Imagine a box-set designed like the Columbia/Legacy Miles Davis studio sets. The Complete Prince And The Revolution Sessions - everything released and unreleased together, including everything from the period of the Revolution (even if, like When Doves Cry, it was recorded solo).

What would be on it? How many discs would it need to be? What would you like in the packaging? Who would contribute to liner notes? For the tracks that were released in edited form (eg. Computer Blue) would you want those original edits as well as the full versions?

Chronological order, or original album followed by outtakes?

Who could come up with a chronological tracklist, based on information in DMSR?

booyah said:

Per Nilsen, at a guess ... but he'd probably use his research notes, Days of Wild and Turn It Up 2.0 too.

booyah said:

Prince-gasm

that would b somethin' worth buyin'!!! not that any P music "isn't" worth buyin'

I would love for something like that to come out but can you imagine what the price would be? Yikes!

Makes me wanna just thinking about it!

I think I'll bring my copy of DMSR into work tomorrow - I'll start to come up with some kind of chronological set.

booyah said:

It's already been done in Days of Wild and Turn It Up 2.0

langebleu said:

I have DOW, but that only shows the circulating tracks. I'm not thinking of a CDR set - I'm thinking of what it would be possible for Prince to release. A fantasy world, I know.

I only have TIU 1.0, not 2.0 - does it also list uncirculating (but known) tracks - and does it list them in date order like DMSR, or in large time periods, like TIU 1.0?

booyah said:

IT lists them in large time periods but it provides more accuracy under some of the song descriptions.

FunkMistress said:

indeed.

Hmmm, well, I've been looking at DMSR this morning and this is a little trickier than I would have thought. Would you want the songs he worked on for others (ie. they provided lead vocals, even in demo form), or just his lead vox and instrumentals?

I'm thinking the Revolution set would go from August 1983-early-Sept. 1986 sessions - would anyone disagree? This timeline would then include many SOTT tracks, but since they were included on Dream Factory (a P & The Revolution album), they can be considered Revolution songs for this purpose. Those songs later re-worked to have no Revolution input (eg. Strange Relationship) would have the later version on the next set, covering late 1986 - 19??

Maybe tonight I'll create a rough tracklist - in the meantime, any thoughts?

booyah said:

Sounds right to me.
Perhaps I'll post a rough tracklist in a bit.
It'll be impossible to put the tracks in strict
chronological order though, as the exact date of
initial recording isn't known for a lot of them.
[This message was edited Thu Apr 3 9:18:37 PST 2003 by BorisFishpaw]

Keep Dreaming

Let’s Go Crazy
G-Spot
Electric Intercourse
I Would Die 4 U
Baby I’m A Star
Purple Rain
Darling Nikki
The Beautiful Ones
Computer Blue
Wednesday
Father’s Song
Possessed
God (instrumental)

We Can Funk
Erotic City
Love & Sex
She’s Always In My Hair
17 Days
Electrocution
I Am Five
Another Lonely Christmas
Take Me With U
When Doves Cry
Climax
Katrina's Paper Dolls
Wonderful Ass
Money
Traffic Jam
Velvet Kitty Cat

Our Destiny
Roadhouse Garden
Possessed (instrumental)
America
Tamborine
Raspberry Beret
Around The World In A Day
God (vocal)
The Ladder
Condition Of The Heart
4 The Tears In Your Eyes
God Is Everywhere
Dream Factory
Evolsidog
Heaven
Zebra With The Blonde Hair

Christopher Tracy’s Parade
New Position
I Wonder U
Under The Cherry Moon
Others Here With Us
Life Can Be So Nice
Sometimes It Snows In April
Old Friends 4 Sale
All My Dreams
Hello
Do U Lie?
Alexa De Paris
Venus De Milo
The Question Of U
Splash
Empty Room

Sexual Suicide
Go
Girls & Boys
An Honest Man
Mountains
Can I Play With U?
A Couple Of Miles
Last Heart
It’s A Wonderful Day
The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker
Power Fantastic
A Place In Heaven
Movie Star
Witness 4 The Prosecution
And That Says What?

Crystal Ball
Starfish & Coffee
Big Tall Wall
Strange Relationship
Teacher Teacher
In A Large Room With No Light
It
Slow Love
Data Bank
Can’t Stop This Feeling I Got
We Can Funk
Girl O’ My Dreams
Train
It Ain’t Over ‘Til The Fat Lady Sings

The Cross
Sign O’ The Times
I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man
Joy In Repetition
Soulpsychodelicide
The Ball
Hot Thing
Forever In My Life
Make Your Mama Happy
Crucial
Coco Boys
Shockadelica
When The Dawn Of The Morning Comes

That was great, Boris - thanks. It misses out the Flesh sessions, though - would you put them on a separate set?

BorisFishpaw said:

Visa or debit card?

rdhull said:

No SHIT where do I mail my payment.

Yeah, 7 discs!!!
and that's not including all the tracks & outtakes
recorded for Vanity 6, Apollonia 6, The Time, Jill
Jones, The Family & The Flesh, plus the 'Paisley Jam'
& 'Everybodys Jam'...phew!.. He was busy.