They could do both, I suppose - release 'pure' versions of the vault tracks to us, and then make separate compilations of (what I'd call) necroduets for people who enjoy that sort of thing.

Kind of like George Lucas and his Star Wars... release as many special editions as you want, just for god's sake give us the pure original versions!

OperatingThetan said:

ThirdStrike said:

Why is this dude still atround?!?!? His miserable nature and agressive postings have long been stale, old, and unwelcomed. Leave already. My goodness...

[Edited 5/15/18 15:14pm]

Bart was highly critical of Prince in his posts when I first joined prince.org in 1998. Despite apparently not enjoying a single Prince album or song in over 20 years he's still here...

Agreed, but his 20 years of critique have been mostly correct at every juncture. (If you remember the experience of waiting for Crystal Ball in 1998, you know why Bart was griping.)

BanishedBrian said:

FREEURSELF was supposed to be on the same album as RUFF ENUFF. I'm fairly confident Prince recorded its own solo version of RUFF ENUFF leaving the one that was released on Black is the New Black. Fingers crossed for Phase 3.

Marco81 said:

Personally Id like to hear more of the

New Minneapolis sound Project

I just LOVE ...SHADES of UMBER

Lovejunky said:

Personally Id like to hear more of the

New Minneapolis sound Project

I just LOVE ...SHADES of UMBER

liked he did with the synths as horns i n the 80's

djThunderfunk said:

SchlomoThaHomo said:

I hope it’s Phase 3. If I Could Get Ur Attention and Free Urself (and even Stare) sound like they belong together. Maybe we’ll get a bit of Pangaea, Rumeta, Frida Kahlo, and whatever else there is of the “redefined” Minneapolis sound.

Me too, only to round the Hit 'n Run releases out. Get all the songs on there he put out online like 'Same Page, Different book' and all the other songs from that era.

This is not a Prince compiled project. The estate and Jay-Z are making the tracklist. That was in the press release.

Strive said:

I'd like all previous 'internet age' orphan songs/web only singles to be collected together.

Going right back to the stuff like One Song, Glass Cutter, Turn It Loose, etc.

Prince: Lost In The Digital Garden

But in this case just the most recently recorded/sequenced songs would be the best option (for now).

It will be "new" Prince music regardless of what tracks Jay-Z and the Estate choose.

And, if you read the press release a certain way – This concludes the previously unresolved legal matters between The Prince Estate and TIDAL. – might be the last thing TIDAL gets its hands on. Anything further after this release would be renegotiated with the Estate.

I'm not personally too worried about the song selection - we've had "cobbled together" releases from Prince himself in the past and never had a problem. As long as the songs are finished or close enough to finished that no further instrumentation is needed (only mastering).

What I'm most worried about is the potential tinkering/altering of tracks by whoever is compiling them (example: adding a guest star to a finished song in an attempt to jumpstart that new star's career).

Se7en said:

What I'm most worried about is the potential tinkering/altering of tracks by whoever is compiling them (example: adding a guest star to a finished song in an attempt to jumpstart that new star's career).

I'm principally a cd-buyer, but if they do that, I'll buy the proper Prince-only songs on iTunes and surgically avoid all such 'guest star' tracks.

Dandroppedadime said:

I'd like all previous 'internet age' orphan songs/web only singles to be collected together.

Going right back to the stuff like One Song, Glass Cutter, Turn It Loose, etc.

Prince: Lost In The Digital Garden

But in this case just the most recently recorded/sequenced songs would be the best option (for now).

that f'ing funk album with turn me loose....

luvsexy4all said:

BanishedBrian said:

OperatingThetan said:

ThirdStrike said: Bart was highly critical of Prince in his posts when I first joined prince.org in 1998. Despite apparently not enjoying a single Prince album or song in over 20 years he's still here...

Agreed, but his 20 years of critique have been mostly correct at every juncture. (If you remember the experience of waiting for Crystal Ball in 1998, you know why Bart was griping.)

Ya both still going on and on about some shit that happened in 1998?

luvsexy4all said:

Imagine if TIDAL's release is Piano & A Microphone 2016 -- a direct response to WB's Piano & A Microphone 1983.

Black Is The New Black would be my choice for the TIDAL release.

Se7en said:

I would much rather have an album of unreleased post WB material than some hundred year old copy of a bootleg.

Maybe people who are more objective about Prince and not so biased toward one era will make better choices than so called Prince experts favored by the fammys.

I can only hope.

Silvertongue7 said:

Lovejunky said:

Personally Id like to hear more of the

New Minneapolis sound Project

I just LOVE ...SHADES of UMBER

I'd like to see this too, P did hint @ the 'Future' of muisc. AOA touched on that.

PurpleLove7 said:

Lovejunky said:

Personally Id like to hear more of the

New Minneapolis sound Project

I just LOVE ...SHADES of UMBER

I'd like to see this too, P did hint @ the 'Future' of muisc. AOA touched on that.

Amazing isnt it how Diverse he was even to the very end...

This sound , BIG ad Orchestral

complete with horns and strings..

and then on the other side what he was doing with Mono Neon...

stripped back, Crunchy FUNK...

Constantly challenging us to bend our musical ears...

TrcikyChristopher said:

luvsexy4all said:

that f'ing funk album with turn me loose....

Supposedly it may have also included the ridiculously funky re-recording of "Sexy MF" as well. (Ok, maybe not the C+C Music Factory sample but the rest was crazy). [Edited 6/6/18 7:43am] [Edited 6/6/18 8:59am]

and Prince and the Band