Let's pretend...

What if Prince’s 1982 efforts had all been geared towards a Graffiti-Bridge style album including tracks from 1999 and those from the albums Vanity 6 and the Time’s What Time Is It, sequenced together as a double album? I know that Graffiti Bridge was done the way it was because it was a soundtrack, but it’s very intriguing to consider the concept of a unified album of Prince and his associates of the time. If you had to combine 1999, Vanity 6, and What Time Is It and cherry pick the best tracks to become a double album (or single CD), what would that look like?

(By the way, these are all great albums on their own -- it's not to criticize any of them. It’s just for the hell of imagining it, and maybe for something fun to drive to in the future!)

[Edited 2/27/18 13:50pm]

Seems like a fun idea to me. Here's my quickly built version:

1999

Little Red Corvette

The Walk

Delirious

Nasty Girl

Let's Pretend We're Married

Wild & Loose

DMSR

Drive Me Wild

Lady Cab Driver

All the Critics Love U in New York

International Lover

777-9311

Listened to it once through and it flowed great to me. That's the beauty of playlists!

paraded said:

Let's pretend...

What if Prince’s 1982 efforts had all been geared towards a Graffiti-Bridge style album including tracks from 1999 and those from the albums Vanity 6 and the Time’s What Time Is It, sequenced together as a double album? I know that Graffiti Bridge was done the way it was because it was a soundtrack, but it’s very intriguing to consider the concept of a unified album of Prince and his associates of the time. If you had to combine 1999, Vanity 6, and What Time Is It and cherry pick the best tracks to become a double album (or single CD), what would that look like?

(By the way, these are all three great albums on their own -- it's not to criticize any of them. It’s just for the hell of imagining it, and maybe for something fun to drive to in the future!)

I usually do this with each album era. I think they tell a story if placed right.

I mix in the songs/album from each period with the Prince album

I'm going to try to put together one I've done with the 1999 period

leave the 1999 album alone.. it's a God damn masterpiece....!

thats a "superalbum" already, and the 2 others are amazing as well.....


Prince in 1982 =

a combo of what we have to work with

.....................................................

1999

Little Red Corvette(remix)

Delirious

Let's Pretend We're Married

All The Critics Love U in New York

Free

Lady Cab Driver

International Lover

DMSR
Automatic

Something In the Water(Does Not Compute)

.

Nasty Girl

Make Up
Drive Me Wild(extended)

Wet Dream

He's So Dull
If A Girl Answers
Bite The Beat

.

Wild n Loose

777-9311

OneDayI'mGonnaBeSomebody

Gigolos Get Lonely Too

The Walk

I Don't Want 2 Leave U

.

How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore

Horny Toad

Irresistable Bitch

.

Moonbeam Levels

Do Yourself a Favour

OldFriends4Sale said:

PurplePartyFix said:

databank said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

a combo of what we have to work with

.....................................................

1999

Little Red Corvette(remix)

Delirious

Let's Pretend We're Married

All The Critics Love U in New York

Free

Lady Cab Driver

International Lover

DMSR
Automatic

Something In the Water(Does Not Compute)

.

Nasty Girl

Make Up
Drive Me Wild(extended)

Wet Dream

He's So Dull
If A Girl Answers
Bite The Beat

.

Wild n Loose

777-9311

OneDayI'mGonnaBeSomebody

Gigolos Get Lonely Too

The Walk

I Don't Want 2 Leave U

.

How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore

Horny Toad

Irresistable Bitch

.

Moonbeam Levels

Do Yourself a Favour

Don't forget Grace! Irresistible Bitch is from 1983 so no. It's PR era material already. Why the unreleased Do Yourself A Favor?

Grace, I don't know how I'm going to work that one in, so I didn't add it.

.

I put Irresistible Bitch there because it is a 1999 album track Bside.
I was going to say that one is a bridge, and could be used for both album eras

.

Just because he recorded it in 1982

databank said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

a combo of what we have to work with

.....................................................

1999

Little Red Corvette(remix)

Delirious

Let's Pretend We're Married

All The Critics Love U in New York

Free

Lady Cab Driver

International Lover

DMSR
Automatic

Something In the Water(Does Not Compute)

.

Nasty Girl

Make Up
Drive Me Wild(extended)

Wet Dream

He's So Dull
If A Girl Answers
Bite The Beat

.

Wild n Loose

777-9311

OneDayI'mGonnaBeSomebody

Gigolos Get Lonely Too

The Walk

I Don't Want 2 Leave U

.

How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore

Horny Toad

Irresistable Bitch

.

Moonbeam Levels

Do Yourself a Favour

Don't forget Grace! Irresistible Bitch is from 1983 so no. It's PR era material already. Why the unreleased Do Yourself A Favor?

Actually Irresistable bitch dates from late 1981. The first Controversy style version was taped in late 1981 with Feel U up, both have Falsetto and early Linn sound along with what sounds like a 1970s Bontempi organ.

PurplePartyFix said:

Seems like a fun idea to me. Here's my quickly built version:

1999

Little Red Corvette

The Walk

Delirious

Nasty Girl

Let's Pretend We're Married

Wild & Loose

DMSR

Drive Me Wild

Lady Cab Driver

All the Critics Love U in New York

International Lover

777-9311

Listened to it once through and it flowed great to me. That's the beauty of playlists!

I like this version a lot -- espeically putting "Drive Me Wild" after "DMSR" after "Wild and Loose" in the middle. I'm going to burn it.

As I work on mine, for some reason I'm fixating on the sonic similarities between "Make Up" and "All the Critics..." It's almost like they could be made into a continuous track.

Also the "water on the brain" and "water upstairs" lines in "Nasty Girl" paralleling "Something in the Water" (I'm probably reading into things too much).

Am really curious what everyone comes up with. Such an amazingly fertile period for Prince.

[Edited 2/27/18 14:13pm]

TrivialPursuit said:

these threads ....i need an advil

luvsexy4all said:

these threads ....i need an advil

Be careful. One is a Mike & Ike's, one is an Advil PM.

paraded said:

Let's pretend...

What if Prince’s 1982 efforts had all been geared towards a Graffiti-Bridge style album including tracks from 1999 and those from the albums Vanity 6 and the Time’s What Time Is It, sequenced together as a double album? I know that Graffiti Bridge was done the way it was because it was a soundtrack, but it’s very intriguing to consider the concept of a unified album of Prince and his associates of the time. If you had to combine 1999, Vanity 6, and What Time Is It and cherry pick the best tracks to become a double album (or single CD), what would that look like?

(By the way, these are all great albums on their own -- it's not to criticize any of them. It’s just for the hell of imagining it, and maybe for something fun to drive to in the future!)

[Edited 2/27/18 13:50pm]

You do realize 1999 was a double album, yes?

EnDoRpHn said:

paraded said:

Let's pretend...

What if Prince’s 1982 efforts had all been geared towards a Graffiti-Bridge style album including tracks from 1999 and those from the albums Vanity 6 and the Time’s What Time Is It, sequenced together as a double album? I know that Graffiti Bridge was done the way it was because it was a soundtrack, but it’s very intriguing to consider the concept of a unified album of Prince and his associates of the time. If you had to combine 1999, Vanity 6, and What Time Is It and cherry pick the best tracks to become a double album (or single CD), what would that look like?

(By the way, these are all great albums on their own -- it's not to criticize any of them. It’s just for the hell of imagining it, and maybe for something fun to drive to in the future!)

[Edited 2/27/18 13:50pm]

You do realize 1999 was a double album, yes?

Yep, the vinyl is right here on my shelf.

Sorry if this thread is tiresome for some. When you've listened to his albums a million times, sometimes it's the unusual connections people make between tracks on different records and the order in which they are placed that lights the fire all over again. That was my intention.

[Edited 2/27/18 16:10pm]

controversy99 said:

A double album made up of all the tracks from What Time Is It? and Vanity 6 is an interesting idea and leave 1999 as the amazing double that it is. As you can tell from my account name, I like 1999 a lot! No way that I would want any of those tracks replaced by a Protege track.

That would be interseting too. I should have clarified that 1999 is, to me, one of his greatest masterpieces. I'm not proposing that some of its tracks be deleted because they don't fit or are anything but great. It's just a fun way to reimagine the sonic and thematic overlaps on these three amazing records. The thought came to me listening to DMSR, when he says "Vanity 6 is so sweet" and "Time to fix your clock." It's almost as if Prince and his associates are all singing the chorus together!

paraded said:

controversy99 said:

A double album made up of all the tracks from What Time Is It? and Vanity 6 is an interesting idea and leave 1999 as the amazing double that it is. As you can tell from my account name, I like 1999 a lot! No way that I would want any of those tracks replaced by a Protege track.

That would be interseting too. I should have clarified that 1999 is, to me, one of his greatest masterpieces. I'm not proposing that some of its tracks be deleted because they don't fit or are anything but great. It's just a fun way to reimagine the sonic and thematic overlaps on these three amazing records. The thought came to me listening to DMSR, when he says "Vanity 6 is so sweet" and "Time to fix your clock." It's almost as if Prince and his associates are all singing the chorus together!

I like this idea. Sounds like a fun exercise to me. If I can get my music program to work right (ugh!), I'll try some of these examples and maybe offer one of my own.