214 said:

Adorecream said:

Who are you, the pride police? This isn't East Germany get a fxxkin sense of humour.

Relax, i was just kiddin, but as i can see me and you can't get along. What does East Germany have to do with it?

I have read about the Stasi (East German Secret Police) and honestly, these guys would have investigated you, had your nieghbours called them and said you were acting "too happy". Plus I am a bit more than fascinated with ways Communism and Facism kept their populations in check.

LittlePurpleYoda said:

Glad it was released, despite the utter fiasco of ordering it online & then seeing it in the store with booklet. As with any number of later Prince albums, there are hits & misses, although here, it seems almost frustratingly deliberate, as it could have been so easily avoided.

There are some fun, funky & curious tracks on this release. I remember first hearing Acknowledge Me on Soul Train & was glad to finally have a clean studio cut. Hide The Bone is playful, if Prince of 1994 were still Prince of 1992, 2morrow might have wound up on The Beautiful Experience instead of half a dozen remixes of the same song.

Interactive was great to hear away from that CD-ROM, Good Love is a track I constantly come back to even now, She Gave Her Angels was a highlight of that Muppets episode & Make Your Mama Happy showed Prince could honor Sly without covering his songs as he would endlessly for years to come....

Favorite tracks on each disc - I've deleted the crap or the stuff I think he should have left off because it was covered on an earlier release:

1. "Crystal Ball"* - 10:28 (recorded 1986)
2. "Dream Factory"* - 3:07 (recorded 1985)
3. "Acknowledge Me"* - 5:27 (recorded 1993)
4. "Ripopgodazippa" - 4:39 (recorded 1993)
5. "Hide the Bone" - 5:04 (recorded 1993)
6. "2morrow" - 4:14 (recorded 1995)
7. "Movie Star"* - 4:26 (recorded 1986)

Disc Two

1. "Interactive" - 3:04 (recorded 1993)
2. "Da Bang" - 3:20 (recorded 1995)
3. "Calhoun Square"* - 4:47 (recorded 1993)
4. "What's My Name" - 3:04 (recorded 1993)
5. "Crucial"* - 5:06 (recorded 1986)
6. "An Honest Man"* - 1:13 (recorded 1985)
7. "Sexual Suicide"* - 3:40 (recorded 1985)
8. "Cloreen Baconskin" - 15:37 (recorded 1983)
9. "Good Love"† - 4:55 (recorded 1986)
10. "Strays of the World" - 5:07 (recorded 1993)

Disc Three

1. "Days of Wild" (Live)* - 9:20 (recorded 1995)
2. "Last Heart"* - 3:01 (recorded 1986)
3. "Poom Poom" - 4:32 (recorded 1996)
4. "She Gave Her Angels" - 3:53 (recorded 1996)
5. "18 & Over"* - 5:40 (recorded 1994)
6. "The Ride" (Live)* - 5:14 (recorded 1995)
7. "Make Your Mama Happy" - 4:01 (recorded 1986)
8. "Goodbye" - 4:35 (recorded 1995)

I won't bother with The Truth or Kamasutra - I consider them separate.

Title track, Hide the Bone, Movie Star, Calhoun Square and Sexual Suicide are as good as weird genius funky Prince gets IMO. Really like several other tracks too, but there is definitely a good disc's worth of much less than essential material.

Adorecream said:

214 said:

Relax, i was just kiddin, but as i can see me and you can't get along. What does East Germany have to do with it?

I have read about the Stasi (East German Secret Police) and honestly, these guys would have investigated you, had your nieghbours called them and said you were acting "too happy". Plus I am a bit more than fascinated with ways Communism and Facism kept their populations in check.

Well, finally we agree, me too.

Great to have the Come / Gold Experience tracks that could (should?) have been on the albums such a Hide The Bone, Interactive, Acknowledge Me, Days Of Wild & Strays Of The World.