I've put together a track list for a fantasy album that would be between 1999 and Purple Rain. Potentially, a lot of good tracks could be on this record, especially if you take outtakes/B-sides from both albums. But I'm having trouble sequencing them in a good order. Can anyone help with a track listing that flows well? Here's what I have:

Possessed

Irresistible Bitch

17 Days

God

Extra Lovable

Electric Intercourse

Moonbeam Levels

Erotic City

Another Lonely Christmas

No Call U

How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore

Also open to suggestions for additions/deletions. Thanks!

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Mythical Dance Electric Album between 1999 and Purple Rain???

The Dance Electric was recorded after Purple Rain was released and most of ATWIAD had been recorded.

http://prince.org/msg/7/91504

http://prince.org/msg/7/91691

SquirrelMeat said:

Mythical Dance Electric Album between 1999 and Purple Rain???

The Dance Electric was recorded after Purple Rain was released and most of ATWIAD had been recorded.

^ I was going to say just that. Makes for a good playlist, but there's never been any suggestion or rumour of an album called The Dance Electric, or another album in between 1999 and Purple Rain.

peege43 said:

http://prince.org/msg/7/91504

http://prince.org/msg/7/91691

Two threads by the same poster, both of which contain plenty of evidence to refute the claim.

TwiliteKid said:

peege43 said:

http://prince.org/msg/7/91504

http://prince.org/msg/7/91691

Two threads by the same poster, both of which contain plenty of evidence to refute the claim.

If you're going to argue tangential points, I'm not interested. If you want to sequence my fantasy album, I'd love to see a track listing.

TwiliteKid said:

peege43 said:

http://prince.org/msg/7/91504

http://prince.org/msg/7/91691

Two threads by the same poster, both of which contain plenty of evidence to refute the claim.

Actually, lots of comments on the old threads, but no fact (as usual from that poster in the old threads, some of his 'facts' are laughable). Prince did say he could have released 1999 II, he didn't say he had a Dance Electric album in the can that contained songs spead across 3 years, including ones in he future

If Prince's Dance Electric fell into an 'Era' its ATWIAD.

peege43 said:

TwiliteKid said:

Two threads by the same poster, both of which contain plenty of evidence to refute the claim.

If you're going to argue tangential points, I'm not interested. If you want to sequence my fantasy album, I'd love to see a track listing.

Sorry, didn't mean to knock the thread, I like a fantasy playlist as much as the next person. But sometimes facts need to be corrected otherwise newer fans take them as gospel. Prime example being those that think that Prince singing in a speeded up voice = Camille.

Romeoblu said:

TwiliteKid said:

SquirrelMeat said:

Mythical Dance Electric Album between 1999 and Purple Rain???

The Dance Electric was recorded after Purple Rain was released and most of ATWIAD had been recorded.

^ I was going to say just that. Makes for a good playlist, but there's never been any suggestion or rumour of an album called The Dance Electric, or another album in between 1999 and Purple Rain.

Exactly, the whole premise of this thread is sheer nonsense

peege43 said:

I've put together a track list for the mythical "Dance Electric" album that was rumored to be between 1999 and Purple Rain. Potentially, a lot of good tracks could be on this record, especially if you take outtakes/B-sides from both albums. But I'm having trouble sequencing them in a good order. Can anyone help with a track listing that flows well? Here's what I have:

The Dance Electric Initial tracking for Prince's initial version took place on 17 August, 1984

Possessed

Irresistible Bitch

17 Days

100 MPH While specific recording dates are not known, initial tracking took place in Summer 1984

God

Extra Lovable

Electric Intercourse

Moonbeam Levels

Erotic City Initial tracking took place on 30 December, 1983 at Sunset Sound

Another Lonely Christmas Initial tracking took place on 18 February, 1984 at Sunset Sound

No Call U

How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore

Also open to suggestions for additions/deletions. Thanks!

ABSOLUTE nonsense

databank said:

peege43 said:

I've put together a track list for the mythical "Dance Electric" album that was rumored to be between 1999 and Purple Rain. Potentially, a lot of good tracks could be on this record, especially if you take outtakes/B-sides from both albums. But I'm having trouble sequencing them in a good order. Can anyone help with a track listing that flows well? Here's what I have:

The Dance Electric Initial tracking for Prince's initial version took place on 17 August, 1984

Possessed

Irresistible Bitch

17 Days

100 MPH While specific recording dates are not known, initial tracking took place in Summer 1984

God

Extra Lovable

Electric Intercourse

Moonbeam Levels

Erotic City Initial tracking took place on 30 December, 1983 at Sunset Sound

Another Lonely Christmas Initial tracking took place on 18 February, 1984 at Sunset Sound

No Call U

How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore

Also open to suggestions for additions/deletions. Thanks!

ABSOLUTE nonsense

Why not try to contribute instead of eyerolling? Suggest calling it "Dreams" or "Purple Music" or "G-Spot" and take "Dance Electric" off if that's your hangup. You're not really helping here.

"17 Days"? I thought that was meant to be Apollonia 6's.

peege43 said:

databank said:

ABSOLUTE nonsense

Why not try to contribute instead of eyerolling? Suggest calling it "Dreams" or "Purple Music" or "G-Spot" and take "Dance Electric" off if that's your hangup. You're not really helping here.

I am, i'm saying the premise of the thread is a hoax and I've asked for it to be locked. This is helping. Maybe if you'd edit your original post into "let's imagine there would have been an album released in 1983, what could the tracklist have been?" and if you'd care to check recording dates on Princevault before compiling your tracklist I would change my mind, but I don't endorse hoaxes nor laziness. No personal offense meant here, it's your thread I'm after, not you

databank said:

peege43 said:

Why not try to contribute instead of eyerolling? Suggest calling it "Dreams" or "Purple Music" or "G-Spot" and take "Dance Electric" off if that's your hangup. You're not really helping here.

I am, i'm saying the premise of the thread is a hoax and I've asked for it to be locked. This is helping. Maybe if you'd edit your original post into "let's imagine there would have been an album released in 1983, what could the tracklist have been?" and if you'd care to check recording dates on Princevault before compiling your tracklist I would change my mind, but I don't endorse hoaxes nor laziness. No personal offense meant here, it's your thread I'm after, not you

That suggestion helped. I've edited the thread title and original post.

peege43 said:

databank said:

I am, i'm saying the premise of the thread is a hoax and I've asked for it to be locked. This is helping. Maybe if you'd edit your original post into "let's imagine there would have been an album released in 1983, what could the tracklist have been?" and if you'd care to check recording dates on Princevault before compiling your tracklist I would change my mind, but I don't endorse hoaxes nor laziness. No personal offense meant here, it's your thread I'm after, not you

That suggestion helped. I've edited the thread title and original post.

Thank you. U r now an official member of the New Power generation

databank said:

I'm sorry peege43

Enjoy your fantasy thread purple one

ah,the "mystery album" that Prince secretly recorded in 1983 we've heard rumors about it for years,but that's all it is...just a rumor.It would be cool if it really existed,huh? So many top-notch songs recorded during that era!

SoulAlive said:

ah,the "mystery album" that Prince secretly recorded in 1983 we've heard rumors about it for years,but that's all it is...just a rumor.It would be cool if it really existed,huh? So many top-notch songs recorded during that era!

Thing is P is in a continuous recording process, so not all songs are being recorded with a specific album in mind. If the doors to the vault were finally opened, P could easily compile lots of coohesive 'period albums' instead of releasing individual tracks or messy compies like CB 98. The Vault... Old Friends 4 Sale was a great example of what vault albums could be like, with a cohesive selection of songs that make it sound like an original album.

He said in the Rolling Stone interview around the time of the release of ATWIAD that he had a follow-up to "1999" recorded and that he could play it to the interviewer if needed. It seems that it's just something that he "had in mind" and no test pressings or anything of the kind were around.

The interview is up on Rollingstone.com so I think it's okay to link it here:

http://www.rollingstone.c...n-19850912

The comment is at the end.

Weird that this thing is treated only as a "rumour" here, whereas stuff from considerably more vague sources than Prince himself is thought of as being legit. Yeah, I know that sometimes Prince stretches the truth in his interviews, but who's to say he didn't have a tracklist for a 1983 release in mind.

novabrkr said:

He said in the Rolling Stone interview around the time of the release of ATWIAD that he had a follow-up to "1999" recorded and that he could play it to the interviewer if needed. It seems that it's just something that he "had in mind" and no test pressings or anything of the kind were around.

The interview is up on Rollingstone.com so I think it's okay to link it here:

http://www.rollingstone.c...n-19850912

The comment is at the end.

Weird that this thing is treated only as a "rumour" here, whereas stuff from considerably more vague sources than Prince himself is thought of as being legit. Yeah, I know that sometimes Prince stretches the truth in his interviews, but who's to say he didn't have a tracklist for a 1983 release in mind.

"There's tons of music I've recorded there. I have the follow-up album to 1999. I could put it all together and play it for you, and you would go "Yeah!" And I could put it out, and it would probably sell what 1999 did."

i.e. "I have enough material from that era that I could compile into an album".

i.e. "I never did compile such an album but I could if I wanted to"

i.e. Prince says in plain English that there never was such an album.

That is if the quote is exact: given that the interviews are not being recorded, I guess most of what's been reported in interviews is a gross approximation of what was really said, for example that "La Crosse" reference in the 1990 innerview makes no sense at all.

what abut the Underground LP ? wasnt that during 1985 or so?

databank said:

novabrkr said:

He said in the Rolling Stone interview around the time of the release of ATWIAD that he had a follow-up to "1999" recorded and that he could play it to the interviewer if needed. It seems that it's just something that he "had in mind" and no test pressings or anything of the kind were around.

The interview is up on Rollingstone.com so I think it's okay to link it here:

http://www.rollingstone.c...n-19850912

The comment is at the end.

Weird that this thing is treated only as a "rumour" here, whereas stuff from considerably more vague sources than Prince himself is thought of as being legit. Yeah, I know that sometimes Prince stretches the truth in his interviews, but who's to say he didn't have a tracklist for a 1983 release in mind.

"There's tons of music I've recorded there. I have the follow-up album to 1999. I could put it all together and play it for you, and you would go "Yeah!" And I could put it out, and it would probably sell what 1999 did."

i.e. "I have enough material from that era that I could compile into an album".

i.e. "I never did compile such an album but I could if I wanted to"

i.e. Prince says in plain English that there never was such an album.

That is if the quote is exact: given that the interviews are not being recorded, I guess most of what's been reported in interviews is a gross approximation of what was really said, for example that "La Crosse" reference in the 1990 innerview makes no sense at all.

Huh, you can't jump into such conclusions based on what's stated in that interview. Your first statement starting with the "i.e." abbreviation is correct, but the two following ones are way too exclusive in their nature to be the logical consequences of what Prince is quoted as saying in the interview.

He might have worked on a tracklist for a follow-up album or he might not have done anything of the kind, but his comments in the interview certainly don't function as "proof" that he never did. He's certainly strongly hinting that he has done it and that he could quickly put together that type of an album from the vault tapes for the interviewer if needed. All the various "early configurations" for albums are information that's leaked to public just because so many other people were involved in those projects, but it's a different deal altogether what type of other projects he's had in mind along the years.

I don't know if he really had such an album prepared or not, but he's certainly not stating in the interview that nothing of the kind ever existed in his head.

[Edited 4/3/15 14:21pm]

luvsexy4all said:

what abut the Underground LP ? wasnt that during 1985 or so?

I remember hearing about a planned album called Underground to be released in 1989 (after Lovesexy).This was obviously a rumored/working title for Rave Unto The Joy Fantastic,which was abandoned when Prince began working on the Batman soundtrack.

novabrkr said:

databank said:

"There's tons of music I've recorded there. I have the follow-up album to 1999. I could put it all together and play it for you, and you would go "Yeah!" And I could put it out, and it would probably sell what 1999 did."

i.e. "I have enough material from that era that I could compile into an album".

i.e. "I never did compile such an album but I could if I wanted to"

i.e. Prince says in plain English that there never was such an album.

That is if the quote is exact: given that the interviews are not being recorded, I guess most of what's been reported in interviews is a gross approximation of what was really said, for example that "La Crosse" reference in the 1990 innerview makes no sense at all.

Huh, you can't jump into such conclusions based on what's stated in that interview. Your first statement starting with the "i.e." abbreviation is correct, but the two following ones are way too exclusive in their nature to be the logical consequences of what Prince is quoted as saying in the interview.

He might have worked on a tracklist for a follow-up album or he might not have done anything of the kind, but his comments in the interview certainly don't function as "proof" that he never did. He's certainly strongly hinting that he has done it and that he could quickly put together that type of an album from the vault tapes for the interviewer if needed. All the various "early configurations" for albums are information that's leaked to public just because so many other people were involved in those projects, but it's a different deal altogether what type of other projects he's had in mind along the years.

I don't know if he really had such an album prepared or not, but he's certainly not stating in the interview that nothing of the kind ever existed in his head.

[Edited 4/3/15 14:21pm]

This is what I understand very clearly in plain English. I might be wrong but the way I understand it there is no ambiguity to the meaning.

Another thing is that 1999 was released in late 1982 and toured until April 1983. At this point P was already developing the whole PR project so I don't see any possible gap when he could have considered another album between 1999 and PR, and even if he'd released such a record he simply wouldn't have had any time to promote or tour it.

I've also had a lot of interest in the past about this legendary 1983 album.. I made a funky playlist called "The Dance Electric" that mixes some of the other funky songs of Prince's associates/ex-associates at the time that sound similar to him.

01. The Dance Electric

02. 100 Mph

03. Manic Monday

04. Possessed

05. Extra Loveable

06. Satisfaction (Andre Cymone)

07. Chocolate

08. Baby, You're a Trip

09. Do Yourself a Favor

10. Wonderful Ass

11. Lust U Always

12. Players' Ball (Mazarati/Brown Mark)

13. All Day, All Night

14. Purple Music

I've tried to make it run like a real studio album, and I think it would be pretty cool (of course, taking out the assoc. artist tracks). It really makes me wonder how songs like these went unreleased... I've made so many new 'albums' out of outtakes that it seems pretty foolish that Prince is trying to keep them locked up when he has enough to make serious $$. Oh well... maybe one day we'll finally get to hear full versions of "Love and Sex," "Cosmic Day," "Katrina's Paper Dolls," and "If It Makes U Happy."