let's keep real folks...musically, Prince music has not been all that great, declining sales, limited radio play, no videos and his continuing "dicking" of his fans... his albums since TGE have been for the most part weak...so any music that he's put in the vault since then I would only guess would be of the same caliber...

Prince needs to digitize his music in the vault...put in a cataloge and follow an Itunes method of getting to the fans and knock off this dumb shit Tidal...let his fans pick whatever he's recorded...fans get what they want and the purple prick gets paid. done and done.

Yes, very much so.

Thanks!

Aerogram said:

Yes, very much so.

Thanks!

what imparticular do you want to hear... outtakes from Planet Earth or 2010??

skywalker said:

I do. I'd have to be some kind of asshole to be a devout fan of someone I thought hasn't made great music in 20 years. I want the vault. All of it.

i pose the same question, what do you want to hear.. music from like NEWS, Rave, PE or 2010..

I don't care to hear anything between 1997-2010.

To be totally honest, I don't really care. The older I get, the less I care.

avasdad said:

I agree, the older I get the less I care.

Not that long ago, I would have been all over HIt 'n Run. I haven't even listened to it yet or looked for it when I was in Wal mart. So I'm not sure of my interest level right now on " the vault". Thinking low.

I wonder if the ship has sailed with other fans as well. There was a time when i would n't have bought it and wouldn't have thought twice about the price.

Prince '81

Aerogram said:

avasdad said:

what imparticular do you want to hear... outtakes from Planet Earth or 2010??

Who knows what else he recorded that might catch my fancy? I guess people have to fashion some sense of their own perceived superiority out of something. Being a Prince snob just seems to be it for you.

not sure what makes me a Prince snob...because my opinion is that the quality of his music has declined dramatically in that last 20 years...which is true... and most music that didnt make the cut was put in the vault...it would be in lesser quality and musical appeal...

Yes.

nyse said:

Considering that I like the 1995-2000 era better than the 1988-1993 era I very much care.

anything in particular you want to hear?

avasdad said:

avasdad said:

There might be more interesting things in there like "Indifference"!

1contessa said:

To be totally honest, I don't really care. The older I get, the less I care.

Don't give up,
I'll still love U

avasdad said:

Aerogram said:

avasdad said: Who knows what else he recorded that might catch my fancy? I guess people have to fashion some sense of their own perceived superiority out of something. Being a Prince snob just seems to be it for you.

not sure what makes me a Prince snob...because my opinion is that the quality of his music has declined dramatically in that last 20 years...which is true... and most music that didnt make the cut was put in the vault...it would be in lesser quality and musical appeal...

I think a lot of stuff that didn't make the album from 1978-1989
was not because it was lesser quality (1978-1986) more specifically

but that he just had to much good stuff and not enough albums to put it out on

avasdad said:

not sure what makes me a Prince snob...because my opinion is that the quality of his music has declined dramatically in that last 20 years...which is true... and most music that didnt make the cut was put in the vault...it would be in lesser quality and musical appeal...

Did you really just say that your opinion is actually a true fact?

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Like "jughead" (because it is pre-1995) is a better song than "3121" (because it is post 1995)?

OldFriends4Sale said:

avasdad said:

not sure what makes me a Prince snob...because my opinion is that the quality of his music has declined dramatically in that last 20 years...which is true... and most music that didnt make the cut was put in the vault...it would be in lesser quality and musical appeal...

I think a lot of stuff that didn't make the album from 1978-1989
was not because it was lesser quality (1978-1986) more specifically

but that he just had to much good stuff and not enough albums to put it out on

Maybe. I like the b-sides from Around the World in a Day better than most of what is on the album.

what I really care about is everything put on tape 1980-88.

just curious 88-95.

skywalker said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

I think a lot of stuff that didn't make the album from 1978-1989
was not because it was lesser quality (1978-1986) more specifically

but that he just had to much good stuff and not enough albums to put it out on

Maybe. I like the b-sides from Around the World in a Day better than most of what is on the album.

I love the whole work. Can't get enough of that one.
That is the one album, I don't think we have specific 'outtakes' on

my unrequited love for that album is in that I don't know specific outtakes

I definitely want to hear it. For me, his output has been hit or miss in the last 20 years, but there has defintely been enough good stuff to maintain my interest.

This reminds me, who remembers the track called "The Divine" that Prince mentioned around the time of Lotusflower? I believe he said that it was too mind-blowing to ever release. Well, I'd to take the chance of having my mind blown!

avasdad said:

honestly..do Prince fans really give a shit what's in the vault after 1995??

From wjat Ive heard already................... NAAAAH!

xpertluva said:

This reminds me, who remembers the track called "The Divine" that Prince mentioned around the time of Lotusflower? I believe he said that it was too mind-blowing to ever release. Well, I'd to take the chance of having my mind blown!

I hate when Prince says things like that I recall,in the late 90s,he mentioned a big album he was working on called The Dawn,but he implied that it was too much for the world to handle (or something to that effect).

Please,Prince....let US be the judge of that!! Stop holding back all of that 'amazing' music!! lol

SoulAlive said:

xpertluva said:

This reminds me, who remembers the track called "The Divine" that Prince mentioned around the time of Lotusflower? I believe he said that it was too mind-blowing to ever release. Well, I'd to take the chance of having my mind blown!

I hate when Prince says things like that I recall,in the late 90s,he mentioned a big album he was working on called The Dawn,but he implied that it was too much for the world to handle (or something to that effect).

Please,Prince....let US be the judge of that!! Stop holding back all of that 'amazing' music!! lol

I remember reading that interview. I thought it was something recently made around 2009

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The Divine is an unreleased song recorded in 1996 at Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA (during sessions for the Emancipation album). Eric Leeds added saxophone overdubs on 14 August, 1996, also at Paisley Park Studios. The song is believed to have been intended for Emancipation, but was not included on any known configurations. In a 2008 interview with USA Today (primarily designed to promote the 21 Nights book), Prince played the interviewer several tracks from his next album Lotusflow3r, and mentioned, but declined to play, a song called The Divine, described as "a song so "mind-blowing" he doubts he'll ever release it." It is not clear if this is the same track recorded in 1996 or not, however. The track remains unreleased-PrinceVault

Yes, I do indeed care, and I want to hear all of it. I can't tell you what specifically, in much the same way that I couldn't tell you what I wanted to hear in 1989 of the stuff that had been recorded up to that point--because I didn't know what it was, and hadn't heard much about it. Since the unreleased stuff from the earlier periods often differed quite a bit from the released material, and often didn't clearly indicate a difference in quality (to my ears), even if I didn't like what he was doing now (or any other time in the last 20 years), that wouldn't necessarily mean that everything in the vault for that period would be bad.

Maybe you should have just titled the thread "Honestly, I don't really give a shit what's in the vault after 1995." Because obviously Prince fans are going to have differing opinions. But I find it hard to believe that there are many of us what aren't at all interested in whether there's anything worthwhile in there over the past two decades.

yes... moving on now.

ps.

ok, HOW do you understand the artistic process? does it have an expiration date? can past accomplishments inspire the present, be surpassed, romanticized? if one has DONE "it" b4, can they (the same person) do "it" again or naw? are you proposing that YOUR "end date" (1995) be adapted universally in the purple kingdom?