i do.

Yes through the boot "Charade".

Too bad that it was not included in the "SOTT" SDE... "In All My Dreams" was, so why not "Others Here With Us" ? Wait till "Parade" SDE ?

lustmealways said:

i do.

you do?

wow, me, too.

not that i've been stalking you, per se.

but, there are others here with you...

That song and Dance with the Devil are so creepy.

I only remember because I had just been reading this ghost story and was pretty thoroughly unsettled so I was like "let me put on some Prince to lighten the mood, here's one I haven't heard before... what's this?" and LOL you can imagine how I felt.

lustmealways said:

i do.

I do as well. It was sometime in 1991 on the Charade boot CD. I still can't get over how odd and eerie the song is. It makes you wonder if it was inspired by something paranormal that he experienced in LA - old Hollywood is very haunted.

I was pretty blown away.

This and "Dance with the Devil."

My 2nd fav has always been The Cure. Actually, maybe 1A for Prince and 1B for The Cure is more accurate, because I had them at a tie before Prince transitioned or whatever.

Both have work that is simultaneously important to my teenage years and now embedded in my every day, like it just exudes naturally.

Like a lot of my favs there's little crossover between the two. I've never related to the "similar artists" Spotify generation's propensity for putting on variations of the same stuff you already have. "I like x, give me more like x." The Cure and Prince are a great example of this, because 99% of the time The Cure ain't doing anything funky, and 99% of the time Prince ain't doing anything gothy.

Except these two tracks, which show Prince could've made some incredible contributions to the goth genre, and that Batman could've been a halfway decent record if he wasn't like his fans, afraid of the darkness or indulging in "negativity".

Which is why I understand why Prince fans generally aren't crazy about "Other's Here with Us". Like the same set of fans who believe "Free" and Lovesexy are top-shelf probably run for ze hills after 20-30 seconds of "Other's Here with Us". There's none of that cheeseball preening "Positivity" sentiment that compels some fans to choke down his most cringe material because "it has a beautiful message." Finally, something for the morose. At last, a message I can relate to.

The man truly could've done anything, he just actively chose not to.

And the screams are the best part, wtf kind of madness takes in here..

[Edited 2/22/24 17:16pm]

lovesexy is my single favorite album of all time by anyone and i also think others here with us has a lot of merit and stands uniquely in his catalog.

Fair enough.

Like your previous post here though, I would wager most Prince fans when they're perusing the discog are generally looking "for something to lighten the mood" like you wrote.

I mean 9 times out of 10 put on a random Prince track you're usually gonna expect some element of funk or fun, that's natural enough.

Ramzoo said:

Yes through the boot "Charade".

Too bad that it was not included in the "SOTT" SDE... "In All My Dreams" was, so why not "Others Here With Us" ? Wait till "Parade" SDE ?

Probably where I heard it, too. I had a few boots in the 90s that I purchased, but none really had any Parade era takes on them. It was likely during the Napster days that I started finding stuff from that period (likely referencing Dave Hill's A Pop Life since that's all that was available to me at the time).

I just remember wondering how he thought that would end up in the movie. Of course it was a placeholder for other things. Some of those outtakes (Others, All My Dreams, Old Friends 4 Sale, etc) had kind of personal or specific messages in them, none of which were quite generic enough for a movie soundtrack.

The one thing the estate has gotten consistently wrong is separating "Old Friends 4 Sale" and "All My Dreams." They segue into each other, respectively, and everyone seems to forget that.

it was on the first "bootleg" i ever bought.

10 bucks for a mail order cassette out of a 'Goldmine' magazine back in the late 80's.

there was a hodge podge of outtakes on it that my then self was all wide eyed about and

first discovered Prince's cheeky side with the likes of "Chocolate", "Databank", "Movie Star", "Girl O My Dreams", etc...

then, this one

SpookyPurple said:

Feels like P jealous of MJ Thriller success and wanting to one-up him and failing.

Are you seriously suggesting that Others Here With Us was Prince's attempt at competing with Michael Jackson's Thriller?

others here with us is way more experimental.

it would have been a decent b side.

paisleyparkgirl said:

That song and Dance with the Devil are so creepy.

Absolutely co-sign

Always loved it.

Especially the verison with Clare F orchestra.

But it needs a proper release for a better sound quality and mix for sure.

It sound sharp and eerie, and indeed hurts your ears when plying to loud.

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"Bobby had an uncle who took a string
And wrapped his neck around it, a pitiful thing
If only we can turn back the hands of time
Except there's others here with us, life is sublime"

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Bobby Z?

Yeah on Charade, The whole 'album' simply blew me away!

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