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I honestly see no reason holding back D&P SDE now that this is was able to released, it has an unreleased track from 1992 from the vault with no WB credit or mention on the sleeve!

These are not doing it for me. 7 is one of my favorite songs from him and this version hurts my ears . The other one is ok and may grow on me.

I REALLY like the Camille version of Life of the Party. Not a big fan of the Musicology version...of course Camille funked it up!

So do we want to take bets on how long it will take the estate to get these up on streaming services if they even do it at all? These are the same people who waited until the last minute to announce their Celebration lineup on the day they promised to annouce it, after all

Just listened to the leaks

7 would be pretty cool but the quality is garbage. I hope it gets remasted on either a D&P or Love Symbol Super Deluxe. All A Share Together Now has a groove to it but lyrically it's nothing special. I can see it growing on me with repeat listens though,

TrcikyChristopher said:

Report shows songs will be released July 7. (7/7) https://www.stereogum.com...cks/music/

Would be cool if the estate announced that themselves through literally any of their official channels so that fans didn't have to learn this info secondhand through news sites.

bozojones said:

MIRvmn1 said:

and why July 7?

They're playing off the symbolic meaning(s) of the number seven.

Landonfunkmonkey said:

I really want to hear Everything Could Be So Fine. I'm big fan of the Graffiti Bridge album.

Everything coulb be so fine... if Michael Howe was still in the place to do the work properly.

What Kind of tool did they use to transfer that 7 remix ?? Sound quality is beyond garbage.

TrcikyChristopher said:

ShellyMcG said:

TrcikyChristopher said:

Report shows songs will be released July 7. (7/7) https://www.stereogum.com...cks/music/

Is it just these two songs that are getting released or are these songs just part of a bigger set that's releasing on that day?

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A entire "album" of vault side-tracks in july download could be a dream... but I fear only the two tracks we already have

themanfromneptune said:

Spicer's at it again giving cryptic non-answers about the audio quality of "7" given out at Celebration. The guy really wants to be Prince so bad. Just give the fans straight answers, for christ's sake.

ShellyMcG said:

Does that qualify as "a big year"

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happyshopper said:

Is it possible that 7 (E Flat) sounds so bad because it’s just Prince messing in the studio with changing the speed, adding distortion… just as an experiment. You can hear at the end that the distortion/background hum continues after the track has finished, so maybe not the Estate doing a bad job, just releasing what’s on the tape! Just a thought. I’m no audio engineer, or studio nerd!

Even if that's true, the estate is pretty dumb for making this their first representation of what's to come after 2 years with no new music. like, why pick a poor quality mixdown of a song that doesn't even compare to its album counterpart when there are so many better songs that would do a better job of hyping up the fans?

bozojones said:

happyshopper said:

Is it possible that 7 (E Flat) sounds so bad because it’s just Prince messing in the studio with changing the speed, adding distortion… just as an experiment. You can hear at the end that the distortion/background hum continues after the track has finished, so maybe not the Estate doing a bad job, just releasing what’s on the tape! Just a thought. I’m no audio engineer, or studio nerd!

Even if that's true, the estate is pretty dumb for making this their first representation of what's to come after 2 years with no new music. like, why pick a poor quality mixdown of a song that doesn't even compare to its album counterpart when there are so many better songs that would do a better job of hyping up the fans?

this, this, all the way this. I've been trying to think of a good reason for this choice, but I just can't.

LILpoundCAKE said:

Landonfunkmonkey said:

All A Shared together Now has really grown on me. It's just a groove really, sounds unfinished but I think it's pretty cool. Fleshed out I could possibly imagine it on Lotusflow3r. I like the way he sings it.

me too. i love that we get another 2006 track. i like most things from that era from when he
started recording tracks that ended up on 3121/PlanetEarth/Lotusflower.

della blackheart is one i am very excited for and i hope it will be released in the near future.

Bart is our Questlove.

funkbabyandthebabysitters said:

Maybe the bit rate is purposely low to deter leaking

I believe Spicer confirmed this on Funkatopia

ANyone figure out if this is going to be a 2 song release, or if the 2 songs are part of an album. Part of an album makes more sense givent the title.

An album of new music is WAY overdue.

I still don't understand why none of the finished albums in the vault have been released, or why some of the released music is still out of print (like the the 3 NPG albums). Such a shame that songs like The One isn't streaming anywhere (last I checked).