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Thread started 10/31/15 10:01pm

breakdown2k14

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Your FIRST unreleased Prince Song

Its Halloween and I'm listening to "others here with us ".While listening I remembered how I discovered it .I was 15 years old and downloading Prince music from a p2p app called "kazaa" .I searched Prince unreleased and found this gem. It was unlike any prince song I heard and I was surprised it was a prince song .I love horror movies so maybe that's why I love "others here with Us "so much . So what was the first unreleased prince song you heard ? How did u discover it ? What was your first impression of it ?

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Reply #1 posted 10/31/15 10:05pm

OldFriends4Sal
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the original 1985 Old Friends 4 Sale, was played on the radio as a promo for Prince's new movie Under the Cherry Moon. They played it regularly for the next years time.

I recorded it everytime I heard it on the radio

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Reply #2 posted 10/31/15 10:43pm

RJOrion

ExtraLoveable....i downloaded it after reading about it on the internet ... at the time, i thought it was better than anything else he was doing at the time...i still wish i could get a CD quality version of it...
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Reply #3 posted 11/01/15 1:25am

sovembol

a CRAPPY casette dub of "The Black Album".. followed by the "Camille" album... and was confused the significence.. since the only rarity was the opening track...

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Reply #4 posted 11/01/15 1:54am

Adorecream

That song "Others here with us" was my first underground song I owned, someone here on prince.org sentit to my naive ass back in 2006 as a soundwave file or something like that.

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First boot I heard was a 1992 Show on some bootleg CD, a wrekka stow in Dunedin was selling for $50. I listened to it on the communal headphones posts they had in those days, of course one ear was broken and the boot sounded pretty muddy, it sounded okay But I was hardly going to spend $50 on it.

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I bought some dodgy looking tapes in 1997 off a guying selling them outof a box around his neck, 3 tapes for $7 each, one was songs like Others, Oldfriends 4 sale, Shockadelica and I think Neon telephone was on it, another was the 1985 interview where he was talking about love and water and the last tape was a bad audio copy of the VHS "Purple Rain Live at Syracuse". All I remember was that these cheep ass tapes ripped after a few listens, a total swizz.

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Not until 2011, when one of my purple fams sent me a nicely made CD set of Dream factory did I really get hard core into boots. I loved it so much and told him, that next year I got sent his maxi drive with a whole tetraabyte of unreleased collections and bootlegs albums and DVDs and I got told to take what I wanted. I hada field day and are still exploring this stuff now.

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Reply #5 posted 11/01/15 2:17am

kapo74

A friend of mine was a collector. I only wanted Purple Rain, so he gave me a cassette with PR and a cassette of the Live Sexy concert. I was hooked ever since and was flooded with boots and outtakes from the get go. Can't remember the first outtake I ever heard, though.

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Reply #6 posted 11/01/15 4:17am

NouveauDance

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"The Black Album And More" bootleg - basically TBA with a few 85/6 out-takes tagged on the end. Back in 91/2 I think.

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Reply #7 posted 11/01/15 6:19am

thedoorkeeper

A cassette of the Black Album.
When the album was officially released
I found the cassette was slightly faster.
Took me quite some time to get used to a
slower version after years of hearing the
wrong version.
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Reply #8 posted 11/01/15 6:24am

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thedoorkeeper said:

A cassette of the Black Album. When the album was officially released I found the cassette was slightly faster. Took me quite some time to get used to a slower version after years of hearing the wrong version.


My first was a vinyl Black Album with the same sped up issue. A few weeks later I came across the proper vinyl bootleg and upgraded.

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Reply #9 posted 11/01/15 6:46am

TwiliteKid

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NouveauDance said:

"The Black Album And More" bootleg - basically TBA with a few 85/6 out-takes tagged on the end. Back in 91/2 I think.



That was mine too, and I also got it in 92. I then found Crucial a couple weeks later.
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Reply #10 posted 11/01/15 7:09am

Cthulhu

thedoorkeeper said:

A cassette of the Black Album.
When the album was officially released
I found the cassette was slightly faster.
Took me quite some time to get used to a
slower version after years of hearing the
wrong version.


Exactly the same! Spring of 1988.

Years later my 2nd unreleased tracks i heard was 'Billy's sunglasses'.
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Reply #11 posted 11/01/15 7:18am

bluegangsta

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TRAIN. I was absolutely addicted to that song.

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Reply #12 posted 11/01/15 7:24am

SteveWask

Wintness! It was 2001 and i was in 8th grade! I found it on Napster! I shit my self when i found it because i thought i knew every prince song at the time!

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Reply #13 posted 11/01/15 7:28am

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Mine was a cassette of The Black Album which I bought at a record fair in Edinburgh. I was hyped at finding a copy and loved the "grainy" sound it had, It felt like it was something I shouldn't be listening to.

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After that it was the vinly called "Sex Machine" which IIRC was a SOTT aftershow.

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Reply #14 posted 11/01/15 7:35am

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Probably from the alt prince newsgroup back in the day, some of the earlier versions of Gold Experience songs before the album came out. I remember the rough versions sounding a lot better than the ones that ended up on the album, Endorphinmachine in particular he way over produced.

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Reply #15 posted 11/01/15 8:52am

NorthC

TheDigitalGardener said:

Mine was a cassette of The Black Album which I bought at a record fair in Edinburgh. I was hyped at finding a copy and loved the "grainy" sound it had, It felt like it was something I shouldn't be listening to.


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After that it was the vinly called "Sex Machine" which IIRC was a SOTT aftershow.


Yes, for me too, it was The Black Album cassette (a copy of a copy of a copy as the friend who I got it from told me) and I also had this feeling of doing something you weren't supposed to... wink The next one was the Small Club CD. I bought it because I knew somebody who knew somebody who had the Ren Woods LP with that one Prince song on it and this person (who I never met) wanted the Small Club in return for it. So I bought the CD (I had already heared a few songs) and liked it so much I decided to keep it. To this day I haven't heared that Ren Woods LP...
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Reply #16 posted 11/01/15 10:31am

lwr001

OldFriends4Sale said:



the original 1985 Old Friends 4 Sale, was played on the radio as a promo for Prince's new movie Under the Cherry Moon. They played it regularly for the next years time.


I recorded it everytime I heard it on the radio


The same old friends shitty cassette shit sound but couldn't have been more happy to have. Was the holy grail. 1987
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Reply #17 posted 11/01/15 1:33pm

Nightcrawler

A CD called "Neon Rendezvous" that I found in a record store in Tokyo. It was a 1984 (?) rehearsal with - among others - Something In the Water, Free, Erotic City and Irresistable Bitch on it. Soundboard quality. I was hooked.
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Reply #18 posted 11/01/15 1:46pm

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Whatever the first track on Charade is. Pretty sure it's All My Dreams so that. Bought it off Fleabay in mid 00s. Loved it. Been jackin boots ever since lurking.
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Reply #19 posted 11/01/15 1:48pm

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Not sure about first song per se, but I think my first exposure to unreleased Prince music was a album length fan compilation of some unreleased songs called Purple Music that I found a few years ago online. There didn't seem to be any thematic or chronological coordination in terms of tracks picked and I think it was just compiled as a sort of beginner's entry into Prince bootlegs, but I remember being very impressed with the long version of Can I Play With U, both by the track itself (it has its detractors but I've always loved it, maybe because I heard the long version first) and by the mere fact that Prince was doing a song with Miles Davis, that was pretty mind blowing to me in that early stage of my fandom. Oh, and the irrepressible funk of Wonderful Ass made a big impression as well cool

I'm sorry my filesharing story doesn't have quite the romance of finding a dusty vinyl in a ramshackle shop in a barely-frequented part of town, but there you go, that's the world we live in nowadays razz

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Reply #20 posted 11/01/15 5:10pm

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I got a tape of 'Heaven' in early 86. That was my first. Then the parade outtakes leaked a few months later. Within a few months, the vinyl boots market took off with Charade, Rotterdam Live, Wembley live, Chocolate Box and Crystal Ball.

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Reply #21 posted 11/01/15 5:16pm

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Spring of 88 I also acquired a crappy version of The Black Album on tape. Then I met a Prince trader later that year and the rest is history.
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Reply #22 posted 11/01/15 9:12pm

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A custom tape that I bought from Record Time in Roseville. Side A had the Black Album, Side B had "Intimate Moments" - the '82 Piano Rehearsal Tape. Tacked onto the end of that was "Around The World In A Day #1" and "Baby You're A Trip (Prince vocal). None of this was good quality, but I loved it just the same.

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Reply #23 posted 11/01/15 9:42pm

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lwr001 said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

the original 1985 Old Friends 4 Sale, was played on the radio as a promo for Prince's new movie Under the Cherry Moon. They played it regularly for the next years time.

I recorded it everytime I heard it on the radio

The same old friends shitty cassette shit sound but couldn't have been more happy to have. Was the holy grail. 1987 [Edited 11/1/15 10:32am]

lol I always kept a Maxwell GOLD tape for Prince songs

But they had this playing on the radio and it sound really good

I should call up that station and see if they can find the 'Promo' album

I first heard it late 85 early 86

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Reply #24 posted 11/01/15 10:04pm

Ego101

The Black album on cassette probably 10th generation..

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Reply #25 posted 11/02/15 3:20am

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black album on vinile 1988

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Reply #26 posted 11/02/15 4:14am

DaddySmooth

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G-Spot Prince's version.

U might not like the taste, but I'm still going to stick your face in this Funk
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Reply #27 posted 11/02/15 5:51am

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The Black album was the next.
I was in a store in the City, and I heard this music that sounded like something Prince would do.
I was so distracted by this music that I was just wandering around the store listening.
Then the store owner announce "you are listening to the infamous Black album by Prince"

and all my senses went off the charts

I stayed until he was finished playing it. Then I contact a friend who I knew, knew the owner.
I bought a couple Maxwell tapes after he contacted the guy, and he made us some copies

1987 was a nice year

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Reply #28 posted 11/02/15 5:55am

Guitarhero

Charade the album on cassette. 1988 first time hearing it. My first unreleased Prince experience.

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Reply #29 posted 11/02/15 6:10am

BoraBora


First "The Black Album", but when I found it in 1988 it was more a "shadow album" than an "unreleased one", if you understand what I mean.

You know, something "it exist and searchin' well around you could find it".


In that sense, my first unreleased Prince songs were the 10 tracks making up the LP "Chocolate Box", with "Joy In Rempatition" ( lol) as the preferred one.

This was my real entry in the wonderful world of Prince unreleased vault.

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