RaspBerryGirlFriend said:

getxxxx said:

SomeSoldier said:

What about Roadhouse Garden? Is it the same version that leaked last year?

you can go to itunes and select australia and hear a sample... geesh

no thank you, i was on that site 10 years ago and never went back - the most user-unfriendly experience ever! Worse than a Prince-site!

not all people like itunes!!

[Edited 5/11/17 13:33pm]

getxxxx said:

SomeSoldier said:

What about Roadhouse Garden? Is it the same version that leaked last year?

you can go to itunes and select australia and hear a sample... geesh

Actually, you can't. You have to register - with a valid address and credit card - for whatever country you select. So your douchebaggery was for naught.

dodger said:

RaspBerryGirlFriend said:

So, getting back on track, how does Roadhouse Garden sound? Is it the same version that leaked as a mono 128kbps mp3 in September last year? If so were people correct in saying that that fact that the previous leak was a mono fold down meant that some instrumentation had been erased from it and that the track wasn't as spartan as that leak made out?

I could of course wait until 11pm tonight to have these questions answered, but damnit I want to know now!

Electric Intercourse didn't go on UK iTunes till 12 - just to warn you in case you end up waiting up till midnight like I did last time and getting about 4 hours sleep before work 😩

Shit those are tough hours, sorry to hear that. Tbh I'm currently unemployed though so it's all good for me, I can stay up as long as I want, woo!

On the downside however I am currently unemployed and therefore have no money

Listened to Our Destiny on the Aussie iTunes. It sounds the same as the leaked version.

[Edited 5/11/17 13:52pm]

Nothing, for me, will ever top Prince's live performance of Our Destiny and Roadhouse Garden from his 1984 b'day...

Apple Music in what country? Still not available for purchase or streaming in the US...

jstar69 said:

Streaming on Apple Music. Sound is excellent. Lisa on OD - great, as I'm guessing this was the finished product prince wanted released. Prince on RG - great, same as leak from a while back. I was hoping the next track avail would be TDE - oh well😜 [Edited 5/11/17 14:10pm]

Genesia said:

getxxxx said:

you can go to itunes and select australia and hear a sample... geesh

Actually, you can't. You have to register - with a valid address and credit card - for whatever country you select. So your douchebaggery was for naught.

Actually, you don't need to register to listen to the sample, only to purchase.

TheEnglishGent said:

Genesia said:

Actually, you can't. You have to register - with a valid address and credit card - for whatever country you select. So your douchebaggery was for naught.

Actually, you don't need to register to listen to the sample, only to purchase.

It won't even let me GO to Australia or India without changing my registration.

Genesia said:

TheEnglishGent said:

Actually, you don't need to register to listen to the sample, only to purchase.

It won't even let me GO to Australia or India without changing my registration.

Exactly. You can't change country settings without going through registration process.

Genesia said:

TheEnglishGent said:

Actually, you don't need to register to listen to the sample, only to purchase.

It won't even let me GO to Australia or India without changing my registration.

TheEnglishGent said:

Genesia said:

It won't even let me GO to Australia or India without changing my registration.

That's weird, I just scroll to the bottom and click on the flag symbol in the lower right corner, then can browse the other regions stores. I'm using iTunes on Mac in case that makes a difference and it doesn't work like that on PC.

Nah, I can do the same as you and I'm on PC.

Romeoblu said:

RaspBerryGirlFriend said:

So, getting back on track, how does Roadhouse Garden sound? Is it the same version that leaked as a mono 128kbps mp3 in September last year? If so were people correct in saying that that fact that the previous leak was a mono fold down meant that some instrumentation had been erased from it and that the track wasn't as spartan as that leak made out?

I could of course wait until 11pm tonight to have these questions answered, but damnit I want to know now!

sounds exactly like that to me, the stereo version of these tracks. i can hear wendy and lisa
on backing vocals on roadhouse garden and perhaps a few more ad libs by prince near the
end of the song. not a huge difference, but it breathes a bit more.

Romeoblu said:

Very disappointed to hear Lisa is on lead vocals.

I understand the nicer way to say "I wish Prince was on lead" is the purpose here, but we also have to remember Prince oversaw this project, and it's how it was intended back then. We do have that demo that leaked at the first of the year if you want Prince on vocals. It keeps the integrity to have Lisa on it. Prince was in that "let Wendy & Lisa finish it" mode around that time. He was so busy with Under The Cherry Moon that to know his vision and what he allowed anyone else to do is historically important.

Overall though, to have these tracks at all is the ultimate prize.

PS There is a MEGA download link out there. The quality is okay. It was "mastered for iTunes" so the quality is a bit different than the CD is going to be, to me. (Granted, it's a 1985 song recorded with 1985 technology.) Get it while the gettin' it hot.

Hopefully be able to buy it and listen in about 45 minutes.

Roadhouse Garden is very sparse, like the leak, except for the girls are now singing backup.

TheEnglishGent said:

Genesia said:

It won't even let me GO to Australia or India without changing my registration.

That's weird, I just scroll to the bottom and click on the flag symbol in the lower right corner, then can browse the other regions stores. I'm using iTunes on Mac in case that makes a difference and it doesn't work like that on PC.

Ah - got it. (I never scrolled down far enough to see that little icon in the lower right.)

TheFman said:

TheFman said:

no thank you, i was on that site 10 years ago and never went back - the most user-unfriendly experience ever! Worse than a Prince-site!

not all people like itunes!!

This truly made me LOL.

I have yet to hear it

IstenSzek said:

RaspBerryGirlFriend said:

So, getting back on track, how does Roadhouse Garden sound? Is it the same version that leaked as a mono 128kbps mp3 in September last year? If so were people correct in saying that that fact that the previous leak was a mono fold down meant that some instrumentation had been erased from it and that the track wasn't as spartan as that leak made out?

I could of course wait until 11pm tonight to have these questions answered, but damnit I want to know now!

sounds exactly like that to me, the stereo version of these tracks. i can hear wendy and lisa
on backing vocals on roadhouse garden and perhaps a few more ad libs by prince near the
end of the song. not a huge difference, but it breathes a bit more.

Thank you for the description. Just bought it and giving it a listen now. The material isn't nearly as exciting as the studio Electric Intercourse to me but I'm glad it's getting released.

RaspBerryGirlFriend said:

IstenSzek said:

sounds exactly like that to me, the stereo version of these tracks. i can hear wendy and lisa
on backing vocals on roadhouse garden and perhaps a few more ad libs by prince near the
end of the song. not a huge difference, but it breathes a bit more.

Thank you for the description. Just bought it and giving it a listen now. The material isn't nearly as exciting as the studio Electric Intercourse to me but I'm glad it's getting released.

I got it now in the UK and I agree, not even close to EI, but still amazing great to have and definitely better than what leaked previoulsy. Really looking forward to the rest now, is it really still six weeks away?!

I've been listening to Our Destiny almost weekly for a year, looking forward to buying it here in Canada.

And yes, most pre-2003 Orgers are cool people.

RaspBerryGirlFriend said:

So, getting back on track, how does Roadhouse Garden sound? Is it the same version that leaked as a mono 128kbps mp3 in September last year? If so were people correct in saying that that fact that the previous leak was a mono fold down meant that some instrumentation had been erased from it and that the track wasn't as spartan as that leak made out?

It wasn't a fold-down, it was just the left channel.

TrivialPursuit said: