When are they going to announce something? His passing day passed....some albums hit the 40th Anniversary....we haven't seen a release since W2A..last summer????

Anyone have any good info?

they announced the Prince & The Revolution Live set a couple weeks ago. of course you wouldn't know it by reading this ghost town.

JoeyCococo said:

When are they going to announce something? His passing day passed....some albums hit the 40th Anniversary....we haven't seen a release since W2A..last summer????

Anyone have any good info?

A Purple Rain SDE would logically appear in 2024, the 40th anniversary of its release. But, as we know, they don't always release on logical "birthdays". Born days. Whatever.

It may be the 40th anniversary of "1999" but that one's already been issued.

I wouldn't expect exciting news anytime soon. The estate seems content with milking re-releases and color variants of previously released albums, and most fans seem content with buying them all. It'd be nice to have Originals 2, or an SDE announcement over a marginally better looking version of an okay concert recording they already released in 2017, but whatever.

bozojones said:

bozojones said:

Still waiting for the as yet to be unearthed, nevermind released, pre '75 recordings. They still every once in a while dig up from some well or such place a long lost, forgotten Bach manuscript. So why not.

Weren't some of P's old recordings kept in his father's old home - since razed to the ground - but then moved on to the vault at Paisley?

We are very spoiled really. I share the pain of "I WANT MORE MUSIC NOW", but there aren't many artists that created fully formed songs and stuck them in a vault. I have a heavy suspcion that they're prepping an online subscription model where we'll get our unreleased music from.

On a side note, has Chris Moon ever given any indication of the meerest possibility of thinking about releasing his pre-Warners stuff?

bozojones said:

MIRvmn1 said:

bozojones said:

I wouldn't expect exciting news anytime soon. The estate seems content with milking re-releases and color variants of previously released albums, and most fans seem content with buying them all. It'd be nice to have Originals 2, or an SDE announcement over a marginally better looking version of an okay concert recording they already released in 2017, but whatever.

I refuse to spent any money on this Syracuse concert cuz I don't think there would be any problem for the estate to release another unreleased album or Originals 2 while we're waiting for the next SDE. I also think Dortmund 1988 would've been a better choice than Syracuse even if we already have it.

Or First Avenue 83, or Capitol Theatre 82, og the very last concert in Atlanta 2016 which we know he recorded to release. There are so many more exciting concerts to release...

laytonian said:

JoeyCococo said:

When are they going to announce something? His passing day passed....some albums hit the 40th Anniversary....we haven't seen a release since W2A..last summer????

Anyone have any good info?

A Purple Rain SDE would logically appear in 2024, the 40th anniversary of its release. But, as we know, they don't always release on logical "birthdays". Born days. Whatever.

It may be the 40th anniversary of "1999" but that one's already been issued.

I never understood this thinking - why is "40" logical? None of the other special editions came out on a 40th anniversary.

billymeade said:

laytonian said:

A Purple Rain SDE would logically appear in 2024, the 40th anniversary of its release. But, as we know, they don't always release on logical "birthdays". Born days. Whatever.

It may be the 40th anniversary of "1999" but that one's already been issued.

I never understood this thinking - why is "40" logical? None of the other special editions came out on a 40th anniversary.

Well, we didn't really officially have any 40th anniversaries until 2018, and they didn't pull the trigger that year or any of the following years. 1999 SDE was early, as was SOTT SDE. At this point, it would make since to do 40th anniversaries for everything from Purple Rain onwards. It's a big number, and I don't know where I'll be at the 50 mark.

TheEclecticElectric said:

We are very spoiled really. I share the pain of "I WANT MORE MUSIC NOW", but there aren't many artists that created fully formed songs and stuck them in a vault. I have a heavy suspcion that they're prepping an online subscription model where we'll get our unreleased music from.

On a side note, has Chris Moon ever given any indication of the meerest possibility of thinking about releasing his pre-Warners stuff?

I don't know if I can agree. If they had kept on the trajectory of 2019-2020 when we were getting stuff like Originals and a SDE each year, then yeah, it would be silly to complain, but they have certainly fell off in the last few years. If anything, it's ridiculous that the estate is still fucking around like they are when it has been several years since Prince passed and they have no shortage of unreleased material to pick from, but it is what it is.

TheEclecticElectric said:

We are very spoiled really. I share the pain of "I WANT MORE MUSIC NOW", but there aren't many artists that created fully formed songs and stuck them in a vault. I have a heavy suspcion that they're prepping an online subscription model where we'll get our unreleased music from.

On a side note, has Chris Moon ever given any indication of the meerest possibility of thinking about releasing his pre-Warners stuff?

I agree. I think they took a bath on the W2A SDEs and now they're taking a step waaaay back from the manufacturing model - they want all gravy, and minimal cost.

garneren said:

MIRvmn1 said:

It's a shame that the estate keeps ignoring P&M 2016. It was obvious that they have not interest at all in this album when they instead chose to release P&M 1983 in 2018.

Indeed - although I love the P&M 1983 album. But the Atlanta P&M concert and the P&M 1983 recording would have made a beautiful combined release.

garneren said:

thisisreece said:

LoveGalore said:

I would really like another album of Prince versions of songs that he gave to other people. I would love to hear some of his versions of the songs on Bria Valente`s Album,or Superconducter or back in time. I rate this material very highly and feel that it is still not much on peoples radar.

andrewm7new said:

garneren said:

JoeyCococo said:

fortuneandserendipity said:

Still waiting for the as yet to be unearthed, nevermind released, pre '75 recordings. They still every once in a while dig up from some well or such place a long lost, forgotten Bach manuscript. So why not.

Weren't some of P's old recordings kept in his father's old home - since razed to the ground - but then moved on to the vault at Paisley?

Susan Rogers began curating "the vault" before Prince moved to Galpin -- so yes, I'm sure the really-old stuff has been preserved.

We've been waiting long enough, it's time we get to hear the full Evolsidog.