Yeah, I don't get it either. The songs was basically ruined. The Time's version doesn't even sound like a Prince song, even though it's supposedly one that was only Prince and Morris involved. How can adding Morris Day take a funny song and make it serious and boring? Bizarre.

I was sooooooooooooooooooooooooo
disappointed back then when I heard the version that was released in 1990, after listening to the original on bootleg all through 1988-89.

But is it worse then what happened to "Girl o My Dreams"?

He'd do that sometimes. Just keep working over a certain song for whatever reason. I read an interview of his where he said "I wish I could get it to sound like what I hear in my head" which, as an artist myself, hit home since my drawings and paintings never quite hit how I've visualized them.

By this point you'd think he was purposely sabotaging his mid-80s output (e.g the "jazz version" of Old Friends 4 Sale). Thankful that "Joy In Repetition" made it through relatively unscathed.

[Edited 12/20/20 10:36am]

AvocadosMax said:

databank said:

AvocadosMax said:

I get it was entering a new era of music, the sound on the radio was changing, but thats no excuse to disrespect this jam! The unreleased original is the shit!! Did Prince intentionally make it awful for The Time version in 1990? I don’t understand

What else was he gonna do? The 1986 recording as such was unusable on Corporate World.

Why would it be unusable? IMO the 1986 version is far superior.

The Time's 1990 version should have been given the original Wally treatment...

lol it's true, same with We can Fu(c)(n)k. A bunch of great versions already in the can and he releases the worst one in an attempt to stay relevant.

databank said:

AvocadosMax said:

I get it was entering a new era of music, the sound on the radio was changing, but thats no excuse to disrespect this jam! The unreleased original is the shit!! Did Prince intentionally make it awful for The Time version in 1990? I don’t understand

What else was he gonna do? The 1986 recording as such was unusable on Corporate World.

Why was it unsuable? Couldn't he just strip his vocal and insert Morris', like he'd one on so many other songs?

And even if he needed to rerecord it from scratch, why not try to make it closer the original than that abomination he came up with.

The unreleased Prince version is in my Top 5 Prince songs of all time.

The released Time version is in my Bottom 5 Prince songs of all time.

The difference is that extreme.

lurker316 said:

databank said:

OperatingThetan said:

databank said:

Guys, you know you can't just take All My Dreams and throw it into Diamonds And Pearls as such. Corporate World was P's attempt at sounding new jack swing The 1986 arrangement was unusable on that album or any other early 90's Prince project, period. It's not about good or bad, it's about cohesiveness.

Agreed. The 1986 version doesn't have the right sound and production for either the aborted Corporate World or Pandemonium. And Prince's original versiom of 'Data Bank' is circulating in excellent quality anyway.

Well, Jerk Out and certainly Chocolote sound like straight up old school Minneapolis funk to me. Why not leave Databank untouched?

databank said:

lurker316 said:

Why was it unsuable? Couldn't he just strip his vocal and insert Morris', like he'd one on so many other songs?

And even if he needed to rerecord it from scratch, why not try to make it closer the original than that abomination he came up with.

Guys, you know you can't just take All My Dreams and throw it into Diamonds And Pearls as such. Corporate World was P's attempt at sounding new jack swing The 1986 arrangement was unusable on that album or any other early 90's Prince project, period. It's not about good or bad, it's about cohesiveness.

He put Chocolate on Pandemonium without updating its style to New Jack Swing. If he did it with Choclocate, why not Data Bank?

Tick Tick Bang was strangled

OldFriends4Sale said:

Tick Tick Bang was strangled

I only started enjoying Tick, Tick, Bang after I heard the original version, it's like I needed to hear that version to make sense of the Graffiti Bridge version. I enjoy it now!

databank said:

"U" got put down like an old dog.

lurker316 said:

You're not wrong but Data Bank as released "sounds" awful.

Mintchip said: