Too Rough is well kinda rough not really my cup o tea, but still a lil Prince gift

Whiskey should be longer...it has potential that bluesy beat

I *love* Roadhouse Garden. and Come Elektra Tuesday. and all of them. How can a person feel so happy and so sad at the same time? Focussing on the happy though, currently bopping to Rough So grateful for these.

MalequeDaFreak said:

Does anyone have it in better condition than 128 Kbps cuz I wanna know if there's Flac or 320 Kbps floating around!

All the tracks circulating today are 128kbps.

djThunderfunk said:

MalequeDaFreak said:

Does anyone have it in better condition than 128 Kbps cuz I wanna know if there's Flac or 320 Kbps floating around!

All the tracks circulating today are 128kbps.

Are you sure? I have a 320 of The Glamorous Life--but it's possible it's sourced from the 128, I suppose (a process I'm sure would degrade the thing, but my ears really aren't that good, and my earbuds are worse).

EddieC said:

djThunderfunk said:

All the tracks circulating today are 128kbps.

Are you sure? I have a 320 of The Glamorous Life--but it's possible it's sourced from the 128, I suppose (a process I'm sure would degrade the thing, but my ears really aren't that good, and my earbuds are worse).

The Glamorous Life I found is 128 so I couldn't say.

starkitty said:

Who's singing backup on Glamorous Life?

Prince in his miscellaneous falsettos.

starkitty said:

'Roadhouse Garden' is certainly the star of this particular batch of leaks. It may not be a fully developed song, and therefore may be bland for some persons' tastes, but it is competent, pleasant and unthreatening, with commercial potential for an album track in its era. The version here comes off as something of a haunting, if a bit insipid, Prince 'Dream Factory'-era equivalent to Bruce Springsteen's 'I'm on Fire', with its vocal delivery pace and in-and-out moody synths, weird lyre/guitar heavily processed digital synth patch that is the basis for the comparisons to 'Vicki Waiting'. Also a nice expansion of the train metaphor he seems enamoured by 1985-1987.

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Given the limitations of a set of songs developed out of Warehouse jam sessions ('Our Destiny', 'Roadhouse Garden'), and sourced [from a 24-track mobile recording vehicle] live performance in a small club, no sterile studio take could ever properly capture in a viable 'album' format the raw energy and playing off the crowd. He also had to accommodate the changes in his image and sound over the two years this was worked on. There is not enough underlying substance to the live arrangement of the song, and getting it right for a studio release was a difficult task, but I think this circa ~1986 era further-work-in-progress version was well on its way to an acceptable result.

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'Come Elektra Tuesday' is quite a disappointment, unfit for meaningful commercial release outside of a Vault compilation, and it greatly underserves its Princeloric widely mythologized title.

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'Glamorous Life' is nice to have. It is mostly unprocessed and unmixed, and as such provides an insight into the build and design of a major commercial track. The listening experience is hindered by the phasing caused by the deliberate stereo-to-mono audio quality downgrade by the trader(s) who leaked it.

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'Rough' is rough, most likely a 'Dirty Mind' or early post-'Dirty Mind' demo (later said to be re-recorded or revamped for an Alexander O'Neal proto-Time release, and briefly dusted off and considered for use on the 'The Family' in 1984, although no overdubbing occurred at that time), but as a composition, I can see it would have potential, and I imagine we would rather like the 1985/1986 updates made to it for 'Jill Jones' and it how it could fit comfortably among the other material from those sessions.

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'Eggplant' is amusing, but quickly assembled and even more quickly forgotten, another 'It's a Wonderful Day' type of Prince/Coleman/Melvoin effort that simply isn't good enough to merit formal release. Time to spare on an off-day and playing around P's fancy new Galpin Blvd console. I suspect (fear?) that many of the alleged '100+ songs' recorded by P jointly or with involvement by W/L after Parade are of this type of production. This is just not the type of material that a major star of P's standard at the time ought to have been investing precious time into. The non-release of this material I also presume is what W/L are actually referring to in their historical complaints of their contributions being written out of [what became] the SOTT album.

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I hate when people leak outtakes in low quality just 2 tease us knowing they have it in much better quality

MalequeDaFreak said:

I hate when people leak outtakes in low quality just 2 tease us knowing they have it in much better quality

You're lucky to have them at all.

Awww honey, shit, I could mix my ass off with that damn "Eggplant" and this one .....

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I wanna do it to you....alright

It feels so good it must be a crime...alright

I can't feel guilty for my honesty...alright

But I've got to tell you what you do to me...alright

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Awwwww HELL yeah....work....work....work.... I said work dammitt!

imprimis said:

'Roadhouse Garden' is certainly the star of this particular batch of leaks. It may not be a fully developed song, and therefore may be bland for some persons' tastes, but it is competent, pleasant and unthreatening, with commercial potential for an album track in its era. The version here comes off as something of a haunting, if a bit insipid, Prince 'Dream Factory'-era equivalent to Bruce Springsteen's 'I'm on Fire', with its vocal delivery pace and in-and-out moody synths, weird lyre/guitar heavily processed digital synth patch that is the basis for the comparisons to 'Vicki Waiting'. Also a nice expansion of the train metaphor he seems enamoured by 1985-1987.

.

Given the limitations of a set of songs developed out of Warehouse jam sessions ('Our Destiny', 'Roadhouse Garden'), and sourced [from a 24-track mobile recording vehicle] live performance in a small club, no sterile studio take could ever properly capture in a viable 'album' format the raw energy and playing off the crowd. He also had to accommodate the changes in his image and sound over the two years this was worked on. There is not enough underlying substance to the live arrangement of the song, and getting it right for a studio release was a difficult task, but I think this circa ~1986 era further-work-in-progress version was well on its way to an acceptable result.

.

'Come Elektra Tuesday' is quite a disappointment, unfit for meaningful commercial release outside of a Vault compilation, and it greatly underserves its Princeloric widely mythologized title.

.

'Glamorous Life' is nice to have. It is mostly unprocessed and unmixed, and as such provides an insight into the build and design of a major commercial track. The listening experience is hindered by the phasing caused by the deliberate stereo-to-mono audio quality downgrade by the trader(s) who leaked it.

.

'Rough' is rough, most likely a 'Dirty Mind' or early post-'Dirty Mind' demo (later said to be re-recorded or revamped for an Alexander O'Neal proto-Time release, and briefly dusted off and considered for use on the 'The Family' in 1984, although no overdubbing occurred at that time), but as a composition, I can see it would have potential, and I imagine we would rather like the 1985/1986 updates made to it for 'Jill Jones' and it how it could fit comfortably among the other material from those sessions.

.

'Eggplant' is amusing, but quickly assembled and even more quickly forgotten, another 'It's a Wonderful Day' type of Prince/Coleman/Melvoin effort that simply isn't good enough to merit formal release. I suspect (fear?) that many of the alleged '100+ songs' recorded by P jointly or with involvement by W/L after Parade are of this type of production. This is just not the type of material that a major star of P's standard at the time ought to have been investing precious time into.

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[Edited 9/16/16 22:19pm]

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Damn, you know your shit!! Good for you. We got the SMART people on this thread!!!

djThunderfunk said:

Oh, SHT! Finest Whiskey is great. Too bad it's just a snippet, I need a whole glass of that!!!

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Hell yeah! Apparently he must have snuck down here in Mississippi and didn't tell me. I'd love to hear the rest of his version.

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NinaB said:

starkitty said:

Who's singing backup on Glamorous Life?

Jill

I'm not hearing Jill in there, but if so, she is buried between a stack of P's falsetto backing vocals.

starkitty said:

Who's singing backup on Glamorous Life?

Sounds like Wendy to me.

out of these 5 tracks 'Come Elektra Tuesday' is sure my favorite song..

so good...



the rest is "so and so"...

purplethunder3121 said:

FragileUndertow said:

Hearing The Glamorous Life makes me think...Theres got to versions of The Time tracks with prince on lead

They all have Prince vocals. They're his song, and he is going to lay down the vocal, for posterity, for the sake of the recording, and as a lead vocal guide.

I wanna hear his singing on "Nasty Girl". "I need 7 inches or more..."

TrivialPursuit said:

TrivialPursuit said:

FragileUndertow said:

Hearing The Glamorous Life makes me think...Theres got to versions of The Time tracks with prince on lead

They all have Prince vocals. They're his song, and he is going to lay down the vocal, for posterity, for the sake of the recording, and as a lead vocal guide.

I wanna hear his singing on "Nasty Girl". "I need 7 inches or more..."

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And it would sound totally natural and not out of place at all.

These are so ultimate haha

purplethunder3121 said:

MalequeDaFreak said:

I hate when people leak outtakes in low quality just 2 tease us knowing they have it in much better quality

You're lucky to have them at all.

Exactly

I've managed to find all of these except Finest Whiskey. I suspect the source I'm getting them is NOT the source most of you are....because I can't figure out why no one is saying "you tube" out loud.

I think Velvet Kitty Cat and Strange Way Of Saying I Love You are my fav 2 of the recent leaks. I haven't had the chance to give Roudhouse Garden a serious full listen, what I heard sounded great. If anyone could point me toward the Finest Whiskey, though, I'd appreciate it