebrations of the artist's breakthrough album and film, Purple Rain, which were released in 1984. For the first time, Prince will be releasing a digitally re-mastered, deluxe version of this classic album. Other planned projects will follow. Prince said, "A brand-new studio album is on the way and both Warner Bros Records and Eye are quite pleased with the results of the negotiations and look forward to a fruitful working relationship." "Everyone at Warner Bros Records is delighted to be working with Prince once again: he is one of the world's biggest stars and a truly unique talent" said Cameron Strang, Chairman & CEO, Warner Bros. Records. "We are also very excited about the release of new and re-mastered music from one of his greatest masterpieces."

IstenSzek said:

paulludvig said:

Kinda dissapoi

and it starts

Great move by both parties in realiziing that you have a seminal able reaching a milestone and neither party could properly celebrate its success without a partnership...

The org's collective reaction to this news:

In other news, Israel and Palestine have just worked out a peace agreement, North Korea and South Korea have agreed on a framework for unification, and the ghosts of Biggie and Tupac have agreed to collaborate on a new posthumous album.

wonder how much unreleased music will be added to the Purple Rain reissue

electricberet said:

In other news, Israel and Palestine have just worked out a peace agreement, North Korea and South Korea have agreed on a framework for unification, and the ghosts of Biggie and Tupac have agreed to collaborate on a new posthumous album.

Up until there I was thinking "what a great day!"...but then it all came down 2 an ironic end

Militant said:

The org's collective reaction to this news:

LAMO *Dead*

I really, really, really hope he doesn't remove any tracks or change the lyrics. Maybe an edited version for fans that want that sort of thing but he seriously needs to leave them alone.

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Militant said:

The org's collective reaction to this news:

I'd love a real, careful, detailed and complete overview of the SOTT era in particular.

It will require multiple discs to cover that period.

I wonder how much direct involvement Prince himself will have, or if he'll hire a team to comb thru the vault and put together potential packages for each album that he can either approve or veto or change.

After all these years of hoping for this, it's a little surreal to think that it might happen. Kate Bush announcing live dates and Prince making up with WB and announcing a reissue campaign within weeks of each other?

Can this be real or are we all on some cosmic version of musical Punk'd?

IstenSzek said:

paulludvig said:

Kinda dissapoi

and it starts

Well, it rather stopped, since I wasn't able to edit my post.

After fighting WB for 20 years this seems like his giving in. At least he got his masters back. That's something. We will probably get better sounding veersions of song we've all had for ages. That's something too. Hope he isn't planning on reuniting the Revolution.

where do i pre-order?

EyeJester7 said:

jjam said:

Meanwhile, Epic and Kobalt scratch their heads confused as fuck...

Hahaha hahahahaha! ExAcTlY.

Soooo.....when is that "Bart" fellow going to come by and lecture the Org again on how Prince has no clue how to handle his business affairs? Hmmm.....I'll wait!

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somewhere, Tony M is tweeting Damon D on his lunchbreak

#royalties

jgreco7 said:

Wow, this is really great newz 4 all us Purple Headz

I'm excited for what this means for everyone that is credited for PR and any other album that gets a remastered.. payday for everyone.

Eye am so Xcited 4 Prince! Eye feel like this is happening 2 me!!!

So this Xplains his new NPGMusicPublishing Company....

Prince will top Forbes list of most wealthy muziq artist next year....