I'm just starting to get into the world of studio outtakes & wondering what some of your recommended ones are. As a toe-dipper I'm already partial to -

All Day All Night

Roadhouse Garden

Our Destiny

Electric Intercourse

Possessed

In A Large Room With No Light

I Lust U Always

What else should I be on the lookout for?

Possessed

Stone

If I Could Get Your Attention
Crucial (Not the "Crystal Ball" version, but the one with the long sax solo)
Train

Uh Huh

Good Man

Those are my favorites.

Well, that song everyone is/was hoping for last year. My personal choices are. Get Blue, Open Book, Extralovable.... And a hell lot more that I'm to tired of bringing up right now.

download Blast From The Past 2.0 for Moonbeam and Adonis. get Box O Chocolates aswell

'I Wonder' (seeing as how it's not been mentioned yet)

bigd74 said:

download Blast From The Past 2.0 for Moonbeam and Adonis. get Box O Chocolates aswell

Good advice that.

A newer favorite:

Strange Way of Saying I Love You

Tick, Tick, Bang

Extraloveable

I Wonder

In a Large Room With No Light

Empty Room

Purple Music

Moonbeam Levels

Electric Intercourse

Open Book

Witness

Rebirth of the Flesh

Xenophobia

Baby, You're a Trip

I Hear Your Voice

Marrk said:

There were rumours of a new boot release with some better quality versions of these and some more recent tracks.

Is there any sign of it or do we have to be patient......?

01 Woderful Ass

02 Rebirth Of The Flesh

03 Tic Tic Bang (81 Version)

04 Possessed

05 Purple Music

06 Data Bank (Prince's much Funkier Harder Version)

07 A Million Miles (Prince Version)

08 We Can Funk (Prince Version)

09 Days Of Wild (Studio Version)

10 Rock Me Baby & Do You Wanna Ride (I always imagine these two boom-box recordings with a full production- Synths, bass, drums and P-funk style hand claps.

11 Extra Loveable

Pjwest said:

There were rumours of a new boot release with some better quality versions of these and some more recent tracks.

Is there any sign of it or do we have to be patient......?

other than Blast From The Past 2.0? not heard anything about that.

Marrk said:

'I Wonder' (seeing as how it's not been mentioned yet)

This. Twice. So simple, it would have been impossible for anyone but Prince. There are points in the song I'd swear you can just hear he is singing with a smile on his face. Beautiful often overlooked outtake.

I'd also say "Train" is a must have. The music is almost onomatopoeic as it quickly builds up and starts to chug along to Prince telling his woman if she really wants to leave then there's a train leaving in the morning.

"Mad" is a 90s outtake I've always loved. It's not particularly deep, but it's dirty.

The ONLY and I do mean ONLY unreleased tracks that you need to track down are as follows:

Wonderful Ass(playful fun), Rebirth of the Flesh(funky drum machine and guitar driven), Witness 4 the Prosecution(rock version-kicks ass), Neon Telephone(you have to sing along with it), All My Dreams(really trippy), In a Large Room with No Light(great energy), Old Friends 4 Sale(bare bones legendary goodness in terms of lyrics and music), Sexual Suicide(I thought it was on Crystal Ball), Poor Goo(guitar work goodness) and Electric Intercourse!

All the other songs you hear are really sub par demos in my opinion, not worth your time.

1nonly said:

Noon Rendezvous (1984 Birthday rehearsal version 19 minutes long) *this is my all time favorite Prince song

Computer Blue extended "CORRIDOR" version

Wonderful Ass

All My Dreams

Our Destiny

Roadhouse Garden

Heaven

Empty Room

Silicon

The Dance Electric (the Prince & the Revolution version)

Lust U Always (instrumental version)

bigd74 said:

Pjwest said:

There were rumours of a new boot release with some better quality versions of these and some more recent tracks.

Is there any sign of it or do we have to be patient......?

other than Blast From The Past 2.0? not heard anything about that.

Have that - maybe my memory is playing tricks......

While Im here though can anyone tell me which boot has the best Computer Blue Corridor version on?

Extraloveable

Traffic Jam

In A Large Room With No Light

Lust U Always

Possessed

The Dance Electric

Chocolate

All Day, All Night

U

Kiss Me Quick

Don't Let Him Fool Ya

Do Yourself A Favor

Purple Music

We Can Funk

Lisa

G-Spot

100 MPH

Data Bank

Old Friends 4 Sale

Adonis And Bathsheba

Empty Room

Neon Telephone

Splash

I Hear Your Voice

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Scarfo said:

Noon Rendezvous (1984 Birthday rehearsal version 19 minutes long) *this is my all time favorite Prince song

Damn Scarfo - right on the money. I wish there was a clearer recording out there of this gem

Averett said:

Scarfo said:

Noon Rendezvous (1984 Birthday rehearsal version 19 minutes long) *this is my all time favorite Prince song

Damn Scarfo - right on the money. I wish there was a clearer recording out there of this gem

Thanx. Prince was on a whole new unearthly level that day! Something In the Water and Erotic City were also amazing from that recording. Talk about a recording in dire need of a remaster. lol

Did he write I Wonder ? Im sure i read somewhere that it was written by someone else. Anyhow if he did, that would be one of my favorites too

So many, but I'd start with:

• All Day, All Night
• All My Dreams
• Chocolate
• Come Outside And Play
• Cookie Jar
• Data Bank
• Electric Intercourse
• Empty Room
• Extralovable
• G-Spot
• Grand Progression
• Heart of Stone
• manic Monday
• Mind Bells
• Moonbeam Levels
• Neon Telephone
• Old Friends For Sale (original lyrics)
• Open Book
• Player
• Purple Music
• The Sex of It
• Strange Way of Saying I love u
• Teacher Teacher
• Train
• Tricky
• Well Done
• Witness For The Prosecution (the version on H20)

Phew...

Oh and i would love to here a rerecorded" Player" Its such a funky song.