I love the 5:10 Around the World in a Day (ATWIAD) outtake with the bongos/percussion, tambourine shaking, sitar-sounding guitar, electric drums, harmonizing vocal background...'all the little babies singing around the world..."

I prefer the 12 minute+ Computer Blue outtake than the one he chose for the album... I think this must have been Prince's intention to release it as an LP instead of 2 LPS.. but Prince really wrote a phenomenal lyrical masterpiece confirming his sexual demons...

I prefer the heavy bass funky Guitar pluckings of the 5:45 'We Can Funk' instead of his supremely polished album cut with George Clintion...the rawness in his voice and on the Kamasutra, I can rewrite it with half as many words...' before the horns take the song to new levels

The sitar dreamy 5 minute+ Strange Relationship version instead of the album’s polished piano number…I love the bongos on this track at the end!

The 7:50 I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man with that electric solo guitar intro!

Tell me please which versions of your favorite songs do u prefer… the one that ended up on the album or a specific outtake?

mod can u help me with the line spacing... thx!

I mean it so friggen difficult to figure out which is the 'right' sounding outtake, right?

I'm with you on your choices
I'll add the uncut version of Darling Nikki

Come - Glam Slam Ulysses version instead of the long rambling album version

"Crucial" on CB (full-lenght instead of butcher edit).

"Joy in Repetition" on GB (with drum intro instead of awful segue from WCF).

"Tick Tick Bang" on GB (not a fan of the original version, but the released is horrid).

Also I agree on "Computer Blue", maybe just the 7-minute version.

breakdown2k14 said:

good choices ,i wish the unreleased version of "Electric Chair"was on the batman album instead of the one that fades out after 4 minutes

never heard that version

Darling Nikki why this was edited I will never understand.

Lisa on Dirty Mind would have been mind blowing IMO

ComeHereLetMeCutYourHair said:

I love the 5:10 Around the World in a Day (ATWIAD) outtake with the bongos/percussion, tambourine shaking, sitar-sounding guitar, electric drums, harmonizing vocal background...'all the little babies singing around the world..."

I prefer the 12 minute+ Computer Blue outtake than the one he chose for the album... I think this must have been Prince's intention to release it as an LP instead of 2 LPS.. but Prince really wrote a phenomenal lyrical masterpiece confirming his sexual demons...

I prefer the heavy bass funky Guitar pluckings of the 5:45 'We Can Funk' instead of his supremely polished album cut with George Clintion...the rawness in his voice and on the Kamasutra, I can rewrite it with half as many words...' before the horns take the song to new levels

The sitar dreamy 5 minute+ Strange Relationship version instead of the album’s polished piano number…I love the bongos on this track at the end!

The 7:50 I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man with that electric solo guitar intro!

Tell me please which versions of your favorite songs do u prefer… the one that ended up on the album or a specific outtake?

If u're talking about the 1986 version it has no business being on GB, it has a live feel that wouldn't have been consistant with the rest of the album + I think the only reason Prince dug it outta the vault was precisely to have a duet with George Clinton.

BoraBora said:

"Crucial" on CB (full-lenght instead of butcher edit).

"Joy in Repetition" on GB (with drum intro instead of awful segue from WCF).

"Tick Tick Bang" on GB (not a fan of the original version, but the released is horrid).

Also I agree on "Computer Blue", maybe just the 7-minute version.

Having the original Tick, Tick, Bang on GB would have been as absurd as putting Gotta Stop (Messin' About) on Parade. I actually like the original better than the released one, too, but not on GB!

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thedawnofanewera said:

Good question, I like this Elephants and flowers original outtake of course in better sound quality . The Jesus line is key. Also if I could make an add maybe against your rules but I always felt the live guitar intro should had always been added to sign o the times. And the original Endorphinmachine . Just me 2 cents. I'll probably add more. Good topic!!!!

I think the sound of the final Endorphinmachine was more consistant with the rest of TGE than the original. The second version could have fit, too (and was actually on an early configuration IIRC), but the original lacks the hyperpolished vibe the rest of the album has IMHO.

Rebeljuice said:

Come - Glam Slam Ulysses version instead of the long rambling album version

I pleasurably disagree with ya on this one... the funk, the horns, the bass of Come ain't rambling, it's building the climax (at least to me)

OldFriends4Sale said:

I'm with you on your choices
I'll add the uncut version of Darling Nikki

ooooh, that's a tough one Old Friends... I see the part u dig from 2:55 on... but the words sung backwords at the end of the original were the changing moment on Purple Rain... so I take it you would still want that, right?