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for me, apart from them being great songs, is that they aren't overproduced like so much of his later stuff.

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i love hearing space in songs. i don't mind if they're a little rough around the edges. even the songs that feel like they're the finished version don't have that over bearing produced feel. it's refreshing.

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my top 5

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empty room

wonderful ass

xtralovable

when doves scream

paisley park instrumental

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He was just crazy creative. No one had a sound like his. IMO, his music is its own genre.

blacksignparade said:

when doves scream

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Um....

They are like Easter eggs - surprising and yummy

FullLipsDotNose said:

Nailed it.. Easter Eggs and the songs he didn't release are better with 90% of the music we hear on the radio

Because they tell us a story, a background story of the times.
The albums are like a house, the released songs the rooms in the house, but the unreleased tracks are like secret passages stairways rooms and mezzanines in the house

Things that you can't readily have always make you want it more. It's like forbidden fruit.

OldFriends4Sale said:

Because they tell us a story, a background story of the times.
The albums are like a house, the released songs the rooms in the house, but the unreleased tracks are like secret passages stairways rooms and mezzanines in the house

Wonderfully put!

OldFriends4Sale said:

Because they tell us a story, a background story of the times.
The albums are like a house, the released songs the rooms in the house, but the unreleased tracks are like secret passages stairways rooms and mezzanines in the house

I could not have said it better. This is exactly how I see it.

Ajourney...the boots are a process, and I find the process much more intriguing most of the time.

blacksignparade said:

dance4me3121 said:

blacksignparade said:

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for me, apart from them being great songs, is that they aren't overproduced like so much of his later stuff.

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i love hearing space in songs. i don't mind if they're a little rough around the edges. even the songs that feel like they're the finished version don't have that over bearing produced feel. it's refreshing.

.

my top 5

.

empty room

wonderful ass

xtralovable

when doves scream

paisley park instrumental

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I've never heard this one.When did this one come out?

I believe it is also known as Joy, I believe early 2016 or sometime in 2015

OldFriends4Sale said:

dance4me3121 said:

blacksignparade said:

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for me, apart from them being great songs, is that they aren't overproduced like so much of his later stuff.

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i love hearing space in songs. i don't mind if they're a little rough around the edges. even the songs that feel like they're the finished version don't have that over bearing produced feel. it's refreshing.

.

my top 5

.

empty room

wonderful ass

xtralovable

when doves scream

paisley park instrumental

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I've never heard this one.When did this one come out?

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i believe it was recorded in 1984. go to youtube, type in paisley park instrumental and then sit back and enjoy.

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funny story. when all these great songs started popping up on youtube after the great one's death i saw this song and never clicked on it. i don't like the paisley park song at all so i thought why would i listen to the instrumental. then one day i clicked on some other song which was actually this song. in the comments section people said the instrumental song was actually called paisley park. sure enough i clicked on the pailey park instrumental link and the riches of sounds entered my brain and i was instantly hooked.

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Obviously a major part of it is that he has some great unreleased music. Additionally, the search for his hidden treasures actually put a rush in finding and hearing the music for the first time. Some of his singles that many are tired of would be placed in highest acclaim here if they were are only known through an exhaustive search of his unreleased material Can you imagine if you never heard of Purple Rain, and then one day there was info on the org that a new song had been uncovered. People even got excited of finding such classics as Eggplant . There is also psychological research that people prefer hard to get things than easily accessible things. It feels like a privilege to get it and to some this may even convey status. Studio 54 was built on the psychological principle.

In the weeks 2 come u will love ever more UNRELEASED STUDIO TRAX ....i'm not talking about PR DELUXE !!!

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love2thenines2003 said:

In the weeks 2 come u will love ever more UNRELEASED STUDIO TRAX ....i'm not talking about PR DELUXE !!!

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Don't tease! Give a little hint please.

OldFriends4Sale said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

Because they tell us a story, a background story of the times.
The albums are like a house, the released songs the rooms in the house, but the unreleased tracks are like secret passages stairways rooms and mezzanines in the house

Excellent analogy! He has some beautiful unreleased masterpieces. A few months back, I came across The Grand Progression and just . His voice sounds so young the musical composition is right on point.

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Another exciting aspect of his unreleased music is that much of it that has leaked is in lower quality, so there's hope of hearing it all in higher quality someday, if we're lucky. Then it will be like hearing them for the first time all over again.