any non-fans blown away by any of these? only the fans been around forever probably care that much about this material.

My teens think LOVE AND SEX from the Purple Rain Deluxe Remaster "SLAPS". They even have it on their private Spotify playlists.

would these sell if they werent tacked onto remastered released albums? ..to non-fans

My husband absolutely loves All My Dreams...even though I have been playing it for years he heard it on the SOTT SDE and downloaded it for his own playlist.

However if he hears Cosmic Day he literally yells to turn the shit off. Whatever...

My friend John said Velvet Kitty Kat is his jam. I do not like that song but he swears by it.

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paisleypark4 said:

"Velvet Kitty Kat" is ace, some of you dive wayy too deep into this esoteric pretentious pit when it comes to Prince music that cause you to willfully gloss over a perfect pop track to make some sort of philosophical statement.

"We Can Fuck" on the other hand... The most overrated org track of all time. Bar none. Org'ers hyping it up like the second coming, race to put it first and foremost on upon retrieval of PR Deluxe..... literally (okay, basically) the same track as "We Can Funk" from Graffiti Bridge. Vocals more intense, fine, more profane, big woop, but the same friggin' groove, same friggin' beat, same friggin' vibe. Now '87 "We Can Funk", now that's a different story...

But the org tends to overhype/overspazz Prince vocals at the expense of the myriad of his other gifts. This is why hundreds of amazing Prince songs go unacknowledged until a "Prince original vocal version" surfaces, then it's like suddenly on everyone's Top 10. Org'ers would go nuts for a "Starfish & Coffee" outtake if it had an identical backing track but an added yelp at the climax.

WhisperingDandelions said:

Phase3 said:

WhisperingDandelions said:

Org'ers would go nuts for a "Starfish & Coffee" outtake if it had an identical backing track but an added yelp at the climax.

Lol you may be right on the starfish & coffee statement

So didn't that pretty much happen in 1997?

WhisperingDandelions said:

"We Can Fuck" on the other hand... The most overrated org track of all time. Bar none. Org'ers hyping it up like the second coming, race to put it first and foremost on upon retrieval of PR Deluxe..... literally (okay, basically) the same track as "We Can Funk" from Graffiti Bridge. Vocals more intense, fine, more profane, big woop, but the same friggin' groove, same friggin' beat, same friggin' vibe. Now '87 "We Can Funk", now that's a different story...

Co-sign. I'm not a fan of either the PRD or Graffiti Bridge versions of We Can Funk/Fuck. I kind of like the '86 version.

WhisperingDandelions said:

"Velvet Kitty Kat" is ace, some of you dive wayy too deep into this esoteric pretentious pit when it comes to Prince music that cause you to willfully gloss over a perfect pop track to make some sort of philosophical statement.

"We Can Fuck" on the other hand... The most overrated org track of all time. Bar none. Org'ers hyping it up like the second coming, race to put it first and foremost on upon retrieval of PR Deluxe..... literally (okay, basically) the same track as "We Can Funk" from Graffiti Bridge. Vocals more intense, fine, more profane, big woop, but the same friggin' groove, same friggin' beat, same friggin' vibe. Now '87 "We Can Funk", now that's a different story...

But the org tends to overhype/overspazz Prince vocals at the expense of the myriad of his other gifts. This is why hundreds of amazing Prince songs go unacknowledged until a "Prince original vocal version" surfaces, then it's like suddenly on everyone's Top 10. Org'ers would go nuts for a "Starfish & Coffee" outtake if it had an identical backing track but an added yelp at the climax.

I've bought every Prince album on release date since "Around the world in a day". I have over 300 12" singles from 19 different countries, so I'm not exactly a casual fan but his pop songs are some of my favorites! I LOVE "Velvet Kitty Kat"!! My least favorite song on Purple Rain deluxe is "we can f@ck" because I'm a 50 year old man who doesn't like a song just because he cusses on it I guess I quoted you because I agree with you.

BTW, "Starfish & Coffee" is one of my favorite tracks on "Sign o' the Times"

jfenster said:

would these sell if they werent tacked onto remastered released albums? ..to non-fans

Who cares?

Why would non-fans be interested if they're non-fans?

Seriously, why would anyone care about this? Like the tracks or don't.

Prince fans baffle me.

erik319 said:

Personally, I love it all - which is not to say I love every song, just that I love that were finally getting it in decent to good sound quality. I've been underwhlemed by the quality of several of the songs but, hey, most of them were shelved for a reason and, at the same time, I've been blown away by a few as well.

And it's weird, for years now...DECADES...the people here - the hardest of the hardcore - have been salivating and begging for this stuff so it seems odd to nitpick about the variation in quality. Several tracks are, IMO, better than some that wound up on the albums. Others cement the reasons they were cut in the first place. A few were written for other artists. Some are just whacky and experimental and don't fit on an album. But most of them are better than 75% of shit I hear by pretty much anyone and even the less realized ones are at least interesting.

I'll take everything the estate feels like putting out. Unreleased music by my favorite musician of all time suits me fine. I don't like everything I eat from a buffet or a tappas menu. Nor every movie I watch from a favored director or actor along with books from my favorite author(s) but I'd prefer to have more regardless.

So I'm good with it.

Only thing I've disliked are the extended/alternate versions/12" things that are grouped up back to back to back. I can't listen to 4 straight versions of Computer Blue or whatever.

Rimshottbob said:

I love We Can Fuck...killer tune. The 86 We Can Funk version is great too. The GB version drops down a notch due to George Clinton going on about peeing in a cup

Poplife88 said:

jfenster said:

Poplife88 said:

My husband absolutely loves All My Dreams...even though I have been playing it for years he heard it on the SOTT SDE and downloaded it for his own playlist.

However if he hears Cosmic Day he literally yells to turn the shit off. Whatever...

Hahaha

My niece, now 8, has been loving Holly Rock since it was released. And Father's Song makes her 'feel sad'. And sad is happy for deep people.

herb4 said:

Personally, I love it all - which is not to say I love every song, just that I love that were finally getting it in decent to good sound quality. I've been underwhlemed by the quality of several of the songs but, hey, most of them were shelved for a reason and, at the same time, I've been blown away by a few as well.

And it's weird, for years now...DECADES...the people here - the hardest of the hardcore - have been salivating and begging for this stuff so it seems odd to nitpick about the variation in quality. Several tracks are, IMO, better than some that wound up on the albums. Others cement the reasons they were cut in the first place. A few were written for other artists. Some are just whacky and experimental and don't fit on an album. But most of them are better than 75% of shit I hear by pretty much anyone and even the less realized ones are at least interesting.

I'll take everything the estate feels like putting out. Unreleased music by my favorite musician of all time suits me fine. I don't like everything I eat from a buffet or a tappas menu. Nor every movie I watch from a favored director or actor along with books from my favorite author(s) but I'd prefer to have more regardless.

So I'm good with it.

Only thing I've disliked are the extended/alternate versions/12" things that are grouped up back to back to back. I can't listen to 4 straight versions of Computer Blue or whatever.

I pretty much agree with all of what you said here. I am just grateful for all that we get now. It is just a joy to wade through these unreleased tracks, even if not all of them are spectacular songs. They all offer a view on Prince's diverse creativity!