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This is neither a promotion or endorsement, but since the Blast releases are usually a hot topic for discussion I thought it was worth bring the subject to the table. Blast 7 has been announced along with a track list. The majority of the set seems be widely circulating, but we are yet to know what is sourced from where and what the overall quality is like. I did notice one or two tracks thaty I don't think are widely circulating yet.

Here is the advertised track list...

Disc One
01 Neurotic Lover's Baby's Bedroom
02 We Can Work It Out
03 Make It Through The Storm
04 Just As Long As We're Together
05 Kiss Me Quick
06 I Got Over It
07 Broken
08 Tick, Tick, Bang
09 Hard 2 Get
10 Strange Way
11 Computer Blue
12 I Would Die 4 U
13 Baby I'm A Star
14 Darling Nikki
15 The Beautiful Ones
16 Purple Rain
17 If The Kid Can't Make You Come
18 Dear Michaelangelo

Disc Two
01 Wendy's Parade
02 New Position
03 I Wonder U
04 Under The Cherry Moon
05 Others Here With Us
06 Life Can Be So Nice
07 Old Friends 4 Sale
08 All My Dreams
09 Girls and Boys
10 Love Or Money
11 Dream Factory
12 Can I Play With U
13 The Sex Of It
14 Rebirth Of The Flesh
15 Shockadelica
16 Telepathy
17 The Dopamine Rush
18 The Line
19 Big House
20 Me Touch Myself

Disc Three
01 Oobey Doop
02 My Tree
03 A Positive Place
04 Play
05 Heaven Is Keeping Score
06 Seven Corners
07 Crystal City Cry
08 By Alien Means
09 Boom Box
10 Work That Fat
11 Glam Slam '91
12 My Name Is Prince
13 Damn U (Sax Mix)
14 Fantasia Erotica (Instrumental)
15 Madhouse
16 24
17 Move Me
18 Bridge Of Graffiti
19 21 Guns

Disc Four
01 Come
02 Endorphinmachine
03 Right The Wrong
04 Chaos and Disorder
05 Shy (Remix)
06 Gold (mix 1)
07 Gold (mix 2)
08 Slave
09 2020
10 Feel Good
11 Journey 2 The Centre Of Your Heart
12 I'm a DJ
13 Emancipation
14 Love (Never Has To Say Goodbye)
15 Rich Friends
16 Rumeta (string and horns)
17 Dream of Fire (Purple Fire Mix)

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A good general rule: "criticize ideas, not people."

It really is that simple

it looks like hard 2 get is 3.37 long so that would be the only new thing on this set unless there are better sourced material than what is already circulating

dbpdexter said:

it looks like hard 2 get is 3.37 long so that would be the only new thing on this set unless there are better sourced material than what is already circulating

Really hoping that's the case

I honestly don't get the constant rehash to bootlegs. This is shit we've had forever and a day, is it not? Yes, I know "Neurotic" is new (the person who shared it publically here got it from me), but 99% of the other stuff isn't.

It seems unnecessarily labor intensive to put together something like this, create artwork, etc, and get it out just to put stuff out we already have. And like someone said, unless it's from a newer and cleaner source, who cares? No one can "remaster" something from a hissy cassette, no matter what GarageBand or whatever EQ they put it through. And often times, I find those fan-made "remasters" often sound worse.

BFTP series always seemed to center around an era, or a time frame. This is just a sprawling free for all.

worthless, terrible, shitty release once again taken off the backs of those kind enough to share for free. tale as old as time, but one that's just as irritating now as it was back in the day.

[Edited 4/28/21 11:46am]

Oh...I like this series a lot....it got songs I know ...now..in a very good source...so...better than a whole lotta boots..more likely by me than any live boot

Blast..is the best boot I know

I would even say...you don't have to own any boot...if you own every blast

[Edited 4/28/21 12:15pm]

MIRvmn said:

Seems like there's nothing interesting on Blast from the Past this time. [Edited 4/28/21 12:20pm]

oh...I'm very interested in this

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[Edited 4/28/21 12:43pm]

It'll be a blast from the past to hear those 2 minute snippets again.

Phase3 said:

Yes the majority of this will be rehash, but there aren't many of you who will paying for this release anyway.

What a crappy release...

Clearly, the golden age is over for Eye Records.

Unfortunately no new outtakes or demo......just a rehash of well known recordings from recent years & stolen free songs offered by insiders these past years.....this Blast 07 will not be at the nivel of the previous ones ....there is nothing more from Eye's Vault !!

mbdtyler said:

dbpdexter said:

it looks like hard 2 get is 3.37 long so that would be the only new thing on this set unless there are better sourced material than what is already circulating

Really hoping that's the case

Hard to get is from the Rebels sessions.

Nothing new here.

fredmagnus said:

What a crappy release...

Clearly, the golden age is over for Eye Records.

It seems!!!

Just for info, is it a factory-pressed CD release or simply a download only release?!?!?

Anyway the only thing of real interest for me is "The Dopamine Rush", obviously if it is the full track and not the 2-minutes sample.

The Charade outtakes were already on BFTP 1.0 in great quality (even if Eye with an highly desputable choice "splitted" OF4S from the original sequence) so their inclusion here seems a self-rehash.

BoraBora said:

Anyway the only thing of real interest for me is "The Dopamine Rush", obviously if it is the full track and not the 2-minutes sample.

IT IS the 2 minutes sample.

mb71 said:

Yes the majority of this will be rehash, but there aren't many of you who will paying for this release anyway.

I wouldn't even know where to pay for it! I've not bought any bootlegs since we came into the digital age. But that said, there's nothing compelling that I see on this release. Can't see myself putting any effort into tracking this one down.

I just wish we could get some more regular official releases.

I personally love these sets. I think they do an AMAZING job. Yeah there is some rehashed stuff. I have a gigantic collection of these songs and sets. I still want more and will order this set too.

There is such a snobiness here with us fans. No other artist ever had so much material for the "fans" to digest....lighten up guys.

4anothertime said:

I personally love these sets. I think they do an AMAZING job. Yeah there is some rehashed stuff. I have a gigantic collection of these songs and sets. I still want more and will order this set too.

There is such a snobiness here with us fans. No other artist ever had so much material for the "fans" to digest....lighten up guys.

I also love outtakes sets like the previous 6 BFTP (with volume 3 a minor let-down) but this set is not "some rehashed stuff"... it is simply "ALL rehashed stuff".

This is good maybe for a newbies that missed releases of years ago, but here it seems to have the same stuff of "The Secret Chapter", "Magnificent Outtakes", "BFTP 1.0" and so on.

To me it sounds more like a "bootleg compilation" that an interesting and genuine release.

fredmagnus said:

4anothertime said:

I personally love these sets. I think they do an AMAZING job. Yeah there is some rehashed stuff. I have a gigantic collection of these songs and sets. I still want more and will order this set too.

There is such a snobiness here with us fans. No other artist ever had so much material for the "fans" to digest....lighten up guys.

why give these total dipshits a red cent? absolutely disgraceful. i can promise you that within 10 minutes of the first person getting there's it will be all over everywhere online. people have already put out 90 percent of what's on here for free.

Did some of this stuff leak in the recent past? Much of the stuff that's on here I last remember getting copies of on Work It 2.0. If this is better quality sources of that material compiled from recent free leaks then that would at least serve some purpose for me (I haven't really been keeping an eye on leaked tracks of late), but if it's literally the same sources that are on Work It 2.0 then this seems especially redundant, even by Eye Records' usual standards.

dbpdexter said:

Romeoblu said:

Has Move Me leaked before? I'm not familiar with the track

Move Me is an unreleased track recorded on 6 February 1990 at Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen, Minnesota (five days before Thieves In The Temple). While most of Prince's writing collaborations stemmed from jam sessions with bandmembers or adding his own contributions to tracks begun by other writers, this track is a rare example of Prince co-writing in the studio with other writers; co-writer David Z. Rivkin believed that this was the first time Prince had done that. The track was left as a preliminary version, however, with Prince singing accompanied only by piano, perhaps played by Levi Seacer, Jr., the other co-writer on the track. The track was copyrighted at the Library of Congress on 20 May 1991, but remains unreleased.

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