since 2009:

only heaven knows

black muse

when she comes

shadows & chains

check the record

we live 2 get funky

the gingerbread man

welcome 2 america

They should compile a bootleg of these kind of tracks!

hot summer really got my attention. very pop, kinda 80s.

dazedawhile said:

IstenSzek said:

ufoclub said:

I hope we get Big City, Shades of Umber abd U Will Be at some point...

frankly, that studio snippet we hear didn't excite me much. it was drowning in a horn section wandering around the chart with no direction.

I agree! BIG CITY and U WILL BE WITH ME are both strong songs that deserve a record far more than crap like pretzel and breakfast. I wouldn't even mind EXTRALOVEABLE the new version or IN A LARGE ROOM. Telemarketer blues is fun live but don't mind if it stays that way. The other songs do nothing for me but yeah, a couple good ideas got away from prince here.

tatocorcu said:

U Will Be

FragileUndertow said:

tatocorcu said:

U Will Be

I agree I love U WILL BE and BIG CITY. Andy Allo said that U Will B was never recorded so they only have the demo so that's probably why it's not on the record. She said they tried to record it but it didn't have the same flavor.

tatocorcu said:

I hope we get Big City, Shades of Umber abd U Will Be at some point...

i was always under the impression that the BC and Shades are for an NPG group album

I would think he definitely has a recent horns heavy album stacked away.

leadline said:

I would think he definitely has a recent horns heavy album stacked away.

Yup. Big City, Extraloveable, Ain't gonna miss U, Groovy Potential, Boyfriend, Chades of Umber, Fallinginlove. This was the album I was hoping for, actually.

Turn Me Loose...even though it's yet another in his tired "James Brown soundalike song" category. It's a little better than Feel Good, Wonderful, etc from LF. It stinks that the only version we have is that recording from LA radio where the DJ talks over the last several seconds of the song.

I may be sick of his insistence on these kind of songs, but I really like Loose a lot. I think it is far better than Musicology, We Gets Up, and a little better than The Work Pt 1 and the afforementioned Feel Good.

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leadline said:

I would think he definitely has a recent horns heavy album stacked away.

I'm wondering there is another NPG album in the can. Will he release it?

lwr001 said:

tatocorcu said:

I hope we get Big City, Shades of Umber abd U Will Be at some point...

i was always under the impression that the BC and Shades are for an NPG group album

It makes sense, I just hope we get to hear it!

tatocorcu said:

lwr001 said:

i was always under the impression that the BC and Shades are for an NPG group album

It makes sense, I just hope we get to hear it!

that was the sense I got when the snippet came out on the NPG website

hopefularranger said:

leadline said:

I would think he definitely has a recent horns heavy album stacked away.

I'm wondering there is another NPG album in the can. Will he release it?

My thoughts also. I think Groovy Potential may have been an outtake from this NPG album. An earlier version of Fallinlove2nite prior to Joshua's production may have been part of it as well, along with a few other tracks he played live with the NPG (such as Shades of Umber) at Montreaux and a few other dates.

TwiliteKid said:

dazedawhile said:

hot summer really got my attention. very pop, kinda 80s.

At least we have that digitally though. The rest of these don't have a circulating studio version.

i just got the download this week. some random site. first time hearing it. idk if it was on 3rdeyegirl site.

dazedawhile said:

TwiliteKid said:

dazedawhile said: At least we have that digitally though. The rest of these don't have a circulating studio version.

i just got the download this week. some random site. first time hearing it. idk if it was on 3rdeyegirl site.

No, it's from 2010, long before 3rdEyeGirl. The MP3 was ripped from The Current's site.

Da Bourgeoisie is another recent one with horns. I think many of these tracks were recorded with the hornheadz rather than the npg horns.

TwiliteKid said:

dazedawhile said:

i just got the download this week. some random site. first time hearing it. idk if it was on 3rdeyegirl site.

No, it's from 2010, long before 3rdEyeGirl. The MP3 was ripped from The Current's site.

ah good to know. thx. that cut is one of my favs

paulludvig said:

Da Bourgeoisie is another recent one with horns. I think many of these tracks were recorded with the hornheadz rather than the npg horns.

Actually DaBourgeoisie is the only one of the recent tracks with horns that WAS recorded with the NPG Horns. The rest is Honheads all over

hopefularranger said:

leadline said:

I would think he definitely has a recent horns heavy album stacked away.

I'm wondering there is another NPG album in the can. Will he release it?

Huh? Who said that?

hopefularranger said:

leadline said:

I would think he definitely has a recent horns heavy album stacked away.

I'm wondering there is another NPG album in the can. Will he release it?

Well, the Purplessence twitter account is trailing the possibility of another suprise in October once AOA and PLECTRUMELECTRUM have been released so perhaps it's this NPG album? Or possibly, the Purple Rain remaster.

Whatever the Purplessence account looks to be official.