olb99 said:

FrankieCoco1 said:

I’ve still yet to listen to the vault tracks and show from the SDE - I’m getting the CD set for Christmas and am saving the experience for the break time I’ve got then. Hopefully I can hear it with fresh ears, blotting out some of the negative reactions, and just enjoy it for what it is. It’ll still be a lot to take in.

I might be in the minority here, but I enjoy D&P SDE. "Open Book", "Get Blue", "Daddy Pop (12" Version)", "Blood On The Sheets", "The Voice", "Live 4 Love (Early Version)" and others are all tracks I will probably regularly get back to over the years to come. And the Glam Slam 1992 show is absolutely amazing, as many have already said. The music is excellent. And the video (coming from a film!) is astounding. I'm also among the persons who are really enthusiastic about the Atmos remix of the album.

I'm glad they released D&P SDE. And I'm glad they released it now.

[Edited 12/7/23 0:42am]

I'm with you on that. Comparing it to the SOTT SDE is unfair. Only 1999 and Purple Rain should be that good. Prince's 2nd tier material is still great.

RODSERLING said:

From a business perspective, for a Lovesymbol SDE they don t have much work to do or money to spend. Anyway, the excessive format of this kind of SDE is doomed to hope for a success. In order to attract a wider public attention, "They" should have from the start released albums SDE chronologically, along with a tv documentary each time. You begin with For you, with the 1976/77 jams, the 1978 demos/ unreleased tracks, some isolated multi-tracks from the opening track "For You", maybe some concert? You combined that with his autobiography, produce a tv documentary in two episodes to highlight : 1) Prince childhood and his journey into being one musician 2) Prince making of the album For You, and its promotion, it s failure at the time, etc. And you end on " then he decided his next album would be a success " and you hear I feel For You demo as the credits appear.... Then you would have hooked a lot of people into Prince, the musician, but also the young kid, the human being, just a good normal guy fated to stardom. And then 6 months later you go with The eponymous Prince album, and so on and on... What the estates are doing, is to throw in the albums out of chronological order ( you go back and forth without logic).How could you make people interested in it? [Edited 12/6/23 21:07pm]

I've been saying this forever.

Chronological maybe just maybe you get him marketed to the youth like Bowie or The Beatles are where he's not just famous but famous for what he actually contributed to art.

The Estate would rather spam Purple Rain puffy shirt era 80s popstar Prince. He's basically Rick Astley to gen-z, with significantly less hits.

[Edited 12/31/23 3:45am]

funkbabyandthebabysitters said:

No one thinks of prince like Rick astley. Are you kidding? Hes got way more respect and cool points than that.

The older the audience gets maybe. Closer you get to the audience being teens in '84, definitely.

Anyone under 35 he's probably not Rick Astley, you got a point. They actually know who Rick Astley is and can name his hits.

WhisperingDandelions said:

ShellyMcG said:

I only know one Rick Astley song. And that's literally just because of the whole Rickrolling thing from a few years ago.

A few years ago???

lustmealways said:

ShellyMcG said:

lustmealways said:

A few years ago???

Well I remember it from when I was in school and I'm in my 30s now so it's probably a little more than a few years ago at this point. But what do you gain from making me feel old?

https://en.wikipedia.org/...ickrolling

"The use of the song for rickrolling dates to 2006"

WhisperingDandelions said:

funkbabyandthebabysitters said:

No one thinks of prince like Rick astley. Are you kidding? Hes got way more respect and cool points than that.

The older the audience gets maybe. Closer you get to the audience being teens in '84, definitely.

Anyone under 35 he's probably not Rick Astley, you got a point. They actually know who Rick Astley is and can name his hits.

I would think that most people over or under 35 can name only one Rick Astley song and this is only because of Rickrolling (no matter how long it is since this game that mocks Rick Astley first started). That one song is now more than 35 years old.

On this basis, people are very likely to be able to name more Prince songs than 1 song only partly played as a joke on the listener.

olb99 said:

well do you remember rick astley/he had a big, fat hit, it was ghastly

lustmealways said:

well do you remember rick astley/he had a big, fat hit, it was ghastly

Exactly, and that is why it used to mock him and and (jokingly) annoy those tricked into rehearing a small part of this ghastly hit.