What did Prince release in -83 (associates included)? I know this is after his huge breakthrough with 1999 and just before his icon status with Purple Rain. But did he just write and begin to plan the PR album? Or did he do other things during this year? Very mystical year for me.

Horny Toad, Irresistable Bitch and the extended Drive me Wild look to be his only new releases that year? Wasn't he touring 1999 for the first half and writing/recording/filming Purple Rain the second half?

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jaawwnn said:

Horny Toad, Irresistable Bitch and the extended Drive me Wild look to be his only new releases that year? Wasn't he touring 1999 for the first half and writing/recording/filming Purple Rain the second half?

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toured extensively, shot a movie

lwr001 said:

jaawwnn said:

Horny Toad, Irresistable Bitch and the extended Drive me Wild look to be his only new releases that year? Wasn't he touring 1999 for the first half and writing/recording/filming Purple Rain the second half?

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toured extensively, shot a movie

busy enough

Not much:

https://sites.google.com/...ography/19

1983 the Year of nothing 4 the best 2 come after this Year!

Purple Rain

ATWIAD

PARADE

SOTT

LOVESEXY

1983

January

1999 tour

1999/How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore/DMSR in the UK

the Walk single

Little Red Corvette & Drive Me Wild videos shot/released

appeared on Solid Gold -1999

February

1999 tour

released Little Red Corvette single

March

1999 tour
released Drive Me Wild/extended) single

April

1999 tour

May

Solid Gold -Little Red Corvette

Minnesotta Music Awards and aftershow

.

somewhere in these prior months creation/work on PR music started

.

August
Delirious / Horny Toad (Bside) single released

Dance Benefit Show (recording-performance of PR music)

November
Let's Pretend We're Married / Irresistable Bitch(Bside) single released

love2thenines2003 said:

1983 the Year of nothing 4 the best 2 come after this Year!

Purple Rain

ATWIAD

PARADE

SOTT

LOVESEXY

this has to be the best run of classic albums by anyone ever.

If touring, making a movie and writing a ton of music is "nothing" then we could all stand to have a year or two of "nothing"

SignOthetimes1987 said:

love2thenines2003 said:

1983 the Year of nothing 4 the best 2 come after this Year!

Purple Rain

ATWIAD

PARADE

SOTT

LOVESEXY

this has to be the best run of classic albums by anyone ever.

you could go and start at DM

Wolfie87 said:

What did Prince release in -83 (associates included)? I know this is after his huge breakthrough with 1999 and just before his icon status with Purple Rain. But did he just write and begin to plan the PR album? Or did he do other things during this year? Very mystical year for me.

Here's a list of every new music released in 1983:

https://sites.google.com/site/princediscog/home/discography/19

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Militant said:

If touring, making a movie and writing a ton of music is "nothing" then we could all stand to have a year or two of "nothing"

I agree

I prefer to think of it as the year of electric intercourse.

That input in "Stand Back" seems like a big deal for 1983. Thank you all. And I mean "nothing", like he didn't release any albums. But he still managed to pull out ten albums in ten years if I'm inclined to put The Black Album as an official release, and I will. Great job Prince. Again.

Militant said:

If touring, making a movie and writing a ton of music is "nothing" then we could all stand to have a year or two of "nothing"

Yes Prince was so lazy in 83

Gimmie a year of '83 nothings, over the last 20 years of nothings, ANY DAY!!!

Didn't he work on a follow up to 1999 and not finish/ release it though? I know it's not much to go on but there was a reference in the Rolling Stone interview from '85 where he commments to the interviewer about it.

jtfolden said:

Didn't he work on a follow up to 1999 and not finish/ release it though? I know it's not much to go on but there was a reference in the Rolling Stone interview from '85 where he commments to the interviewer about it.

extraloveable original nuff said,,,moon beam levels

jtfolden said:

come on ..he was busy...making a deal with satan for fame and fortune

SoulAlive said:

jtfolden said:

Didn't he work on a follow up to 1999 and not finish/ release it though? I know it's not much to go on but there was a reference in the Rolling Stone interview from '85 where he commments to the interviewer about it.

I recall hearing a rumor about a "lost 1983 album" but I don't think it really exists.Sure,Prince recorded a ton of songs during 1983 but I can't imagine that he was seriously planning to release an album in 1983.

Right, it does read like he is saying he has the follow up to 1999 though lol

here is where people get that from

1985 interview

I think that's the problem with the music industry today. When a person does get a hit, they try to do it again the same way. I don't think I've ever done that. I write all the time and cut all the time. I want to show you the archives, where all my old stuff is. 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. But I always try to do something different and conquer new ground.

jtfolden said:

Didn't he work on a follow up to 1999 and not finish/ release it though? I know it's not much to go on but there was a reference in the Rolling Stone interview from '85 where he commments to the interviewer about it.

I don't think he made anything after 1999 was done to compile a follow up to 1999. It was clear they were going into music for the Purple Rain and filming a movie

lwr001 said:

jtfolden said:

Didn't he work on a follow up to 1999 and not finish/ release it though? I know it's not much to go on but there was a reference in the Rolling Stone interview from '85 where he commments to the interviewer about it.

extraloveable original nuff said,,,moon beam levels

actually that is originally a Vanity 6 outtake

Wolfie87 said:

That input in "Stand Back" seems like a big deal for 1983. Thank you all. And I mean "nothing", like he didn't release any albums. But he still managed to pull out ten albums in ten years if I'm inclined to put The Black Album as an official release, and I will. Great job Prince. Again.

More like 20+ albums in 10 years if u count the side projects and the live video albums.

SignOthetimes1987 said:

love2thenines2003 said:

1983 the Year of nothing 4 the best 2 come after this Year!

Purple Rain

ATWIAD

PARADE

SOTT

LOVESEXY

this has to be the best run of classic albums by anyone ever.

68 Beggars Banquet

69 Let It Bleed

71 Sticky Finger

72 Exile on Main Street

73 Goat's Head Soup

Think maybe acclaimed live "get yer ya yas out" released in 70, but I prefer 73 Goats

OldFriends4Sale said:

SoulAlive said:

jtfolden said: I recall hearing a rumor about a "lost 1983 album" but I don't think it really exists.Sure,Prince recorded a ton of songs during 1983 but I can't imagine that he was seriously planning to release an album in 1983.

Right, it does read like he is saying he has the follow up to 1999 though lol

here is where people get that from

1985 interview

I think that's the problem with the music industry today. When a person does get a hit, they try to do it again the same way. I don't think I've ever done that. I write all the time and cut all the time. I want to show you the archives, where all my old stuff is. 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. But I always try to do something different and conquer new ground.

yep...this article is what started the "lost 1983 album" rumor

SoulAlive said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

Right, it does read like he is saying he has the follow up to 1999 though lol

here is where people get that from

1985 interview

I think that's the problem with the music industry today. When a person does get a hit, they try to do it again the same way. I don't think I've ever done that. I write all the time and cut all the time. I want to show you the archives, where all my old stuff is. 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. But I always try to do something different and conquer new ground.

yep...this article is what started the "lost 1983 album" rumor

Except it's written in plain English that Prince would have to "put it all together", i.e. what he meant was just that he had enough material to assemble a 1983 album, but he had not assembled it. I think he said something similar in 1985 or 86 about the fact that he could have released PR2 instead of ATWAID and people started hallucinating in a similar manner about a possible album configuration that would have contained mpls sound outtakes from 1984.

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runningbear said:

SignOthetimes1987 said:

this has to be the best run of classic albums by anyone ever.

68 Beggars Banquet

69 Let It Bleed

71 Sticky Finger

72 Exile on Main Street

73 Goat's Head Soup

Think maybe acclaimed live "get yer ya yas out" released in 70, but I prefer 73 Goats

Music of my Mind

Talking Book

Innervisions

SITKOL

Fulfillingness First Finale

This run of albums just eclipses it for me...........but its close!