nelcp777 said:

Crystal ball

Personally I think the animated Video is very cool....

No idea who did the animation or if it was even authorised by Prince..

Does anyone know the background..

Prince VAULT DOESNT TELL ME ANYTHING BART !!

Don't Talk 2 Strangers, Head and She's Always In My Hair

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TrivialPursuit said:

feeluupp said:

There was one shot for this... It had a 60's hippie theme to it, never officially released but it's made rounds on the web.

Yep the full version is out there. It's so fun and is a great throwback to 60s and 70s variety shows like Sonny & Cher, The Smother's Brothers, Laugh-In, Dinah Shore, Mike Douglas, Donny & Marie, etc.

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Thanks guys, I did not know! Will keep my eyes peeled...

TrivialPursuit said:

bonatoc said:

The Holy River.

I'm going to assume you're being facetious since we all know there is a video to this.

facewhat?

It's so bad. That giant eye looks like the cover of In The Court Of The Crimson King.
The staging is atrocious, it's a country song, what the fuck of a schmalzzy Rubber Soul weed's
Hello Kitty gets drunk in Las Vegas nightmare is that?

First of all, you don't edit the song. It's a crime.
There's no redeeming at the end, it takes the whole meaning out.
Scissors can't cut water.

Secondly it's a country song.
It's about home. Surely Prince didn't live in some daltonian pimp penthouse
complete with fake water rushing and a giant inflated Prince, several floors high.
Call our trusted agent for a visit now.


I don't think a video was needed. It's like "Gold".
Sure, who doesn't like to see Prince, but the songs are so visual,
I don't need yet another round of Prince trying to be Peter Pan meets Jesus.

"The Holy River" called for some serious cinematography, not this Smurfland Hallucination.
And it's a crime to ruin such a song for the public outside of fans.
I mean imagine a Groovy Potential falling on this as her first Prince video.
And shit hits the fam.

It's not Liberace over the Rainbow.
"The Holy River" is heavy stuff.

Prince doing Prince doing Prince has always been a bad idea.
No matter the yes wo.men around him that allowed for such a clip.
Way to ruin the album's charts potential, guys! Well done...
But I'm being faceted. fasheest! fashionista. Fathever.

Luckily, we were spared "My Computer" of such treatment.
I don't get it, the "Facedown video" is fantastic.
But even "Betcha By Golly"... Poor song,
and now it's the most unwatchable of all Prince's videos, for understandable reasons.
When it came out, I was so happy for Prince.
I had kids before he even tried,
so I was eager to see him jump bandwagons.
So no, "The Holy River" is like, too sacred for such visual atrocities.
It's Prince turning the page, like "Way Back Home", like "The Cross",
the same 7th Day vein.

I'll give you that: this Holy Schmoly River of a video matches the horrendous Emancipation 3CD box
quite well. Imagine you're a professional on Photoshop and the album
comes out, and there goes your friend asking you about latest album,

you put the music on, but you make sure you hide the wrecked wrecka sleeve.

That orange! That Black! The badly out of focus'd chain!
That thermonuclear landscape. Poor album, it didn't deserve it. It is bad already being a triplet.
I demand 3 times 2 equal 6 times 10 minutes of silence in memory of this visual misstep.
Maybe we'll finally find what it looks like. I sure hope it doesn't look like the cover of Emancipation, that's all.
And I sure hope in heaven, Prince is not five buildings tall, and he takes us tiny fans
in his gigantic hands by the bunch. It's supposed to be Yoda, not Godzilla.

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A lot of people are saying "Pop Life", and I agree. It was a top 10 hit, but it had no video to accompany it. It's a song that's screaming for colorful, inventive visuals.

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And speaking of which... man, would I love to get my hands on the original elements for the "Raspberry Beret" video and do all the video effects correctly. I don't know what was going through the minds of everyone involved in the production, but dear God, the green screen/chromkey is so poorly done that it almost makes me weep openly. The things a dedicated individual could do these days with just a laptop and After Effects!...

Y'all crazy asking for music videos. It's the hardest thing in the world.
There are tons of BAD music videos out there.
It's an art.

There's a good chance the song you choose will have had a music video made for it and put straight in the vault

"She's Alway in My Hair" could have been a great band all on a stage as if it were a concert video.

sexton said:

I wish there was a video for “Sister” directed by Martin Scorsese back in 1980.

A Scorsese video...1980s Scorsese at that...tackling a that taboo subject! Wow. Grainy black and white or color?

LadyLayla said:

sexton said:

I wish there was a video for “Sister” directed by Martin Scorsese back in 1980.

A Scorsese video...1980s Scorsese at that...tackling a that taboo subject! Wow. Grainy black and white or color?

Like the beginning of his "Bad" video?

Prince tried to get Scorcese to work with him after Purple Rain... but nabbed his cinematographer instead for "Under the Cherry Moon:

But MJ managed to get him to do a video.

LadyLayla said:

sexton said:

I wish there was a video for “Sister” directed by Martin Scorsese back in 1980.

A Scorsese video...1980s Scorsese at that...tackling a that taboo subject! Wow. Grainy black and white or color?

I imagine grainy black and white to match the album art. It could be the best music video ever.

ufoclub said:

LadyLayla said:

A Scorsese video...1980s Scorsese at that...tackling a that taboo subject! Wow. Grainy black and white or color?

Like the beginning of his "Bad" video?

Prince tried to get Scorcese to work with him after Purple Rain... but nabbed his cinematographer instead for "Under the Cherry Moon:

But MJ managed to get him to do a video.

I forgot about that. I don't think I've ever seen the complete 18-minute version of "Bad".

Private Joy

Soft and Wet

When You Were Mine

Lady Cab Driver

D.M.S.R

The Beautiful Ones

Play In The Sunshine

Lovesexy

sexton said:

I wish there was a video for “Sister” directed by Martin Scorsese back in 1980.

great answer..

leecaldon said:

There's a good chance the song you choose will have had a music video made for it and put straight in the vault

true...can anyone verify that theres 36 videos for emancipation?

A Love Bizarre with both Prince and Sheila in the video. I think it would have been a bigger hit had they both featured.

I would have liked to direct a video for Condition of the Heart. I dreamed that video many many years ago...

This would have been an interesting question if his videos were up to par with the songs.

luvsexy4all said:

Shh... Defintely, Shh...!

The entire Rainbow Children album as a surrealistic featured animated film.

Dorothy Parker

bonatoc said:

Y'all crazy asking for music videos. It's the hardest thing in the world.
There are tons of BAD music videos out there.
It's an art.

Everytime I think of her: