Have read over many years that there's a hand full of hard core who have various unreleased tracks & I assume filmed footage? Whilst there's an insane amount of stuff out there for free [whoop!] I wonder does anyone know for sure what some of these 'Purple Holy Grails' are? Recently got the full version of Adonis & Bathsheba ....wow! -that seemed to be 1 held back bt the few but freed for our pleasure?

They're otherworldly brilliant.

If you spilled the beans on what they are I could maybe comment.

99.9% is worth it, that .1% that isn't usually starts around 1989

but having this stuff is like knowing/hearing/seeing behind the scenes and deleted scenes to a movie. What is released that we lived through is only a part of the story,

Leaving 4 New York

Tick Tick Bang

the Rebels sessions

Lisa
Kiss Me Quick

Moonbeam Levels

Extralovable

Do Yourself a Favour

Turn It Up

Purple Music

G-Spot

Sex Shooter(Vanity 6)

Traffic Jam
Lust U Always
Cold Coffee & Cocaine
Wednesday(What Will I Do)snippet

Wonderful Ass

Our Destiny

Adonis & Bathsheba

Go

Splash
Old Friends 4 Sale

All My Dreams
Junk Music
Ya'll Want More?
Up From Below

A Couple of Miles
Dream Factory

Strange Relationships(86 version)
Train
Movie Star
Last Heart
Witness 4 the Prosection (2 versions)
Sexual Suicide
Teacher Teacher
We Can Funk
Can't Stop This Feeling I Got
Girl O' My Dreams

Crystal Ball
In A Large Room With No Light
Power Fantastic

Heaven

Rebirth of the Flesh

Make Your Momma Happy

the Line
God Is Alive

Dance With the Devil
Me Touch Myself
We Got the Power
Letter 4 Miles

OldFriends4Sale said:

99.9% is worth it, that .1% that isn't usually starts around 1989

but having this stuff is like knowing/hearing/seeing behind the scenes and deleted scenes to a movie. What is released that we lived through is only a part of the story,

Leaving 4 New York

Tick Tick Bang

the Rebels sessions

Lisa
Kiss Me Quick

Moonbeam Levels

Extralovable

Do Yourself a Favour

Turn It Up

Purple Music

G-Spot

Sex Shooter(Vanity 6)

Traffic Jam
Lust U Always
Cold Coffee & Cocaine
Wednesday(What Will I Do)snippet

Wonderful Ass

Our Destiny

Adonis & Bathsheba

Go

Splash
Old Friends 4 Sale

All My Dreams
Junk Music
Ya'll Want More?
Up From Below

A Couple of Miles
Dream Factory

Strange Relationships(86 version)
Train
Movie Star
Last Heart
Witness 4 the Prosection (2 versions)
Sexual Suicide
Teacher Teacher
We Can Funk
Can't Stop This Feeling I Got
Girl O' My Dreams

Crystal Ball
In A Large Room With No Light
Power Fantastic

Heaven

Rebirth of the Flesh

Make Your Momma Happy

the Line
God Is Alive

Dance With the Devil
Me Touch Myself
We Got the Power
Letter 4 Miles

got all of those + many, many more. Think many of us have the above. Really bugs me as to what I'm missing! Would dearly love to hear the finished versions as a lot that we have are simply sketches / ideas etc.

PURPLEIZED3121 said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

99.9% is worth it, that .1% that isn't usually starts around 1989

but having this stuff is like knowing/hearing/seeing behind the scenes and deleted scenes to a movie. What is released that we lived through is only a part of the story,

Leaving 4 New York

Tick Tick Bang

the Rebels sessions

Lisa
Kiss Me Quick

Moonbeam Levels

Extralovable

Do Yourself a Favour

Turn It Up

Purple Music

G-Spot

Sex Shooter(Vanity 6)

Traffic Jam
Lust U Always
Cold Coffee & Cocaine
Wednesday(What Will I Do)snippet

Wonderful Ass

Our Destiny

Adonis & Bathsheba

Go

Splash
Old Friends 4 Sale

All My Dreams
Junk Music
Ya'll Want More?
Up From Below

A Couple of Miles
Dream Factory

Strange Relationships(86 version)
Train
Movie Star
Last Heart
Witness 4 the Prosection (2 versions)
Sexual Suicide
Teacher Teacher
We Can Funk
Can't Stop This Feeling I Got
Girl O' My Dreams

Crystal Ball
In A Large Room With No Light
Power Fantastic

Heaven

Rebirth of the Flesh

Make Your Momma Happy

the Line
God Is Alive

Dance With the Devil
Me Touch Myself
We Got the Power
Letter 4 Miles

got all of those + many, many more. Think many of us have the above. Really bugs me as to what I'm missing! Would dearly love to hear the finished versions as a lot that we have are simply sketches / ideas etc.

surprisingly there are too many prince fans who don't lol
We have Go in it's full form
I forgot to add Cosmic Day(that list wasn't complete anyway)
A lot of the other songs from the Flesh sessions
But from 1985 there are so many that we haven't heard
And Wednesday is like the Purple Holy Grail

An Honest Man - Piano Instrumental

Come Elektra Tuesday is an unreleased song recorded on 26 May, 1985 at Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA,

The song features Jill Jones on background vocals.

-PrinceVault

God Is Everywhere is an unreleased track recorded in mid-July, 1985, at the Crosstown Circle Warehouse, Eden Prairie, MN, USA, during recording sessions for Parade. Engineers Susan Rogers and Peggy McCreary mixed the track on 26 September, 1985, while Prince was in France filming Under The Cherry Moon, and sent it to him, as he was considering it for use on Parade. It was not included on any known configuration of the album, however, and the track remains unreleased. The track is a piano-led ballad, with gospel-style vocals by Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman.

-PrinceVault

Killin' At The Soda Shop is an unreleased song recorded on 29 May, 1985 at Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA

Clare Fischer arranged and recorded orchestration for the song in August, 1985, at Monterey Sound Studios, Glendale, CA, USA, but the song was ultimately not included on Jill Jones' album Jill Jones.

Love And Sex is an unreleased track recorded on 25 March, 1986 at Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA (two days after Boy's Club). The song was intended for Sheila E.'s third album Sheila E., but was not included on the final release.

Prince had previously used the title for an otherwise-unrelated 1984 recording; see Love And Sex for details of that track. During Prince: A Celebration in June, 2000, computer screens at Paisley Park Studios offered names of a selection of tracks which users could vote on for inclusion on Crystal Ball Volume II, and while Love And Sex was chosen by fans, the project was ultimately abandoned. It is unlikely that the Sheila E. recording listed here was the one selected for Crystal Ball Volume II, since it was sung by Sheila E., so it is assumed that the 1984 recording was the one mentioned.

-PrinceVault

Married Man is an unreleased song recorded on 29 May, 1985 at Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA

The song was intended for Jill Jones' album Jill Jones, but ultimately not included.

Jill Jones - vocals

Palamino Pleasure Ride(?)

Polka-Dot Tiger is an unreleased instrumental recorded on 28 May, 1985 at Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA

Although recorded during sessions focused on Jill Jones' album Jill Jones, it is unknown if this song was intended for this or any other project.

-PrinceVault

She Pony ~ 1985

is an unreleased track recorded in December, 1985, at Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA (while Prince completed work on the Parade album). Nothing else is known about the track, but engineer Susan Rogers has described it as an unfinished track. The song remains unreleased.

-PrinceVault

Stella And Charles is an unreleased song recorded on 26 May, 1985 at Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA

Zebra With The Blonde Hair is an unreleased instrumental recorded on 29 May, 1985 at Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA

-PrinceVault

OldFriends4Sale said:

PURPLEIZED3121 said:

got all of those + many, many more. Think many of us have the above. Really bugs me as to what I'm missing! Would dearly love to hear the finished versions as a lot that we have are simply sketches / ideas etc.

surprisingly there are too many prince fans who don't lol
We have Go in it's full form
I forgot to add Cosmic Day(that list wasn't complete anyway)
A lot of the other songs from the Flesh sessions
But from 1985 there are so many that we haven't heard
And Wednesday is like the Purple Holy Grail

An Honest Man - Piano Instrumental

Come Elektra Tuesday is an unreleased song recorded on 26 May, 1985 at Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA,

The song features Jill Jones on background vocals.

-PrinceVault

God Is Everywhere is an unreleased track recorded in mid-July, 1985, at the Crosstown Circle Warehouse, Eden Prairie, MN, USA, during recording sessions for Parade. Engineers Susan Rogers and Peggy McCreary mixed the track on 26 September, 1985, while Prince was in France filming Under The Cherry Moon, and sent it to him, as he was considering it for use on Parade. It was not included on any known configuration of the album, however, and the track remains unreleased. The track is a piano-led ballad, with gospel-style vocals by Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman.

-PrinceVault

Killin' At The Soda Shop is an unreleased song recorded on 29 May, 1985 at Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA

Clare Fischer arranged and recorded orchestration for the song in August, 1985, at Monterey Sound Studios, Glendale, CA, USA, but the song was ultimately not included on Jill Jones' album Jill Jones.

Love And Sex is an unreleased track recorded on 25 March, 1986 at Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA (two days after Boy's Club). The song was intended for Sheila E.'s third album Sheila E., but was not included on the final release.

Prince had previously used the title for an otherwise-unrelated 1984 recording; see Love And Sex for details of that track. During Prince: A Celebration in June, 2000, computer screens at Paisley Park Studios offered names of a selection of tracks which users could vote on for inclusion on Crystal Ball Volume II, and while Love And Sex was chosen by fans, the project was ultimately abandoned. It is unlikely that the Sheila E. recording listed here was the one selected for Crystal Ball Volume II, since it was sung by Sheila E., so it is assumed that the 1984 recording was the one mentioned.

-PrinceVault

Married Man is an unreleased song recorded on 29 May, 1985 at Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA

The song was intended for Jill Jones' album Jill Jones, but ultimately not included.

Jill Jones - vocals

Palamino Pleasure Ride(?)

Polka-Dot Tiger is an unreleased instrumental recorded on 28 May, 1985 at Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA

Although recorded during sessions focused on Jill Jones' album Jill Jones, it is unknown if this song was intended for this or any other project.

-PrinceVault

She Pony ~ 1985

is an unreleased track recorded in December, 1985, at Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA (while Prince completed work on the Parade album). Nothing else is known about the track, but engineer Susan Rogers has described it as an unfinished track. The song remains unreleased.

-PrinceVault

Stella And Charles is an unreleased song recorded on 26 May, 1985 at Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA

Zebra With The Blonde Hair is an unreleased instrumental recorded on 29 May, 1985 at Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA

-PrinceVault

fab list dude, cheers, Think all the Flesh sessions were out last year..listened to it once..got bored! What was amazing was the aftershow from around 87/88 where he did a blues duet with his dad..wow! Also included the Madhouse set...bloody stellar performance.

PURPLEIZED3121 said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

surprisingly there are too many prince fans who don't lol
We have Go in it's full form
I forgot to add Cosmic Day(that list wasn't complete anyway)
A lot of the other songs from the Flesh sessions
But from 1985 there are so many that we haven't heard
And Wednesday is like the Purple Holy Grail

An Honest Man - Piano Instrumental

Come Elektra Tuesday is an unreleased song recorded on 26 May, 1985 at Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA,

The song features Jill Jones on background vocals.

-PrinceVault

God Is Everywhere is an unreleased track recorded in mid-July, 1985, at the Crosstown Circle Warehouse, Eden Prairie, MN, USA, during recording sessions for Parade. Engineers Susan Rogers and Peggy McCreary mixed the track on 26 September, 1985, while Prince was in France filming Under The Cherry Moon, and sent it to him, as he was considering it for use on Parade. It was not included on any known configuration of the album, however, and the track remains unreleased. The track is a piano-led ballad, with gospel-style vocals by Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman.

-PrinceVault

Killin' At The Soda Shop is an unreleased song recorded on 29 May, 1985 at Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA

Clare Fischer arranged and recorded orchestration for the song in August, 1985, at Monterey Sound Studios, Glendale, CA, USA, but the song was ultimately not included on Jill Jones' album Jill Jones.

Love And Sex is an unreleased track recorded on 25 March, 1986 at Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA (two days after Boy's Club). The song was intended for Sheila E.'s third album Sheila E., but was not included on the final release.

Prince had previously used the title for an otherwise-unrelated 1984 recording; see Love And Sex for details of that track. During Prince: A Celebration in June, 2000, computer screens at Paisley Park Studios offered names of a selection of tracks which users could vote on for inclusion on Crystal Ball Volume II, and while Love And Sex was chosen by fans, the project was ultimately abandoned. It is unlikely that the Sheila E. recording listed here was the one selected for Crystal Ball Volume II, since it was sung by Sheila E., so it is assumed that the 1984 recording was the one mentioned.

-PrinceVault

Married Man is an unreleased song recorded on 29 May, 1985 at Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA

The song was intended for Jill Jones' album Jill Jones, but ultimately not included.

Jill Jones - vocals

Palamino Pleasure Ride(?)

Polka-Dot Tiger is an unreleased instrumental recorded on 28 May, 1985 at Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA

Although recorded during sessions focused on Jill Jones' album Jill Jones, it is unknown if this song was intended for this or any other project.

-PrinceVault

She Pony ~ 1985

is an unreleased track recorded in December, 1985, at Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA (while Prince completed work on the Parade album). Nothing else is known about the track, but engineer Susan Rogers has described it as an unfinished track. The song remains unreleased.

-PrinceVault

Stella And Charles is an unreleased song recorded on 26 May, 1985 at Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA

Zebra With The Blonde Hair is an unreleased instrumental recorded on 29 May, 1985 at Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA

-PrinceVault

fab list dude, cheers, Think all the Flesh sessions were out last year..listened to it once..got bored! What was amazing was the aftershow from around 87/88 where he did a blues duet with his dad..wow! Also included the Madhouse set...bloody stellar performance.

do we have all these from the sessions?

1 Slaughterhouse
2 U Just Can't Stop

3 Run Amok
4 Mobile
5 Madrid
6 Breathless
7 High Colonic
8 12 Keys

Groove in C Minor
Slow Groove in G Major
Groove in G Flat Minor

OldFriends4Sale said:

PURPLEIZED3121 said:

fab list dude, cheers, Think all the Flesh sessions were out last year..listened to it once..got bored! What was amazing was the aftershow from around 87/88 where he did a blues duet with his dad..wow! Also included the Madhouse set...bloody stellar performance.

do we have all these from the sessions?

1 Slaughterhouse
2 U Just Can't Stop

3 Run Amok
4 Mobile
5 Madrid
6 Breathless
7 High Colonic
8 12 Keys

Groove in C Minor
Slow Groove in G Major
Groove in G Flat Minor

Hell no we don't. But some people do.

databank said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

do we have all these from the sessions?

1 Slaughterhouse
2 U Just Can't Stop

3 Run Amok
4 Mobile
5 Madrid
6 Breathless
7 High Colonic
8 12 Keys

Groove in C Minor
Slow Groove in G Major
Groove in G Flat Minor

Hell no we don't. But some people do.

lol I know I don't have them

Sorry I just notice High Colonic is in there, that I have that one

ANSWER: Depends. Who knows what you like? You might find all the rarities awesome; you might not care for any of them. I will say this - IMHO by and large, Prince has put his very best work on his released stuff.

There are some unreleased tracks I really like, though. But none of them are super-rare tracks that no one else has heard.

RodeoSchro said:

ANSWER: Depends. Who knows what you like? You might find all the rarities awesome; you might not care for any of them. I will say this - IMHO by and large, Prince has put his very best work on his released stuff.

There are some unreleased tracks I really like, though. But none of them are super-rare tracks that no one else has heard.

I would say, they just had so much stuff and not the time to release it

Like B sides were never lower degrees of his work that were good but not good enough to make the album cut. During that 198-1986 period I think they just had so much stuff but could not release it.

I think there are some unreleased stuff that could have made Romance 1600 better, some stuff that could have made Ice Cream Castles Better etc

I hope Prince personally knocks on all of your doors and kicks your asses

By my estimation, there's more stuff out there in better quality, rather than totally unheard.

Thizz said:

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r there lyrics for the unreleased tracks---Come Elektra Tuesday and Walking in Glory ???

luvsexy4all said:

r there lyrics for the unreleased tracks---Come Elektra Tuesday and Walking in Glory ???

Maybe others have them(I hope others have them) But as of yet I don't know

Reading this thread has me equally excited and frustrated. Wish some of the haves would show a little love to the have-nots. Having said that, the haves have been more than gracious. I guess I'm just in need of a purple fix right about now.

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[Edited 3/24/16 9:49am]

sulls said:

Reading this thread has me equally excited and frustrated. Wish some of the haves would show a little love to the have-nots. Having said that, the haves have been more than gracious. I guess I'm just in need of a purple fix right about now.

[Edited 3/24/16 9:34am]

[Edited 3/24/16 9:49am]

it's all very silly i guess. I mean once you have them & have listened to them for years what else are you going to do with them. I know some great live stuff has popped out over the last few years [alas most of mine are locked in a PC hard drive that died on me!!]

PURPLEIZED3121 said:

sulls said:

Reading this thread has me equally excited and frustrated. Wish some of the haves would show a little love to the have-nots. Having said that, the haves have been more than gracious. I guess I'm just in need of a purple fix right about now.

[Edited 3/24/16 9:34am]

[Edited 3/24/16 9:49am]

it's all very silly i guess. I mean once you have them & have listened to them for years what else are you going to do with them. I know some great live stuff has popped out over the last few years [alas most of mine are locked in a PC hard drive that died on me!!]

I'm one of those person that can listen to certain music and watch certain movies over and over and never get tired.

My computer died on me too and I had everything on there, and finally got someone to extract the music.

PURPLEIZED3121 said:

I think it was this past year an orger indicated that there may be some material leaked at some point, but to my knowledge, it never did happen.

[Edited 3/24/16 13:58pm]

KingSausage said:

PURPLEIZED3121 said:

Have read over many years that there's a hand full of hard core who have various unreleased tracks & I assume filmed footage? Whilst there's an insane amount of stuff out there for free [whoop!] I wonder does anyone know for sure what some of these 'Purple Holy Grails' are? Recently got the full version of Adonis & Bathsheba ....wow! -that seemed to be 1 held back bt the few but freed for our pleasure?

They're glorious.

Yes they are, and the thing about them for me, is that unlike the released stuff, the unreleased still has a thing of mystery for me, and takes me some place i time(that I never experienced)
And I love mixing them with album eras playlists.

I love the 'OMG - THIS IS INCREDIBLE' first-listen moment.

sulls said:

I love the 'OMG - THIS IS INCREDIBLE' first-listen moment.

memories now of some cat in Holland around 1991 FAXING [!] me a huuuge list of cassettes with many of the tracks you see on boots like The Work etc. Posted out the £ & got a big package of tapes weeks later...haha..having to fast forwards rather than hitting the 'skip' button! Indeed i too had the 'this is incredible' feeling, especially the stuff around the 1999 unreleased songs such as Turn it up etc.

OldFriends4Sale said:

luvsexy4all said:

r there lyrics for the unreleased tracks---Come Elektra Tuesday and Walking in Glory ???

Maybe others have them(I hope others have them) But as of yet I don't know

Have you heard Wednesday?

I've had dreams of walking into a hole-in-the-wall record shop and find wall-to-wall boots and not even know where to start looking/listening.

sulls said:

Reading this thread has me equally excited and frustrated. Wish some of the haves would show a little love to the have-nots. Having said that, the haves have been more than gracious. I guess I'm just in need of a purple fix right about now.

[Edited 3/24/16 9:34am]

[Edited 3/24/16 9:49am]

It would be nice, wouldn't it?

sulls said:

I've had dreams of walking into a hole-in-the-wall record shop and find wall-to-wall boots and not even know where to start looking/listening.

Literal dreams? Because I've had dreams a few different times where I discover record shops with mysterious official releases that are nowhere listed but are real, often on (God only knows why) 3-inch CD singles. Strange, very limited releases--sometimes just alternate mixes or a cluster of b-sides, but usually completely unique songs, including the main "A-Side" track. I'll walk out with 10 or 12 discs, for a dollar or two each.

They're generally pretty good, too. At least the ones I get to listen to before the alarm goes off.