Crystal Ball II

it was said decades ago there were 35 fully completed albums with artwork collecting dust in the vault

i remember one title....A Doll's House

luvsexy4all said:

rave un2 the joy fantastic (1988)

heart (acoustic album mentioned during the 'war with warners')

a project with mayte called 'happy tears' (not sure how far it was completed)

the best of

madrid 2 chicago

the same december

possibly 'welcome 2 america'

one or two madhouse albums

and recently there has been mention of a follow up to "the rainbow children"

plus rumours, mainly on the org i think, about an album with 'turn me loose'
and 'funk' on it. dating to, what, 2008?

(Completely non-exhaustive, and covering some of the protege/associated artist recordings):

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The Hookers Late '81/early '82, overlaps to a large extent with Vanity 6 (1982)

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Unreleased Live Album to accompany 'The Second Coming' film - early '82

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Unreleased/Incomplete Vanity 6 follow-up, circa early/mid '83 (including 'Sex Shooter', an early '17 Days', 'Promise to be True', 'Vibrator', and possibly 'G-Spot', including reworked outtakes from the previous album)

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Rumored OST/score for a possible stage or Broadway production adapting/based in part on some of the 'Dream Factory' material/themes - early Summer '86

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Abandoned OST for 'The Dawn' (1986)-- featuring 'Coco Boys', 'Crucial', 'When the Dawn of the Morning Comes', and other as yet unknown tracks

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Aborted Bonnie Raitt PP (or, at least, Prince-produced) album, circa early 1987

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4th Sheila E album, unreleased, mostly completed, perhaps titled 'Latino Barbie Doll' or 'Girl Power' '87/'88 (for release in '88 or '89)

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Unreleased, mostly completed, Second Jill Jones Album '89

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Madhouse - 24 '88/'89

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Margie Cox - MC Flash - '87-'89

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Morris Day (with 'The Time' attribution) - Corporate World

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Madhouse - 26 '89

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Madhouse 24 '93/'94

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Latino Barbie Doll - early alternative configuration of album that evolved into Mayte's Children of the Sun - circa '93/'94

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The Undertaker

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Happy Tears Mac/PC CD-ROM project '95/'96

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The Dawn - circa 1996 (most likely entirely unrelated to earlier similarly named projects)

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Beautiful Strange '98/'99

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High '00

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New World (may have been Emancipation, so possibly not unreleased)

The Tora Tora Experience

The Live Experience

When 2 R in Love ballad compilation

Peace (NPG album?)

New Funk Sampling Series

Great thread! I was lucky enough to buy Tamar's Milk and Honey on holiday in Japan the day before it was recalled.

Prince claimed to have re-recorded all/most of the WB albums, so they are all unreleased.

Sorry for the boring answer, but...

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http://princevault.com/index.php?title=Albums:_Unreleased

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IstenSzek said:

rave un2 the joy fantastic (1988)

heart (acoustic album mentioned during the 'war with warners')

a project with mayte called 'happy tears' (not sure how far it was completed)

the best of

madrid 2 chicago

the same december

possibly 'welcome 2 america'

one or two madhouse albums

and recently there has been mention of a follow up to "the rainbow children"

plus rumours, mainly on the org i think, about an album with 'turn me loose'
and 'funk' on it. dating to, what, 2008?

I believe that was going to be the 3rd Prince disc on the Lotusflow3r set.

soladeo1 said:

I can think of... The Rebels Roadhouse Garden Dream Factory The Camille Album... What else???

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Is Googling that hard? https://en.wikipedia.org/...e_projects

the Rainbow Children II

High

Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic 1989

Taken from here.

OldFriends4Sale said:

the Rainbow Children II

Is there any more information about this, any knowledge about how far he got into recording this one? TRC is one of my favourite latter day Prince albums and I'd love to hear more music from that era that has that same jazzy, organic instrumentation (less enthusiatic about the weird fundamentalist lyrics but whatever, doesn't ruin the released material for me.)

RaspBerryGirlFriend said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

the Rainbow Children II

Is there any more information about this, any knowledge about how far he got into recording this one? TRC is one of my favourite latter day Prince albums and I'd love to hear more music from that era that has that same jazzy, organic instrumentation (less enthusiatic about the weird fundamentalist lyrics but whatever, doesn't ruin the released material for me.)

Here is a thread. I have some other stuff I'll try to repost

http://www.prince.org/msg...?&pg=1

IstenSzek said:

rave un2 the joy fantastic (1988)

heart (acoustic album mentioned during the 'war with warners')

a project with mayte called 'happy tears' (not sure how far it was completed)

the best of

madrid 2 chicago

the same december

possibly 'welcome 2 america'

one or two madhouse albums

and recently there has been mention of a follow up to "the rainbow children"

plus rumours, mainly on the org i think, about an album with 'turn me loose'
and 'funk' on it. dating to, what, 2008?

I wonder if Prince destroyed Happy Tears when he allegedly burned everything that reminded him of Mayte and Amiir?

"Welcome 2 America" definitely had a configuration at one point, and at least one orger heard all of it from a member of the NPG.

"FUNK" was at one point an album as well. In fact, Ben had some received some information about it from one of Prince's associates at the time, but Prince moved on from that project pretty quickly.

OldFriends4Sale said:

TwiliteKid said:

imago said:

Weren't these supposed albums? - the dawn ( supposedly so wonderful that the world wasn't ready for it, yards YADA YADA?) - androgynine - 20ten deluxe - beautiful strange - the undertaker ( this obviously is real--we all either own the video or the album or both) From Susan Rogers post and pre death I interviews, they were recorded an album ever week or two, and 30 percent of it was very good.

oh please don't rake all that up again

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IstenSzek said:

can the estate go into the vault and find albums...are they labeled as such????

imago said:

IstenSzek said:

oh please don't rake all that up again

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