I've always had a bit of a thing for this EP... it was one of the first Prince releases I had on both CD and vinyl. Sure I've read before that the girl's voice was Nona's?

Mustang Mix is one of the best things he ever did. As a remix EP, it's probably the best, right up there with Space for me. Maybe Space is a little better.

SchlomoThaHomo said:

Mustang Mix is one of the best things he ever did. As a remix EP, it's probably the best, right up there with Space for me. Maybe Space is a little better.

I'd agree. "Space" is a tiny bit better.

TBE is a great EP. I used to listen to it front to back all the time on my bus ride to work.

Quick story: I had the EP on a cassette. My walkman was one of those that had a reverse button, so at any point I could hit reverse and it'd start playing the other side of the cassette. Handy feature so you didn't have to take the cassette out, flip the tape, and hear the other side.

Well, the EP had the same songs on both sides of the cassette. Out of boredom on my ride, I started trying to figure out where the middle of the tape was located. I experimented a few times, and eventually found it. So somewhere right in the middle of a song, I could hit the reverse button and the song wouldn't lose a beat, but it would now be playing on side B instead of side A. So really, half the tape ended up getting played more than the other half, because I'd just reverse the tape yet continue the songs to the end. It also left my tape rewound to the beginning of side A every time.

TheKid94 said:

Beautiful and the Mustang Mix surpass the original for me.

Phase3 said:

fms said:

Phase3 said:

Also who is the girl talking throughout the "Mustang instrumental "?

Always assumed Matye.

Yeah, not sure how it would be anywhere else since the song was written about her, and she did her own female version.

TrivialPursuit said:

fms said:

Phase3 said: Always assumed Matye.

Yeah, not sure how it would be anywhere else since the song was written about her, and she did her own female version.

Her voice sounds completely different though. I guess he could have pitched it or something, as he was known for doing.

SchlomoThaHomo said:

TrivialPursuit said:

Yeah, not sure how it would be anywhere else since the song was written about her, and she did her own female version.

Her voice sounds completely different though. I guess he could have pitched it or something, as he was known for doing.

Anyone getting fucked by Prince would lower their voice a notch or two. LOL

I really wasn't sure what to make of it at the time. On one hand it seemed a little superfluous, on the other it sounded really futuristic at the time (at least for the 16 y.o. boy I was) and I appreciated that. There was a true aura of mystery around all these new tracks that surfaced on this maxi, the 2 radio promo tapes, the CD-Rom and the Beautiful Experience video.

SchlomoThaHomo said:

It's Nona on the Mustang Instrumental. I remember back in the day, NPGMC had a discography and listed the vocals being by Nona. I emailed them asking if the vocals were done by Mayte, as I'd always assumed she had done the vocal. The email response I got back was "No, it's Nona."

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rlittler81 said:

It's Nona on the Mustang Instrumental. I remember back in the day, NPGMC had a discography and listed the vocals being by Nona. I emailed them asking if the vocals were done by Mayte, as I'd always assumed she had done the vocal. The email response I got back was "No, it's Nona."

HMM! Interesting, but now that you mention it, I suppose it is her. Cool beans.

rlittler81 said: