I finally obtained N.E.W.S. , Chocolate Invasion, C-Notes, 20 Ten, The Slaughterhouse, The Undertaker and Xpectation and I am having an eargasm! So what is your favorite?

I am loving The Slaughterhouse. The only Prince album I struggle to listen to is The Rainbow Children..............................

20Ten for Future Soul song alone.

Exodus.

nigel1013 said:

'What is the best album by Prince that was not released through normal distribution channels?'

I finally obtained N.E.W.S. , Chocolate Invasion, C-Notes, 20 Ten, The Slaughterhouse, The Undertaker and Xpectation.

'N.E.W.S.' was released through 'normal distribution channels'.

Ok but The Undertaker was a VHS video tape..

This was never released on cd officially, afaik.

thedance said:

Ok but The Undertaker was a VHS video tape..

This was never released on cd officially, afaik.

Which is why I think the OP said it wasn't released thru a "normal" distribution channel ^^

langebleu said:

nigel1013 said:

'What is the best album by Prince that was not released through normal distribution channels?'

I finally obtained N.E.W.S. , Chocolate Invasion, C-Notes, 20 Ten, The Slaughterhouse, The Undertaker and Xpectation.

'N.E.W.S.' was released through 'normal distribution channels'.

dustoff said:

Exodus.

Exodus was released thru "normal distribution channels".

For me TRC and 20Ten!

Adorecream said:

GoldNigga

One Nite Alone!

Ymaginatif said:

One Nite Alone!

This is the correct answer.

Musicology (when you walked thru

the turnstile at the concert)

KingSausage said:

The best one is Rave In2 the Joy Fantastic, hands down.

that was through his website only, right?

chriss said:

KingSausage said:

The best one is Rave In2 the Joy Fantastic, hands down.

that was through his website only, right?

CD only but yeah

databank said:

dustoff said:

Exodus.

Exodus was released thru "normal distribution channels".

IN EUROPE!!

Which I guess does count, but it felt unreleased here... and I payed boot price for the thing.

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Of course, I payed boot price for G.N. too--but that actually was a pirated copy.

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Actually, I like Xpectation quite a bit. So that's my pick.

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The NPGMC comps (Chocolate Invasion and Slaughterhouse) I can't even remember as albums. I got to know all those tracks as they came out piecemeal, and I haven't listened to them as collections more than a handful of times. I did like most of the individual songs, I just don't remember the albums as albums.

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Actually, I changed my mind.

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ONE NITE ALONE!!

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which I didn't receive until it came with the ONA LIVE box... I don't know why I never received it before then.

Chocolate Invasion!

databank said:

dustoff said:

Exodus.

Exodus was released thru "normal distribution channels".

Perhaps there should be a common definition of normal distribution channels. THere are import releases that you would have been hard pressed to find at Best Buy or Sam Goody (when record stores existed).

I'm a bit embarrassed by the Americano-centrism over here: OK Prince is an American artist so it'd make sense that "normal" distribution channels include his native territory but AFAIC it means "in record stores" period. Exodus and Child Of The Sun were only released in Europe OK but fact is that in order to buy them I only has to go to my local wrecka stow in France and purchase them, simple as that. I could name loads of albums that were released only in the US or Japan for example and still they've been released. I know some Japanese or Indian artists whose albums were, for some reasons, released only in France, and some P-Funk albums have only been released in Japan. Still, they've been released through "normal distribution channels". It's not the first time that I read here that any record that isn't released in the US isn't released at all. Well, I'm sorry but there are LOADS of records released in various parts of the world that never reach the US save maybe as imports, still they are being released "normally". Similarly there have been countless CD's that I bought as expensive imports in Paris or Lyon, it never occured to me that they were not "normal" releases, an import is still a CD that one can buy in a wrecka stow, which wasn't the case with ONA or digital releases. On another note I think from now on digital-only releases are legions and define a "normal" distribution channel by 2014's standards, but I will agree that it wasn't yet the case in 2002 or 2004. Peace

databank said:

I'm a bit embarrassed by the Americano-centrism over here: OK Prince is an American artist so it'd make sense that "normal" distribution channels include his native territory but AFAIC it means "in record stores" period. Exodus and Child Of The Sun were only released in Europe OK but fact is that in order to buy them I only has to go to my local wrecka stow in France and purchase them, simple as that. I could name loads of albums that were released only in the US or Japan for example and still they've been released. I know some Japanese or Indian artists whose albums were, for some reasons, released only in France, and some P-Funk albums have only been released in Japan. Still, they've been released through "normal distribution channels". It's not the first time that I read here that any record that isn't released in the US isn't released at all. Well, I'm sorry but there are LOADS of records released in various parts of the world that never reach the US save maybe as imports, still they are being released "normally". Similarly there have been countless CD's that I bought as expensive imports in Paris or Lyon, it never occured to me that they were not "normal" releases, an import is still a CD that one can buy in a wrecka stow, which wasn't the case with ONA or digital releases. On another note I think from now on digital-only releases are legions and define a "normal" distribution channel by 2014's standards, but I will agree that it wasn't yet the case in 2002 or 2004. Peace

If I have to go to London to purchase a Prince album and I am not a resident of the UK then yes it is outside "normal" distribution channels. Not "Americano-centric" for a fan of an American musician to expect his music to be accessible in the US.

nigel1013 said:

databank said:

I'm a bit embarrassed by the Americano-centrism over here: OK Prince is an American artist so it'd make sense that "normal" distribution channels include his native territory but AFAIC it means "in record stores" period. Exodus and Child Of The Sun were only released in Europe OK but fact is that in order to buy them I only has to go to my local wrecka stow in France and purchase them, simple as that. I could name loads of albums that were released only in the US or Japan for example and still they've been released. I know some Japanese or Indian artists whose albums were, for some reasons, released only in France, and some P-Funk albums have only been released in Japan. Still, they've been released through "normal distribution channels". It's not the first time that I read here that any record that isn't released in the US isn't released at all. Well, I'm sorry but there are LOADS of records released in various parts of the world that never reach the US save maybe as imports, still they are being released "normally". Similarly there have been countless CD's that I bought as expensive imports in Paris or Lyon, it never occured to me that they were not "normal" releases, an import is still a CD that one can buy in a wrecka stow, which wasn't the case with ONA or digital releases. On another note I think from now on digital-only releases are legions and define a "normal" distribution channel by 2014's standards, but I will agree that it wasn't yet the case in 2002 or 2004. Peace

If I have to go to London to purchase a Prince album and I am not a resident of the UK then yes it is outside "normal" distribution channels. Not "Americano-centric" for a fan of an American musician to expect his music to be accessible in the US.

Yeah but what if u live in a remote area and the local wrecka stows only have top-10 stuff and u need to drive for 8 hours to a major city to buy your LP, then? Timespace&darknessdon'txist, have u forgotten?

Can we count in "One Nite Alone"?!?!?!?

If yes it's my choice.

BoraBora said:

databank said:

I'm a bit embarrassed by the Americano-centrism over here: OK Prince is an American artist so it'd make sense that "normal" distribution channels include his native territory but AFAIC it means "in record stores" period. Exodus and Child Of The Sun were only released in Europe OK but fact is that in order to buy them I only has to go to my local wrecka stow in France and purchase them, simple as that. I could name loads of albums that were released only in the US or Japan for example and still they've been released. I know some Japanese or Indian artists whose albums were, for some reasons, released only in France, and some P-Funk albums have only been released in Japan. Still, they've been released through "normal distribution channels". It's not the first time that I read here that any record that isn't released in the US isn't released at all. Well, I'm sorry but there are LOADS of records released in various parts of the world that never reach the US save maybe as imports, still they are being released "normally". Similarly there have been countless CD's that I bought as expensive imports in Paris or Lyon, it never occured to me that they were not "normal" releases, an import is still a CD that one can buy in a wrecka stow, which wasn't the case with ONA or digital releases. On another note I think from now on digital-only releases are legions and define a "normal" distribution channel by 2014's standards, but I will agree that it wasn't yet the case in 2002 or 2004. Peace

Yes, I stand corrected. I wasn't trying to express an imperialist point of view in my reply. That said, I could not have easily walked into a French record store to buy Exodus, so to me it remains an example of an album released outside of the normal distribution channels to which I had access.

Maybe we can agree that normal is a complicated word that means different things to different people.