What do you consider the greatest album that Prince never released? OR...Alternate configuration/ version of a released album.

Roadhouse Garden and The Dream factory too.

Guitarhero said:

TwiliteKid said:

Guitarhero said:

Roadhouse Garden and The Dream factory too.

There are no known track lists for Roadhouse Garden. How is it your favourite?

Am guessing it will be great because it's with the revolution and someone in his former band/associates said it was great so am hoping and guessing they are right. If it even gets a release. So you right i should of said this in my first comment.

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When Prince was working the Gold and Come albums, he had a lot of songs that where club mix. Man, if the Versace Mix is any indication, then Come would have been a dance club riot. So, I say the lost mixes between those two albums.

Guitarhero said:

Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic 1989

Crystal Ball vol. II

TwiliteKid said:

rob1965 said:

TwiliteKid said:

Guitarhero said:

Roadhouse Garden and The Dream factory too.

There are no known track lists for Roadhouse Garden. How is it your favourite?

I agree with the sentiment on this - Roadhouse Garden is a Revolution album we all wanted to hear when it was brought to attention with Kurt Loder (among other places). I don't have to know the track list to know I'd wanna hear it. And if the two songs we do know of are any indication, it would have been a great album.

We've heard pretty much everything from that record, and I'd argue that Sign O The Times is still better, because it feels more focused. The same goes for Crystal Ball. They're both wonderful hodge podges of music, but SOTT did come out being superior, at least.

I really think the greatest Prince album has probably yet to be released. There are things we don't even know about, or have an inkling of, that are sitting there, and might see the light of day, and send us to places we've never been before.

Rave (89) - Great tracklist.

The Dawn (93) - This would have been an absolute monster of an album.

PrinceVault.com Said:
The Dawn is an unreleased album by , and was worked on in late 1993 for possible release in 1994. The triple-album combined tracks which had been previously included on 1993 configurations of Come, along with tracks that would later be released on The Gold Experience and Chaos And Disorder along with various NPG Operator segues, although the exact tracklist is not known.

Given Prince's history of using the term "the dawn" as a milestone or a finishing point (often writing "May U live 2 see the dawn" at the end of album or movie credits), it appeared that he viewed this as an important piece of work; his magnum opus (in the same way he has often used the term "the grand progression". It is possible, although unverified, that The Dawn, in one form or another, is a project Prince continues to return to over time; after the tracks included on this album were released, worked on another album titled The Dawn in 1996 and 1997 (see here for details).

Tracks that may have been included on the album include Come, Endorphinmachine, Space, Pheromone, Loose!, Papa, Dark, Dolphin, Poem, Race, Strays Of The World, What's My Name, Interactive, Solo, Zannalee, The Most Beautiful Girl In The World, Now, Ripopgodazippa, Shy, Gold, Strawberries, 319, Billy Jack Bitch, Chaos And Disorder, Right The Wrong, Acknowledge Me, Listen 2 The Rhythm (later renamed The Rhythm Of Your ♥), Hide The Bone, Love 4 1 Another (later renamed New World) and Days Of Wild.

Other tracks not included on any configuration of Come, The Gold Experience or Chaos And Disorder that may have been considered for inclusion here include Dream, Laurianne, Dance Of Desperation, I Wanna Be Held 2 Night, Emotional Crucifixion, The Ride, Poorgoo, Calhoun Square, It's About That Walk, Slave 2 The Funk.

Given that worked on the album following the release of The Hits / The B-Sides compilations, it is likely that Pope was not included. All tracks listed here are speculative, however.

Beautiful Strange (98/99) : Because I want to hear Prince's version of this:

"They say as a child I appeared a little bit wild
With all my crazy ideas
But I knew what was happenin', I knew I was a genius
What's so strange when you know that you're a wizard at three?
I knew that this was meant to be"

Might just be the best Prince lyric he never wrote.

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rob1965 said:

Yes. All My Dreams appeared on Charade for instance.
I also believe there are a lot of tracks that were issued under a different title after some minor alterations/remixes of the original recordings. Some were written years earlier before release (or no release). And then there are those who are simply not interesting enough to be released. The fact they weren't has mostly a good reason: lack of quality.

Uhhh, you realize Charade was a bootleg of Parade outtakes, right?

Not true at all. There are plenty of great songs Prince never released, some of which we've heard. Others of which he's mentioned. "I didn't always give the record company the best songs". Not all of Prince's outtakes from a record are lesser quality.

skipthecharades said:

TrivialPursuit said:

The 4 disc version of Sign O The Times that he had planned before WB made him widdle down to 2 disc.

Quexzea said:

The 4 disc version of Sign O The Times that he had planned before WB made him widdle down to 2 disc.

Most definitely!

Quexzea said:

The triple album Crystal Ball was the album Prince wanted to release. The ultimate Prince album imo.

no clue but if he did in fact have sequels to the time albums/1999/pr, then all of those probably.

NorthC said:

Camille. The funkiest tracks of SOTT all one one album!

true. i'm glad we got SOTT eventually and all. but as far as a concise, hard hitting,
truly spectacular funkyfied prince album, CAMILLE is the best there is. it takes no
prisoners. it just destroys the whole damn city and moves on

[img:$uid]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v380/Zeo/camille-1.jpg[/img:$uid]


Side 1:

01. The Rebirth Of The Flesh

02. Housequake

03. Strange Relationship

04. Feel Good (long)


Side 2:

05. Shockadelica (long)
06. Good Love
07. If I Was Ur Girlfriend

08. Rockhard In A Funky Place

NorthC said:

^Was that the actual album cover?

it just appeared one day but no one is sure. i think the consensus is now that it's fanmade,
but a very nice effort

ah, it seems it is indeed fanmade:

http://prince.org/msg/7/387421


still cool though

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Noodled24 said:

Rave (89) - Great tracklist.

The Dawn (93) - This would have been an absolute monster of an album.

PrinceVault.com Said:
The Dawn is an unreleased album by , and was worked on in late 1993 for possible release in 1994. The triple-album combined tracks which had been previously included on 1993 configurations of Come, along with tracks that would later be released on The Gold Experience and Chaos And Disorder along with various NPG Operator segues, although the exact tracklist is not known.

Given Prince's history of using the term "the dawn" as a milestone or a finishing point (often writing "May U live 2 see the dawn" at the end of album or movie credits), it appeared that he viewed this as an important piece of work; his magnum opus (in the same way he has often used the term "the grand progression". It is possible, although unverified, that The Dawn, in one form or another, is a project Prince continues to return to over time; after the tracks included on this album were released, worked on another album titled The Dawn in 1996 and 1997 (see here for details).

Tracks that may have been included on the album include Come, Endorphinmachine, Space, Pheromone, Loose!, Papa, Dark, Dolphin, Poem, Race, Strays Of The World, What's My Name, Interactive, Solo, Zannalee, The Most Beautiful Girl In The World, Now, Ripopgodazippa, Shy, Gold, Strawberries, 319, Billy Jack Bitch, Chaos And Disorder, Right The Wrong, Acknowledge Me, Listen 2 The Rhythm (later renamed The Rhythm Of Your ♥), Hide The Bone, Love 4 1 Another (later renamed New World) and Days Of Wild.

Other tracks not included on any configuration of Come, The Gold Experience or Chaos And Disorder that may have been considered for inclusion here include Dream, Laurianne, Dance Of Desperation, I Wanna Be Held 2 Night, Emotional Crucifixion, The Ride, Poorgoo, Calhoun Square, It's About That Walk, Slave 2 The Funk.

Given that worked on the album following the release of The Hits / The B-Sides compilations, it is likely that Pope was not included. All tracks listed here are speculative, however.

Beautiful Strange (98/99) : Because I want to hear Prince's version of this:

"They say as a child I appeared a little bit wild
With all my crazy ideas
But I knew what was happenin', I knew I was a genius
What's so strange when you know that you're a wizard at three?
I knew that this was meant to be"

Might just be the best Prince lyric he never wrote.

[Edited 6/21/16 8:08am]

The Beautiful Strange album is very intriguing. I love Beautiful Strange, and you're totally right about Prince coverig Twisted - I would love to hear that!