1. 'Good Man'.

Now, I've got to say i love this track, it's 'Camille' tinged in it's sped up vocals, it's fast and hard. Great attitude and decent guitar licks. I can't believe it was passed up and was set to go elsewhere.

Details from Princevault..

Good Man is an unreleased song recorded in early July 1989, at Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA (during the same set of sessions as Whistlin' Kenny and Bed Of Roses). It was intended for use by Flash / MC Flash (both band names were used), and Billy Franze recorded lead vocal overdubs (replacing Prince's own) fairly soon after the initial recording, while Margie Cox added background vocals on 9 July 1989, also at Paisley Park Studios. It was included as the fifth track on the Flash album as the only track on the album to feature lead vocals by someone other than Margie Cox, but the album was ultimately abandoned.

The track is an upbeat stripped-down track featuring a more electronic sound than the rest of the album, with a drum machine, keyboard motifs and hard electric guitar.

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I like this song too! There are so many outtakes or unreleased i think are delicious songs... never understood how so many never made their ways to albums and how others did.

Marrk said:

1. 'Good Man'.

Now, I've got to say i love this track, it's 'Camille' tinged in it's sped up vocals, it's fast and hard. Great attitude and decent guitar licks. I can't believe it was passed up and was set to go elsewhere.

Details from Princevault..

Good Man is an unreleased song recorded in early July 1989, at Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA (during the same set of sessions as Whistlin' Kenny and Bed Of Roses). It was intended for use by Flash / MC Flash (both band names were used), and Billy Franze recorded lead vocal overdubs (replacing Prince's own) fairly soon after the initial recording, while Margie Cox added background vocals on 9 July 1989, also at Paisley Park Studios. It was included as the fifth track on the Flash album as the only track on the album to feature lead vocals by someone other than Margie Cox, but the album was ultimately abandoned.

The track is an upbeat stripped-down track featuring a more electronic sound than the rest of the album, with a drum machine, keyboard motifs and hard electric guitar.

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Witness for the Prosecution - both rock and electronic versions

this isnt one of them..

jstar69 said:

Witness for the Prosecution - both rock and electronic versions

YES!!! I´m completely obsessed with this song! Don´t know how this was never released. Unbelievable...

jstar69 said:

Witness for the Prosecution - both rock and electronic versions

An all time favorite is the camillesque electronic version of witness for the prosecution. A shout out to I can't love u anymore, do urself a favor and if it'll make you happy.

Yes Good Man and Your Love is So Hard.

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Also I Wonder.

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LonelyStarfish said:

Splash

http://www.prince.org/msg/7/252852

http://www.prince.org/msg/7/332539
http://www.prince.org/msg/7/412056
http://www.prince.org/msg/7/21585?pr
http://www.prince.org/msg/7/78950
http://www.prince.org/msg/7/154708?pr

etc.

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Possessed

Something's the matter baby, I'm going insane
Something inside of me keeps talkin' 2 my brain
Why can't I stop this satanic lust?
I know I shouldn't hold U, but my body says I must

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luvsexy4all said:

this isnt one of them..

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It's a fun enough track, but it's one of those '89 tracks that just shows how little effort he was putting in to songs at the time. Just press a few presets on the board and chug out another half a dozen songs and call it a night. This is when he was really digging his heels in at Paisley Park and getting the chair in front of the console nicely shaped by has ass cheeks. I don't think it did the music during this period any favours.

NouveauDance said:

luvsexy4all said:

this isnt one of them..

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It's a fun enough track, but it's one of those '89 tracks that just shows how little effort he was putting in to songs at the time. Just press a few presets on the board and chug out another half a dozen songs and call it a night. This is when he was really digging his heels in at Paisley Park and getting the chair in front of the console nicely shaped by has ass cheeks. I don't think it did the music during this period any favours.

It was a strange little era. Songs like 'Play' and 'My Tree' make me smile. 'American in Paris' too.

Marrk said:

It was a strange little era. Songs like 'Play' and 'My Tree' make me smile. 'American in Paris' too.

Yes. I like them too - sometimes I can sound critical when I'm really just exploring my thoughts about something - Mindbells, Bliss, a lot of Batman, a lot of these songs aren't bad, but there's very little going on musically - very few ideas, lots of riffs on a single type of song. Prince's recording seemed to be very insular at this time. I think it damaged his song writing and creativity being locked up in Paisley Park with all his new toys by himself.

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Look at what came after 89/90 - A whole new sound and band. I think Prince was fired up again by new people and real horns etc, like the era that came before was just the last hangover of the 86/87 sound. Maybe you need that to get to somewhere new and together they whole thing make sense as a musical journey

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Reminds of how the High era (which is similarly claustrophobic production-wise) was the tail end of the more electronic post-TGE, Emancipation/NPS sound then led to a TRC, News, Musicology and a more organic sound.

Yes a cool gem during a period where he was definitley in transition with his sound

Also:

Leaving for New York

Wouldn't U Love to Love Me?

I Can't Love U Anymore

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All too cool to be forgotten, and many more...

I have ALOT of outtakes in mind but one of the best that I never hear anyone really mention is 1985's Go....it has such a strange vibe to it, it's like he wanted to write a love song but just couldn't because there's too much hurt involved. It's an astonishingly honest and angry song...The fact that he got Susannah to sing backing vocals is frightening in and of it's self because it's ABOUT her!